Dieter Thun

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Dieter Thun
Personnel
birthday June 4, 1939
position striker
Juniors
Years station
0000-1959 VfV Hildesheim
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1959-1962 VfV Hildesheim 78 (43)
1962-1965 Werder Bremen 49 (17)
1965-1971 VfL Wolfsburg 177 (34)
1 Only league games are given.

Dieter Thun (born June 4, 1939 ) is a former German soccer player. He was a striker and won the German championship with Werder Bremen in 1965 . From 1959 to 1971, the offensive player played a total of 304 league games with 93 goals in the Bundesliga North , Bundesliga and the second -rate Regional North League with the clubs VfV Hildesheim , Werder Bremen and VfL Wolfsburg .

Career

The youth player Dieter Thun came in 1959 from the amateur team of VfV Hildesheim to the first team of the club, around the Hildesheim football idol, Leo Zimmermann . In his first season in the Oberliga Nord 1959/60, the young player completed all 30 league games and scored 17 goals; the red and whites took 7th place. In his second league season 1960/61 he was able to repeat the hit rate of 17 goals and was used by the DFB at the end of the round in the junior national team U 23 . On May 13, 1961 Thun played a game in the U23 of the DFB in Waterschei against Belgium. In the 3-1 success of the German team, he played in attack alongside Gustav Flachenecker , Helmut Haller , Fred Heiser and Otto Hartz . Thun played a sensational round with his team-mates from VfV 196/62. With 29: 1 home points, they finished third at the end of the round, two points behind runner-up Werder Bremen. With team-mates like goalkeeper Werner Gerstle , center runner Horst Kuchenberg , striker colleague Heiner Klose (20 goals) and the indestructible Leo Zimmermann, this round was achieved, which was achieved by the 3-0 home win on November 5, 1961 against the northern series champion Hamburger SV in front of 26,000 spectators in Friedrich -Ebert-Stadion was crowned. From 1959 to 1962, the offensive player completed 78 league games for Hildesheim and scored 43 goals. After this success, he accepted the offer from Bremen and switched from the Innerste to the runner-up at the Weser .

In the last year of the old first-class Oberliga Nord, 1962/63, Thun was runner-up with Werder and the newcomer from Hildesheim had scored ten goals in 25 games alongside record scorer Dieter Meyer (37 goals). In the debut year of the new Bundesliga, 1963/64, the attacker made his debut on the seventh match day, October 12, 1963, in a 4-2 home win against Hamburger SV in the new elite league. He scored his first Bundesliga goal on December 14, 1963, in a 4-1 home win against the team of coach Max Merkel , Munich 1860. He finished the season on matchday 30, May 9, 1964, with a 3-2 Away win at the Munich “Löwen”, where he scored two goals against goalkeeper Petar Radenković .

From 1963 to 1965 he played a total of 24 Bundesliga games for SV Werder, in which he scored six goals. In 1965 Bremen became German champions, Thun had only played two games that season.

From 1965 to 1971 Thun played in what was then the second-rate Regionalliga Nord for VfL Wolfsburg . With the "Wolves" he was runner- up in 1969/70 . In the Bundesliga promotion round in 1970, he played all eight games against competitors Kickers Offenbach, FK Pirmasens, VfL Bochum and Hertha Zehlendorf and scored alongside teammates such as goalkeeper Dieter Grünsch , Wolfgang Matz , Wolf-Rüdiger Krause , Karl-Heinz Borutta and Wilfried Kemmer four goals. From 1965 to 1971 he played 177 regional league games for VfL and scored 34 goals. He was the first player ever to convert in the first official penalty shoot-out in Germany (in the DFB Cup game against FC Schalke 04 on December 23, 1970).

In the amateur camp at 1. FC Wolfsburg , he ended his career from the 1971/72 round.

Club overview

  • 1959 - 1962 VfV Hildesheim
  • 1962 - 1965 Werder Bremen
  • 1965-1971 VfL Wolfsburg

successes

  • 1 × German champion ( 1964/65 with Werder Bremen)

literature

  • Sven Bremer, Olaf Dorow: Green and white wonderland. The history of Werder Bremen. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2008. ISBN 978-3-89533-621-8 .
  • Matthias Kropp: Germany's great teams, part 6: Werder Bremen. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 1994. ISBN 3-928562-52-5 .
  • Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 391 .
  • Jens R. Prüß (Ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. Klartext Verlag. Essen 1991. ISBN 3-88474-463-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karn, Rehberg: Spiellexikon 1963-1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 508
  2. ↑ Ulrich Merk, Andre Schulin: Bundesliga Chronicle 1963/64. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2004. ISBN 3-89784-083-9 . P. 59

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personal data
SURNAME Thun, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1939