Erwin Piechowiak

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Erwin Piechowiak (born November 15, 1936 in Georgswerder ) is a former German football player who won the German football championship as an active member of Hamburger SV in 1960 .

career

Hamburger SV, until 1966

The redhead grew up with eight siblings in Georgswerder, played for Vorwärts Ost and Einigkeit Wilhelmsburg in Hamburg amateur football and came to the North German football league in 1957/58 as a new addition to the North German series champion Hamburger SV . The player, mostly called "Piecho", was immediately used by HSV coach Günter Mahlmann on the first day of the season, August 11, 1957, in the 3-0 away win at Phoenix Lübeck. In the 67th minute of the game, he made the goal to make it 3-0. In total, he made 24 appearances in his first year in the Oberliga Nord and was able to celebrate his first championship title with the team around Uwe Seeler and Klaus Stürmer . In the final round of the German championship, he moved with the Red Pants into the final on May 18, 1958 in Hanover against FC Schalke 04. “Royal Blue” won 3-0 against the Hanseatic League. As a right defender, Piechowiak mainly dealt with international striker Bernhard Klodt on Schalke's left wing. By the end of the league era, 1962/63, he won the championships with Hamburger SV in series from 1958 to 1963. The versatile defensive player came to 101 league games and scored four goals. With the selection of the NFV Piechowiak played on April 9, 1958 and April 12, 1959, two representative games against North Holland and southern Germany.

The finals in 1960 became the sporting highlight when he and his teammates won the German championship in Hamburg with a 3-2 win against the favored 1. FC Köln in the final on June 25th in Frankfurt am Main . In the final, he fought in the right defensive position mostly the Cologne winger Karl-Heinz Thielen .

In the European Cup he came on November 2, 1960 in the 5-0 away win against the Swiss champions Young Boys Bern to use. "Piecho" also belonged to the HSV team that on December 18, 1963 in Lausanne won the playoff with 3-2 goals against FC Barcelona .

In the Bundesliga he played 36 competitive games from 1963 to 1966 under the coaches Martin Wilke , Georg Gawliczek and Josef Schneider and scored two goals. He made his Bundesliga debut on October 12, 1963 in the 2: 4 defeat at Werder Bremen, and he also played his last league game on May 21, 1966 against Bremen. In the 1: 3 home defeat, he underwent an own goal in the 33rd minute to lead Werder 2-1. For round 1966/67 he joined the regional league promoted SC Sperber Hamburg .

Sparrowhawk Hamburg, until 1969

With the team from Hamburg-Alsterdorf, the 30-year-old defensive player, under the sporting direction of coach Walter Kuse, managed to keep the league in 1967 with 13th place in the North Regional Football League . With the players Horst Dehn and Peter Wulf , who also came from HSV , the "birds of prey" even started to march into the Bundesliga in 1967/68 in the first half of the season. After eleven games, Sperber was able to show 18: 4 points - including a 2: 1 win against SV Arminia Hannover - and there was euphoria in Alsterdorf. On November 12, 1967, the streak of success was stopped by a 3-1 defeat at St. Pauli and the SC Sperber ranked 10th at the end of the round. After the 1968/69 season, Erwin Piechowiak ended his playing career with 82 regional league appearances and one goal.

After the career

The trained machine fitter later trained various teams in the Hamburg amateur area, including TuRa Harksheide , the HSV amateurs and the Glashütte SV. He was an employee in Uwe Seeler's sporting goods wholesaler.

literature

  • Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-463-1 .
  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
  • Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): The German League Football 1903-2010. Volume 2 . Publishing house Nuttelmann, Jade 2010.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Skrentny, Jens R. Prüß: With the diamond in the heart. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2008. ISBN 978-3-89533-620-1 . P. 443
personal data
SURNAME Piechowiak, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Georgswerder