Dietmar Erler

Dietmar Erler
Personnel
birthday	April 7, 1947
place of birth	Germany
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
	SpVgg Fichte Bielefeld
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1965-1966	SpVgg Fichte Bielefeld
1966-1968	Arminia Bielefeld	66 (21)
1968-1970	Borussia Dortmund	28 0(2)
1970-1981	Eintracht Braunschweig	261 (54)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1970	Germany U-23	1 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Dietmar Erler (born April 7, 1947 ) is a former German soccer player . The starting winger and later midfielder, played a total of 264 league games with 41 goals in the Bundesliga from 1968 to 1980 for the clubs Borussia Dortmund and Eintracht Braunschweig . In addition, there are 90 games in the second-rate regional football leagues West for Arminia Bielefeld (1966-68: 66-21) and North for Braunschweig (1973/74: 24-15) with 36 goals.

career

Bielefeld and Dortmund, until 1970

Erler, who came from the youth of SpVgg Fichte Bielefeld , drew attention to himself in the 1965/66 season with the Green-Whites in the Landesliga Westfalen . Behind the city rival SV Brackwede , the young offensive talent reached the runner-up and was appointed to the Westphalia association. In the final of the regional cup on June 16, 1966 in Minden against the selection of Lower Saxony, the Fichte striker scored the winning goal in the 29th minute to make Westphalia 1-0. From the 1966/67 season his high-class career began with Arminia Bielefeld in the Regionalliga West , where he played 66 games for the Armines from 1966 to 1968 and scored 21 goals. Erler made his debut at the age of 19 on September 4, 1966 with a 2-1 away win at the eventual champions Alemannia Aachen in the Regionalliga. Arminia played a very good first half of the season and won the autumn championship with 25: 9 points. The team of coach Hans Wendlandt had clearly gained in quality with the new additions of Erler and Ernst Kuster . The five defeats in the second half of the season - against Schwarz-Weiß Essen (0: 2), Hammer SpVg (1: 2), RW Oberhausen (0: 2), Marl-Hüls (1: 3), Wuppertaler SV (0: 1) - but prevented entry into the Bundesliga promotion round. Erler had completed 32 games and scored eight goals in his first RL season. The Arminia took third place with 45:23 points and the most goals in the western league , 72 hits. Aachen and SW Essen moved into the BL promotion round as champions and runner-up. With Bernd Kirchner , Gerd Roggensack , Ernst Kuster and Erler, Bielefeld had outstanding offensive forces available. Although in the second round from Erler near Bielefeld, 1967/68 , with Ulrich Braun , Heinz-Dieter Lömm , Horst Stockhausen and Norbert Leopoldseder, four good newcomers had come to the DSC, Arminia did not manage to improve the table. At the end of the round, Erler had expanded his personal record to 34 appearances with 13 goals, but his club was fourth. He played his last regional league game with the DSC on May 12, 1968 in a 2-0 home win against Fortuna Düsseldorf. Bielefeld was in the attack line-up with Kirchner, Lömm, Kuster, Braun and left wing Erler. For the 1968/69 season he accepted Borussia Dortmund's offer and moved to the Bundesliga.

The 1967/68 round of 14th place in the black and yellow race from Borsigplatz was very disappointing. Erler experienced a more negative round from Borussia Dortmund on his Bundesliga debut. Compared to 1. FC Nürnberg (29-39 points) and Kickers Offenbach (28-40 points) in 16th place with 30-38 points, they only just managed to stay in the league. Borussia needed three coaches for this: Dortmund started the preliminary round with the newcomers Klaus Beckfeld , Fritz Lehmann , Klaus Günther , Helmut Heeren , Walter Szaule , Werner Weist and Erler under Oswald Pfau . From December 17, 1968 to March 17, 1969, the old BVB master coach Helmut Schneider tried in vain to improve the team's performance, before Hermann Lindemann, the third coach at the Rote Erde stadium, was at work on the round finals from March 21 on. For Erler these were not good prerequisites to prove his Bundesliga qualification. On October 19, 1968 in a 3: 4 away defeat at Eintracht Braunschweig, he came to his first Bundesliga assignment. He stormed on the right wing on the side of the attacking colleagues Weist, Sigfried Held , Willi Neuberger and Lothar Emmerich . In 18 BL missions he only managed one hit. The second Dortmund season, 1969/70, went even worse for Erler: Coach Lindemann only considered the ex-Bielefeld player in ten league games (1 goal). After unsatisfactory 28 Bundesliga appearances with two goals in two years, he accepted the offer from Eintracht Braunschweig for the 1970/71 season and in the future kicked for the champion of the year 1967 , for whom he would play for the next eleven years.

