Hans Michel (soccer player)

Hans Michel (born April 27, 1936 ) is a former German football player and coach. Michel played a total of 58 games (1 goal) in the old first-class football Oberliga West and football Oberliga Süd for Borussia Dortmund and KSV Hessen Kassel from 1958 to 1963. In the debut year of the second -rate regional football league South , 1963/64 , he won the championship with Hessen Kassel under coach Walter Müller and moved into the Bundesliga promotion round in 1964. In the Regionalliga Süd, Michel played a total of 145 league games for Kassel from 1963 to 1969 and scored 14 goals.

career

2nd League South and Oberliga West, until 1960

The midfielder and defender came from his hometown club VfL Bad Wildungen to the traditional North Hessian club KSV Hessen Kassel in 1954 . After a year in the amateur team, Michel gained two years of competition experience in the 2nd League South from 1955 to 1957 . His achievements, which he had shown under coach Hans Carl , brought the player, who can be used in the runner row as well as a defender, a contract offer from Borussia Dortmund from the Oberliga West. He accepted and switched to the team from the Rote Erde stadium . Michel made his debut on the first match day of the round 1958/59, on August 17, 1958, in a 2-1 away win at Rot-Weiss Essen in the Oberliga West. In front of 32,000 spectators on Hafenstrasse, Alfred Kelbassa scored both Dortmund goals and the newcomer from Kassel played on the left defensive position. Together with goalkeeper Heinrich Kwiatkowski , fellow defender Wilhelm Burgsmüller and the runner row with Elwin Schlebrowski , Max Michallek and Helmut Bracht , he formed the defensive in the World Cup system that was common at the time . Under the new BVB coach Max Merkel , the champions of 1956 and 1957 took fifth place and Michel played 20 league games. When, in his second year in Dortmund, 1959/60, the two strikers Jürgen Schütz (31) and Friedhelm Konietzka (25) shot into the "first division", Michel only made 15 more league appearances in Dortmund. After third place and two years in Dortmund, he signed again with Hessen Kassel and returned to the second league south for the 1960/61 season.

Hessen Kassel, 1960 to 1969

After a fourth place in his first year after his return, in 1960/61 (at the beginning of April 1961, KSV had beaten Borussia Dortmund 4-0 in a friendly match, four goals from Peter Velhorn ), Kassel delivered a convincing round in 1962: In the season 1961/62 achieved the championship win and promotion to the Oberliga Süd , the then top flight in German football. The team under coach Willibald Hahn in the 2nd League South included the two goalkeepers Karl Loweg and Árpád Fazekas , as well as field players such as Hans Alt , Dieter Vollmer, Jozsef Burjan, Peter Velhorn, Karl Hutfles, Erich Hahn , Klaus-Peter Jendrosch , Lothar Kleim and Walter Müller. In the league season 1962/63 Hans Michel played 23 games and scored one goal. After the promotion to the Oberliga Süd, four newcomers, Helmut Zatopek , Wolfgang Simon , Horst Assmy and Ernst Kuster, joined the penultimate champions of the 2nd League South. At the start, Kassel received Munich in 1860. Michel was able to welcome his former Dortmund trainer Max Merkel to the "Löwen" and, as a left wing runner, had himself against a 60s attack with players like Werner Anzill , Wilfried Kohlars , Rudolf Brunnenmeier , Hans Küppers and Johann Auernhammer to prove. The game was lost on August 19, 1962 0-1. The second home game of the round was far worse: On September 2nd, 1. FC Nürnberg dismantled the host in front of 25,000 spectators in the Auestadion with a score of 9-0! Michel was the overwhelmed middle runner in a generally weak Kassel team. The "Club" series of attacks with Kurt Dachlauer , Kurt Haseneder , Heinz Strehl , Tasso Wild and Richard Albrecht met as they wanted, supported by the outside runners Gustav Flachenecker (2 goals) and Stefan Reisch (1 goal). With 0-6 points and 1-18 goals after three games, the start of the season failed completely. Then coach Hahn was dismissed and replaced by Walter Müller, who was ending his playing career. At the end of the round Kassel took tenth place with 29-31 points. Michel had played 23 league games and scored one goal. The attackers Jendrosch (17) and Kuster (11) had proven their goal danger and Alt, Vollmer and Jendrosch had played the most orienteering games for KSV with 28 league appearances each. With the catch-up game on May 5, 1963, 2-1 home win against Bayern Hof, the era of the first-class Oberliga Süd ended.

