Hans Tilkowski

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Hans Tilkowski
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Hans Tilkowski, 2005
Personnel
birthday July 12, 1935
place of birth Dortmund ,  German Empire
date of death 5th January 2020
position goal
Juniors
Years station
1946-1949 SV Husen 19
1949-1953 SuS Kaiserau
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1953-1955 SuS Kaiserau
1955-1963 Westfalia Herne 219 (0)
1963-1967 Borussia Dortmund 81 (0)
1967-1970 Eintracht Frankfurt 40 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1956-1958 Germany U23 2 (0)
1956-1965 Germany B 4 (0)
1957-1967 Germany 39 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1970 Werder Bremen
1970-1972 TSV 1860 Munich
1973-1976 1. FC Nuremberg
1976-1977 Werder Bremen
1978 1. FC Saarbrücken
1981 AEK Athens
1 Only league games are given.

Hans Tilkowski (born July 12, 1935 in Dortmund - Husen ; † January 5, 2020 ) was a German football player and coach . As a goalkeeper he played 219 league games from 1955 to 1963 in the then first-class West Football League at Westfalia Herne and won the West German championship with Herne in the 1958/59 season. From 1963 to 1967 he guarded the goal of Borussia Dortmund in 81 Bundesliga games . He won the DFB Cup with Dortmund in 1965 and the European Cup Winners ' Cup in 1966 . On December 19, 1956, he was in the goal of the second international match of the German U-23 national team against Belgium. On February 26, 1958, he also came to another junior international game against Belgium.

On April 3, 1957 Tilkowski made his debut in the senior national team . For them he played 39 international matches from 1957 to 1967. In 1962 he was part of the squad at the World Cup in Chile, but was not used. In 1966 he was runner -up in England with the DFB team . In 1965 he was voted Footballer of the Year . Tilkowski refused any show behavior and acted objectively, with perfect positional play and always in the service of the team.

Player career

Youth, until 1955

Tilkowski was the son of a miner and grew up in modest circumstances in the Dortmund district of Husen . The family lived in the colliery colony directly on the Kamen –Dortmund railway line in an eight-family house at Westicker Strasse 44. Under the care of father Johann and mother Martha, the children - in addition to Hans, the sisters Brunhilde and Renate - had a childhood that was later National player had fond memories despite the material limitations and which he thought back fondly. At the age of eleven he joined the small SV Husen 19 in 1946 and initially attacked the right wing. In the post-war years, full of privation, he learned, like almost all children from the colliery colony, "the careful and economical use of everything that was halfway edible". Food was scarce for many people in Tilkowski's childhood and youth. When practicing sports, one had to contend with deficiencies in the equipment for the soccer game as well as with the mostly random transport options to away games. When the regular goalkeeper was missing from a game, the captain sent him in and Tilkowski found his position. From 1947 to 1950 he boxed in addition to football at the Kaiserau boxing ring. The young Tilkowski needed a lot of exercise and looked forward to every training session, game and competition. During his time at SV Husen he got to know the young Alfred Preissler who was playing there. The real career in football began in 1949 after he switched to SuS Kaiserau's youth . Even as a street footballer he played with Erich Pawlak (1954–1961: VfL Bochum, 131 league games / 33 goals), which continued in the school and youth teams, then in the 1st team at SuS Kaiserau and also in the Westphalia selection. The sports field on Jahnstrasse in Kaiserau was in the immediate vicinity of his parents' house; But what was even more important for his performance development, he was right next to the sports school of the Football and Athletics Association Westphalia .

The ambitious and eager to learn young goalkeeper was drawn to sports school as often as possible. It became his second home; Whether to watch the training of the upper league players from Westfalia Herne, Schalke 04 and Borussia Dortmund, who moved into quarters before important games in the sports school, or for daily special training by the then association sports teacher Herbert Widmayer and his assistant and later successor Walter Ochs . Looking back, Tilkowski noted:

“Here, in the Kaiserau talent factory, the actual basis for my goalkeeping career is being laid. What the two have worked with me! "

On April 1, 1950, he began his apprenticeship as a steel fitter at a mining supplier in neighboring Kurl . During this phase he was invited to the first course by the West German Football Association under Dettmar Cramer in Duisburg, where he learned the teaching method from national coach Sepp Herberger, which was formative for him. In the sports schools he learned the technical basics of goalkeeping. In addition to goalkeeping training, he always took part in team training, which he later kept as a professional.

There was no defining role model for him. Nevertheless, he was impressed by the calm that the 1954 World Cup goalkeeper, Toni Turek , exuded. He was personally impressed by his national team predecessor Fritz Herkenrath , who for him embodied in particular the objectivity in goalkeeping play, but also in civil life. Likewise, for Tilkowski, the Soviet goalkeeper Lev Yashin was a man from whom one could learn details, as was later also true for Gordon Banks .

