Heinz Hohmann (soccer player)

Heinz Hohmann (born July 24, 1931 in Mannheim ) is a German football player who played a total of 206 league games in the first class at the time at SV Waldhof Mannheim and FK Pirmasens in the Oberliga Süd and Oberliga Südwest from 1951 to 1963 and scored 106 goals. The offensive player was used on May 1, 1958 once in the B national team of the DFB in the international match against Luxembourg A. Statistical data on the number of stakes the goal-scoring attacker played in the 2nd League South from 1954 to 1958 are not available. With Waldhof the striker, who can be used in all attacking positions, won the championship in the 2nd league south in 1958 and, after moving to Pirmasens in the 1959/60 season, the championship in the Oberliga Südwest.

societies

Waldhof Mannheim, 1951 to 1959

In his youth, Hohmann played at the Mannheim district club SC Käfertal, before the offensive talent moved to SV Waldhof Mannheim in the Oberliga Süd after the 1950/51 season in the 2nd amateur league North Baden, Season 2. The newcomer made his debut on August 26, 1951 in a 1-1 home draw against Schwaben Augsburg as a right defender in the league. Players like Georg Herbold , Fritz Rößling , Georg Siegel and Ludwig Siffling belonged to the circle of Waldhof top performers and attacker Paul Lipponer scored 14 goals when he reached 10th place in the 1951/52 season. The man from Käfertal completed 19 games in his debut year in the league and scored three goals. In the following two rounds he prevailed with 15 goals in 49 league games in the major league. In 1954, the year of the football world championship in Switzerland, 1953/54, the last round game of Waldhof on April 4, 1954 at the champions VfB Stuttgart decided on the remaining in the first class. After a 0: 2 defeat, the blue-blacks, level on points with the table thirteenth Kickers Stuttgart (21:39 points each), went down to the 2nd League South.

This was followed by two rounds in midfield with places eight and six, before in the third season, 1957/58 , with the championship win, the return to the Oberliga Süd succeeded. Hohmann had already proven his qualities as a goal scorer on the wing or in the storm center in the 1956/57 season as top scorer in the 2nd League South with 26 goals. Due to his final quality, the attacker was also used on May 1, 1957 as a second division player in a selection game of the upper division contract players in Ludwigshafen between the southwest and north Baden. At 3-2 from North Baden, he stormed right winger alongside Theodor Laumann , Ernst-Otto Meyer , Gerhard Siedl and Rudolf de la Vigne .

Under coach Árpád Medve , the team from Waldhofstadion on Alsenweg led the table unbeaten after seven days of play in the 1957/58 season. In the second half of the season Waldhof secured a 4-1 win against the previous championship leader VfL Neustadt in front of 18,000 spectators, on May 11, 1958 in the Waldhof Stadium in front of 17,000 spectators with a 3: 3 against runner-up TSG Ulm 1846 and a 3: 1 in last home game on June 8, 1958 against FC Bayern Hof, the championship and thus the return to the Oberliga Süd.

The start in the league succeeded with two successes against SpVgg Fürth (3-2) and a 2-0 home win against VfB Stuttgart. Waldhof seemed to have arrived in the Oberliga Süd. After the 1: 2 home defeat in the local derby against the blue-white-reds from VfR Mannheim on September 21 in front of 15,000 spectators, the promoted team ran out of steam. That culminated in the first half of the season in the 1: 9 home defeat on November 2, 1958 against FC Bayern Munich. After the preliminary round, SV Waldhof took the penultimate place in the table with 8:22 points. In the second half of the season the downward trend continued: In particular, the 3: 6 home defeat against bottom of the table BC Augsburg on February 15, 1959 destroyed the last hopes of relegation. The 8-0 defeat at 1. FC Nürnberg on March 7th and the 7-3 home defeat against Karlsruher SC on April 5th, 1959 fit into the desolate ideas of the second half of the season. Hohmann had on the side of center forward Horst Lebefromm (13 goals) with 15 goals in 24 league appearances despite the weak team performance but personally offered a convincing performance. After relegation, he accepted the offer from southwest champion FK Pirmasens for the 1959/60 season and moved to the Oberliga Südwest.