After founding the Bundesliga in 1963, Michel played with KSV Hessen in the second-rate Regionalliga Süd. Michel started personally in the regional league with two defeats on the third and fourth matchdays. He was used as a right wing runner in the matches on August 18 and 25, 1963. First Hessen Kassel lost the away game at Schwaben Augsburg (18.8.) 2: 7 and their half-left Kurt Haseneder distinguished himself as a three-time goalscorer. Eight days later, championship favorites FC Bayern Munich prevailed 3-2 in front of 25,000 spectators in Kassel. In the long run, the supportive runner series with Michel, Stopper Heinrich Dittel and the young Helmut Huttary established itself ; These three were also in the 6: 1 home win on December 8, 1963 in front of 30,000 spectators against Kickers Offenbach, the hold of the KSV offensive, as well as on the final day of the round, May 24, 1964, in a 1: 1 draw against FC Schweinfurt 05.

After 38 rounds, Kassel won the championship in the Regionalliga Süd with 116-61 goals and 55-21 points in the 1963/64 season. FC Bayern Munich and Kickers Offenbach, who were clear favorites before the round, came in second and third, respectively. In the following round of promotion to the Bundesliga, the southern champion failed at the northern vice Hannover 96, who won both games against Kassel. On June 6th in front of 37,000 spectators in the Auestadion with 2: 1 and on June 28th in front of 70,000 spectators in the Niedersachsenstadion with 3: 1. The predominantly used in the runner row Michel had completed 29 games in the league and all six appearances in the promotion round (1 goal).

After that, Hans Michel was active in the Regionalliga for Hessen Kassel until 1969. In his last regional league year 1968/69, the KSV took tenth place and Michel completed under coach Willy Kurrat again at the side of teammates such as Hans Alt , Holger Brück , Heinrich Dittel , Walter Liebich , Rolf Fritzsche , Hans-Jürgen Kurrat , Herbert Maciossek, Hans-Adolf Schade, Otto Kastl , Gerhard Grau and Rainer Istel ten league games. His last regional league assignment dates from March 15, 1969, when Kassel won 2-1 against Karlsruher SC and Michel was again on the ball as the right wing runner. From 1963 to 1969, Michel was listed with 145 regional league games and 14 goals. For round 1969/70 he joined KSV Baunatal and went back to the Hessian amateur football.

Baunatal, 1969 to 1978

At the Kultur- und Sportverein (KSV) Baunatal, the club was only formed in 1964 through the merger of the Altenbaunas and Altenrittes clubs, the 33-year-old Michel continued his footballing activity in the 2nd amateur league in 1969/70. He immediately celebrated promotion with his new teammates, but also experienced immediate relegation from the Hessen League in 1970/71 . The up and down continued, Baunatal was again champion in 1971/72 and played again in the Hessen League from 1972/73 . At the beginning of 1973, however, the signs were pointing towards relegation again, Hans Michel took over the position of coach and led the black and whites to stay in the league by reaching 12th place in the table. For the next three years, Michel's team belonged to the top group in the Hessenliga, it was no longer about relegation, but about the chance of promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga. This was followed by third place in 1974 and fourth in 1975, before promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga in the 1975/76 round with the championship success. KSV Hessen Kassel, relegated in 1974, had to be content with third place - on April 24, 1976 the Michel team had won the local derby 5-0 in Kassel - and also had to accept the home games of the promoted team in the domestic Auestadion in the 2nd Bundesliga , because the previous home in Baunatal on Baunsberg was in no way suitable for the second division. After the rise, however, Michel gave up the coaching position and retired to the post of team manager. The coach in the 2nd Bundesliga was Peter Velhorn and with 15th place in 1976/77 the league was managed. At the end of the round 1977/78 Michel jumped in again as a coach in May and June 1978 and was able to get Baunatal just under 16th place in the class. In the 1978/79 season , the VW townspeople rose under the new coach Bernd Oles in the Hessen League.

In later years, Hans Michel moved his center of life to Spain and devoted himself intensively to the game of golf.

literature

• Horst Biese, Herbert Peiler: 100 years of football in Kassel. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 1993. ISBN 3-928562-37-1 .
• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 9: Player Lexicon 1963-1994. Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 .

Web links

• Hans Michel at fussballdaten.de