Clemens Wientjes

Clemens Wientjes ( February 8, 1920 - March 15, 1998 ) was a German soccer player who played two games in the German national soccer team in 1952 .

career

Associations, 1930 to 1955

1. FC Nuremberg, 1941 to 1945

At TuS Heidhausen, in a southern district of Essen , Clemens Wientjes played from the school team until the first years of senior football. During the Second World War , he was transferred to Nuremberg in 1941 and the then “Club” coach “Bumbes” Schmidt immediately persuaded the Essen resident to work for 1. FC Nuremberg . The technically adept development player, he mostly played the roles of outside runner and half-striker, won the Gaume Championship in Northern Bavaria with Nuremberg in the rounds of 1942/43 and 1943/44 . When winning the championship in 1943 in front of Schweinfurt 05 and SpVgg Fürth, the men around veteran Willi Billmann , ex-Essen Wientjes and talent Max Morlock in 20 games scored 40: 0 points with 125: 17 goals. In the final round of the German football championship , however, the "club" lost the home game against VfR Mannheim with 1: 3 goals on May 2, 1943 with the runner series Billmann - Wientjes - Robert Gebhardt . In the final round in 1944, Nuremberg first managed to take revenge against VfR Mannheim, then they prevailed against KSG Saarbrücken with center forward Herbert Binkert before losing in the semifinals on June 4, 1944 in Erfurt to defending champion Dresdner SC with 1: 3 goals. In all three finals, Wientjes was the left wing runner in the team of coach "Bumbes" Schmidt. In the Tschammer Cup , Wientjes and Nürnberg 1943 failed in the quarter-finals on October 3, 1943 on the middle runner position to First Vienna FC - the two HSV players Richard Dörfel and Rudolf Noack played after a 2-3 defeat. Clemens Wientjes played 98 games for 1. FC Nürnberg from 1941 to 1945. After the end of the Second World War, his way led him via the intermediate station 1. FC Bamberg - Wientjes completed a game in the Oberliga Süd 1946/47 for Bamberg on November 3, 1946 in the 0-2 home defeat against 1860 Munich - back to Essen . With SV Werden 08 he finished sixth in the Lower Rhine regional league, group 2, in the 1947/48 season. Rot-Weiss Essen won the championship and was promoted to the Oberliga West . Wientjes had aroused the interest of the newcomer through his outstanding achievements and accepted the offer of the "Patriarch" Georg Melches and switched to Rot-Weiss Essen for the round in 1948/49 in Bergeborbeck on Hafenstrasse.

