Hans-Jürgen Himmelmann

Hans-Jürgen Himmelmann
Personnel
birthday	January 30, 1938
place of birth	Germany
position	Forward / midfield
Juniors
Years	station
	SpVgg 1900 Giessen
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
0000-1963	VfB 1900 Giessen
1963-1964	Borussia Fulda	31 (9)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1960-1965	Germany amateurs	7 (4)
1 Only league games are given.

Hans-Jürgen Himmelmann (born January 30, 1938 ) is a former German soccer player who played 31 games as a striker for Borussia Fulda in the first season ( 1963/64 ) of the newly created second-class regional league and scored nine goals.

Career

societies

Until round 1962/63, Hans-Jürgen Himmelmann played, he had been trained in the youth of SpVgg 1900 Giessen , at VfB 1900 Giessen in the 1st amateur league Hessen . In the university town on the Lahn, however, football did not play a dominant role. The fusion club VfB 1900 Gießen won under coach Willibald Kreß the championship title in Hesse in 1962/63 , of all places, in front of SV Wiesbaden , when the reorganization of the classes - soccer Bundesliga and five regional leagues for the 1963/64 round - no promotion was possible. In 1963, the student national player Himmelmann accepted the offer from Borussia Fulda , who had qualified for the Regionalliga Süd , and moved to the cathedral city.

On August 4, 1963 (1st matchday) he won with Borussia Fulda with the 1-1 draw at ESV Ingolstadt-Ringsee the first point in the Regionalliga Süd, where he scored the equalizer in the 36th minute. On August 18th (3rd matchday), the men around goalkeeper Theo Diegelmann , center forward Bernd Windhausen and half- forward Himmelmann drew 3: 3 at favorites FC Bayern Munich . The first half of the season was the 2-0 away win on October 27, 1963 (12th matchday) in the away game against Kickers Offenbach and the 2-2 on November 3rd (13th matchday) in front of 17,000 spectators in Fulda against eventual champions KSV Hessen Kassel continued. In the second half of the season, however, coach Lothar Schröder's team slipped to 18th place and thus entered the first amateur league in Hessen. Himmelmann had played 31 games in the Regionalliga Süd and scored nine goals. He stayed in Fulda after relegation and did not return to contract football.

Selection appointments

With the selection team of the Hessian Football Association , the strong and goal-scoring attacker reached the finals of the national cup in 1960 and 1963 ; However, both finals were lost to the representatives of the Middle Rhine Football Association and the Bavarian Football Association . In the 1959/60 season , with VfB Giessen, Himmelmann ranked 10th in the table in Hesse, and in April 1960 he was appointed to a DFB selection by national coach Sepp Herberger for a test match. On April 27, the international A match between Germany and Portugal took place in Ludwigshafen (2: 1), the day before Herberger spotted other national team candidates in Karlsruhe in a game of a South German selection against a DFB selection (3: 2). As part of this test match, the amateur from VfB Giessen came in the 2nd half to half right for Karl-Heinz Ripkens (1. FC Cologne) in the DFB selection on the side of attacking colleagues Carl-Heinz Rühl , Alfred Horn , Friedhelm Konietzka and Rudolf Schmidt on duty. Days later he was nominated for the first time for the amateur national team . He made his debut on May 18 in the Olympic qualifier against Finland in Helsinki. In the 2-3 defeat, he formed the attack of the German team together with Carl-Heinz Rühl, Gerhard Neuser , Heinz Höher and Willibert Kremer . He scored his first international goal for the DFB-Elf , supervised by DFB coach Georg Gawliczek and led by captain Herbert Schäfer . Eight days later, the Hessian in Saarbrücken even excelled as a two-time goalscorer in a 6-2 win over France. In the only international match in 1961, Himmelmann played on June 1 in Oberhausen, his third international match in a 5-3 win over Holland. When VfB Gießen won the title in Hesse in 1962/63, three more appearances followed. In May 1963 he belonged to the DFB squad of coach Helmut Schön , which made it into the final of the "England Tournament". Against Holland and England he was in the respective 1-0 successes in Durham and Middlesbrough in action and introduced the debutant Franz-Josef Hönig into the team. When he played with Borussia Fulda in the 1963/64 season in the Regionalliga Süd, he was not considered for the amateur selection. Himmelmann played his seventh and last game in the amateur national team again as the first amateur league player in Hessen in the 1964/65 season , when he finished fourth with Borussia Fulda under coach Heinz Hempel . On May 15, 1965, the DFB amateurs won 4-2 in Siegen against Thailand. The attack consisted of Himmelmann (1), Jürgen Grabowski , Dieter Zettelmaier (2), Gerhard Neuser (1) and Helmut Sandmann .

successes

• Hessen Champion 1963 (with VfB Gießen)

• State Cup - Finalist 1960, 1963 (with the State Association of Hesse)

Web links

• Hans-Jürgen Himmelmann in the database of fussballdaten.de

literature

• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 149.
• Hardy Greens: Legendary football clubs. Hesse. Between FC Alsbach, Eintracht Frankfurt and Tuspo Ziegenhain. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-244-0 , p. 78.
• Karl-Heinz Heimann, Karl-Heinz Jens: Kicker-Almanach 1989, Copress-Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7679-0245-1 .