In the summer of 1953, the then 17-year-old Tilkowski lost the final of the Westphalian youth championship with the A-youth from SuS Kaiserau, but was immediately called up to the first team that played in the state league. He was in the goal of the Westphalian amateurs five times and was also interesting for the amateur national team of the DFB. But since he did not want to remain amateur until after the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956, he renounced this appointment in 1955 and considered which league club he should go to for the 1955/56 season. Schalke would have been the fulfillment of a childhood dream for him, but with Manfred Orzessek there was a hard-to-beat expert in goal with the “Knappen”, and Tilkowski did not want to switch to the league as a substitute. Against the other interested parties Prussia Münster, 1. FC Cologne, VfL Bochum and Wuppertaler SV, he decided for sporting reasons in favor of Westfalia Herne, where he saw the best opportunities. At the same time, coach Fritz Langner, a recognized expert in goalkeeping training and a man who built on the next generation, came to Herne.

Oberliga West, 1955 to 1963

The young man from Dortmund-Husen was right with his expectations. Langner already trusted him on the starting day of the 1955/56 round, August 27, 1955, in the away game against Schwarz-Weiß Essen . Westfalia won 2-1 goals in the Uhlenkrug team and the newcomer from Kaiserau completed his debut year in alongside Alfred Pyka , Werner Hesse , Kurt Sopart , Josef Bothe , Willi Overdieck , Günter Grandt , Helmut Benthaus and Gerhard Cyliax the Oberliga West 26 of 30 competitive games. In the next two rounds he only missed one league game and was a main guarantee that the team from the stadium at Schloss Strünkede could secure relegation. In his second year in Herne, 1956/57, he played himself in the notebook of national coach Sepp Herberger . On November 3, 1956, he stood in the goal of a DFB team for the first time. In Frankfurt, the young Westfalia goalkeeper guarded the housing of a DFB selection during a test match against Eintracht Frankfurt. A fortnight later, on November 21, the 21-year-old made his debut in the international match in Zurich against Switzerland in the national B team , before he was able to conclude the year with the U23 youth team in Liège against Belgium on December 19 . In March 1957, two more B internationals followed, before Tilkowski could celebrate his debut in the senior national team in Amsterdam on April 3, 1957 in the international match against the Netherlands.

Herne was not counted among the championship favorites before the 1958/59 season . This ruled 13th (1955, 1956), 11th (1957) and 12th in the round 1957/58 objectively. The fact that the young national goalkeeper and his two teammates Alfred Pyka and Helmut Benthaus were part of the Westfalia team did nothing to change that. Defending champion Schalke 04, runner-up 1. FC Cologne, Fortuna Düsseldorf and Borussia Dortmund did not seem sporty for Herne. With the impressive figure of only 23 goals against in 30 league games - Tilkowski had not missed a league game - Herne relegated the pursuers 1. FC Köln, Fortuna Düsseldorf, VfL Bochum and Borussia Dortmund in the league to the places and took six points ahead of the tied Chasing the championship from Cologne and Düsseldorf. Piorr says about Tilkowski: “The charismatic goalkeeper was the face of a young team that caused a sensation in the Oberliga West at the end of the 1950s. In general, Hans Tilkowski, mostly dressed in black and radiating a stoic calm and serenity between the goalposts in photos, was considered to be one of the initiators of the 'Miracle of Herne' ”. Teammate Alfred Pyka recalled:

“With an outstanding performance, Hans ensured that we were West Champion by so many points. We played 'to zero' a number of times. "

In addition to the defensive and the constant team performance - in 15 home games there were 14 wins and only a 1-1 draw against 1. FC Köln - the unexpected hit rate of the young center forward Gerhard Clement - with 28 goals, he took the top scorer in the Oberliga West - contributes to the success. In the year he defended his title, 1959/60, Herne won the runner-up behind the champions 1. FC Köln and Tilkowski was able to stand out in a total of 13 final rounds of the German soccer championship in 1959 and 1960. Fritz Langner was the right trainer for Tilkowski at the right time and in the right place. The move to Herne also had positive effects for Tilkowski on a professional level. At an electricity company, he was able to retrain as a technical businessman, found his boss very understanding of his sporting ambitions and was therefore able to work extra shifts with Langner outside of regular training.

After the last year of the old first-class football league, 1962/63, Hans Tilkowski said goodbye to the Oberliga West with 219 competitive games in eight rounds and joined the newly introduced football league in his hometown Borussia Dortmund, the 1963/64 new German champion in 1963. Borussia won the last final after the finals for the German championship on June 29, 1963 with 3-1 goals against 1. FC Köln. From 1955 to 1963, Tilkowski, together with Heinrich Kwiatkowski , Fritz Herkenrath , Helmut Schiffer , Alfred Schmidt , Manfred Orzessek , Fritz Ewert , Helmut Traska , Herbert Eiteljörge and Horst Podlasly shaped the image of the goalkeeper in the Oberliga West.

