Hartmut Huhse

Hartmut Huhse (born August 22, 1952 in Greifswald ) is a former German soccer player . The defender played a total of 174 league games in the Bundesliga with the clubs FC Schalke 04 and Rot-Weiss Essen from 1971 to 1977 and scored five goals. In 1972 he won the DFB Cup with Schalke with a 5-0 win in the final against 1. FC Kaiserslautern .

career

The defender began his career with Arminia Ickern , where Klaus Fichtel also played. The next stop was SV Brackwede . As the former captain of the German national youth football team with 20 appearances, he came to FC Schalke 04 in 1971 . The defender made his debut on October 18, 1969 in a 1-1 draw in Geleen in the international match against the Netherlands in the youth national team. With Peter Reichel he formed the defender pair and in the attack Uli Hoeneß and Rainer Bonhof stormed . In the spring of 1970 he was in the qualifying matches for the UEFA youth tournament in Scotland against Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. At the tournament itself, he played the group matches against Wales (3: 2), Switzerland (2: 1) and the Netherlands (1: 2) in May. This was repeated in 1971: first the qualifying games against Italy (0-0, 1-0) and then the three tournament games against Czechoslovakia (0-0), Greece (2-4) and the GDR (1-3). In his second UEFA junior tournament , Rudi Kargus was in goal and his defender partner was Harald Konopka . In his first Schalke season, 1971/72 , the Royal Blues played seriously for the championship. Huhse made his debut under coach Ivica Horvat on the first match day, August 14, 1971, in a 5-1 away win against Hannover 96 in the Bundesliga. He was active in midfield alongside Herbert Lütkebohmert and Klaus Scheer . With a 1-0 home win on December 11, 1971, Schalke ended the first half of the season with 28: 6 points as autumn champions - three points ahead of FC Bayern. Before goalkeeper Norbert Nigbur , he had formed the Schalke defense with Jürgen Sobieray , Rolf Rüssmann and Klaus Fichtel as the left defender. On the final day of the round, June 28, 1972, Munich finally prevailed with a 5-1 home win against Schalke and won the 1972 championship ahead of runner-up Schalke. Huhse was used in 24 league games (1 goal). Immediately afterwards, on July 1, 1972, the cup final in Hanover between Schalke and 1. FC Kaiserslautern took place. Schalke won 5-0 with right defender Huhse. This was preceded by two close games against Borussia Mönchengladbach (2-2, 1-0) in the quarter-finals and the dramatic catch-up in the second leg against 1. FC Köln in the semifinals. Schalke lost 4-1 in Cologne and won the second leg 5-2. With the penalty shootout of 6: 5 Schalke moved into the final. Huhse formed the Schalke defender pair in the four games together with Sobieray, who was still entitled to play at the time. In the successful fight in the 1972/73 season for relegation, which had been triggered by the drastic personal effects of the Bundesliga scandal on Schalke, the solid defender made 33 league appearances as one of the pillars in the rescue.

In the same year Huhse was also in all six games in the European Cup Winners' Cup against Slavia Sofia, FC Cork Hibernians and Sparta Prague. In January 1972 he was also used twice against the national teams from Scotland and from the Netherlands in the amateur national team . In the next two rounds 1973/74 and 1974/75 Schalke finished seventh with Huhse. When coach Horvat ended his contract at Schalke after the 1975/76 season and took over Rot-Weiss Essen, Huhse joined his coach and moved to Essen's Hafenstrasse. By 1975 he had played 113 Bundesliga games for Schalke 04.

From 1975 to 1977 he played a further 61 Bundesliga games there and scored 4 goals. In his first season at RWE, Huhse completed all 34 league games in 1975/76 and scored three goals. Essen took eighth place and Huhse had played alongside other players such as Dieter Bast , Manfred Burgsmüller , Horst Hrubesch , Willi Lippens and Werner Lorant . However, the Essenes were relegated from the Bundesliga in 1977 - Lippens had switched to Borussia Dortmund and Burgsmüller to Bayer Uerdingen - and Huhse joined the 2nd Bundesliga . Right away, RW Essen reached the runner-up in 1977/78 with the outstanding goalscorer Hrubesch (41 goals). In defense, Huhse had played in all 38 rounds (1 goal). In the following two playoffs against the southern runner-up 1. FC Nürnberg (0: 1, 2: 2), the return to the Bundesliga did not work out. After another 19 second division appearances in the 1978/79 season, Huhse moved to the USA in 1979 for the Rochester Lancers , where he completed eleven games with two goals in the North American Soccer League (NASL). He ended his career in Switzerland with FC Friborg .

literature

• 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 , p. 219.
• Georg Röwekamp: The myth is alive. The history of FC Schalke 04. Verlag Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2003. ISBN 3-89533-332-8 .

Web links

• Hartmut Huhse at fussballdaten.de with a picture from back then
• Hartmut Huhse on schalke04.de ( Memento from March 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive )