Erwin Rödler
Erwin Rödler (born August 16, 1936 ) is a former German soccer player who played 139 league games with six goals in the first-class Southwest soccer league from 1955 to 1963 , mainly as an outside runner in the World Cup system at VfR Kaiserslautern . In the second-rate Regionalliga Südwest , a total of 207 regional league appearances with three goals followed from 1963 to 1970. In his time at SV Alsenborn from 1965 to 1970 , he won the championship three times in a row from 1968 to 1970 and therefore played 17 games with Alsenborn in the respective Bundesliga promotion rounds.
Career as a player
VfR Kaiserslautern, 1955 to 1965
Rödler made his debut on October 16, 1955 in a 1: 5 home defeat against FK Pirmasens in the Oberliga Südwest. VfR Kaiserslautern ranked 13th at the end of the round and the young player had scored a goal in nine league games. From the second year, 1956/57, he was part of the regular line-up of the team from the Waldstadion am Erbsenberg. Through the two league relegations in 1958 and 1960, he also experienced two championship wins and promotions with VfR in the rounds of 1958/59 and 1960/61 in the 2nd Southwest League . He also belonged to the circle of players who ended the era of the old first-class Oberliga Südwest as an active player on the lawn on May 12, 1963, the final day of the 1962/63 season. VfR Kaiserslautern lost the home game with right wing runner Erwin Rödler with 0: 1 against TuRa Ludwigshafen. From 1955 to 1963 he played a total of 139 league games with six goals in the Oberliga Südwest for VfR.
He went with his club in 1963/64 in the first year of the new second division of the Southwest Regional Football League. Four players, Robert Jung, Volker Pfeiffer, Erwin Weber and Rudi Rödler, joined the team of coach Werner Baßler and enriched the circle of regular players. Together with goalkeeper Herbert Zill - he played all 38 league games - and the defensive talent Dietmar Schwager , Erwin Rödler was part of the solid defensive network and VfR took seventh place at the end of the round. This was guaranteed by 27:11 home points. The crash was extreme in the second regional league year, 1964/65 . With 12:22 home points and 32:79 goals conceded in 34 league games, VfR Kaiserslautern finished 17th and penultimate place in the table and relegated to the amateur camp Südwest. Coach Baßler gave up at the end of November 1964, the loss of Schwager to local rivals 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the Bundesliga could not be compensated and the inadequate away record of 6:28 points sealed the relegation. Rödler had played another 32 league games and scored one goal. Altogether there were 67 regional league games with three goals in two rounds with VfR. After relegation to the 1965/66 round, he accepted the offer of the promoted SV Alsenborn and thus remained in the Regionalliga Südwest.
SV Alsenborn, 1965 to 1970
The midfielder Erwin Rödler moved as a 29-year-old in the 1965/66 round from the regional league relegated VfR Kaiserslautern to the promoted SV Alsenborn . There, the captain of the 1954 world championship team, Fritz Walter , was persuaded to take on a "supervisory and advisory role" at the SVA in his home in Alsenborn . The Alsenborn rose every year. As a promoter, the championship in the amateur league southwest and promotion to the regional league southwest was achieved in 1964/65 . In addition to Rödler, Willi Herbert and Franz Schmitt were two more newcomers to coach Otto Render's team . Rödler and goalkeeper Willi Hölz brought experience and routine into the squad around playmaker and goal scorer Lorenz Horr . With the ninth place Alsenborn occupied a midfield place. In the second regional league year, 1966/67, Rödler was now 30 years old, they finished eighth and the reliable hard worker in midfield had played all 30 league games. A player were with Werner Mangold , Goalkeeper Manfred Krei and Jürgen Schieck come three players to do so. When in the third year, 1967/68, Josef Sattmann, a fast winger, strengthened the offensive and the tall center forward Schieck conquered the top scorer's crown in the southwest with 31 hits , the team from the stadium at Kinderlehre won the championship. In the promotion round , the village team was third behind Hertha BSC and Rot-Weiss Essen with 8: 8 points. Before the 1968/69 season, Alsenborn had to cope with the loss of goal scorer Schieck, and met this personnel by signing talent from the amateur camp such as Werner Adler , Manfred Lenz , Franz Schwarzwälder , Erwin Schwehm , Matthias Volk and Alban Wüst . From a sporting point of view, the situation was coped well, captain Horr scored 24 goals in 29 league games and Rödler was as usual in 29 league games as well, reliability in person. However, the accidental death of trainer Render in April 1969 was tragic. Horr and stopper Klaus Schmidt led the training interim in the following weeks and Alsenborn moved into the promotion round for the second time as the defending champion from the southwest . Here they just failed to get into the Bundesliga because of Rot-Weiß Oberhausen . Rödler had completed all 16 games in two promotion rounds.
Rödler won the third southwest title in 1970 with Alsenborn in front of FK Pirmasens. That with Heiner Ueberle as the new coach and Karel Nepomucký as the successor to playmaker Horr who had moved to the Bundesliga at Hertha BSC. In this round Manfred Lenz made the breakthrough with 24 league games and 12 goals and Reinhard Meier also strengthened the squad. The 33-year-old Rödler helped the team to their third championship in 25 league appearances.
After 140 regional league appearances with three championship wins and 17 games in the Bundesliga promotion rounds for SV Alsenborn, he ended his long football career in the summer of 1970. For Erwin Rödler there are 207 league games with three goals in the statistics in the Regionalliga Südwest from 1963 to 1970.
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 .
- Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The fear of the devil in front of the pea mountain. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963. Klartext Verlag. Essen 1996. ISBN 3-88474-394-5 .
- SV Alsenborn. Books on Demand GmbH. ISBN 3-8311-1846-9 .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rödler, Erwin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1936 |