Erich Wolf (soccer player)

Erich Wolf (born May 23, 1940 in Hohensachsen ; † June 17, 2012 ) was a German soccer goalkeeper who played in 27 Bundesliga games for Karlsruher SC from 1964 to 1967 .

SpVgg Ilvesheim, until 1961

Erich Wolf, who grew up in the Weinheim district of Hohensachsen , started playing football at SpVgg Ilvesheim . Until the B-youth Wolf was field player, until he took his place between the posts after a failure of the regular goalkeeper. In the senior class, the young goalkeeper was a member of the team that rose to the 1st Amateur League North Baden for the first time in the 1960/61 season - and thus the third highest level in German football at the time - and was able to place in the upper middle of the table in the first season. With his good performance, Erich Wolf also drew attention to himself at the guest performances of the Electoral Palatinate in Karlsruhe, where with FV Daxlanden , FC Neureut and Karlsruher FV three clubs from the fan-shaped city were represented in the amateur upper house.

Karlsruher SC, 1961 to 1967

For the 1961/62 season , the penultimate season of the Oberliga Süd before the introduction of the Bundesliga, Wolf moved to Karlsruher SC . Coach Eduard Frühwirth had promised him a secure place as "number two" behind regular goalkeeper Manfred Paul , but then continued to rely on the more experienced Horst Jungmann as a substitute goalkeeper, while Erich Wolf even had to play as a field player in the reserve round at times. After a disappointing 9th place, Frühwirth was replaced by Kurt Sommerlatt for the 1962/63 round , and with 5th place the Wildpark-Elf qualified for one of the 16 places of the new Bundesliga due to the twelve-year ranking . Erich Wolf moved up to second place in the goalkeeper hierarchy under Sommerlatt and was therefore regularly used in his traditional position, at least in the reserve group.

In the first Bundesliga season 1963/64 Wolf belonged to the squad, KSC and came on January 18, 1964 - two and a half years in Karlsruhe - his first league use in the first team. In front of the stately backdrop of 45,000 spectators in the Wildpark Stadium, Kurt Sommerlatt's team won a 2-2 draw against 1. FC Köln. In the last six league games Wolf again represented the regular goalkeeper Manfred Paul, the Karlsruher SC, who was always threatened with relegation during the round, was able to hold the class with three points ahead of the relegation ranks at the end of the season. At the beginning of the 1964/65 season it was anything but round at KSC, after twelve games the Baden found themselves again in the relegation zone. From the 13th matchday on, Erich Wolf regularly guarded the goal of the KSC and in some cases earned top marks in the specialist magazine Kicker . But the downward slide of the Sommerlatt-Elf continued and the coach of the table penultimate was finally dismissed at the end of January and replaced by Helmut Schneider . Shortly before that, KSC had to accept their biggest defeat to date with the 0: 9 at TSV 1860 Munich. After the 2: 4 home defeat against 1. FC Köln, Wolf lost his regular place in the goal again to Manfred Paul, so that in the second Bundesliga year the Elector Palatinate played twelve times. In terms of sport, the KSC was able to keep the class by increasing the Bundesliga to 18 clubs.

With Siegfried Kessler from the Karlsruhe district of Durlach-Aue, another goalkeeper was signed for the Bundesliga season 1965/66 , but Erich Wolf was initially set as a substitute goalkeeper behind Manfred Paul. As in the previous year, Wolf temporarily replaced the goalkeeper on matchday 13 and was also used on matchday 23 at the home game against Bayern Munich. The game on February 26, 1966 KSC won 1-0, but Wolf broke his little finger in the course of the game and fell out for a long time, and competitor Manfred Paul guarded the KSC goal again. When Baden again showed weaknesses on the defensive in the second half of the season, coach Schneider gave the young talent Siegfried Kessler a chance, which he also used and was henceforth set as number 1. For Erich Wolf it remained in this round with seven appearances in the Bundesliga. The long-time goalkeeper Manfred Paul then left the club in the summer of 1966, but Erich Wolf also found himself on the bench in the 1966/67 round . Wolf was only used once this season: On matchday 24, there was a hefty 5-1 defeat at Frankfurt Eintracht; Erich Wolf conceded two of the five goals he conceded in his last Bundesliga game on March 4, 1967 from Eintracht talent Jürgen Grabowski .

FSV Frankfurt, 1967/68

In the summer, Erich Wolf left the KSC and moved to the second division for the southern regional division FSV Frankfurt . The former league team had high ambitions and signed other well-known players in addition to Wolf with Günter Heiden , Reinhold Nedoschil and Manfred Nehren for the 1967/68 season in order to have a say in the fight for promotion to the Bundesliga. After seven games without a win, the Bornheimers, trained by Heinz Baas , found themselves in the table cellar, and financial problems as well as internal staff friction ensured that the team could not free itself from the relegation vortex until the end of the season and for the first time in the club's history Gang in the third division had to start.

Erich Wolf ended his career in higher-class football after this season. With the TG Jahn Trösel not far from Weinheim, another station followed in the lower-class amateur camp, after which he worked as a trainer at Phönix Mannheim and in his home town at the SG Hohensachsen.

In addition to football

Erich Wolf lived in his father's house in Hohensachsen, where former national coach Sepp Herberger was also at home. The civil engineer last worked in a senior position; he headed the Heidelberg Road Construction Office for 25 years.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Date of death Erich Wolf . Retrieved January 19, 2018.

swell

• Erich Wolf - The winner of Stuttgart. In: Up, you heroes! , KSC special edition No. 12, pp. 50–59 ( excerpt )
• Matthias Kropp: Karlsruher SC . Agon-Verlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89609-115-8
• Wildlife Park live 08/09 , No. 03 of September 28, 2008, p. 49
• Harald Schock, Christian Hinkel: One Century FSV Frankfurt 1899 eV Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-89784-189-4

Web links

• Erich Wolf in the database of fussballdaten.de