Hartmut Weiss

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Hartmut Weiß (born January 13, 1942 in Silesia ) is a former German football player . The center forward or left winger played a total of 168 games in the Bundesliga with the clubs VfB Stuttgart and Eintracht Braunschweig from 1964 to 1971 , scoring 58 goals.

career

In his youth, White moved from TSV Bernhausen in 1960 to VfB Stuttgart . Under coach Franz Seybold , the attacker developed in the amateur team of VfB and won with his teammates first the Württemberg in 1963, then the southern German and finally in the final of the German amateur championship in 1963 in the final on July 6, 1963 1-0 against VfL Wolfsburg the German amateur championship . For the 1964/65 season he was taken over into the professional squad along with Siegfried Boehringer , Hans Krauss and Gustav Talpai . In addition, VfB signed Helmut Huttary (Hessen Kassel), Werner Pfeifer (Fortuna Düsseldorf) and Helmut Siebert from TSG Ulm 1846. On December 5, 1964, White made his Bundesliga debut for VfB Stuttgart . In the 1: 2 away defeat at Hannover 96, he formed the attack of the Swabians on the left wing with Dieter Höller , Theodor Hoffmann , Erwin Waldner and Hans Arnold . With a header he scored his first Bundesliga goal in the 75th minute. At the end of the round, the former amateur striker had scored nine goals in 15 league games, leading the internal goalscorer list together with Rolf Geiger . VfB took 12th place under the coaches Kurt Baluse (until February 24, 1965), interim Seybold until March 7 and Rudi Gutendorf (from March 8). After an unsatisfactory round in 1965/66 with only 13 appearances and four goals, the 1.87 m tall header specialist rose to 25 league games in his third Bundesliga year in 1966/67, coach Gutendorf was replaced by former international player Albert Sing on December 14, 1966 eight goals. Together with Horst Köppel and the two seven-time goal scorers Bo Larsson and Hans-Otto Peters, he led the VfB top scorer list. In his fourth year in the Bundesliga, VfB improved to 8th place under coach Gunther Baumann in 1967/68 , but things didn't go well for White personally: he only scored two goals in 21 games. Therefore he undertook a change of scenery:

For the 1968/69 season he moved to the team of coach Helmuth Johannsen , in Lower Saxony to Eintracht Braunschweig . With Klaus Gerwien and Erich Maas, Johannsen had two nimble and established Bundesliga wingers in the squad, so a header specialist in the middle of the storm was worth a try. With his 15 goals in 33 league appearances, the man from Swabia almost exceeded the expectations of the champions from 1967. The “lions” played an excellent round and reached fourth place, tied with Borussia Mönchengladbach in third place. From the wings, the flanks of Gerwien and Maas came into the center to the executor Weiß and the two wingers were served from midfield with passes from Lothar Ulsaß , Bernd Dörfel and Michael Polywka . Inexplicably, Braunschweig's level of performance dropped massively in the following round in 1969/70, the team of coach Johannsen and striker Weiß fought massively to stay in the league. Braunschweig stayed in the Bundesliga and Johannsen and Weiß left Eintracht. Johannsen took a new job at Hannover 96 and White followed the recruitment of his old club VfB Stuttgart.

After two years in Braunschweig, Weiß returned to VfB Stuttgart. The round result of VfB under coach Branko Zebec with the 12th place was disappointing, but White had convincingly proven his scoring qualities with his 15 goals. He was VfB's best goalscorer, clearly ahead of the trio of Horst Haug , Karl-Heinz Handschuh and Jan Olsson with eight goals each. VfB ended the 1970/71 round with a 2-0 home win on June 5, 1971 against 1. FC Kaiserslautern, and White scored the final score in the 62nd minute. The fact that the Bundesliga chapter was over for the “tree-long and occasionally a little clumsy-looking header specialist” could by no means go out at this point.

After he was informed at the end of the 1970/71 season that VfB wanted to rely on the young striker Wolfgang Frank in the future , white moved to the Stuttgarter Kickers . After leaving VfB again, he and his former teammates Hans Arnold and Hans Eisele were the first to confess that they were involved in the Bundesliga scandal . For Arminia Bielefeld's 1-0 home win against VfB Stuttgart on May 29, 1971, White received 15,000 German marks, as did the other two players. White intentionally missed a penalty in this game. On January 22, 1972, he was banned for life and had to pay a fine of 15,000 Deutsche Mark. He was pardoned on August 1, 1973.

literature

  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , pp. 538/539.
  • Hardy Greens: With the ring on your chest. The history of VfB Stuttgart. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-593-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. The encyclopedia. FA Herbig, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7766-2558-5 , p. 782.

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personal data
SURNAME White, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Silesia