Heiko Kurth

Heiko Kurth
Personnel
birthday	June 4, 1938
date of death	September 21, 2004
position	midfield player
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1957-1964	Altona 93	165 (58)
1964-1966	Hamburger SV	13 0(2)
1966-1974	Altona 93
1 Only league games are given.

Heiko Kurth (born June 4, 1938 - September 21, 2004 ) was a German soccer player . The midfielder played a total of 180 league games and scored 61 goals in the World Cup system from 1957 to 1968 in the first-class soccer Oberliga Nord , Bundesliga and second -rate regional soccer league North for the Altona 93 and Hamburger SV clubs.

Career

Oberliga, 1957 to 1963

For the round 1957/58 the talented youth player was taken over by the AFC from Bahrenfeld in the league eleven in the Oberliga Nord. The technician made his debut in the final of the North German Cup Championship (1: 4) on August 3, 1957 against the North Series champion Hamburger SV am Rothenbaum in the league eleven of the Black-White-Reds from the Adolf-Jäger-Kampfbahn . In the league he made his debut on November 10, 1957 in a 2-0 home win against the "Rautträger" of HSV and scored the 1-0 opening goal. At the end of the round, the ex-youth player had twelve league games with nine goals and Altona was third behind HSV and Eintracht Braunschweig. The talent was led by veterans like Werner Erb , Werner Gorska , Alfred Kalkowski , Gerhard Göhrke and Heinz Bung Bottle . From his second year, 1958/59, he belonged to the main formation of Altona in the Oberliga Nord. Overall, the mostly used as a half-striker Kurth completed from 1957 to 1963 in the league 134 league games and scored 46 goals. These included two appearances as a substitute goalkeeper in the games against Werder Bremen and Bremerhaven 93 in 1961/62. In October 1961, the AFC played a friendly against the Bolivian champions Always Ready La Paz in Bahrenfeld. The special thing was the participation of national striker Klaus Stürmer , who, with the approval of HSV, where he only trained, and the NFV played for the AFC in a 3-2 win and scored two goals. Kurth and striker formed the half-striker pair.

Bundesliga and regional league, 1964 to 1968

From the start of the Bundesliga in 1963/64, Altona played the competitive games in the second-rate Regionalliga Nord. Kurth held the AFC fidelity and covered with Altona behind master FC St. Pauli , runner and riser League Hannover 96 , and SV Arminia Hannover with the superior Lothar Ulsaß the fourth rank . Kurth has scored 12 goals in 31 league games. Kurth and colleagues won the "autumn championship" and delivered a series of 23: 1 points from the fourth match day. These included successes against Hannover 96 (4: 1), Kiel (3: 2), Barmbek-Uhlenhorst (9: 1) and two victories against Arminia Hannover (2: 0, 3: 1). The 2-0 home win on December 1, 1963 is said to have been "one of the best games in the AFC club's history, with flying plays and repeated applause." After this 15th match day, the AFC led the table by three points. In the second half of the season Altona to playmaker Kurth could not preserve the performance of the impressive first half of the season; the three defeats in a row in March 1964 against VfB Lübeck (1: 2), Holstein Kiel (0: 2) and Concordia Hamburg (0: 2) were awarded with the decisive 0: 2 home defeat on April 25 against FC St. Pauli every chance to get into the Bundesliga promotion round.

The course of the DFB Cup was another highlight of this round. In the first main round in the DFB Cup , three days after the 3-1 win at VfL Osnabrück on April 8, 1964, a 2-1 home win against the West German regional division Borussia Mönchengladbach was achieved . In the ranks of the “Bökelbergelf” there were already players such as Manfred Orzessek , Horst-Dieter Höttges , Gerd Schommen , Heinz Lowin , Herbert Lektiven , Ulrich Kohn , Egon Milder and Günter Netzer . Hamburger SV flew out of the cup in this round in the replay against the southern regional division SpVgg Fürth. In the second round, coach Kurt “Jockel” Krause's team prevailed again with a 2-1 home win against Duisburger SV. Three days later, the AFC lost the decisive game against St. Pauli in the league with 2-0 goals. In the quarter-finals on May 20, another 2-1 home win against Bundesliga club Karlsruher SC was achieved . Kurth brought his team 1-0 lead. The praise for Kurth's performance culminated in the sentence by Horst Frese in the Bild-Zeitung: "Only his great predecessor Heinz Spundzeile played as well as Heiko Kurth after the war from Hamburg half-strikers." At the 13th of the Bundesliga, the KSC, After all, players like Gustav Witlatschil , Jupp Marx , Gerhard Kentschke , Otto Geisert and Klaus Zaczyk were in action against Altona . On Wednesday, June 3, 1964, the semi-final match against Munich 1860 , supervised by Max Merkel , took place in front of 15,000 spectators . In the 75th minute, right winger Peter Kautz had brought the superior playing AFC players 1-0 up. In the 85th minute of the game, the Munich “Löwen” scored the 1-1 equalizer through Berti Kraus . So they saved themselves in the extension, where the better condition of the Bundesliga club around national players like Petar Radenković , Peter Grosser , Rudi Brunnenmeier , Hans Küppers and Alfred Heiß prevailed to a 4-1 success. Just two days after the cup game against Munich 1860, "Bild" reported in a huge presentation: "Kurth to HSV."

For the 1964/65 season he signed a licensed player contract with Hamburger SV and moved to the Bundesliga. Other squad reinforcements are Andreas Maté , Juhani Peltonen and the two players from their own amateur team, Holger Dieckmann and Erhard Schwerin be in the "diamond makers." Before the start of the round, the AFC man played in two international friendly matches against Dukla Prague (2: 1) and Manchester United (1: 3). At HSV, Kurth made his Bundesliga debut on the 1st matchday of the 1964/65 season . In front of a home crowd, he played in the 2-2 draw against VfB Stuttgart , in the further course of the season he played twelve more games and scored two goals. In the next season he did not get a chance after the new coach Georg Gawliczek had spoken about Kurth in the media - he was "too slow in acting and thinking". He then moved back to Altona 93, where he played until 1974. In the DFB Cup, Kurth played against Hessen Kassel (2-0) and 1. FC Nürnberg (1-3). On the final day of the round, on May 15, 1965, he was again active in the Bundesliga in a 2-4 home defeat against FC Schalke 04.

After returning to his home club, he was able to play two more rounds in the Regionalliga Nord with Altona. After 33 more regional league games with 13 goals, he was relegated to the amateur camp with the AFC in 1968. Kurth played there until 1974.

literature

• Norbert Carsten: Altona 93. 111 league years in the up and down. Göttingen 2003 (The workshop) ISBN 3-89533-437-5 .
• Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Goals, points, players: the complete HSV statistics . compiled by Jens Reimer Prüß and Hartmut Irle. Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-586-0 (352 pages).
• Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-463-1 .

Web links

• Heiko Kurth in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Heiko Kurth in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Heiko Kurth in the database of kicker.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Norbert Carsten: Altona 93. p. 236
2. ↑ spiegel.de: Difficult Swarm , accessed on November 10, 2015
3. ↑ hsvfan-oberpfalz.de: All Bundesliga players of the HSV since 1963 ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 10, 2015