Hannes Tkotz

Hans "Hannes" Tkotz (born November 26, 1925 in Gleiwitz , Oberschlesien ; † April 2, 2017 ) was a German football player who won the German football championship in 1954 as an active member of Hannover 96 .

career

The striker joined Hannover 96 from TSV Wennigsen in 1949 , for whom he played until 1959. He scored 106 goals in a total of 241 competitive games for Hanover. In the soccer Oberliga Nord he is led with 227 league games and 99 goals and thus takes second place in the internal 96 ranking list behind Heinz Wewetzer (254/102). In his first league year in 1949/50 under his coach Robert Fuchs , the technically adept and two-footed attacker completed all 30 league games and scored ten goals alongside the then striker Erich Loth (30/18). From the 1952/53 round, Helmut Kronsbein took over the coaching position for the “Reds” . In the year of the football world championship in Switzerland in 1954, Hannover 96 won the championship in the Oberliga Nord with seven points ahead of St. Pauli . Tkotz led the internal goalscorer list with 19 hits. In the shortened final round, the northern champions prevailed against Berliner SV 92 and VfB Stuttgart and then met the top favorites 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the final on May 23, 1954 in Hamburg . Almost with the half-time whistle from referee Schmetzer, Tkotz equalized the 1-0 lead of Lauterer in the 45th minute. The 5: 1 triumph against the Walter-Elf was a big surprise and the greatest success that Tkotz experienced in his career. In October and November 1953 he had played two games in the NFV selection. Once against the West team and on November 21 in Hamburg against the B national team. In the 1958/59 trade fair cup he was active in the two games against AS Roma . In 1954 and 1956 he played eleven appearances in the finals of the German soccer championship, in which he scored seven goals. His last league game played the established mood cannon on February 15, 1959 in the 0-1 home defeat against VfV Hildesheim. The attack consisted of Heinz Wewetzer, Friedel Schicks , Tkotz, Wilfried Schott and Georg Kellermann .

He then went to Gehrden as a player- coach and later, at the end of the sixties, coached BSV Gleidingen and SV Gehrden, among others.

literature

• Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-463-1 .
• Hardy Greens (Ed.): The ball. The lawn. The Reds. 100 years Hannover 96. Agon-Verlag, Kassel 1995, ISBN 3-928562-77-0 .

Web links

• Hannes Tkotz in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Former 96 player Hannes Tkotz died. Report on sportbuzzer.de, April 3, 2017, accessed on April 4, 2017.
2. ↑ Congratulations Hannes Tkotz. Red curve Hannover 96 Supporters-Club e. V., September 10, 2012, archived from the original on August 10, 2014 ; Retrieved April 4, 2017 .