Günter Augustat

Günter Augustat (born May 26, 1938 in Dornap ) is a former German soccer player who played between 1956 and 1970 in the Oberliga and Regional League West for Wuppertaler SV and Preußen Münster .

Career

Günter Augustat played for Einigkeit Dornap until 1950 , then in the youth of TSG Vohwinkel 80 and after their merger with SSV 04 Wuppertal (1954) in that of Wuppertaler SV. The trained machine fitter had attracted attention from the club early on and was in the famous notebook of national trainer Sepp Herberger ; as a teenager he played several international games for the West German team under coach Dettmar Cramer . In 1956 he took part in the DFB's viewing course for the UEFA youth tournament in Hungary , but was ultimately not considered. That's why he got the nickname “ Fifa ” at a young age .

At the WSV he was already employed in the Oberligaelf at the age of 18 - with an initial contract player salary of 80 DM per month - where he worked alongside Horst Szymaniak , Alfred Beck , Theo Kolkenbrock , Erich Haase , Erich Probst and others in the first few years mostly came up as a striker . But in spite of the sonorous names, the Bergisch managed only a place in the middle of the table in 1956/57, and in 1958 they even relegated to the 2nd division, from which the WSV only returned to the top division in 1962. Augustat's career was similarly unsteady, and on some days he was in great shape thanks to his pronounced ball technique and "degraded his opponent to an extra" - he especially liked to play jokes with tall central men like Dortmund's Wolfgang Paul - but on others he was coach, teammate and Trailer whether his stubbornness and lack of restraint could drive him to despair.

The respect that opposing coach Augustat felt for example was expressed in the instruction from Adi Preißler to his defender Günther Klein , whom he impressed on before the qualifying games for the Bundesliga promotion round in 1963/64 between FK Pirmasens and WSV: “The Augustat you follow it up to the locus ! ”Among his best games were appearances under coach “ Zapf ”Gebhardt in the 1962/63 DFB Cup , in particular the 3-0 replay against Hessen Kassel and the 0-1 lost semi-final against Hamburg SV . His six goals in the game against Schwarz-Weiß Essen in November 1963 (final score 6: 1) are also legendary .

Günter Augustat stayed with WSV until 1966, who always ended these regional league seasons in the upper third of the table, but was unable to intervene in the battle for promotion to the Bundesliga . After the club did not want to give him a new contract, he moved to Preußen Münster, where he was mostly used as a midfielder , was in a team with Erwin Kostedde during his first season and "should develop into a crowd favorite and solo entertainer at the SCP". SC Prussia was, however, in its four years there - also in the 1967/68 season when the "English goalkeeper legend" Bert Trautmann coached the team - only average in the regional league. But "I was always particularly motivated against the WSV," said "Fifa" Augustat later, looking back. In 1970 he ended his career.

He played a total of 41 league games for the WSV and scored seven goals; in the 2nd division there were 99 games with 24 goals. In the Regionalliga he was on the pitch in 201 matches, in which he scored 31 goals, of which 89/20 for Wuppertal and 112/11 for Münster.
The father of four later ran an insurance agency . Today he lives in Wuppertal-Sonnborn , not far from the stadium at the zoo , which he has not entered for many years. Together with his former teammate Manfred Reichert , he regularly swung the tennis racket for the seniors of Gold-Weiß Wuppertal and in 2010 was still among the best 1000 players in Germany in the DTB rankings in the M70 age group.

literature

• Ulrich Homann (Ed.): Farmer's heads, miners and a pascha. The history of the Regionalliga West 1963–1974. Volume 1, Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-345-7 .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Fohlensturm am Katzenbusch. The history of the Regionalliga West 1963–1974. Volume 2, Klartext, Essen 1995, ISBN 3-88474-206-X .
• Manfred Osenberg: The WSV will never go under! 50 years of the Wuppertal Sports Club 1954–2004. Edition Osenberg, Wuppertal 2004, ISBN 3-98080-594-8

Evidence and Notes

1. ^ Only Hardy Grüner, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. P. 14, write his first name "Günther".
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Jürgen Eschmann: "Fifa Augustat threatened to fall into the Wupper", in the WZ of February 4, 2004
3. ↑ Osenberg, p. 118
4. ↑ ^{a b} Homann, p. 64
5. ↑ Osenberg, pp. 107 and 118; similar in the WZ article from February 4, 2004
6. ↑ Osenberg, pp. 107-109
7. ↑ Osenberg, p. 145; Homann, p. 64
8. ↑ Nöllenheidt, p. 92ff.
9. ^ Hubert Dahlkamp / Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: Preussen Münster. Football between felt and fans. Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 1995, ISBN 3-89533-141-4 , p. 123
10. ↑ Nöllenheidt, p. 98ff.
11. ↑ Hardy Green, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. P. 14, supplemented from Osenberg, P. 145, and Harald Landefeld, Achim Nöllenheidt (Ed.): Helmut, tell me dat Tor ... New stories and portraits from the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-043-1 , p. 153; only according to Nöllenheidt, p. 128, there were 113 point games in Münster.
12. ↑ Friedemann Bräuer: "A dribbling king par excellence - with a shot of obstinacy", in WSV-Treffpunkt , p. 11
13. ↑ DTB Ranking List 2010 ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.2 MB), there on p. 14