Fredi Lauten

Fredi Lauten (born December 16, 1926 - July 5, 2008 ) was a German football player. The defensive player completed a total of 224 league games at Rot-Weiß Oberhausen in the then first-class football Oberliga West from 1948 to 1963, in which he scored a goal. In addition there were 154 games in the 2nd West League from 1951 to 1957, and finally 22 games from 1963 to 1965 in the second-rate Regionalliga West . For lutes, 400 league games are noted for Rot-Weiß Oberhausen.

Career as a footballer

Grown up in football at the Postsportverein Oberhausen, the Styrum boy found - he had attended school here and also completed a commercial apprenticeship before he was drafted into the Wehrmacht at the age of 17 - coming from an English prisoner of war in 1948, shortly before the start of the 1948/49 round to the Reds. Whites from the Niederrhein Stadium , to Rot-Weiss Oberhausen. On the first league match day, September 12, 1948, in a 6-1 home win against Katernberg, he formed the RWO defender pair for the first time in a competitive game together with Erich Juskowiak in front of goalkeeper Willy Jürissen . At the end of the round, the Landwehr team took 5th place in a relay of 13 and Lauten had played 20 games. In the following two rounds it went down in the table, in 1950/51 the club rose from the Landwehr as 13th in the Oberliga even after a relegation round against Alemannia Aachen, Schwarz-Weiß Essen and SSV Wuppertal in the 2nd League West. The departures before the start of the lap by Erich Juskowiak and Werner Stahl weighed too heavily.

In their first year in the second division, 1951/52, the “clover leaves” achieved a good third place, but missed their immediate return to the top division. Lauten had played 30 games under player-coach Jürissen and Willi Demski scored 17 goals. The return to the league was not successful in the next four rounds either. With the brother couple Friedrich "Friedel" and "Kalli" Feldkamp , Friedhelm Kobluhn , "Ata" Siegfried Lüger and Karl-Otto "Camping" Marquardt, more talented players followed, but only in the sixth attempt, 1956/57, should the league return of President Peter Maassen's team succeeded. Maassen brought Willi Demski back from FK Pirmasens, plus goalkeeper Ernst Saturday (VfR Mannheim) and Heinz Siemensmeyer from SuS Oberhausen. However, the takeover of training management by former RWO active Werner Stahl was essential. The first round ended with 17:13 points, at the end of the round RWO was in second place with 41:19 points and thus returned to the Oberliga West after six years. The 30-year-old Lauten had exemplified his ambitious team as center runner, defender and captain. With his speed, the excellent header and positional play as well as his exemplary fairness, he was the extended arm of the coach.

The first three rounds after returning to the Oberliga West was the fight to stay in the foreground; Lauten only missed four round games in these three years. Under coach Nandor Lengyel and teammates like goalkeeper Helmut Traska , Kalli Feldkamp, ​​Friedhelm Kobluhn, Siegfried Lüger, Karl-Otto Marquardt, Jürgen Sundermann and the newcomers Hans Barwenzik and Hans Siemensmeyer , Senior Lauten first experienced the fight for the top of the table in 1960/61. Only the negative scoring with 1: 5 points from the last three back-round games resulted in 4th place for RWO. In the game year of the soccer world championship in Chile in 1962, 1961/62 , the red-whites did not start well with a view of the top of the table: With 17:13 points, the “clovers” ranked 8th; Leader of the table, FC Schalke 04, was already well behind with 24: 6, 1. FC Köln with 22: 8 and Herne and Münster with 21: 9 points each. With a great second half of the season, Lauten and his teammates pushed their way to the top. With 23: 7 points in the second half of the season, Oberhausen still achieved third place; Fredi Lauten had led the Landwehr team in 29 league games. Both games against Schalke (2-0) and 1. FC Köln (4-1) were won, with only one defeat, five draws and nine wins. Ten days after the 2-0 away win at Schalke 04 - the "Knappen" had attacked with Ernst Kuster , Werner Ipta , Willi Koslowski , Waldemar Gerhardt and Bernhard Klodt - the men around center runner Lauten lost on February 7 at 12. the table, the TSV Marl-Hüls, with 3: 2 goals. While Lauten and colleagues had condemned their prominent attack to a zero number in Schalke, Horst Wandolek (2 goals) and Karl-Heinz Sell met three times in Helmut Traska's case. The two converted hand penalties by specialist "Jule" Barwenzik could not change that. Together with Meidericher SV, Oberhausen and defense chief Lauten had to pocket the fewest goals with 37 goals each. One of the deciding factors for not making it into the final round of the German soccer championship was certainly that RWO was missing a goal scorer. Half-forward Hans Siemensmeyer led the team's internal goalscorer list with nine goals. On the other hand, Manfred Rummel and Karl-Heinz Thielen stood out at the top of the Western League's list of goalscorers with 25 goals each and their closest competitors Wilhelm Bergstein and Jürgen Schütz with 20 goals each.

Before the last round of the old first-class league, 1962/63, the combination-safe midfielder Jürgen Sundermann migrated to the Viktoria in Cologne and thus the renewed top position for the nomination for the Bundesliga from the 1963/64 season was even more difficult to achieve. Lauten and his teammates started the round with 6: 0 points, but after the first defeat on September 9, 1962 in Marl-Hüls, RWO's nerves were no longer in good shape. At the end of the round they were in a disappointing 10th place with 29:31 points and could not be nominated for the Bundesliga. The 36-year-old Lauten had played again in 22 league games.

He went with his club to the second-rate Regionalliga West and came there to another 22 league appearances before Lauten ended his 17-year playing career in the summer of 1965. After his active career, he was still active as a soccer lobbyist and supervisor in the Niederrheinstadion and was a coach at BV Osterfeld and VfB Speldorf .

literature

• Hans Dieter Baroth: “Boys, Heaven belongs to you!” The history of the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext Verlag. Essen 1988. ISBN 3-88474-332-5 . Pp. 64-70.

Web links

• Fredi Lauten in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Spiellexikon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 227 .
2. ^ German Sports Club for Football Statistics (DSFS): West Chronicle. Football in West Germany 1945–1958. P. 226 (vol. 1945–1952), 21, 63, 107, 149, 193 (vol. 1952–1958)