Eugen Ehmann (soccer player)

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Eugen Ehmann
Personnel
birthday February 14, 1945
date of death May 31, 1995
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
Karlsruher SC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1965-1972 Karlsruher SC 213 (19)
VfB Bruchsal
FV Neuthard
1 Only league games are given.

Eugen Ehmann (born February 14, 1945 - May 31, 1995 ) was a German football player . For Karlsruher SC , the defender played 56 games in the Bundesliga between 1965 and 1968 , scoring five goals.

Career

In the 1964/65 season, the 20-year-old Eugen Ehmann and his teammates of the KSC amateur eleven won the championship in the 1st Amateur League North Baden . For the 1965/66 round he was taken over by the amateurs to the licensed players of the Baden Bundesliga team, along with other teammates. Since with Heinz Crawatzo (FC Schalke 04), Arthur Dobat (VfB Oldenburg), Helmut Kafka (Arminia Hannover) and Walter Rauh from FC Winterthur four players with experience from the contract or licensed player area had been brought to the Karlsruhe Adenauerring , they were The opportunities for local talent are manageable. They should learn, develop, and then get their chance. With Eugen Ehmann, the attacking right full-back with great shooting power, this lasted until the last matchday in his first Bundesliga season. On May 28, 1966 he made his debut in the away game of the KSC against Borussia Neunkirchen in the Bundesliga. Coach Werner Roth , the former long-time league player, had replaced Helmut Schneider as KSC coach in October 1965, and brought the young defender into action for the first time in the 1-0 defeat at the Ellenfeldstadion. Siegfried Kessler was in the gate and Ehmann, Rauh, Jupp Marx and Kafka formed the defense of the Karlsruhe. The blue-whites from the Wildpark Stadium took 16th place and were able to hold onto the class just ahead of Neunkirchen and the lower-ranking SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin .

In his second Bundesliga round, 1966/67 , he was a member of the KSC regular from the sixth matchday on September 24, 1966. The team from North Baden only picked up speed after the coach change from Roth to Paul Frantz on November 2, 1966. Under the “football professor” from Strasbourg, the KSC scored 25:21 points by the end of the round and finished 13th with 54:62 goals and 31:37 points. Ehmann had played 26 games and also scored his first Bundesliga goal on matchday 34 in a 3-1 away win in Schalke. The stable defensive in this successful phase consisted of goalkeeper Kessler, the attacking full-back pair Ehmann and Kafka, as well as the sovereign central defense with captain Marx and the strong header Jürgen Weidlandt . The newcomer from Cologne, Christian Müller , also proved his scoring qualities in Karlsruhe with 17 goals. The ball artist Dragoslav Šekularac had ended his activity at KSC after 17 appearances with two goals in winter. Ehmann developed into a cult player this season in the Wildpark Stadium at home . If he started one of his spectacular solo attempts on the right wing, the highest danger for the visiting teams was announced. He liked to finish with a hard shot, or sought physical contact with the opponent at full speed in the opponent's penalty area and thus helped Horst Wild to get more than a converted penalty. Long drawn out “Schlappe, Schlappe” calls from the stands accompanied his frequent offensive excursions. The defenders Ehmann - Kafka were one of the KSC's assets and clearly brought the quality for the Bundesliga with them.

In the 1967/68 season Ehmann was able to expand his personal record to 29 games with four goals, but the performance of the KSC-Elf deteriorated. In defense, his partner Helmut Kafka was injured, Kessler and the young newcomer Jürgen Rynio were switched in the goal and in attack, striker Müller was unable to repeat his goalscoring rate of the previous year due to knee problems. The swap in midfield due to the departure of home-grown Horst Wild to MSV Duisburg and the return of Günter Herrmann from Schalke also contributed to the weak KSC performance . The noble technician could not conduct the game in midfield as hoped, the French winger Gérard Hausser was not dangerous and the sporting downturn meant that Paul Frantz was replaced by Georg Gawliczek on October 25, 1967 . But even the former Herberger assistant did not see the end of the round in the wildlife park, from February 10, 1968, former national player Bernhard Termath was the third coach in Karlsruhe in office. This was not good for the team's cohesion and performance, the KSC finished the round with 17:51 points in 18th place in the table and relegated to the Regionalliga Süd. "Schlappe" Ehmann had scored his first goal on September 2, 1967 in the 1: 2 away defeat at Alemannia Aachen. After a nice solo, he had scored the interim 1: 1 equalizer with a 25-meter shot in the 70th minute. In the 2-3 defeat at Borussia Neunkirchen on September 30, 1967, he distinguished himself as a two-time goalscorer. The dynamic offensive defender scored his fourth goal in a 2-1 home win on October 14, 1967 against Hamburger SV. He completed a solo effort in the 80th minute with the winning goal. Ehmann played his last Bundesliga game on May 25, 1968, when KSC left the Bundesliga with a 1-1 draw at 1. FC Kaiserslautern. Goalkeeper Kessler and defenders Ehmann, Marx, Weidlandt and David Scheu formed the defensive.

The 23-year-old top performer stayed with Karlsruhe in the summer of 1968 and went into the second division of the Regional Football League South . Under the new coach Kurt Baluses , the KSC was able to win the championship in 1969, but in the promotion round, Rot-Weiss Essen sovereignly prevailed. When the Baden team were again represented in the promotion round in 1970 as the southern runner-up behind the eventual champions, promoted team and DFB Cup winner Kickers Offenbach , they played seriously for promotion. Ehmann - he had played all 38 league games in the Regionalliga and scored four goals in the process - belonged to the KSC-Elf in all eight group games, which just missed promotion one point behind Arminia Bielefeld. In Karlsruhe, the KSC prevailed with a 1-0 win over Bielefeld. The defense was occupied by Rudi Wimmer (goalkeeper), Ehmann, Weidlandt, Friedhelm Groppe and Günter Fuchs . In 1971, in the third promotion round participation, a team from the west, VfL Bochum, was again too strong. Ehmann's last regional league season brought the KSC only fifth place in 1971/72. Surprisingly for fans and club alike, the popular player ended his professional career in the summer of 1972. He is led at Karlsruher SC with a total of 213 mandatory appearances and 19 goals.

He went back to the amateur camp and played for years at VfB Bruchsal (today 1. FC Bruchsal ) and FV Neuthard in the north Baden football district of Bruchsal. With the selection of the Badischer Fußball-Verband , he won the national cup in 1973 .

literature

  • Matthias Kropp: Germany's great football teams. Part 11: Karlsruher SC. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89609-115-8 .
  • Ulrich Homann (Hrsg.): Hellfire on Ascension. The history of the promotion rounds to the Bundesliga 1963–1974. Klartext, Essen 1990, ISBN 3-88474-346-5 .
  • Ulrich Merk, André Schulin: Bundesliga chronicle 1966/67. Volume 4: Braunschweig's defensive artist. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-086-3 .
  • Ulrich Merk, André Schulin: Bundesliga chronicle 1967/68. Volume 5: Nuremberg's ninth championship. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-087-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ noz.de: The Club of the Dead Kicker ( Memento from August 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 9, 2012
  2. ↑ Bundesliga Chronik 1967/68, p. 60.
personal data
SURNAME Ehmann, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1945
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1995