Franz Wichelhaus

Franz Wichelhaus
Personnel
birthday	December 13, 1924
place of birth	Dorsten ,  German Empire
date of death	5th November 1993
Place of death	Mönchengladbach ,  Germany
position	Defender , midfielder
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1949-1951	STV Horst-Emscher	41 (1)
1951-1952	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	30 (3)
1952-1953	1. FC Cologne	14 (1)
1953-1957	Borussia Monchengladbach	95 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Franz Wichelhaus (born December 13, 1924 in Dorsten , † November 5, 1993 in Mönchengladbach ) was a German football player . From 1949 to 1957, the defensive player played a total of 180 league games and scored five goals in what was then the first-class football league West .

career

Wichelhaus made his debut on September 25, 1949 in the away game of STV Horst-Emscher at Rot-Weiss Essen in the Oberliga West. He played in the World Cup system at that time in the 3-1 success of the "Emscher Hussars" right defender and thus had to do with the RWE left winger Bernhard Termath in most of the duels . At the end of the round, Horst-Emscher finished fourth and was able to take part in the final round of the German soccer championship. On May 21, 1950, the West Fourth met the South German champion, SpVgg Fürth, in Worms . The "Kleeblatt-Elf" from Franconia took on the dangerous indoor storm with Otto Brenzke , Horst Schade and Max Appis and decided the game with 3: 2 goals in their favor. Wichelhaus played the right wing runner alongside players like Heinz Flotho , Alfred Mikuda , Bernhard Klodt and Alfred Kelbassa . In his second league year with the team from the Fürstenberg Stadium , 1950/51 , he was the central defender and played all 30 rounds.

For the round 1951/52 Wichelhaus joined the league promoted Bayer 04 Leverkusen . In addition to the new coach Franz Strehle, the other newcomers Fredy Mutz (goalkeeper), Walter Nussbaum, Karl Habets and Fritz Tiede joined the team from the stadium at the Stadtpark. The excellent round start was crowned by the 2-0 success in front of 35,000 spectators on November 4, 1951 at local rivals 1. FC Cologne . Wichelhaus played in the position of the left outer runner and his team took second place with 14: 6 points. Also in the second half of the season on March 9, 1952, a 2-1 win against the "billy goat eleven" led by player- coach Hennes Weisweiler as a middle runner. Wichelhaus completed all 30 rounds (3 goals) and Bayer finished sixth at the end of the round.

For the round 1952/53 the station 1. FC Köln followed . In President Franz Kremer's team , Wichelhaus had a dream start under Weisweiler's successor Helmut Schneider after the first ten games with 20: 0 points. After that he was only used in four more games against Leverkusen, Erkenschwick, Meidericher SV and local rivals Prussia Dellbrück. At the side of teammates like Frans de Munck , Georg Gawliczek , Walter Müller , Josef Röhrig and Hans Schäfer , he completed 14 games (1 goal) when he reached the runner-up.

From the 1953/54 season, the trained dentist played at Borussia Mönchengladbach . The first two rounds under coach Fritz Silken and from 1955 to 1957 under coach Klaus Dondorf . After the 1956/57 season, the team rose from the Bökelberg Stadium from the Oberliga West to the 2nd division. The last game in the league was played by the mostly active player on February 24, 1957 in a 2-2 home draw against SV Sodingen. Wichelhaus played 95 league games for Borussia from 1953 to 1957. He ran a dental practice in Mönchengladbach and felt at home in the Lower Rhine region.

literature

• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• Ralf Piorr (Ed.): The pot is round. The lexicon of Revier football: The chronicle from 1945 to 2005. Klartext Verlag. Essen 2005. ISBN 3-89861-358-5 .
• Alex Feuerherdt : Bayer 04 Leverkusen. The football chronicle. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2011. ISBN 978-3-89533-819-9 .
• Markus Aretz, Stephan Giebeler, Elmar Kreuels: Borussia Mönchengladbach. The Chronicle. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2010. ISBN 978-3-89533-748-2 .