Bundesliga, 1963 to 1969

The 18-time national goalkeeper Tilkowski was one of the players who made the start in the newly installed Bundesliga on Saturday, August 24, 1963. Dortmund played for Werder Bremen and BVB half-forward Friedhelm Konietzka scored the first Bundesliga goal after 60 seconds. Werder won the debut game in the second half with 3-2 goals. Dortmund placed fourth under coach Hermann Eppenhoff at the end of the round and Tilkowski had been in goal in 21 league games. Bernhard Wessel was used in six and old master Kwiatkowski in three games. Despite the Bundesliga debut, the games in the European Cup against Lyn Oslo , Benfica Lisbon , FK Dukla Prague and Inter Milan in 1963/64 were outstanding for Tilkowski and his teammates . On November 6, 1963, a Wednesday evening in Lisbon, Benfica's offensive, known throughout Europe, with Augusto, Santana, Eusebio, Coluna and Simões, put the black and yellow from Dortmund under such pressure with a long-term offensive that only luck, holding out the BVB- Defensive and an excellent Tilkowski in goal prevented a high defeat. Looking back, Tilkowski classified his game in Lisbon as "one of the best goalkeeping performances of my career". With the result of 1: 2 after goals from Simões (46th), Wosab (54th) and Eusébio in the 59th minute, the team of coach Eppenhoff got off lightly against a clearly superior Benfica team. On December 4th, the finalist for the years 1961 to 1963, Benfica Lisbon, who had no regular goalkeeper Alberto da Costa Pereira and star striker Eusébio, was eliminated from the competition with 5-0 goals in the Rote Erde stadium . Weinrich writes about this in his European Cup standard work:

“An unleashed Borussia literally shot the completely confused Portuguese in the Rote Erde with a fabulous 5-0. The absence of Eusebio and regular goalkeeper Costa Pereira alone could not explain this debacle - no, the Borussia had a first-class cream day. Franz Brungs , who moved from Mönchengladbach to Borsigplatz at the beginning of the season, personified his BVB's gala with three goals within twelve minutes. "

This was followed in the quarter-finals in March 1964, the elimination of the team of Josef Masopust , Dukla Prague, and thus the entry into the semi-finals, where it went against Inter Milan in April. With a 2-0 home win, Inter moved into the final after the 2-2 draw in Dortmund, but Dortmund had made a name for itself in Europe. For Tilkowski, the European games had the side effect that national coach Herberger tried to talk to him about the comeback of the Dortmund player in the national team, who had not been part of the DFB squad since the surprising disregard at the 1962 World Cup in Chile. The Dortmund goalkeeper met the national coach and celebrated his return to the national team during a trip to North Africa at the turn of the year 1963/1964 on January 1 in Algiers against Algeria.

In the second Bundesliga year 1964/65 , Tilkowski broke his collarbone on December 19, 1964 in the 2-0 defeat against Hannover 96 in the final minutes and only returned on the final day, May 15, 1965, in the 2-2 home draw against 1 FC Köln back into the gate. Due to the injury break he had to be content with 17 Bundesliga games this season, Dortmund finished third. Competitor Wessel (13 Bundesliga appearances) was therefore his representative in the DFB Cup until the semifinals on April 17, 1965 against 1. FC Nürnberg. In the final won 2-0 on May 22, 1965 in Hanover against Alemannia Aachen, Dortmund's number one was back in goal.

The third Bundesliga season, 1965/66 , began for Tilkowski, who was known as the “prototype of the level-headed goalkeeper” and “master of positional play”, in Dortmund under the new coach Willi Multhaup . On October 2, 1965, in the fully occupied Red Earth Stadium in Dortmund, he was awarded the Golden Football Player of the Year before his home game against Hamburger SV. For the first time a goalkeeper was honored in this election, which has been held since 1960. Uwe Seeler , the captain of the national team and scorer of the winning goal six days earlier in the 2-1 victory in the World Cup qualifier against Sweden in Stockholm, presented the trophy and the kicker editor-in-chief added the golden ring of honor. In the Bundesliga, a three-way battle for the championship developed between the two Munich clubs of FC Bayern and TSV 1860 and Dortmund. In the race for the title, the success of BVB in the European Cup Winners' Cup made itself felt as an additional burden in the decisive phase of the second half of the season . The semi-finals in the European Cup on April 5 and 13, 1966 against defending champions West Ham United - with Bobby Moore , Martin Peters , Geoff Hurst - as well as the final on May 5 in Glasgow against Liverpool FC - with Peter Thompson , Roger Hunt , Ian St. John , Tommy Smith and Ian Callaghan in attack - drained of physical and mental reserves of strength. Reinhard Libuda decided in the 107th minute of the game with an "arc lamp" to make it 2-1 in the final in Glasgow, but after that Dortmund was at the end of the Bundesliga. Dortmund lost the last three competitive games in the league and with them the race for the championship. Together with Dieter Kurrat and striker Lothar Emmerich , the 30-year-old Tilkowski completed all 34 rounds of the Bundesliga and was tied for second place with Bayern Munich, three points behind the new champions 1860 Munich. The season was not over for Tilkowski, however, from July 11th to 30th the 1966 World Cup took place in England. With coach Helmut Schön and his regular goalkeeper Hans Tilkowski, the German team moved into the final against hosts England and lost 2: 4 goals in extra time. Not only because of the Wembley goal , the weeks of the 1966 World Cup are among the highlights of Tilkowski's playing career.