Rot-Weiss Essen, 1948 to 1955

In 1949, trainer Raymond Schwab immediately won the runner-up in the west behind the sovereign title holder Borussia Dortmund. Wientjes played 22 of the 24 rounds and contributed six more goals. August Gottschalk scored the most goals for the Red-Whites with 14 goals. Wientjes made his debut in the Oberliga West on October 3, 1948 as the half-left in a 1-1 draw at Alemannia Aachen. Essen and St. Pauli played a qualifying game to make it to the finals for the German soccer championship. On May 29, 1949, the men around Walter Dzur and Karl Miller prevailed in Braunschweig with 4: 1 goals. On June 18, 1949, Rot-Weiss Essen opened the series of their international encounters with a 2-2 draw against Wacker Vienna. In the second year in the Oberliga-West, 1949/50 , the coaching activity of the ex-national player Karl Hohmann began on Hafenstrasse and the players Heinz Wewers and Bernhard Termath were added. Dortmund repeated the title win, promoted Prussia Dellbrück became runner-up and RW Essen took third place. In the league, which has now been increased to 16 clubs, Wientjes had scored nine goals for the Bergeborbecker in 27 games and was also in action on May 21, 1950 in Karlsruhe in the 2-2 draw after extra time against the Walter team from Kaiserslautern in the final round. When the development player was only able to play seven games for the team from Hafenstrasse due to injury in the 1950/51 round, Rot-Weiss only came in sixth place in the table with 30:30 points. In the fourth league year, 1951/52 , the protégés of coach Hohmann won the championship title in the west with a five point lead over Schalke 04. With 24 appearances, Wientjes was back in the starting eleven, which was now well-placed on the offensive with the dangerous wing tongs Helmut Rahn and Bernhard Termath - both wingers scored 20 goals each. In the final round, however, two defeats against Osnabrück and Tennis Borussia Berlin spoiled the entry into the final. VfB Stuttgart prevailed in Group II and won the German championship with a 3-2 win against 1. FC Saarbrücken. Wientjes had played five games in the finals as the left wing runner. The defending champion took third place in the west in 1953 behind Dortmund and 1. FC Köln. Wientjes made 22 league appearances. However, the first DFB Cup after the Second World War was the sporting highlight . After successes over Jahn Regensburg, VfL Osnabrück, Hamburger SV and SV Waldhof Mannheim, Essen moved into the final on May 1, 1953 in Düsseldorf against Alemannia Aachen. With a 2: 1 success, the revenge for the 1: 4 defeat on April 6, 1953 at Tivoli, where Josef "Jupp" Schmidt had defeated Rot-Weiss almost alone with three goals. The cup winner RW Essen played in the runner row with Paul Jahnel , Heinz Wewers and Clemens Wientjes. In the 1954 world championship season, a trio with 1. FC Köln, Schalke 04 and RW Essen fought for the title in the West. Cologne won the championship one point ahead of Essen and two points over Schalke 04. Wientjes - he celebrated his 34th birthday on February 8, 1954 - had played 27 games in winning the runner-up. Due to the time constraints of the tournament in Switzerland, the runner-up from the West was not qualified for the finals for the German championship in 1954. Georg Melches compensated his team with a nine-week trip to America, which took them to Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and the USA, where a total of 16 games were played - starting on April 23, 1954 and returning on June 22 in Düsseldorf-Lohausen - which brought far more impressions and experiences than the games in the final round could have done.

With the four rounds of games against SV Sodingen, Aachen, 1. FC Köln and Borussia Mönchengladbach - September 5 to October 3, 1954 - Clemens Wientjes said goodbye in the 1954/55 series after a total of 140 league games with 18 goals from the contract league team of Red -White food. In the final round in 1955 - the team of coach Fritz Szepan won the German championship with a 4-3 victory against 1. FC Kaiserslautern - he was no longer used.

From 1955 to 1958 he let his playing career end in the amateur camp at SV Byfang .

Selection games, 1948 to 1952

In the representative game of the regional team South Germany against a north-west combination on May 19, 1948 in Frankfurt, Wientjes was used as a half-right on the side of center forward August Gottschalk in front of 50,000 spectators in north-west. The following year he played in the West team against Northern Germany in Bremen. Sepp Herberger invited the development player to the first post-war course to form the national soccer team from November 14th to 19th, 1949 in Duisburg. For the international match on December 23, 1951 in Essen against Luxembourg, he was part of the squad, but was then canceled due to injury. When the national coach wanted to subject the strikers of the newly formed amateur national team - Georg Stollenwerk , Hans Zeitler , Willi Schröder , Kurt Ehrmann - to an international test in another international match against the Grand Duchy on April 20, 1952 , the 32-year-old Essen made his debut in the senior national team . With Jupp Posipal and Erich Schanko , he formed the main runner in the 3-0 win. With his second deployment on October 5, 1952 in Paris against France - he formed the right wing with his club colleague Helmut Rahn and Bernhard Termath stormed on the left wing - Wientjes said goodbye to the national team.

After the playing career

The trained plumber spent his old age in Wiesbaden.

literature

• Georg Schrepper, Uwe Wick: “… RWE again and again!” The story of Rot-Weiss-Essen. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-467-7 .
• Hans Dieter Baroth : Boys, Heaven is yours! The history of the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1988, ISBN 3-88474-332-5 .
• Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 6: German Cup history since 1935. Pictures, statistics, stories, constellations. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-146-0 .
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
• Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fritz Tauber: German national soccer players. Player statistics from A to Z. Updated and advanced Edition. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-89784-366-0 , p. 208.