Heinrich Kwiatkowski

Heinrich Kwiatkowski
Personnel
birthday	July 16, 1926
place of birth	Gelsenkirchen ,  German Empire
date of death	May 23, 2008
Place of death	Dortmund ,  Germany
size	180 cm
position	goalkeeper
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1947-1950	Schalke 04	74 (0)
1950-1952	Red and white food	38 (0)
1952-1966	Borussia Dortmund	300 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1954-1958	Germany	4 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1964	Borussia Dortmund
1 Only league games are given.

Heinrich "Heinz" Kwiatkowski (born July 16, 1926 in Gelsenkirchen , † May 23, 2008 in Dortmund ) was a German football player and 1954 world champion . The goalkeeper played from the first (September 14, 1947) to the last (May 11, 1963) match day in the old first-class football Oberliga West and tops the list as the record holder with a total of 409 appearances. With Borussia Dortmund he celebrated winning the German championship in 1956, 1957 and 1963 .

career

Schalke 04 and Rot-Weiss Essen, until 1952

Kwiatkowski came from Gelsenkirchen-Schalke , was a youth at Westfalia Schalke and after returning from two years of French captivity at the start of the Oberliga West in 1947/48, joined FC Schalke 04 . Previous goalkeeper was the 17-time national player Hans Klodt . On the first day of the new elite class in the west, on September 19, 1947, Kwiatkowski was with the "Knappen" in goal when it was enough for Royal Blue in front of 40,000 spectators at Hamborn 07 to a 2-2 draw. Center forward Karl Hetzel scored the two goals against Kwiatkowski for Hamborn. At Schalke, the old masters Ernst Kuzorra and Fritz Szepan were still working alongside the young Bernhard Klodt . At the end of the round, Schalke finished sixth and the young goalkeeper had played 21 of 24 competitive games. In the second year, Schalke only escaped relegation by increasing from 13 to 16 clubs for the 1949/50 round. In the third season, 1949/50, Kwiatkowski moved up with Schalke in the table again, they finished sixth and the goalkeeper had played all 30 rounds under the now acting coach Szepan. In three seasons Kwiatkowski was 74 times in the gate of Schalke.

In the summer of 1950 he joined Rot-Weiss Essen , where ex-national player Karl Hohmann sat as coach for the entire first half of the season on previous goalkeeper Peter Budzinski . It was not until the 20th match day, February 4, 1951, that the ex-Schalke came to RWE for his first league assignment. In the following season 1951/52 he celebrated together with the dangerous attackers Helmut Rahn (20 goals), Bernhard Termath (20 goals), August Gottschalk (19 goals) and the defensive boss Heinz Wewers the title win in the western league. His old club Schalke 04 was runner-up. In the final round of the German championship, “Kwiat” was in all six matches against the eventual German champions VfB Stuttgart, as well as VfL Osnabrück and Tennis Borussia Berlin in the Essen goal. But it was only enough for the second group place. After two rounds he was drawn to Borussia Dortmund for the 1952/53 round . The black and yellow had finished fourth in 1952. He played a total of 38 games for Essen.

Borussia Dortmund, 1952 to 1966

The man from Schalke was able to celebrate his second championship success in the west at Borsigplatz in 1953. Under coach Hans “Bumbes” Schmidt , Dortmund won the title in 1952/53 with 87:36 goals ahead of 1. FC Köln and Rot-Weiss Essen. "Kwiat" was only missing in one league game and also delivered convincing games in the final round of the German championship. After six group games, the rivals VfB Stuttgart and Dortmund each had a tie with 10-2 points, the "Swabians" moved into the final against 1. FC Kaiserslautern with the better quotient. His achievements had led the "specialist for wide fist defense" on February 1, 1953 in the regional selection of West Germany in the game in Saarbrücken against Saarland. But he was also a goalkeeper who dominated the six-yard box and owned the penalty area up to the penalty spot.

Kwiatkowski was part of the World Cup squad of national coach Sepp Herberger in Switzerland in 1954 and was used in the group game against Hungary.

In the rounds of 1955/56 and 1956/57 he won the western championship two more times with Dortmund and in the finals he celebrated two German championships with coach Helmut Schneider and his teammates as the highlight. As a special feature, this goes down in the history of the German championship with the same team line-up practiced. In the year the title was defended, 1956/57, BVB's defensive team played a big part in this with only 33 goals conceded in the league. Even in the final on June 23, 1957 in Hanover, the attack by Hamburger SV with Uwe Seeler , Gerd Krug and Franz Klepacz could not be decisive. DFB coach Dettmar Cramer judged the quality of the championship team :

“In both finals, Borussia let the ball and the opponent run in such a way that there were even discussions in the stands about whether it was fair. Compared to the primitive thrashing of the ball, it was only technically ingenious how they kept the ball in the team. They did it masterfully. The team was only able to acquire this level of security in the many training units. "

As German champions, BVB took part in the European Cup and met Manchester United in October and November 1956. In the 2: 3 defeat at the Old Trafford stadium , Kwiatkowski also impressed on the international stage. In the second year, 1957/58, the two games against AC Milan stood out. If Kwiatkowski was already best Dortmund in the 1-1 first leg draw on February 12, 1958, alongside Helmut Bracht and Aki Schmidt , the 1: 4 defeat in the second leg in Milan - Nils Liedholm drove the game from Milan - would have been without his outstanding condition can lead to disaster.