The round 1966/67 was the last season of the 39-time national goalkeeper at Borussia Dortmund. Successful coach "Fischken" Multhaup - there was a mutual trust between Multhaup and Tilkowski - surprisingly switched to Cologne after only one round and his successor Heinz Murach - he had been an association coach at the Niederrhein Football Association before taking over the European Cup - relied on Bernhard Wessel in the gate. After September 24, 1966 - the 6th matchday with the away game at 1. FC Nürnberg - Tilkowski was on the bench until March 4, 1967 and only played nine rounds. He made his last appearance in BVB dress on April 15, 1967 in the 0-1 defeat at VfB Stuttgart. Tilkowski described his situation at the time in the following words:

“Under Murach I get to know all the dark sides of my profession. Sometimes I play. Sometimes I stand on an ash place in the gate of our reserve. Sometimes I sit in the stands. The trainer plays yo-yo with me. "

The following is recorded in Schulze-Marmeling's Borussia book "Fame, Dream and Money":

"After the season, Hans Tilkowski left the club in the direction of Frankfurter Eintracht, because he was fed up with the quarrels with coach Murach, who had repeatedly put him on the bench."

From 1963 to 1967, the almost 32-year-old played 81 Bundesliga and 15 European Cup games for Dortmund. With the black and yellow he won the DFB Cup in 1965 and the European Cup in 1966. In the Bundesliga he finished second with Dortmund once (1966), twice third (1965 and 1967) and once, in 1964, the worst place, fourth. In 1966 he and the BVB team were awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf .

Under coach Elek Schwartz , he was the goalkeeper of Eintracht with 26 Bundesliga appearances in 1967/68 and Frankfurt came in 6th. Young coach Erich Ribbeck set on the grounds that “Tilkowski had become too slow”, but from the 1968/69 season on Peter Kunter in the Eintracht goal and after another 14 Bundesliga games, the ex-national goalkeeper's career was over. The veteran "excluded" from the game was already taking care of his promotional product sales during the 1969/70 season and was also preparing for his trainer diploma at the Cologne Sports University. After a total of 219 Oberliga and 121 Bundesliga games as well as 21 European Cup appearances, Tilkowski's 14-year playing career in first-class German club football ended in the summer of 1969.

The 33-year-old had the hardships of eight years of top division and six years of Bundesliga football plus DFB Cup appearances, international trips and matches in the European Cup as well as appointments to various DFB teams since 1956 in connection with additional training units and preparatory courses Wear and tear led.

National team, 1956 to 1967

Tilkowski in Malente in 1965
National goalkeeper Tilkowski in a duel with Dutch national player Cor van der Gijp (April 3, 1957)
Solari, Más, Tilkowski, Schnellinger and Schulz at the 1966 World Cup

In his second year of league football with Westfalia Herne, 1956/57, the 21-year-old Westphalian was tested by national trainer Herberger for the first time in test matches of the DFB-Elf against club teams, the B national team as well as the junior team U 23 to the test of suitability for higher tasks . On April 3, 1957, the talented and ambitious goalkeeper made his debut in the international match in Amsterdam against the Netherlands in the senior national team. Tilkowski was the youngest aspirant to score at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden in the final course from May 12th to 24th at the Munich-Grünwald Sports School, together with his opponents Fritz Herkenrath , Heinrich Kwiatkowski and Günter Sawitzki . Herberger took his then number one from Essen, Fritz Herkenrath, with him to Sweden and again transferred the role of substitute for a world championship to Kwiatkowski. Savitzki was on call. The youngest member of the group, Hans Tilkowski, fell victim to the Herberger exclusion criteria due to a lack of international experience and insufficient age. The man from Herne accepted the reason given by the incontestable “Weisen from Hohensachsen”, worked even more focused on his goalkeeping game and built on the time after the World Cup.

