Gerd Ihns

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Gerhard "Gerd" Ihns (born July 19, 1926 in Schwerin ; † January 2015 ) was a German football player and coach. The offensive player played a total of 188 point games between 1948 and 1956 in the first-class soccer leagues North , West and Southwest , scoring 84 goals.

Life and football career

Beginnings in Schwerin and Berlin, World War II

Born in Schwerin, Ihns started playing club football at Schwerin FC 03 in the school team when he was ten . After two years, in 1938, after a merger, FC was renamed Schweriner SV 03 and the youth player was considered an outstanding talent from an early age. But not only in football. He was a talented boxer who was able to secure the Mecklenburg regional championship in flyweight three years in a row and also excelled in table tennis. At the age of 15 he began training with the Deutsche Reichsbahn in Berlin and played for two years in the youth team of Tennis Borussia Berlin. At the age of 17 he was drafted into the labor service and shortly afterwards into the armed forces. During the Second World War he was stationed in Prague and on the Russian Eastern Front, where he was wounded twice. During his retreat he was taken prisoner by the Americans near Regensburg, from which he fled to Schwerin.

The fast and tricky offensive player reached first place with SG Schwerin in 1946/47 in the Mecklenburg regional soccer class , season west, and the runner-up in the subsequent final behind master SG Rostock. In the following season, 1947/48 , it was enough in the west relay behind SG Wismar-Süd with Fritz Laband to the runner-up, but in the final round he and his colleagues turned the game around and became national champions. In the decisive second leg on May 30, 1948 in Wismar in front of 11,000 spectators, Ihns distinguished himself as a two-time goalscorer in a 3-2 win. In the east zone championship in 1948 he lost with Schwerin on June 20 in the quarterfinals with 1: 3 against the later champions SG Planitz with their top performers Karl Dittes , Herbert Seltmann and Johannes Breitenstein . On July 3rd, however, a 2-1 win over SG Bergen succeeded in the final of the state cup . For the 1948/49 round he joined VfB Lübeck in the Oberliga Nord.

The league years, 1948 to 1956

The man from Schwerin experienced his first year in German football in 1948/49 with the green-whites of VfB Lübeck from the stadium at the Lohmühle . Under coach Otto Höxtermann , he scored two goals in a 12-man squad in 12 league appearances and VfB came in 7th. Players like goalkeeper Albert Felgenhauer , Johannes Kubsch and Karl Wenzel were top performers at his side. After one round he stopped in Lübeck and went to Hamburg for the 1949/50 season and played for Eimsbüttel TV . There were three good laps for him and the ETV with eighth (1950), fifth (1951) and fourth (1952) rank. In the three rounds, the goal-scoring striker completed 87 league games and scored 46 goals. In his first round with Eimsbüttel, he won 1-0 against FC St. Pauli on November 6th, and on November 20th he drew 1-1 at Hamburger SV in front of 25,000 spectators. He scored eleven goals in 29 league appearances alongside attacking leader Kurt Manja (24-17). In the 5: 5 goal on January 29, 1950 at Concordia Hamburg, the left winger distinguished himself with two hits and proved against the two "Cordi" goal scorers Werner Heitkamp (26-20) and Kurt "Malek" Hinsch (24-19), that he was also one of the best scorers in the north. At the end of the round he was used on May 14, 1950 in the representative game in Cologne in the north selection against West Germany. The north prevailed with the attack Felix Gerritzen , Hans Hagenacker , Willi Schröder , Theo Uppenkamp and left wing Ihns with 4: 3 goals and the attacker from ETV had scored two goals.

In his second season in Eimsbüttel the ETV improved to 5th place and Ihns had scored 17 goals in 29 league games. In the first half of the season he scored 1-0 in front of 20,000 spectators against Hamburger SV and in the second half of the season he was a three-time goalscorer in the 3-2 home win in January 1951 against FC St. Pauli, thus dismissing their striker Alfred Boller ( 2 goals) in their place. On March 18, 1951, he stormed again in the northern selection at the game in Hamburg against southern Germany. In the 2-4 defeat, he formed the left wing with Herbert Wojtkowiak . At the end of the round there was a trip to Munich with a friendly match against FC Bayern. The ETV won 4-3 and he had scored three goals. In the third season of Ihns in Eimsbüttel, 1951/52, at the end of the round there was fourth place - tied with FC St. Pauli in third place - the greatest post-war success of the ETV. He had scored 18 goals in 29 league appearances. He is described as "probably the most successful left winger with us" in ETV. Three years were enough, for the round in 1952/53 he signed a new contract in the Oberliga West with 1. FC Cologne .