Braunschweig, 1970 to 1980

In Braunschweig, coach Helmuth Johannsen ended his formative work after seven years and took over Hannover 96. Otto Knefler came to Lower Saxony as his successor . In addition to Erler, the team with the red lion on its chest had also strengthened itself with attacker Rainer Skrotzki . Erler, who was intended to replace Erich Maas , who had switched to FC Bayern Munich , opened the Bundesliga season with Braunschweig on August 15, 1970 on the left wing in the home game against FC Schalke 04. In the 3: 3 draw he scored a goal. On the eighth first round matchday, he won the home game against his previous club Borussia Dortmund with Eintracht 3-0 and finished fourth with 10: 6 points. After the 2-0 home win on the tenth game day, October 7th, Erler and colleagues finished third with 14: 6 points, tied with Mönchengladbach (1st place) and FC Bayern Munich (2nd place). Erler was one of the pleasant surprises of the round and was appointed to the U23 junior national team by the DFB on October 14, 1970 . With the DFB selection he lost the international match in Leicester with 1: 3 against England. The DFB Juniors with Horst Köppel , Klaus Scheer , Werner Weist, Willi Neuberger and Erler competed in the attack . The round 1970/71 ended Braunschweig with 39:29 points in fourth place. Erler had played 30 point games and scored seven goals alongside the outstanding game conductor and goalscorer Lothar Ulsaß (32-18).

In the second year in Braunschweig it went down in the table with the Eintracht, at the end of the round 1971/72 the blue-yellow ranked 12th. As in his first 30 league games, Erler had seven goals. Something special for him were the games with Eintracht in the 1971/72 UEFA Cup . He appeared in the games against Glentoran Belfast, Atletico Bilbao and Ferencvaros Budapest six times and scored three goals.

In Erler's third season in Braunschweig , 1972/73 , Eintracht was relegated to the Regionalliga Nord, but after only one year they returned to the Bundesliga after a successful promotion round . In the well-won Northern Championship with 125: 23 goals and 63: 9 points, Erler scored 15 goals in 24 league games alongside striker Bernd Gersdorff (19-35). At the start of the Bundesliga in 1974/75, Branko Zebec took over as coach for Lower Saxony. Over the 9th place in 1974/75, he led the Blue-Yellows in the second year, 1975/76, to the 5th place and finally in his third coaching year, 1976/77 , to the 3rd place and thus in the UEFA Cup . Borussia Mönchengladbach became champions with 44:24 points, followed by runner-up champions FC Schalke 04 and Eintracht Braunschweig with 43:25 points each. Outstanding players such as goalkeeper Bernd Franke , Wolfgang Grzyb , Friedhelm Haebermann , Reiner Hollmann , Franz Merkhoffer , Dieter Zembski , Wolfgang Dremmler , Karl-Heinz Handschuh , Wolfgang Frank and Danilo Popivoda put their stamp on the successful game of Eintracht. Erler, he had moved into midfield under Zebec, complemented himself there in 18 appearances (2 goals) with Aleksandar Ristic . Braunschweig ended the first half of the season in second place with 23:11 points. After the 2: 1 away win on March 12, 1977, the Zebec team was in first place with 33:17 points, one point ahead of Mönchengladbach, three points ahead of FC Schalke 04. The 0: 1 home defeat on the 32nd matchday, May 7, 1977, against SV Werder Bremen, then prevented the possible championship success. In addition, the 13 draws were the reason why Mönchengladbach and Schalke, who ended the round with ten and nine draws respectively, were able to push Lower Saxony to 3rd place on the home straight. With only six defeats, Eintracht would have been ripe for the championship.

In the year of the Football World Cup 1978 in Argentina, 1977/78 , the great success with the new signing of Paul Breitner from Real Madrid should then be implemented. At the end of the round, the result was a completely disappointing 13th place and the superman emigrated to FC Bayern Munich. Zebec, who took over Hamburger SV in 1978/79, showed his coaching qualities by winning the championship with the Rautenträger and Braunschweig was relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga in 1980 . In the summer of 1980, Erler ended his 14-year career in professional football. As a Eintracht amateur, he helped out again on August 27, 1980 in the second division game at Rot-Weiss Essen. He ran in the 6-2 success as a right full-back on the side of Hasse Borg , Wolfgang Grobe and Franz Merkhoffer.

Erler played 236 times for Eintracht Braunschweig in the Bundesliga and scored 39 times. He also appeared in the DFB Cup 26 times (4 goals) and 11 times in the UEFA Cup (3 goals).

In 1971, when the Bundesliga scandal was uncovered, Erler was sentenced to a fine of 4,400 DM .

Private

During his time in Braunschweig, Erler finished his teacher training and later worked for NDR radio, among other things. The sports, mathematics and geography teacher stayed in Braunschweig after his football career and was one of the few players with whom Paul Breitner got along well at Eintracht.

literature

• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 9: Player Lexicon 1963-1994. Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , p. 125.
• Horst Bläsig, Alex Leppert: A red lion on the chest. The story of Eintracht Braunschweig. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2010. ISBN 978-3-89533-675-1 . P. 356.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bläsig, Leppert: A red lion on the chest. P. 356

Web links

• Dietmar Erler in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Biography Erler at remember-blaugelb