Günter Herrmann (soccer player, 1939)

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Günter Herrmann (born September 11, 1939 in Trier ) is a former German soccer player who played nine international matches for the German national soccer team between 1960 and 1967 .

Career

Eintracht Trier, 1947–1958

The soccer game was born to the boy Günter from father Karl. Karl Herrmann was a supporter of Trier Eintracht for years. In addition, Karl was a recognized league player. At the age of eight, his son Günter joined the youth department of Eintracht and went through all junior teams there.

His excellent technique, his wit and his talent for combination culminated in the appointment of the A youth player in the youth team of the DFB . In 1957 and 1958 he took part in the UEFA youth tournaments with Fritz Pott , Karl-Heinz Schnellinger and Peter Kunter . He was appointed to ten games for the youth national team.

Günter Herrmann made his first appearance in the Oberliga Südwest on April 28, 1957, the last game day of the 1956/57 round. It was a home game of Eintracht Trier against Phönix Ludwigshafen. In the 1957/58 season Günter Herrmann made 24 league appearances and scored five goals.

On October 12, 1957 Herrmann made his debut in the amateur national team at the game against England in Ilford. He contributed one goal to the 3-2 success. In defense, Willi Gerdau and Schnellinger and in the storm Peter Grosser and Klaus Matischak went to work with the talent from Trier.

In the 1958/59 round, the 19-year-old half-striker was drawn to the South German champions of 1958, the Karlsruher SC .

Karlsruher SC, 1958–1963

The debut in the Karlsruhe Wildpark Stadium was the home game on August 17, 1958. It brought the man from Trier a superior 7-0 win against Viktoria Aschaffenburg. The further course of the round did not have the desired success for the KSC and its new playmaker hope. It was only enough for ninth place in the 1958/59 round.

The filigree technician Günter Herrmann was nevertheless able to record successes. These include the appointment to the B national team on October 22, 1958, two further games in the amateur national team and two appearances in the junior team of the DFB in May 1959.

Under coach Eduard Frühwirth , Ludwig Janda's successor , Herrmann celebrated winning the title in the Oberliga Süd in the 1959/60 round and moved into the finals of the German football championship with the KSC . In the final round, the Baden team failed to make it into the final due to a total of three lost points against Borussia Neunkirchen . Against the future German champions, Hamburger SV , the team of coach Frühwirth scored 3: 1 points. In 1960 Herrmann was involved in winning the South German Cup against Eintracht Frankfurt and making it into the DFB Cup final on October 5 in Düsseldorf against Borussia Mönchengladbach . In the final, he managed to equalize 1: 1 in the 23rd minute of the game before Albert Brülls scored 3: 2 and decided the game for Mönchengladbach. In 1961, the KSC team around the technician in midfield, Herrmann, took third place in the top division.

In the year of the soccer world championship in Chile in 1962, Günter Herrmann experienced a sporting crisis in the spring. The KSC landed in ninth place in the south. Herrmann, the convincing half-forward in the World Cup qualifiers, was only a substitute player in the squad in South America. The Chile colleague Horst Szymaniak already played in the "Lire paradise" Italy, Helmut Haller and Albert Brülls had signed contracts for the 1962/63 season in Italy. Günter Herrmann did not want to stand back here and also negotiated with clubs from Italy. A final contract was not concluded despite months of negotiations. The result was only 13 games by the ex-Trier for KSC in the final round in 1962/63.

Furthermore, it was a sensational move in the summer of 1963 to the West for FC Schalke 04 . The former teammates "Jupp" Marx and Gustav Witlatschil agreed that the departure of the strong striker was a bitter sporting loss for KSC, which could not have been adequately replaced in the first round of the Bundesliga . This was a major reason for the bad KSC start.

Günter Herrmann played a total of 115 league games with 19 goals for KSC from 1958 to 1963.

FC Schalke 04, 1963-1967

In the four rounds of the Bundesliga with Schalke 04, Herrmann, the man with the talent for the technically demanding combination game, experienced the relegation battle three times. After the departure of the national players Willi Koslowski , Reinhard Libuda , Hans Nowak and Willi Schulz as well as the regular players Waldemar Gerhardt and Egon Horst after the round in 1964/65, he became one of the guarantors of the Bundesliga stay of Schalke.

The playmaker of "Königsblau", Günter Herrmann and Karl Könsgen (cousin), who runs an espresso cafe in Moers on the Lower Rhine, returned to the national team after consistently strong performances in February and March 1967.