FK Pirmasens, 1959 to 1965

The newcomer from SV Waldhof made his debut on August 16, 1959 in a 3-0 away win against FV Speyer in the Oberliga Südwest in the blue-whites of the Horeb stadium on Zweibrücker Landstrasse. On the right wing he scored the 1-0 lead in the 2nd minute. The first home game brought a 9: 4 home win on 23 August against runner-up Borussia Neunkirchen with another Hohmann goal. The FKP won the championship with 44:16 points and 92:43 goals. The dangerous attackers Helmut Kapitulski (26 goals), Hohmann (19 goals), Herbert Schroer (14 goals) and Heinrich Seebach (13 goals) won 13 of 15 home games and only sat against Phönix Ludwigshafen (1: 1) and Tura Ludwigshafen (2: 2) not to double points at the "Horeb". The group stage in the final round of the German soccer championship was disappointing: the Southwest champion only managed to win a point against 1. FC Köln (1: 1); with 1:11 points they took fourth place. Hohmann had scored two goals in six final round matches - in the 4: 6 home defeat in Ludwigshafen against Werder Bremen. In 1961 Pirmasens finished one point behind champions 1. FC Saarbrücken and runner-up Borussia Neunkirchen - both 42:18 points - in third place. Hohmann had scored 13 goals alongside Kapitulski (19 goals) and Klaus Matischak (19 goals). In his third league round in the southwest, 1961/62, Hohmann and colleagues reached the runner-up with 104:33 goals and 45:15 points. With Rolf Fritzsche (24 goals) a goal-scoring playmaker was added and Matischak (23 goals), Hohmann (19 goals) and Kapitulski (19 goals) also belonged to the top of the southwest goal scorer list. The appearances in the shortened final round could not confirm the league results: Three clear defeats against Hamburger SV (3: 6), Eintracht Frankfurt (1: 8) and even a 0:10 against 1. FC Köln made the round impression of the Southwest Vice. In the last year of the old first-class Oberliga Südwest, 1962/63, the FKP finished third, tied on points with runner-up Neunkirchen - both 41:19 points. After the first half of the season, Pirmasens was in second place with 22: 8 points and 39:18 goals. On February 10, 1963, the home game against rivals Neunkirchen was won 4-2 and Hohmann had scored two goals as a center forward. With 1: 3 points from the last two games against SC Ludwigshafen (0: 0) and TuS Neuendorf (0: 1), the runner-up was gambled away. At the end of the round, Hohmann led the blue-whites' internal goalscorer list with 23 hits.

Since the two clubs from the south-west, 1. FC Kaiserslautern and 1. FC Saarbrücken, were nominated for the new Bundesliga from the 1963/64 season, Hohmann and colleagues stayed in the second division of the Regionalliga Südwest from this round . With Neunkirchen and Wormatia Worms, Pirmasens fought a three-way battle for the championship. After the first half of the season, Worms led the table with 31: 7, ahead of Pirmasens with 30: 8 and Neunkirchen with 27:11 points. With a second round balance of 33: 5 points, Neunkirchen conquered the championship, with 29: 9 Pirmasens remained the runner-up and Worms fell to third place with 27:11. With Helmut Kapitulski (30 goals), Hugo Dausmann (25), Hans-Erwin Volberg (22), Hohmann (14), Heinrich Seebach (12), Hilmar Weishaar (11) and Horst Brill (6), Pirmasens had 128 Round goals had seven offensive players available who had been superior to the competition. Master Neunkirchen, on the other hand, had a quality advantage on the defensive with only 32 goals against in 38 round games, which should also prove to be decisive in the subsequent promotion round.

