Ewald Nienhaus

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Ewald Nienhaus (born December 3, 1927 in Osnabrück , † August 1998 ) was a German football player. The offensive player completed a total of 218 league games at VfL Osnabrück , Borussia Mönchengladbach and Fortuna Düsseldorf from 1949 to 1959 in the top leagues North and West , in which he scored 91 goals.

Career as a footballer

In his home town of Osnabrück, the dangerous left winger in the World Cup system at that time first went through the stations of Raspo Osnabrück and Eintracht Osnabrück , before he was able to establish himself as a league footballer at VfL Osnabrück from the 1950/51 season. Until January 1949, "Papsi" Nienhhaus stormed for Eintracht Osnabrück in the Lower Saxony Weser / Ems regional league, before joining the big VfL in the Oberliga Nord for the first time. In the second half of the season, the fast-paced winger made his debut on February 6, 1949 in a 2-0 home win for the Lila-Whites against Bremerhaven 93 in the Oberliga Nord. VfL Osnabrück took 3rd place and Nienhaus had played in three league games. He immediately returned to Eintracht and won the championship in the amateur league Lower Saxony-West in 1949/50 with the "Yellows" from the Neustadt district and also made it to the Oberliga Nord. Nevertheless, he again accepted the offer from VfL and joined the leading club from Osnabrück for the second time.

After his debut at the start of the round on August 21, 1950, a 4-1 home win against Göttingen 05, Nienhaus scored the first two goals for VfL on the second match day. In the 5-1 win against Bremer SV, he formed the left wing with half-forward Erich Gleixner . In the two games (5: 2, 8: 2) against his former club, Eintracht Osnabrück, the fast and tricky winger scored a total of four goals. In addition to striker Adolf Vetter (30 goals), the winger scored 19 goals and VfL took 4th place; Eintracht kept the class in 14th place. In the following round, 1951/52, succeeded behind the series champion of the north, the Hamburger SV, reaching the runner-up and thus the entry into the final round of the German soccer championship . Nienhaus had scored ten goals in 29 league games. In the group games, the north vice had to do with VfB Stuttgart, Rot-Weiss Essen and Tennis Borussia Berlin. Nienhaus completed all six games and scored three goals; Stuttgart prevailed in the group and also won the German championship in the final . Most of the time VfL ran with the attacking line-up Hans-Joachim Alpert , Hans Haferkamp , Ernst-Otto Meyer , Adolf Vetter and Ewald Nienhaus. In the first half of the season, on October 14, 1951, the VfL left wing was used in a selection game of the regional association of Northern Germany in a 2-2 draw against West Germany. He had previously taken part in a DFB viewing course in Barsinghausen from July 30 to August 3, 1951. After another fourth place in the 1952/53 season, Nienhaus joined the western upper division Borussia Mönchengladbach for the 1953/54 season.

With the Bökelbergstadion team , however, he had to get used to the fight for relegation. This succeeded three rounds, after the fourth season, 1956/57, Mönchengladbach rose to the 2nd League West. Nienhaus had scored 46 goals in 114 appearances in the Oberliga West for Borussia. In the following two rounds at Fortuna Düsseldorf, he was no longer part of the regular line-up and had to be content with 12 additional league appearances and three goals in two rounds. Nienhaus ended his playing career in 1959/60 with Rheydter SV in the 2nd League West , scoring five goals in 19 second division games.

The trained weaver settled in Rheydt as a textile merchant in later years .

literature

  • Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 276 .
  • Michael Bolten, Marco Langer: Everything else is just football. The story of Fortuna Düsseldorf . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 978-3-89533-711-6 .
  • Markus Aretz, Stephan Giebeler, Elmar Kreuels: Borussia Mönchengladbach. The Chronicle . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89533-748-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens R. Prüss: Bungee bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963 . Klartext Verlag, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-463-1 , p. 203
personal data
SURNAME Nienhaus, Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH August 1998