With the first international game after the World Cup tournament in Sweden in 1958, on September 24, 1958 in Copenhagen against Denmark, Herkenrath said goodbye to the national team after 21 appointments. When a month later, on October 26th, the revenge for the 3: 6 lost game for 3rd place at the 1958 World Cup in Paris against France was held, the goalkeeper from Westfalia Herne guarded the German goal. With goals from Helmut Rahn and Uwe Seeler, the DFB team achieved a 2-2 draw, commensurate with their performance. The Equipe Tricolore attacked with World Cup strikers Just Fontaine , Roger Piantoni and Jean Vincent , but without the outstanding playmaker Raymond Kopa . In the following 18 months, the national coach held on to a competitive situation between Sawitzki from VfB Stuttgart and Tilkowski. But no later than the beginning of the 1960/61 season, in which the World Cup qualifiers against Northern Ireland and Greece were played, the goalkeeper with the “perfect positional play and extremely wide tees” was number one in the national team's case. “Til” was the support of the German team in all four victorious qualifying games against Northern Ireland and Greece. He delivered an outstanding goalkeeping performance in the 3-0 success on November 20, 1960 in Athens. In the 28th minute of the game, he prevented the hosts from equalizing 1: 1 with a brilliant save when he saved a hand penalty caused by Horst Szymaniak . In the entire second half, Greece put pressure on, but could not overcome the sovereign acting Tilkowski. The last international test match before the decisive World Cup preparation course from April 30 to May 11, 1962 in the Schöneck Sports School took place on April 11 in Hamburg against Uruguay. Here, national coach Herberger subjected the 20-year-old goalkeeper talent from the 2nd League South from TSG Ulm 1846, Wolfgang Fahrian , HSV defender Jürgen Kurbjuhn and the Schalke attacker Willi Koslowski to the test of whether they were ready for the national team, whether he was for them could nominate a world championship. The experienced Cologne playmaker Hans Schäfer also returned to the national team after a three-year break. The test went well, Germany won 3-0 goals. The three goalkeepers Tilkowski, Sawitzki and Fahrian were represented in the 24-person preparatory course in Karlsruhe. After completing the course, Herberger nominated his 22-man World Cup squad and distributed the shirt numbers 1 to Tilkowski, 21 to Sawitzki and 22 to the World Cup “chick” Fahrian from the goalkeepers. The ranking in the German goal for the World Cup tournament in Chile was clear. Tilkowski flew to South America as the clear number one, Sawitzki was the experienced deputy and Fahrian the talent with the prospect for the time after the World Cup. The strengths of the young man from Ulm lay in his quick reactions on the line and his spectacular parades.

In the Escuela Militar "Bernardo O'Higgins" accommodation, a shielded military school, the mood in the German camp was lost even before the starting game in Santiago. With the nomination of the young goalkeeper Fahrian for the opening game against Italy, Herberger committed a "break with the traditions of openness and reliability that he himself cherished," said Leinemann in his Herberger biography. There was no trace of the much-invoked " Spirit of Spiez " in Chile. Team spirit, harmony, and psychological balance were invoked incessantly, but not lived. Herberger himself had contributed. On the eve of the first round game against Italy, the national coach informed Tilkowski, who was completely dismayed, that "Fahrian will be in goal against Italy tomorrow". In a mixture of disappointment and anger, Tilkowski declared that he would no longer play for Germany in the future and asked to be handed his passport as well as the provision of the return flight ticket. He was denied both and so he stayed in Chile, but also when he announced that he would no longer play in the national team. This was true at least until January 1, 1964, when he agreed to talk to the national coach after Herberger's request and finally found himself ready for a comeback in the national team. The first words after a year and a half of speechlessness changed Tilkowski and Herberger at the banquet in the "Roman Emperor" after the 5-0 in the second leg on December 4, 1963 in the European Cup against Benfica Lisbon. The national coach said goodbye, approached the BVB goalkeeper, explained the reason for his early departure and asked the question: "Hans, can I call you in the next few days?"

After his return to the national team on January 1, 1964 in Algiers, Tilkowski also guarded the goal of the German selection in the two farewell games for national coach Herberger on May 12 in Hanover against Scotland and on June 7, 1964 in Helsinki against Finland. On May 20, at the 75th anniversary of the Dansk Boldspil Union in Copenhagen in the game Northern Europe against Europe in the second half, he replaced Lev Yashin in a 4-2 win in the European team . On September 23, he was part of the European selection for the second time in the game in Belgrade against Yugoslavia. Herberger's successor Helmut Schön also trusted Tilkowski in the goal of the German team at the World Cup qualifier on November 4, 1964 in Berlin against Sweden. It was Schön's first game as the responsible national coach. When the national team in Rio de Janeiro lost a friendly game 2-0 against reigning world champions Brazil at the end of the 1964/65 season, the German number one stood out with an outstanding performance. Pelé approached the German goalkeeper after the game, hugged him and congratulated him on his performance. It led to headlines in the press such as "Tilkowski, the star of Rio" or "Tilkowski celebrated like a hero in Rio".

Due to the play-off character of the qualifying second leg on September 26, 1965 in Stockholm against Sweden, the new national coach Schön subjected his Sweden aspirants Tilkowski, Höttges, Szymaniak, Beckenbauer, Grosser and Krämer to an international B match on September 1 in Cologne against the Soviet Union international test. With the 2-1 win in Stockholm on September 26th - Tilkowski played his 27th international match - the decision for Germany had been made, and the 6-0 win against Cyprus in Nicosia in November brought final clarity. Germany was qualified for the 1966 World Cup in England and Tilkowski finally wanted to play a World Cup tournament as a top performer. Before Nicosia, he had led the German team as captain on the field for the first time in the 4-1 win against Austria on October 9th in Stuttgart.