The southwest runner-up had to contest two qualifying games on May 24 and 31, 1964 to take part in the promotion round against west runner-up Wuppertaler SV. Completely surprising, Pirmasens prevailed 2-0 against the favored hosts in front of 32,000 spectators in the Zoo stadium. Pirmasens also won the second leg 2-1. In both games, the 33-year-old Hohmann was called up as a right defender in the World Cup system that was common in the DFB area at the time . Center forward Dausmann scored all four goals. The group stage started with a 3-0 home win on June 6th in front of 15,000 spectators against Westmeister Alemannia Aachen with their top performers Branko Zebec , Christian Breuer , Alfred Glenski , Jupp Martinelli and Herbert Gronen . After the 4: 1 away win at Südmeister Hessen Kassel, the team of coach Alfred Preißler ran out of air. The FKP took fourth place with 4: 8 points. Senior Hohmann was a right defender in all six group games.

In his last year in Pirmasens, 1964/65, the loss of playmaker and goal scorer Kapitulski to 1. FC Kaiserslautern reduced his performance and Hohmann could no longer call up his previous standard of performance. Pirmasens took seventh place and Hohmann was only used in eleven league games in which he scored four goals. In the summer of 1965, the long-time goalscorer in the Oberliga Süd, 2. Liga Süd, Oberliga Südwest and Regionalliga Südwest ended his successful career. His last competitive game was on February 21, 1965 in a 1: 2 home defeat against SpVgg Weisenau.

Selection games, 1956 to 1958

With a selection ("working group") from VfR and Waldhof Mannheim, Hohmann came as a second division player from Waldhof on December 16, 1956 against Kickers Offenbach (3: 1) on the left wing. On May 1, 1957, he stormed right winger in the team from North Baden in a game in Ludwigshafen against the contract players from Southwest (3-2). In the "Arge", Hohmann contributed two hits on June 5, 1957 in a 3: 3 against Bonsucessco Rio de Janeiro alongside VfR colleagues Laumann, Ernst Langlotz and de la Vigne.

On May 1, 1958, the Waldhof attacker also made his debut in the B national team. In Luxembourg, the German B-Elf lost the international match 1: 4 against Luxembourg A. Hohmann was substituted on in the 2nd half for Richard Kreß from Frankfurt on the right winger alongside Michael Pfeiffer , Ulrich Biesinger , Willi Schröder and Adolf Scheidt . When a North Baden contract player selection of the Oberliga Süd played a game in Sofia against the Bulgarian B national team on November 19, 1958, the Waldhof attacker stormed the 4-2 of the guests on the left wing. Hohmann ran along with players like Wilhelm Dimmel , Heinz Ruppenstein , Heinz Schmitt , Heinz Beck , Ernst Langlotz and Bernhard Termath .

literature

• Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 158 .
• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963. Klartext Verlag, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .
• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The fear of the devil in front of the pea mountain. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963. Klartext Verlag, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Süddeutscher Fußball-Verband (Ed.): 100 Years of the Süddeutscher Fußball-Verband. Vindelica Verlag, Gersthofen 1996, p. 170.
2. ^ Gerhard Zeilinger: Triumph and decline in Mannheim's football sport 1945 to 1970. Odenwälder printing company, Buchen-Walldürn 1995, ISBN 3-929295-14-8 , p. 126.
3. ^ German sports club for football statistics (Ed. DSFS): Südwest-Chronik. Football in Southwest Germany 1963 / 64-1968 / 69. KGT new media, Berlin 2014, p. 17.
4. ^ German sports club for football statistics (Ed. DSFS): Südwest-Chronik. Football in Southwest Germany 1963 / 64-1968 / 69. KGT new media, Berlin 2014, p. 105.
5. ↑ Gerhard Zeilinger: Triumph and decline in Mannheim's football sport 1945 to 1970. Odenwälder printing works, Buchen-Walldürn 1995, ISBN 3-929295-14-8 , p. 141.