Dieter Weinkauff

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dieter Weinkauff
Personnel
birthday September 26, 1947
place of birth Pirmasens ,  Germany
date of death June 1, 2008
Place of death Pirmasens ,  Germany
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
FK Pirmasens
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1966-1970 FK Pirmasens 102 (71)
1970-1972 Borussia Dortmund 46 (12)
1972-1980 FK Pirmasens 160 (60)
1 Only league games are given.

Dieter "Steps" Weinkauff (born September 26, 1947 in Pirmasens , † June 1, 2008 ibid) was a German football player .

The midfielder was active in professional football at Borussia Dortmund and especially at FK Pirmasens . He is considered one of the most important players in the history of the FKP

career

Dieter Weinkauff drew attention to himself as a youth at FK Pirmasens with his footballing talent. In the 1965/66 season , the offensive player made his debut winning the title in the then second-rate regional football league Southwest. He completed six league games in which he scored three goals. In the following season 1966/67 he played twelve games and scored six goals. When he had scored 15 goals in 26 league games in 1967/68, he was already one of the top performers of the Horeb-Elf . In the early 1970s, the first division clubs Bayern Munich , VfB Stuttgart and Borussia Dortmund advertised the young player. In the Regionalliga Südwest Weinkauff won the runner-up with Pirmasens in the 1969/70 season and moved into the Bundesliga promotion round. Against the promoted Kickers Offenbach on June 6, 1970, he scored the 1-0 lead in a 1-1 home game. At the side of veteran Helmut Kapitulski , he completed all eight promotion games.

For the 1970/71 season Weinkauff moved to the Bundesliga with Borussia Dortmund. With Manfred Ritschel , Jahn Regensburg added another talent to coach Horst Witzler's team . At the side of Sigfried Held , Horst Trimhold and Werner Weist , Weinkauff made 28 appearances in his first BL season and scored the most goals within the club with eight goals. He made his Bundesliga debut on August 28, 1970 at the home game against Bayern Munich, which ended 0-0 when he came on for Trimhold in the 37th minute. He scored his first Bundesliga goal on September 19, 1970 in a 2-2 draw against 1. FC Köln. In the summer of 1971, Borussia, with Held, Heidkamp, ​​Trimhold, Weist, Neuberger and Wosab, had to cope with irreplaceable losses due to financial reasons, which in 1972 resulted in relegation from the Bundesliga. In the year of relegation Weinkauff came to 18 games with four goals. For the 1972/73 season he returned to his hometown club FK Pirmasens.

In the first year of the newly introduced 2nd Bundesliga , 1974/75, coach Bernd Hoss and his captain Dieter Weinkauff - he contributed 15 goals in 35 missions - led Pirmasens to the runner-up in the group south. In the home qualification game against the north runner-up Bayer 05 Uerdingen on June 18, 1975, Weinkauff scored two goals for his team at 4: 4. In the second leg, Uerdingen prevailed with 6-0 goals and was promoted to the Bundesliga. Financially, Pirmasens could no longer keep pace with the competition in the following years and rose in 1978 from the 2nd division.

Dieter Weinkauff led the FKP rankings with 107 appearances and 38 goals in the 2nd Bundesliga. After relegation he continued to play for the FKP in the amateur league southwest; the return to professional football was no longer successful.

After his time at FK Pirmasens, Weinkauff took over as player-coach for VfB Dillingen and SV Hermersberg . Several stations followed as a trainer in the southwest German amateur area. At the age of 60 he died unexpectedly of a pulmonary embolism .

literature

  • Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 2: Bundesliga & Co. 1963 to today. 1st division, 2nd division, GDR Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-113-1 .
  • Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 3: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 1. The founding years 1963–1975. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-132-0 .
  • 25 years 2nd league, AGON Sportverlag, 2000, ISBN 3-89784145-2

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ only data from the period 1972–1978
personal data
SURNAME Weinkauff, Dieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steps (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Pirmasens , Germany
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 2008
Place of death Pirmasens , Germany