Badge at the BVB Walk of Fame

The goalkeepers Tilkowski (Borussia Dortmund, 32 internationals), Bernard (Werder Bremen, 4 internationals) and Maier (Bayern Munich, 1 international match) were nominated by the DFB for the World Cup tournament in England from July 11th to 30th, 1966 . On the evening of July 12th, after the 5-0 win against Switzerland, the Dortmund goalkeeper celebrated his 31st birthday in a good mood. Germany prevailed against Switzerland, Argentina and Spain in the group stage, against Uruguay in the quarter-finals and reached the final against England on July 30 with a 2-1 victory in the semifinals against the Soviet Union. Tilkowski guarded the goal in all games, he exuded calm and security and was the expected support of the team. In his 38th international game - he caught up with the previous record goalkeeper Hans Jakob - in front of 96,924 spectators in the sold-out Wembley Stadium, he and his DFB teammates in the final of the 1966 World Cup. It ended with a 4-2 win after extra time for the Host and in the 101st minute brought the scene that made World Cup history . Geoff Hurst slammed a cross against the crossbar and Wolfgang Weber headed the ball into the goal. Referee Gottfried Dienst decided on goal after questioning linesman Tofiq Bəhramov . The vice world champion Germany deserved recognition for his great contribution to one of the most exciting and balanced finals in World Cup history. Rudi Michel stated:

"The legend about him and a German team that, even without a title, with their performance and fairness, did not only inspire the Germans at the time."

The special features of the 1966 World Cup team are recorded in the World Cup book from AGON-Sportverlag:

“The team around Uwe Seeler, Helmut Haller, Hans Tilkowski and the young Beckenbauer was a team from the well-fed Federal Republic, but not one made up of satiated stars. And something else very obvious distinguishes the Schön-Elf from 1966 from the 54 and 74 generation: They made it to the World Cup final, but did not win the title. The reception on their return, however, was like a world championship, and in all discussions about the third goal of the English most observers agreed that the German team had been a worthy final opponent - and a good loser. The generation from 1966 is an unrivaled role model to this day. "

With his 39th international match, on April 8, 1967 in Dortmund against Albania, Hans Tilkowski said goodbye to the national team as the new record international goalkeeper after ten years.

Tilkowski's assets were his composure and calm, which made up his sovereignty, and his positional play: Recognizing dangers, anticipating the course of the game, getting yourself into the right position, catching flanks with extreme jumping power. These were his strengths that earned him the headline “King of positional play”. He had undoubtedly reached the peak of his career by the mid-1960s, having grown to become one of the preeminent goalkeepers of the decade alongside Lev Yashin and Gordon Banks.

Trainer

Tilkowski used the last months of his time in Frankfurt to obtain his diploma as a football teacher at the Cologne Sports University . At the end of the last course led by Hennes Weisweiler , he passed the test with a grade of one as the best of his year. Hansi Wolff, Werder Bremen's managing director, made him the offer in March 1970 to immediately take over the coaching position at Werder. Although he was still under contract with Eintracht as a player until June 30, Werder settled this matter and Tilkowski took over as the successor to Fritz Rebell on March 17, 1970 Werder Bremen in the Bundesliga. Werder finished 11th at the end of the season. Tilkowski only stayed until June, as Bremen had already signed Robert Gebhardt for the new 1970/71 season. The next coaching station was the Bundesliga relegated TSV 1860 Munich . With the financially troubled "Lions" he finished fourth in 1971 and third in 1972 in the second-rate Regionalliga Süd . Already in the early weeks of the 1972/73 season, on August 31, 1972, the end for coach Tilkowski in Munich, he was replaced by Elek Schwartz .

He had to wait until the 1973/74 season for his next job. Then he was signed by the then regional league club 1. FC Nürnberg , whom he led to 2nd place in the old second-class regional league last year and thus to the Bundesliga promotion round. There he missed promotion to the Bundesliga with the "Club" only because of the poorer goal difference compared to the same point Braunschweiger Eintracht. On the last match day, June 8th 1974, Tilkowski and his team lost the decisive point against 1. FC Saarbrücken in a 2-2 draw. “A good club season came to such a tragic end. The team, driven tirelessly by Dieter Nüssing on the offensive, had shone with excellent physical condition and great tempo football , but in the end it was all in vain. ”In the first year of the newly introduced 2nd Bundesliga, 1974/75 , Nuremberg took 6th place . In the second year, 1975/76, Tilkowski landed with the Franks in second place and was able to play two playoffs for promotion to the Bundesliga against the north runner-up, Borussia Dortmund. The black and yellow, who prevailed in both games, in Nuremberg with a 1-0 and in Dortmund in front of 53,700 spectators with a 3-2 home win, returned to the Bundesliga. After three years Tilkowski left the Valznerweiher and returned to Werder Bremen in 1976. In the first year, 1976/77, he led the Hanseatic League to a midfield position. In the middle of the second season - on December 19, 1977 - Tilkowski left the team less than 24 hours before the DFB Cup quarter-finals after a player whose name was not known had given him the result of a player vote, contrary to what had been agreed within the team, in which three players had voted Quarter of the players had spoken out against Tilkowski's whereabouts. Since the board of directors was also informed, Tilkowski believed himself to be a victim of an intrigue and took off his hat, accepting that he would not receive outstanding salaries.

