Günter Nauheimer

Günter Nauheimer (born May 30, 1940 ) is a former German soccer player who played 66 games with eleven goals in the Oberligen Süd and West from 1959 to 1963 .

career

Oberliga, 1959 to 1963

As a 19-year-old talented striker, Günter Nauheimer opened his career in the Oberliga Süd in the 1959/60 round with the Schwarzblauen from FSV Frankfurt . In his debut year, the team from the Bornheimer Hang stadium finished ninth and the striker, who was still playing as an amateur, contributed seven goals in 28 missions alongside the experienced center forward Berthold Buchenau . In the second season, the "Bernemer" slipped to 12th place and Nauheimer accepted the offer from Karlsruher SC in the summer of 1961 and moved to Baden.

The first game day of the 1961/62 round on August 6, 1961 led the KSC with its new attackers "Jupp" Marx and Günter Nauheimer to Bornheim to FSV Frankfurt. The FSV won against the favorites from Karlsruhe 1-0. However, the Frankfurters could not use the start success to a constant round course, the FSV rose in 1961/62 as the penultimate of the table from the Oberliga Süd. But this round was also unfortunate for the native of Nauheim from Karlsruhe: he only made three appearances and, after a disappointing year in sports, moved to Wuppertaler SV in the Oberliga West.

For the newcomer from the Bergisches Land , things did not go well in the league last year. Coach Robert Gebhardt was only able to take 15th place with the men from the stadium at the Zoo, so thoughts about the new Bundesliga were not appropriate. Günter Nauheimer's personal record with nine appearances and two goals was also modest. In contrast, the ex-striker from Frankfurt had a sense of achievement with the WSV in the 1963 DFB Cup . In the first main round, Wuppertal played at KSV Hessen Kassel and the game ended in a 2-2 draw after extra time. Nauheimer stormed the left wing and scored the 2-0 lead for the WSV. He was also one of the goalscorers in the 3-0 success in the replay. In the quarter-finals he did not succeed in a 1-0 win against the runner-up from the south-west, Borussia Neunkirchen , but he was actively involved in the semi-finals as a winger. On August 7, 1963, Nauheimer faced Gerhard Krug in the semi-final game on the part of Hamburger SV in the right defender position. The men around Uwe Seeler prevailed just 1-0 in the stadium at the Zoo and won the DFB-Pokal 3-0 against Borussia Dortmund on August 14th . The cup games brought the blue-reds in good shape for the first round of Regionalliga West in 1963/64. On the wing, Günter Nauheimer completed 27 games with four goals and the WSV won the runner-up in the west behind Alemannia Aachen . So you could fight in the Bundesliga promotion round to move into the upper house, was the overwhelming opinion in the football west. Only the qualifying games against the Southwest runner-up FK Pirmasens had to be played before. The WSV lost both encounters and Pirmasens moved into the promotion round in 1964. Günter Nauheimer then left Wuppertal and German contract football.

Selection games

At the beginning of his first preliminary round in the Oberliga Süd, in September 1959, the young FSV Frankfurt striker was appointed to the German national football team of amateurs . In the 2-0 success of the DFB amateurs on September 16, 1959 in Berlin in the German-German qualifying game for the Olympic qualification against the GDR team, DFB coach Georg Gawliczek offered Günter Nauheimer as half-left. He formed the left wing with Gert Dörfel from Hamburger SV. Eight days later at the second leg in Düsseldorf - again the protégés of coach Gawliczek won - he had to give way to Heinz Höher from Leverkusen and sat on the reserve bench. Both games are not included in the official DFB statistics.

Through his use on April 18, 1960 in Warsaw in the Olympic qualification game against Poland, Nauheimer was then still a national player for the DFB amateurs. The team around captain Herbert Schäfer lost the game with 1: 3, and Poland prevailed in the qualification.

literature

• Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
• 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 .
• Hans Dieter Baroth : Boys, Heaven is yours! The history of the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1988, ISBN 3-88474-332-5 .
• Hardy Grüne, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .