Dieter Hochheimer

Dieter Hochheimer (born September 24, 1952 in Offenbach am Main ) is a former German soccer player who, as an active member of Tennis Borussia Berlin, played 17 games in the Bundesliga in the 1976/77 season and scored one goal.

career

Youth and beginnings in the senior sector, until 1974

Dieter Hochheimer, who came to the youth department of Kickers Offenbach from Germania Okriftel , was appointed by the DFB to three international matches in the national school team in 1968. On April 6th in Arnhem against Holland and on April 27th and 30th in London and Hull against England. All three games were successfully played by the DFB-Elf and the talent from Hessen was used in midfield. On October 18, 1969, Offenbacher made his debut alongside teammates Uli Hoeneß and Rainer Bonhof in Geleen in the international match against Holland in the youth national team . With the selection of southern Germany, he won the Youth Cup in 1971. First the south prevailed in the semifinals with a 1-0 win against West Germany before Berlin was defeated with 3-1 goals in the final.

For the 1971/72 season he was taken over from the youth department together with the Traser twins Ernst and Heinz in the league team of the Elf vom Bieberer Berg . In this round, the Kickers won the championship with 99:33 goals and 57:15 points in the Regionalliga Süd and returned to the Bundesliga. Coach Kuno Klötzer used the young player in two matches in the regional round: on February 27, 1972 against 1860 Munich and on March 19 against the Stuttgarter Kickers. He could not prevail against the regular players Walter Bechtold , Winfried Schäfer , Roland Weida , Horst Gecks , Erwin Kostedde and Sigfried Held in midfield and attack of Offenbachers and therefore accepted the offer of Bundesliga club Hamburger SV for the round 1972/73 and moved from Main to the Elbe.

In Hamburg, under the guidance of the couple Klaus-Dieter Ochs (trainer) and Gerhard Heid (youth manager and talent assessor), from the summer of 1970 the “integration of young talents into the licensed team” was put on a massive scale and with Manfred Kaltz , Rudi Kargus and Caspar Memering also successfully promoted talents to the Bundesliga team. After the retirement of Uwe Seeler and Jürgen Kurbjuhn in the summer of 1972, the chosen line was continued by the further obligations of Hochheimer and his OFC teammate Walter Krause and the selection players Kurt Eigl , Peter Hidien and Peter Krobbach . For Hochheimer, however, the sporting hurdle was too high, he did not play a competitive game at HSV in the two years 1972 to 1974, not under coach Ochs, not even from the 1973/74 round under his successor Kuno Klötzer. He therefore signed a contract with Göttingen 05 in the newly founded 2nd Bundesliga for the 1974/75 round .

Göttingen, Berlin and Osnabrück, 1974 to 1982

Under coach Reinhard Roder , the newcomer played 38 games in the first year of the 2nd Bundesliga and scored six goals. After the 6th matchday, Göttingen had scored a 2-2 draw at Borussia Dortmund in front of 32,000 spectators on August 31, 1974, the black-yellows led the table in the 2nd Bundesliga with 9-3 points. After the 3-2 home win eight days later in the DFB Cup against Hannover 96 after goals from Schonert, Wolf and Hochheimer, Grüne explains in his Göttingen book:

“ Everything was just right in the 05ers, whose dominant player was Dieter Hochheimer, who with his wide throw-ins and opening passes acted as the control point for the dreaded steep pass game, which the fast-paced Ede Wolf and the accurate Schoonert converted into goals. "

With his teammates Heinz-Dieter Hansing , Walter Plaggemeyer and Frank-Michael Schonert , he finished 10th with Göttingen. From 1974 to 1976 he played - mostly in midfield - in a total of 73 games and scored 18 goals. With the student national team, he took part in the World Cup in Uruguay from August 1 to 15, 1976, under the direction of DFB coach Herbert Widmayer. Shortly before the winter break in 1976/77 - on November 21, he scored the winning goal in Göttingen in a 1-0 win against Arminia Bielefeld - coach Rudi Gutendorf brought him into the Bundesliga for Tennis Borussia Berlin. For the "Veilchen" he made his debut on December 11, 1976 in the 1: 3 away defeat against 1. FC Kaiserslautern on the libero position in the Bundesliga. By the end of the round he had played 17 games and scored one goal in the 4-8 defeat against 1. FC Köln. The Hessian stayed with the Berliners even after relegation to the Bundesliga. With the coaches Rudi Faßnacht , Klaus Basikow and Reinhard Roder as well as teammates Winfried Berkemeier , Heinz-Josef Kehr , Winfried Stradt , Gerhard Welz and Norbert Stolzenburg , he was able to manage the project to return to the Bundesliga with Tennis Borussia in 1977 / 78 to 1979/80 but not realized. He completed 92 second division games for TeBe and scored eleven goals. In the winter of 1980 - the Berliners were in acute financial distress - he moved to VfL Osnabrück and on January 13, 1980, played the first association game at the Bremer Brücke in a 1-0 home win against Holstein Kiel . But even in Osnabrück he could not achieve promotion to the Bundesliga. When after sixth place in the 1980/81 season under coach Werner Biskup - Hochheimer had played in 41 of 42 round games - only 13th place in the table jumped out in the 1981/82 round, he finished in the summer of 1982 after a further 93 second division appearances with a total of 258 games and 31 goals in the 2nd Bundesliga his playing career.

Overseas

Dieter Hochheimer later worked in Canada with the Edmonton Eagles in the Canadian Professional Soccer League as a coach and in North America with the Hollywood Kickers Los Angeles in the Western Soccer Alliance as a manager. The friend of the Berlin music producer Jack White also found a new professional sphere in the financial sector in Los Angeles.

literature

• Matthias Weinrich: Second League Almanac. All players. All clubs. All results. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-190-8 .
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's football. The lexicon . Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00857-8 .
• Jürgen Bitter: The football history of VfL Osnabrück, “purple-white” . Osnabrück 1991

Web links

• Hochheimer on Fußballdaten.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dieter Hochheimer - player profile. Retrieved February 26, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Hardy Greens: Between stronghold and province . 100 years of football in Göttingen. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 1998. ISBN 3-89533-219-4 , p. 168
3. ↑ Hardy Greens: Between stronghold and province . 100 years of football in Göttingen. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 1998. ISBN 3-89533-219-4 , p. 176
4. ^ Jürgen Bitter, Germany's Football, Das Lexikon, page 275
5. ↑ Jürgen Bitter, The football history of VfL Osnabrück, page 84