At the side of Gerhard Neuser, Herrmann flourished in the midfield of coach Fritz Langner's team . With a grade of 2.61 he was ranked 16th in the Bundesliga together with Werner Krämer from Meidericher SV in the 1966/67 season . From 1963 to 1967 he made 110 Bundesliga appearances and 22 goals.

Herrmann moved back to Baden in 1967, namely to KSC. He could not build on his last performances in Schalke. The KSC was relegated to the Regionalliga Süd. Herrmann terminated his contract and moved to Switzerland.

National team, 1960–1967

The half-forward, who has been under observation since his appearances in the youth national team at the DFB, who had already played five games in the amateur team of the DFB in 1957 and 1959 , made his debut in the World Cup qualifier on October 26, 1960 in Belfast against Northern Ireland in the senior national team . National coach Sepp Herberger relied on the connector Günter Herrmann and the left winger Gert Dörfel on the left wing for the 4-3 success . The man from KSC mostly had to deal with right runner Danny Blanchflower of Northern Ireland.

After the 2-0 victory against Poland on October 8, 1961 in Warsaw, the performance of the German internal storm was highlighted. “The two technically brilliant half-forwards Herrmann and Haller always had the game under control. The inner storm (Herrmann, Uwe Seeler , Haller) was magical. "

After the seventh international match on October 22, 1961 in Augsburg against Greece, Herrmann was no longer part of the national team. He played in several friendly matches in 1961 and 1962, in the southern selection and was also in the squad for the international match on April 11, 1962 in Hamburg against Uruguay. Herrmann attended the World Cup preparation course from April 30 to May 11, 1962 in Karlsruhe-Schöneck. He was part of the squad for the 1962 World Cup in Chile. His shirt number was 18. On the way home from the World Cup on June 17, 1962 in New York, the game between the DFB and USA selection ended with a 7-2 win. Herrmann was there and on the ball.

Günter Herrmann was not called to an official international match for years. National coach Helmut Schön brought the midfielder, who played for Schalke, to two more appearances in the national team in the spring of 1967, after a break of almost six years. After his ninth international match on March 22, 1967, his career in the DFB team was over.

Ausklang, 1968–1974

Günter Herrmann played for FC Sion in Switzerland from 1968 . With the Red-Whites he succeeded on April 15, 1974 in the Wankdorf Stadium in Bern, the cup win against Neuchâtel Xamax . He ended his football career in the capital of the Swiss canton of Valais .

In the mid-1980s he moved with the family to Crans-Montana . Just like in the "Pott", Günter Herrmann opened a restaurant here with his cousin Karl Könsgen, which was called "La Bistro". In 2006 Herrmann was still living in this area with his wife, child and dog. He also trained the youth of FC Montana and has been retired since September 2004.

On the occasion of his 70th birthday on September 1, 2009, an interview with the jubilee was printed on page 47 of the KICKER sports magazine on September 3, 2009, in which he states that he is still active today with running, playing golf and mountain biking. He also looks after the offspring of FC Montana from time to time. On his 80th birthday, Herrmann stated that he did sport every day.

particularities

Sporty

Günter Herrmann was used in five DFB selection teams. He played:

  • 9 full international matches, 1960–1967
  • 1 international B match, 1958
  • 2 junior internationals, 1959
  • 5 amateur internationals, 1957–1959
  • 10 youth internationals, 1957 and 1958

Change activity 1963

The DFB sports court sentenced Schalke 04 and Karlsruher SC on August 17, 1963, one week before the start of the round, to a deduction of four points at the end of the season and a fine of DM 10,000. According to the DFB, licensed players were allowed to cost a transfer fee of no more than 50,000 marks, when Herrmann switched to Schalke 04, the DFB suspected the payment of an excessive transfer fee. In the opinion of the DFB, the real transfer fee for the national player Günter Herrmann was concealed by the change of the other KSC player Hans-Georg Lambert to FC Schalke. A "peg deal" would have taken place here. However, the DFB Federal Court overturned the judgment on October 4, 1964.

Web links

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  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
  • Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 3: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 1. The founding years 1963–1975. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-132-0 .
  • Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 6: German Cup history since 1935. Pictures, statistics, stories, constellations. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-146-0 .
  • History of the Oberliga Südwest, plain text, 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 .
  • Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .
  • Germany's major soccer teams, part 11: KSC, AGON, 1998, ISBN 3-89609-115-8 .
  • Trierischer Volksfreund: from September 20, 2019, p. 19: "Trier national player celebrates 80th birthday"

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