Under coach Max Merkel and with the offensive team Jürgen Schütz and Friedhelm Konietzka it was enough for Dortmund to be runner-up in 1960/61 - "Kwiat" had played all 30 league games - in the west and in the final round, the men around Captain Kwiatkowski moved into the final at June 24, 1961 in Hanover against 1. FC Nürnberg. The "Franks", trained by Herbert Widmayer , prevailed with 3-0 goals. From the 1961/62 round, Hermann Eppenhoff, a former Schalke national player, took over as coach of the yellow-blacks. In the 1949/50 series, "Kwiat" and Eppenhoff were teammates with the Royal Blues. The round was a radical change and Kwiatkowski's deputy, Bernhard Wessel , made 12 league games. In the last year of the old first-class Oberliga West, 1962/63 , Dortmund reached the runner-up position for the second time after 1961 and thus moved back into the final round of the German championship. The senior played another 22 competitive games in his 16th league round in a row and also guarded the Dortmund goal on the final day, May 11, 1963, in the 1-0 defeat at Wuppertaler SV. Together with Wilhelm Burgsmüller , Lothar Geisler , Dieter Kurrat , Wolfgang Paul and Wilhelm Sturm , he formed the BVB defense. At the start of the finals, on May 25, 1963, Dortmund joined the Südmeister TSV 1860 Munich and lost with 2: 3 goals, the deserving goalkeeper was also in the box of Dortmund. But this was his last appearance in the finals. In all other games, Eppenhoff relied on Wessel in goal, including in the final on June 29, 1963 in Stuttgart, when Dortmund beat the favorites 1. FC Köln with 3-1 goals.

Kwiatkowski belonged to the Oberliga West in all 16 rounds of its existence from 1947/48 to 1962/63 and is the record player of the first class with a total of 409 league appearances before the introduction of the Bundesliga . After the Bundesliga was founded in 1963, however, he had to lag behind Bernhard Wessel and above all the national goalkeeper Hans Tilkowski . Therefore, in his debut year 1963/64, he only made three appearances in the Bundesliga .

Under Willi Multhaup he was assistant coach in 1965/66 and then coached Borussia's amateurs for seven years. Then the coaching job was over. Constantly moving because of further coaching activities would not have been convenient for him or his wife.

National team

The calm and level-headed goalkeeper, who had earned the respectful nickname "Heini Fausten" through his strength in fisting, played his way through the two championships in 1951/52 (with RW Essen) and 1952/53 (with Borussia Dortmund) the Oberliga West in the focus of the national team. After two missions in 1953 in the selection of West Germany, he was tested by national coach Herberger in March and April 1954 in two international matches of the B national team against England and Switzerland. After the final World Cup course at the Munich-Grünwald sports school, he was nominated for the 22-man squad for the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland together with Toni Turek and Heinz Kubsch from the DFB - with no international experience in the senior team.

The highlight of his career was the World Cup in Switzerland, where he met with the German national team won the World Cup was (used as a debutant in 3: 8 defeat by Hungary in the first round on June 20 in Basel, the 1954 World Cup ). After the World Cup days in Switzerland, he was a reservist in several internationals - Portugal, Soviet Union, Norway, Italy, the Netherlands - before he played his third international B match against the Netherlands in Enschede on April 21, 1956. His second and third appearance in the A-Elf completed Kwiatkowski in November and December 1956 against Ireland and Belgium respectively. In May 1958 he took part alongside Fritz Herkenrath , Günter Sawitzki and Hans Tilkowski in the final course before the 1958 Soccer World Cup in Sweden and was nominated for the Swedish drivers' tribe. Here, too, he was used again in a comparatively meaningless game, the game for third place against France . National coach Sepp Herberger put in addition to Kwiatkowski other reservists like Alfred Kelbassa , Heinz Wewers , Hans Sturm or Karl-Heinz Schnellinger , so that in the end there was a 3-6 defeat. "He offered one of the best performances that a German goalkeeper has seen in recent times," wrote Die Welt after the game against France in Gothenburg. After this unsatisfactory commitment for him again, Kwiatkowski asked the national coach not to appoint him in the future. In 1954, Kwiatkowski was the only player in the German World Cup squad to refuse the infamous vitamin injections. He ended his career as a player in 1966.

Kwiatkowski - he was a trained locksmith and later a repro photographer in the Dortmund cityscape - belonged to Borussia Dortmund's council of elders, along with other well-deserved players, including Gerhard Cyliax , who died just a few days before he died . On May 23, 2008 he succumbed to a serious illness in the St. Josef retirement home in Derne and was buried in the south-west cemetery in Dortmund .

successes

• 1954: world champion
• 1956: German champion
• 1957: German champion
• 1958: 4th place at the world championship
• 1961: German runner-up
• 1963: German champion

literature

• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• BF Hoffmann : The legendary World Cup goalkeepers. A lexicon. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-498-7 .
• Heinrich Peuckmann: The heroes from the football west . Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Münster 2001, ISBN 3-402-06480-4 .

Web links

• Heinrich Kwiatkowski in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Kwiatkowski - Held von Bern The heroes of Bern

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinrich Kwiatkowski . dieheldenvonbern.de. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
2. ↑ (Un) forgotten heroes (6) - Heinrich Kwiatkowski and Hans Tilkowski . The cherry. Archived from the original on July 26, 2011. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
3. ↑ Ralf Piorr (ed.): The pot is round. The lexicon of Revier football: The clubs. Volume 2. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2006, ISBN 3-89861-356-9 , p. 271.
4. ↑ Player profile on www.dieheldenvonbern.de
5. ↑ Hardy Greens: 100 Years of the German Championship. The history of football in Germany. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-410-3 , p. 311.
6. ^ Matthias Weinrich: The European Cup. Volume 1: 1955 to 1974. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2007, ISBN 978-3-89784-252-6 , p. 36.
7. ^ Heinrich Peuckmann. The heroes from the football west. P. 32.
8. ^ Werner Skrentny: Football World Cup 1958 Sweden. AGON Sportverlag. Kassel 2002, ISBN 3-89784-192-4 , p. 79.