For one year - from 1952 to 1953 - he played in the cathedral city at the side of fellow players such as Fritz Breuer , Walter Müller , Josef Röhrig and Hans Schäfer . He played a total of 29 games for the billy goats under coach Helmut Schneider , in which he scored eight goals in the major league. Cologne was runner-up in the west and moved into the final round of the German soccer championship . He was used in the final round in four games against Eintracht Frankfurt (0: 2), Holstein Kiel (3: 2, 2: 2) and 1. FC Kaiserslautern (2: 2). After only one season he left Cologne again, he was annoyed about the separation from coach Schneider, went back to northern Germany and played for Hamburger SV from 1953/54 . He experienced a memorable round with the Rautenträger vom Rothenbaum: The lone record champions of the Oberliga Nord did not play for the title, he was even in the lower third of the table. Completely unexpected and, due to the sporting quality of the newcomers from Ihns and Günter Schlegel , not at all understandable. The personality Willi Schröder , however, cast its shadow over the 1953/54 season from the beginning of the round. HSV started under coach Georg Knöpfle on August 9, 1953 with a 0-1 away defeat at Hannover 96 in the round. It has not yet been deployed, Manfred Krüger and Franz Klepacz stormed the wings . In the next two games Rothosen got four points against Göttingen 05 (5: 3) and VfB Lübeck (3: 0) and seemed to have started rolling. In both games, he stormed in the center forward position and scored one goal each. But after the 0-2 home defeat in the derby against FC St. Pauli on the fourth round matchday, the look at the table caused concern lines at HSV. Hannover 96 led the Northern League with 8-0 points, the defending champion showed 4-4 points at this early stage of the season. This was followed by defeats against Bremerhaven 93 (1: 4), Eintracht Braunschweig (1: 2), Altona 93 (2: 4) and Werder Bremen with 1: 2 and the team around him finished 10th with 13:17 points Rank standing in the second half of the season. The entire club could not handle this unusual situation properly. There were arguments, listless ideas, heavy slips, and when the Rothenbaumers were then deducted four points because of the prohibited bonus payments to Willi Schröder, theoretically even descent was possible. From the 25th to the 29th match day, the disagreed team suffered five defeats in a row, including the 2:10 defeat on February 20, 1954 at Arminia Hannover, and after the final day with 27:33 points occupied the HSV- Conditions miserable 11th place. He had scored 13 goals in 26 league appearances and was third in the internal goalscorer list behind Herbert Wojtkowiak (16 goals) and Schlegel (14 goals).

Again after a year he moved to FK Pirmasens for one season in 1954 , where he scored 13 goals in 18 games under his former Cologne coach Helmut Schneider. With players like goalkeeper Heinz Kubsch , defender Rolf Ertel , runner Hermann Laag and the attackers Günther Grewenig , Franz Strehl and Emil Weber, the FKP took fifth place , the championship successes with playmaker and goal scorer Helmut Kapitulski were not to come until 1958 to 1960. Due to defeats in the last two league games, the FKP slipped back to 5th place at the end of the round. "Wandervogel" Ihns returned to the north for the 1955/56 season and signed with the upper division VfB Oldenburg .

The blue-whites from the Donnerschwee stadium lost the fight for relegation, while VfB Oldenburg was in 15th place in the summer of 1956 in the amateur camp in Lower Saxony. In addition to team-mates like Herbert Bayer , Erich Hänel , Hans Morgner , Manfred Paschke , Burghard Rylewicz and Gerhard Scholz , Ihns completed 20 league games in which he scored two goals. With 37 goals, VfB scored the fewest hits in the top division round in 1955/56 in the north and said goodbye with a 3-1 home win on April 22, 1956 against FC Altona 93 from the top division, with him contributing one goal. After the descent, the former "Wandervogel" stayed three more laps in Oldenburg. Twice the championship in the Amateur League West succeeded, once the runner-up. The return to the Oberliga Nord was not successful in the three rounds of promotion.

After the playing career

He settled down in Oldenburg and took over as player-coach from 1959 to 1962 in the Jadestadt Germania Wilhelmshaven and from 1962 to 1964 the local game association 05 . He then worked as a trainer at VfL Germania Leer and Germania Papenburg . Professionally, he was involved in accounting at AEG and then held a position at a private health insurance company until he retired. He was active in sport well into old age and successfully took part in the annual German senior tennis championships in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler for years. He was able to win a total of 19 championship titles in "white sport". In recent years he has kept himself fit by gardening and taking walks.

Club stations

statistics

  • Oberliga Nord
    87 games; 26 goals for Eimsbütteler TV
    26 games; 13 goals for Hamburger SV
    20 games; 2 goals for VfB Oldenburg
  • Oberliga West
    25 games; 8 goals for 1. FC Köln
  • Oberliga Südwest
    18 games; 13 goals for FK Pirmasens
  • Final round of the German championship
    4 games for 1. FC Köln

literature

  • Dirk Innschuld, Frederic Latz: With the billy goat on his chest. All players, all coaches, all officials of 1. FC Köln. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2013. ISBN 978-3-7307-0047-1 . Pp. 147/148.
  • Jens R. Prüß (Ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. Klartext Verlag. Essen 1991. ISBN 3-88474-463-1 .
  • IFFHS (Ed.): "11" magazine for international football history and statistics. Special edition about German football. No. A. Wiesbaden.

Web links

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. 165 .
  2. ↑ Innocence, Latz: With the billy goat on the chest. P. 147
  3. ↑ IFFHs (ed.): "11" magazine for international football history and statistics. Pp. 23, 29, 30, 31, 34
  4. ↑ Bernd Jankowski, Harald Pistorius, Jens R. Prüß: Football in the north. 100 years of the North German Football Association. P. Dobler printing house. Alfeld 2005. ISBN 3-89784-270-X . P. 362
  5. ^ Folke Havekost: ETV Hamburg. 100 years of football in Eimsbüttel. P. 150
  6. ^ Folke Havekost: ETV Hamburg. 100 years of football in Eimsbüttel. P. 184
  7. ^ Folke Havekost: ETV Hamburg. 100 years of football in Eimsbüttel. P. 148
  8. ↑ Werner Skrentny, Jens R. Prüß: With the diamond in the heart. The great history of Hamburger SV. P. 163
  9. ↑ Dirk Innschuld, Frederic Latz: With the billy goat on the chest. P. 148
personal data
SURNAME Him, Gerd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hims, Gerhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH January 2015