Erich Gehbauer

Erich Gehbauer (born October 15, 1926 ) is a former German soccer player and coach. From 1964 to 1971, the former Oberliga Südwest player from Wormatia Worms worked for the clubs SV Weisenau , Südwest Ludwigshafen and 1. FSV Mainz 05 as a coach in the then second -rate regional football league Südwest . In the 1971-72 season he won with FSV Frankfurt , the German Amateur Championship and led 1973 Elf from Bornheim in the Regionalliga Süd .

career

Erich Gehbauer's football career began in the youth of FV Hofheim. After the end of World War II he played for Wormatia Worms. Until 1951 he was only used sporadically in the Southwest Football League . After a total of 18 missions with eight goals, he went to the amateur camp, where he went through the stations SV Darmstadt 98 , Rot-Weiss Frankfurt , SV Wixhausen and Germania Oberroden until 1964.

From the 1964/65 season he held the position of coach in the south-east of Mainz, at SV Weisenau, which played in the Southwest Regional Football League. The start failed with the red-and-white team from the stadium on Bleichstrasse. After six games, the new coach with Weisenau had 2:10 points with a goal difference of 6:25. On the seventh match day, September 20, 1964, the first double point win was achieved with a 3-2 home win against FK Pirmasens. The two derbies against the 05er coached by Heinz Baas brought about a 1-0 win and a 3-3 draw. At the end of the round, the team from Gehbauer with regular players Manfred Meierhöfer (goalkeeper), Walter Ziehmer , Manfred Fink, Klaus Opitz, Norbert Bieger, Emil März, Karl Wagner and goal scorer Otto Appel (17 goals) were in ninth place with 32:36 points , two ranks ahead of Mainz 05. After tenth place in 1965/66, Gehbauer started the season 1966/67 in his third season with Weisenau with 11: 3 points. He and his team suffered the first defeat on October 16, 1966 when they lost 2-0 away at 1. FC Saarbrücken. Weisenau ended the first half of the season with 22: 8 points and only suffered another defeat in Neuendorf. The new strikers Alfred Brecht and Dieter Franzreb had significantly increased the offensive power of the team from Gehbauer. Center forward Brecht took the top scorer's crown in the Southwest League with 26 goals at the end of the round, followed by Hans Linsenmaier (Borussia Neunkirchen) and Emil Poklitar (1. FC Saarbrücken) with 19 goals each. In the second half of the season Weisenau came to 19:11 points and thus finished third at the end of the season with 41:19 points. Champion was Neunkirchen (46:14) ahead of 1. FC Saarbrücken with 44:16 points. After eleventh place in the 1967/68 season with Weisenau, Gehbauer took over the league rivals Southwest Ludwigshafen for the 1968/69 round.

The start was successful with two wins against FK Pirmasens (2: 1) and Mainz 05 (3: 0), but in the course of the round Gehbauer was able to win with the team around the top performers Jürgen Kraus, Günther Schwarzfischer, Manfred Schönholz, Erich Eberspach, Hans Eippert and Jürgen Wingert cannot keep up with the top teams SV Alsenborn, TuS Neuendorf, 1. FC Saarbrücken and FK Pirmasens. In the end, the gap between the two top runners from Alsenborn and Neuendorf was eleven points. Southwest took seventh place. The fact that Mainz 05 split from coach Karlheinz Wettig after 13th place was a good thing for Gehbauer, he signed with the 05ers after only one year in Ludwigshafen for the 1969/70 season and returned to Mainz.

But he was unable to bring about the hoped-for sporting upswing with the eleven from the Bruchweg Stadium right away. After the preliminary round, the Rot-Weisse only had a point account of 10:20 points and the 7:23 points from his old club SV Weisenau, the possibility of a merger was brought up in Mainz. Since the goalscorer Georg Tripp also moved to France for FC Metz and only Helmut Müllges played all 30 league games, one had to be satisfied with twelfth place at the end of the round.

In the summer of 1970 Gehbauer rearranged the 05er squad. With Walter Ziehmer, Peter Scherer, Herbert Scheller, Bernd Schmitt, Jürgen Janz , Hans-Joachim Jakobi and the two goalkeepers Wolfgang Kneib and Wolfgang Orben , he gave the team fresh strength. The experienced ex-Weisenau Walter Ziehmer - he had already completed 195 regional league appearances and 28 goals for Weisenau - also took over the leading role in his 30 appearances with four goals in the Red-White team. Of the new talents who had come from the amateur camp, Herbert Scheller immediately developed into an immediate reinforcement and long-term service provider with 30 league appearances with three goals. Mainz reached seventh place at the end of the round with 35:25 points. Part of the personnel reorganization of Gehbauer's 05 series was that, after his first season in 1969/70, he renounced the services of veterans Kurt Planitzer and Carlo Storck in the future . His successor Bernd Hoss took over a well-established squad for the 1971/72 season, with which he won the championship in 1972/73 - with the "54-goal storm" around Herbert Renner , Gerd Klier and Manfred Kipp - an outstanding team on the offensive the Regionalliga Südwest could win.

Gehbauer was not able to extend the time in the coaching office in the direction of the Bundesliga because of the demands made by his civilian job at the Federal Railway Directorate and therefore took over the FSV Frankfurt in the Hessen League for the 1971/72 season . He should lead the team from Bornheimer Hang back to the second division of the Regionalliga Süd. In the first year it was enough for the runner-up and thus to participate in the games for the German amateur championship. In this competition, however, the blue-black "Bernemer" successfully prevailed and in the final on July 8, 1972 in Neuwied with a 2-1 win over TSV Marl-Hüls, they won the title of German amateur soccer champions of 1972 In the second year, 1972/73, Gehbauer won the championship in Hesse with the FSV and thus gained direct promotion to the Regionalliga Süd.

Reinforced with the newcomers Peter Czycewski, Richard Engel, Rainer Lippert and Peter Rübenach , the FSV and coach Gehbauer started with two 2-2 draw games against the Stuttgarter Kickers and the VfR Heilbronn in the last round of the old second-class Regionalliga Süd. On the third matchday, August 19, 1973, in front of 8,000 spectators on the "slope", a 2-0 home win against TSV Munich 1860 was achieved. After the ninth matchday, September 30, 1973, after the 3-1 defeat at SV Waldhof Mannheim, Gehbauer was dismissed with a score of 8:10. At the end of the round, the team around ex-national player Horst Trimhold finished 11th with 34:34 points.

For Gehbauer there followed in the Hessenliga the stations at VfR Groß-Gerau (1974/75), SV Wiesbaden (1975/76) and 1977/78 in the stadium at Schönbusch , at Viktoria Aschaffenburg .

literature

• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• Hardy Grüne, Christian Karn: The big book of the German football clubs . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 .
• Hardy Greens: Legendary football clubs. Hesse. Between FC Alsbach, Eintracht Frankfurt and Tuspo Ziegenhain. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-244-0 .