Heinz Janssen (soccer player)

Heinz Janssen
Personnel
birthday	April 12, 1923
place of birth	German Empire
date of death	October 29, 2002
Place of death	Germany
position	Storm
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1948-1952	Prussia Krefeld	87 (35)
1952-1956	Borussia Munich-Gladbach	88 (29)
1956-1963	Fortuna Dusseldorf	161 (59)
1 Only league games are given.

Heinz Janssen (born April 12, 1923 ; † October 29, 2002 ), also called "Heini", was a German soccer player who played a total of 249 point games in the first-class Oberliga West and scored 88 goals for Borussia Munich-Gladbach and Fortuna Düsseldorf .

Career

Prussia Krefeld

Janssen's parent club was Preussen Krefeld , which played its home games in the 2nd Oberliga West on the Hubert Houben- Kampfbahn from 1949 to 1952 after the end of the Second World War . Janssen scored 35 goals in 87 league games over the three seasons. With the descent of his club in the Landesliga Niederrhein, Group 2 , he left the club and moved to Borussia Munich-Gladbach.

Borussia Munich-Gladbach

When Borussia München-Gladbach emerged victorious from Group II of the 2nd Oberliga West in the 1951/52 season and thus returned to the Oberliga West , the team strengthened itself with three Prussian players: Heinz Janssen, Egmont Kablitz and Hermann Wiefels . Under player-coach Fritz Pliska Janssen advanced to the best Borussia player in 1952/53 and, with his 12 goals in 30 league appearances, contributed significantly to Borussia being able to keep relegation just under 14th place . In his second season in M. Gladbach , 1953/54 , the number of hits for the Bökelbergstadion team improved from 31 to 56 goals due to the two newcomers Ewald Nienhaus and Heinz Reh , since Janssen and the two new attackers each scored 14 goals, but The 73 goals conceded by the new coach Fritz Silken did not result in more than 12th place . In his third year in Gladbach, 1954/55 , it even went back in the table, Janssen had contributed six goals in 29 league games. The Meidericher SV lost on the final day with 0: 2 at SV Sodingen and BMG with the same result in black and white food . Borussia saved themselves thanks to the better goal difference in 14th place in the table, tied with MSV, who had to relegate to the 2nd League West together with VfL Bochum . In the fourth Gladbach year, 1955/56 , the young offensive talent Albert Brülls made his debut in the Oberliga West alongside Janssen. At the end of the season, Borussia finished eleventh; Janssen contributed eleven goals in 29 league games. For the 1956/57 season he signed a contract with Fortuna Düsseldorf at the age of 33 and moved to the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Fortuna Dusseldorf

Besides Janssen came with Herbert Bayer , Gerd Harpers and Hans Neuschäfer also three other recognized league players on the Flinger Broich . With coach Kuno Klötzer and team players Jupp Derwall , Erich Juskowiak and Matthias Mauritz , Fortuna placed sixth in the West in the 1956/57 season and Janssen had played all 30 league games and scored seven goals. At the end of the season, Fortuna succeeded on June 19, 1957 in Duisburg against Wuppertaler SV with a 2-1 success, winning goal by Janssen in the 87th minute, the cup success in the west. The semi-finals of the DFB Cup competition only took place in the first half of the 1957/58 season on November 24, 1957 in Hanover against Hamburger SV . In Fortuna's 1-0 win, Janssen scored the winning goal in the second minute. In the final held on December 29, 1957 in the Augsburger Rosenaustadion against FC Bayern Munich , the Munich team sat down with the axis Árpád Fazekas - Ludwig Landerer - Gerhard Siedl - Kurt Sommerlatt , with the only one scored by Rudolf Jobst in the 77th minute Goal of the encounter and won their first national club cup.

In the 1957/58 season Düsseldorf reached eighth place in the Oberliga West under the new coach Hermann Lindemann , but saved the round again with strong performances in the cup. Fortuna defended the title in the west on June 27, 1958 in Wuppertal with a 4-1 victory over 1. FC Köln , Janssen was a center forward. In the semi-finals in the DFB Cup competition, Düsseldorf prevailed on October 26, 1958 with 2-1 goals against SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin , Janssen was again in action as a center forward. The final on November 16 in Kassel, the Fortuna lost after a dramatic course 3: 4 after extra time against VfB Stuttgart . Janssen had given his team a 2-1 lead in the 52nd minute.

The 35-year-old Janssen experienced his best season in the Oberliga West with Fortuna in the 1958/59 season. Even after the 25th matchday, to the 4-2 win in the home game against SV Sodingen, Janssen contributed two goals, he and his teammates were in second place with 33:17 points, three and four points respectively ahead of the pursuers Borussia Dortmund and 1. FC Cologne . In front of 56,000 spectators, the match on the 28th round matchday against 1. FC Köln on April 5, 1959, was lost 3: 4 and the billy goats had drawn level on points. Since Cologne and Düsseldorf both won the last two games, Hans Schäfer's team moved into the finals of the German championship due to the better goal difference . With 89 goals, Fortuna had scored the most goals in the west; The attack with Bernhard Steffen , Franz-Josef Wolfframm , Janssen, Jupp Derwall and Dieter Wöske was strong on the offensive, possibly a bit too pompous in the backward movement, so that there were 56 goals against, significantly more than Meister Westfalia Herne (23) and runner-up in Cologne (35).

In his fourth year in Düsseldorf, 1959/60 , Fortuna sensationally relegated to the 2nd League West , from which she immediately returned to the league with coach Fritz Pliska and 16-time goalscorer Janssen. In the last two years of the first-class league era, 1961/62 and 1962/63 , Janssen began to retreat continuously from league football. He played his last two league appearances under Jupp Derwall, who was now working as a coach, in November 1962 against Viktoria Köln (3: 7) and April 10, 1963 - two days before his 40th birthday - in the 2-0 defeat in the away game against Black -White food. Fortuna's face had changed radically. Team players in the final year of the league included Hans-Josef Hellingrath , Manfred Krafft , Peter Meyer and Hermann Straschitz . In the summer of 1963, the 40-year-old ended his league career after 134 appearances and 45 goals for Fortuna Düsseldorf and returned to Krefeld where he worked as a bank clerk.

successes

• DFB Cup finalist 1957 , 1958

Web links

• Heinz Janssen in the database of weltfussball.de
• Heinz Janssen on f95.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Aretz, Giebeler, Kreuels: Borussia Mönchengladbach. The Chronicle. P. 112

literature

• Markus Aretz, Stephan Giebeler, Elmar Kreuels: Borussia Mönchengladbach. The Chronicle. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2010. ISBN 978-3-89533-748-2 .
• Michael Bolten, Marco Langer: Everything else is just football. The story of Fortuna Düsseldorf. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2005. ISBN 978-3-89533-711-6 .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 . P. 173.