On February 22, 1978, he was back as head coach at 1. FC Saarbrücken , which was in danger of relegation . His attempt to get the Bundesliga relegation failed, however; Saarbrücken was relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga with 22:46 points. The two parties then parted ways. In 1981 there was another comeback on the coaching chair when the Greek club AEK Athen lured Tilkowski. After nine months he ended his last coaching station there. In his biography he stated:

“Paid football is no longer my world. Money increasingly dominates all decisions, and for many players the gap between financial demands and motivation is widening. In this trade, I have become aware, I get stomach ulcers because I have to swallow too much of what is on the tip of my tongue. And if I let it out, as it suits my nature, I'm a fool anyway. "

Next to the sports field

After ending his wandering life as a coach in 1982, he first played in Uwe Seeler's celebrity team for charity. He then worked for almost ten years in the Stuttgart area on the same mission for the team of the Toto Lotto company. He played his last game on September 13, 1996 in Bad Urach , where he tore his patellar tendon . Then he began to organize social activities himself, whereby his wife Luise - the marriage with the Alsenborn mother of his three children Ralf, Uwe and Susanne took place in June 1959 - was always a great support. One of the highlights of his charity activities took place on June 13, 1989 in the Westfalenstadion in Dortmund with an encounter between a selection from the Ruhr area and a "world eleven". Around 300,000 marks went to the UNICEF world children's aid organization. On December 17, 1997, the 1st charity gala followed in the casino on the Hohensyburg . The net proceeds of 150,000 marks went to the German Leukemia Research Aid and to the Dortmund parents' meeting for children with leukemia and tumor disease. V. On his 70th birthday, too, he carried out a charity gala for international aid projects in the Peace Village of Oberhausen. Tilkowski was the first volunteer ambassador for the aid organization Friedensdorf International . He took over the honorary position in 2003. All in all, his guests and well-wishers donated 35,257.79 euros on his 70th birthday.

Tilkowski received special praise in 2009 for his speech as a guest in Azerbaijan . Tilkowski was officially invited to present a new sculpture in front of the Tofiq Bəhramov Stadium in Baku . It was the inauguration of a bronze sculpture with the image of Tofiq Bəhramov , the linesman who was very popular in Azerbaijan and who saw the ball behind the line at Wembley in 1966. Tilkowski made it clear in the first sentence of his lecture that it was by no means a goal, but then managed with rhetorical skill not to annoy the hosts any further. Instead, he praised the appropriate cult status that Bəhramov enjoys with his compatriots.

Hans Tilkowski's grave

Hans Tilkowski is buried in the Alsenborn cemetery in Enkenbach-Alsenborn.

Success as a player

society

  • European Cup Winners' Cup with Borussia Dortmund: 1966
  • German cup winner with Borussia Dortmund: 1965
  • Runner-up with Borussia Dortmund: 1966

National team

  • Vice world champion: 1966
  • Team of the year with the national soccer team: 1966

Individually

Success as a trainer

  • Runner-up in the Regionalliga Süd and participation in the promotion round to the Bundesliga with 1. FC Nürnberg: 1974
  • Runner-up in the 2nd Bundesliga with 1. FC Nuremberg: 1976

Awards and recognition

Former school building of the Hans Tilkowski School in Neustraße, Herne
Today's school building of the Hans-Tilkowski-Schule on Edmund-Weber-Straße, Herne-Eickel

Works

  • And the Wembley goal falls forever. The story of my life. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-89533-518-5 .
  • Don't be afraid of sharp shots. Copress, Munich 1965, DNB 455071500 .

literature

  • BF Hoffmann : The legendary World Cup goalkeepers. A lexicon. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-498-7 .
  • Christoph Bausenwein: The last men. On the genre history and soul science of the gatekeeper. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-425-1 .
  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
  • Heinrich Peuckmann: The heroes from the football west. Stories - legends - anecdotes. Aschendorff-Verlag, Münster 2001, ISBN 3-402-06480-4 .
  • Ralf Piorr (Ed.): Much more than just a game . 100 years of SC Westfalia 04 Herne. FRISCH -tex Verlag, Herne 2004, ISBN 3-933059-38-0 .
  • Norbert Breuer: The “Star of Rio” and ... the Wembley goal . In: The whitewashed Sarotti-Mohr. The Norbert Breuer reading book. JUWELEN - the publishing house, Tönisvorst 2016, ISBN 978-3-945822-80-7 .

