Ewald Hammes

Ewald Hammes (born August 4, 1950 in Koblenz-Metternich ) is a former German soccer player who, as an active member of SG Wattenscheid 09, played 217 games in the 2nd Bundesliga between 1974 and 1980 and scored 86 goals. He is the father of the International Master in chess Sport Michael Hammes .

career

Association until 1980

At the latest when the 19-year-old striker Ewald Hammes from the Rhineland amateur league team Germania Metternich was appointed to the German national football team by DFB coach Jupp Derwall on May 21, 1970 , he became interesting for clubs from contract football . The race for the offensive talent was made by SG Wattenscheid 09 , who had been promoted to the West Regional Football League in 1969. Hammes moved from Koblenz-Metternich to Wattenscheid, from the Moselle to the Ruhr area, for the 1970/71 round.

In Wattenscheid, the entrepreneur Klaus Steilmann took over the chairmanship of the club on March 21, 1970 and signed the other newcomers Karl-Heinz Bechmann, Ulrich Gelhard and Horst Grenda for the team of coach Hubert "Papa" Schieth. Hammes made his debut on the first day of the 1970/71 season , August 16, 1970, in the Black and White league team. In the 1: 2 away defeat at Lüner SV , SG 09 competed with strikers Horst Grenda, Hammes and Gerd Haselhoff. The start failed with 0: 6 points and Wattenscheid finished the round in 13th place. In the second year from Hammes, 1971/72, with Hans Bongartz , Rudi Klimke, Werner Kontny and Helmut Zyla, further newcomers came to the Lohrheidestadion . However, since the transition from Schieth to Werner Stahl in the training management did not bring the desired immediate success and therefore Friedhelm Schulte took over the coaching position from the beginning of 1972 , there was nothing in Hammes' second year with the SG to improve towards the top positions. The SG 09 landed in 1972 with center forward Hammes in twelfth place in the table.

Since the former SG goalkeeper Schulte, after the unsuccessful start with 2: 8 points in the 1972/73 season, exasperated the coaching job at SG 09, Hammes and colleagues had it in a row with Karl-Heinz Feldkamp as the new coach do who had previously trained the amateurs. Now things were finally looking up in the Lohrheide Stadium. The technicians with playmaking qualities Jürgen Jendrossek and Hannes Bongartz were brilliant directors and the storm peaks Helmut Horsch , Ewald Hammes and Detlef Rosellen mixed up the opposing defensive lines. At the end of the lap, the Steilmann protégés finished fifth.

In the fourth year of Hammes in Wattenscheid, 1973/74 , the sporting development continued and the SG fought for the with Rot-Weiß Oberhausen ( Lothar Kobluhn / 25 goals) and Bayer 05 Uerdingen ( Manfred Burgsmüller / 29 goals) Championship in the last year of the old second-rate regional leagues. In December 1973, the autumn championship was celebrated with 30: 4 points and 51:16 goals. With an outstanding offensive - goal difference of 102:39 goals - around the technicians and drivers Hannes Bongartz (19 goals) and Jürgen Jendrossek (24 goals) in midfield, as well as the three attacking tips Helmut Horsch, Hammes (16 goals) and Detlev Rosellen was finally won the championship title. Before that, the new champion had already set highlights in the DFB Cup. In the first main round Wattenscheid overcame the hurdle Schalke 04 with a 2-1 victory in the Parkstadion. Hammes scored the 1-0 lead for the guests. “We kept going up and down the escalator for joy,” says Libero Werner Kontny about the sensational success. The “semi-professionals”, most of the players were employed by club boss Steilmann for a five-day week, “it was over at four o'clock, then the training came,” reports Hannes Bongartz, who was then employed in the coat sales department, also sat down in the second cup main round against Hertha BSC. In front of 23,400 spectators in the sold-out Lohrheide Stadium, Hamburger SV bowled the regional league out of the cup on February 16, 1974 with a 1-0 win after extra time. In the promotion round, the west champion could not assert himself against Eintracht Braunschweig and 1. FC Nürnberg and had to compete in the 1974/75 round in the newly established 2. Bundesliga North. The man from Metternich, Ewald Hammes, had played 132 games and scored 53 goals in the Regionalliga West from 1970 to 1974.

Playmaker Bongartz moved to Schalke 04 in 1974 and Wattenscheid hoped that the Argentine World Cup participant Carlos Babington would continue the successful offensive football . Ewald Hammes established himself among the most dangerous attackers in the early years of the 2nd Bundesliga, but even his goals could not bring SG 09 to the top of the table between 1974 and 1980. The response from the public was symptomatic of the Wattenscheid conditions. In the first year of the 2nd Bundesliga, 1974/75, the Lohrheidestadion had an average of 4074 visitors, in the last year of Hammes, 1979/80, it was 2121 paying people, and that with a fifth place in the final table. Hammes had again contributed 18 goals for the black and whites in 35 league games. Overall, he came from 1974 to 1980 to 217 second division games and scored 86 goals. The long-time goalscorer completed his last league game for Wattenscheid on the 37th matchday of the 1979/80 season, May 25, 1980, in a 3-1 away win at Hannover 96, where he scored the 3-1 final score from the league adopted. Then he ended his playing career.

Under the direction of DFB trainer Gero Bisanz , Hammes successfully completed his soccer teacher training at the DSHS in Cologne in 1980. His course colleagues included Jörg Berger , Christoph Daum , Fahrudin Jusufi , Gerhard Kentschke , Horst Köppel , Klaus Schlappner and Josef Stabel . He became an association coach at the Rhineland Football Association , where he was responsible for the junior selection teams and coaching education and training until 2012.

Selection appointments, 1970 to 1978

From 1970 to 1978 Ewald Hammes played 46 international matches with 17 goals in the amateur national team of the DFB . There were several outstanding moments for the reliable offensive player. The trip to Africa in December 1970 / January 1971 was certainly not just part of it because of the missions against Nigeria, Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Senegal. The consideration for the 1972 Olympic tournament with the two appearances against Malaysia and Morocco was a highlight. But also his contribution to the successes in the UEFA Amateur Cup 1974 (declared the winner together with the amateur national team of Yugoslavia due to the unplayable field on the day of the final) and 1978 stands out from the chain of 46 international matches.

His joint farewell with record national player Egon Schmitt through the international match on September 26, 1978 at the Bielefeld “Alm” against China A, not only ended these two international careers, but also played for the last time a German amateur national team made up of Bundesliga and second division players . This ended the era of the “Olympic amateurs”.

After captain Egon Schmitt was replaced by Helmut Dietterle in the 46th minute , Hammes took over the captain's armband in his farewell game and served Bielefeld local hero Helmut Schröder in the 84th minute, so that Schröder scored the winning goal with a remarkable shot in the corner : 1 could achieve. With Norbert Eder and Matthias Herget he had last formed the midfield of the amateur national team.

literature

• Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Fohlensturm am Katzenbusch. The history of the Regionalliga West 1963–1974. Volume 2, Klartext, Essen 1995, ISBN 3-88474-206-X .
• 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 .
• Matthias Weinrich: Second League Almanac. All players. All clubs. All results. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-190-8 .
• Karl-Heinz Heimann / Karl-Heinz Jens, Kicker-Almanach 1989, Copress-Verlag, 1988, ISBN 3-7679-0245-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ulrich Homann (Ed.), Höllenglut an Himmelfahrt, The story of the promotion rounds to the Bundesliga 1963–1974, p. 65.
2. ↑ Kicker-sportmagazin, No. 78, September 25, 1978, p. 16.
3. ↑ Kicker-sportmagazin, No. 79, September 28, 1978, p. 4.