Web links

Commons : Hans Tilkowski  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Borussia Dortmund mourns Hans Tilkowski. In: Official Twitter account of BVB. January 6, 2020, accessed January 6, 2020 .
  2. ^ BF Hoffmann: The legendary World Cup goalkeepers. P. 198.
  3. ↑ Tilkowski: And the Wembley goal falls forever. P. 28.
  4. ↑ Tilkowski: And the Wembley goal falls forever. P. 35.
  5. ↑ a b Tilkowski: And the Wembley goal falls forever. P. 38.
  6. ↑ Tilkowski: And the Wembley goal falls forever. P. 40.
  7. ↑ Tilkowski: And the Wembley goal falls forever. P. 44.
  8. ↑ Tilkowski: And the Wembley goal falls forever. P. 52.
  9. ↑ »There was no showmanship« , 11freunde.de of February 2, 2009.
  10. ↑ Tilkowski: And the Wembley goal falls forever. P. 46.
  11. ↑ Ralf Piorr (ed.): Much more than just a game. 100 years of SC Westfalia 04 Herne. P. 229.
  12. ↑ Ralf Piorr (ed.): Much more than just a game. 100 years of SC Westfalia 04 Herne. P. 230.
  13. ↑ Tilkowski: And the Wembley goal falls forever. P. 49.
  14. ↑ Tilkowski: And the Wembley goal falls forever. P. 50.
  15. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Hans Tilkowski - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. May 2, 2013. Retrieved July 4, 2013.
  16. ↑ Tilkowski: And the Wembley goal falls forever. P. 91.
  17. ^ Matthias Weinrich: The European Cup. Volume 1: 1955 to 1974. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2007, ISBN 978-3-89784-252-6 , p. 154.
  18. ^ Peuckmann: The heroes from the football west , p. 104.
  19. ↑ Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 498 .
  20. ↑ Tilkowski: And the Wembley goal falls forever. P. 124.
  21. ↑ Tilkowski: And the Wembley goal falls forever. P. 179 f.
  22. ^ Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling, Werner Steffen: Borussia Dortmund. The fame, the dream and the money. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-89533-110-4 , pp. 120/121.
  23. ↑ BT-Drucksache 7/1040, page 59, accessed on February 8, 2017 (pdf)
  24. ↑ a b B.F. Hoffmann: The legendary World Cup goalkeepers. P. 199.
  25. ^ BF Hoffmann: The legendary World Cup goalkeepers. P. 198.
  26. ↑ Hans Tilkowski: And the Wembley goal falls forever. P. 81.
  27. ^ Jürgen Leinemann: Sepp Herberger. One life, one legend. Rowohlt, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-87134-285-8 , p. 412.
  28. ^ Jürgen Leinemann: Sepp Herberger. One life, one legend. Rowohlt, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-87134-285-8 , p. 411.
  29. ↑ Hans Tilkowski: And the Wembley goal falls forever. P. 83.
  30. ↑ Hans Tilkowski: And the Wembley goal falls forever. P. 84.
  31. ↑ Tilkowski: And the Wembley goal falls forever. P. 95.
  32. ↑ Hofmann: The legendary World Cup goalkeepers. P. 198.
  33. ↑ Tilkowski: And the Wembley goal falls forever. P. 112.
  34. ↑ Tilkowski: And the Wembley goal falls forever. P. 9.
  35. ↑ Olaf Edig, Daniel Meuren, Nicole Selmer: Football World Cup 1966 England (= AGON World Cup history, volume 8). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-208-4 , p. 9.
  36. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Hans Tilkowski - International Appearances . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. October 3, 2004. Retrieved July 4, 2013.
  37. ↑ Ralf Piorr: Much more than just a game. 100 years of SC Westfalia 04 Herne. P. 232.
  38. ↑ Graduates of the 16th course ( Memento from January 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (dfb.de)
  39. ^ Bausenwein, Kaiser, Siegler: 1. FC Nürnberg. The legend of the club. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 1996, ISBN 3-89533-163-5 , p. 186.
  40. ↑ Sven Bremer, Olaf Dorow: Green and white wonderland. The history of Werder Bremen. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89533-824-3 , p. 42.
  41. ↑ Tilkowski: And the Wembley goal falls forever. P. 195.
  42. ↑ Tilkowski: And the Wembley goal falls forever. P. 197.
  43. ↑ Tilkowski: And the Wembley goal falls forever. P. 203.
  44. ↑ Tilkowski: And the Wembley goal falls forever. P. 205.
  45. ↑ Tilkowski: And the Wembley goal falls forever. P. 206.
  46. ↑ Tilkowski: And the Wembley goal falls forever. P. 24.
  47. ↑ “Hans Tilkowski School” in Herne was inaugurated , Borussia Dortmund's website from October 16, 2008.
  48. ↑ School sports award goes to the Hans Tilkowski School from Herne. Press release. (No longer available online.) German Olympic Sports Confederation, May 4, 2012, archived from the original on May 16, 2012 ; accessed on January 6, 2020 .
  49. ↑ Lars-Oliver Christoph: Hans-Tilkowski-Schule moves to Eickel with a soccer field . In: WAZ of July 14, 2017. Retrieved January 6, 2020
  50. ↑ Dirk Marschke: Honor for Hans Tilkowski . In: Wochenblatt Herne of September 1, 2015. Accessed on January 8, 2020
  51. ↑ Homage to a legend . In: Wochenblatt Herne / Wanne-Eickel , KW 5, 42nd year, from January 29, 2020, p. 3
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personal data
SURNAME Tilkowski, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer goalkeeper and coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund-Husen , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 2020