Heinz Lorenz (soccer player)

Heinz Lorenz (born November 12, 1929 in Chemnitz ) is a former German soccer player who played 196 games as a striker in the West Soccer League from 1953 to 1962 and scored 99 goals.

career

Prussia Dellbrück, until 1957

On the start day of the round 1953/54, on August 9, 1953, at the away game at Rot-Weiss Essen , the offensive player Heinz Lorenz made his debut as a center forward in the team of Prussia Dellbrück in the football Oberliga West. The team from Hafenstraße won the home game with 4-1 goals and Dellbrück made a classic false start with 1:11 points. On the seventh matchday, the Prussians managed to win their first double point with a 3-2 win at Fortuna Düsseldorf . Heinz Lorenz distinguished himself as a two-time goalscorer and thus underpinned his regular place in the team around top achiever Heinz Schlömer . The black and whites from Dellbrück took 13th place and the new Cologne striker hope had scored thirteen goals in 27 league games. In his second league season, 1954/55 , the Prussians ranked at the end of the round with 28:32 points and a negative goal difference of 51:58 hits in tenth place in the final table, the strong attacker conquered with 23 goals together with the Münster national striker Felix Gerritzen the top scorer in the west. The most accurate shooter of the master Rot-Weiss Essen, Franz Islacker , followed in third place with 20 goals. The performance of the goalscorer from duty at Dellbrück on December 26, 1954 was outstanding, when he achieved the 4-2 home win against Borussia Dortmund almost alone with three goals , and this against the parade runner row of Borussia with Elwin Schlebrowski , Max Michallek and Erich Schanko . Second best scorer at Prussia Dellbrück was Günther Schemmling with six goals. This resulted in the opposing defense ranks paying particular attention to the dangerous Heinz Lorenz. In the next two rounds, Lorenz, who mostly attacked as a center forward or on the left wing, could no longer match this hit rate, but with his total of 52 goals he is the Prussian record scorer in the Oberliga West.

SC Viktoria 04 Cologne, 1957 to 1962

After the merger of July 10, 1957 between Prussia Dellbrück and SC Rapid Köln, the attacker Heinz Lorenz was still five rounds in the resulting Oberligaklub SC Viktoria Köln . Under coach Johannes "Hans" Paffrath, the fusion club made its debut on August 11, 1957 with a 2-1 home win against Rot-Weiß Oberhausen in the Western League. The Viktoria-Innensturm was composed of Bernhard Schwier , Ernst-Günter Habig and Lorenz. The first derby against 1. FC Köln took place on the sixth match day, on September 15, 1957, in front of 12,000 spectators. Viktoria surprisingly won - against the international “billy goats” half-strikers Zlatko Čajkovski and Hans Schäfer - with 4-1 goals and Lorenz as a center forward, and once entered the list of goalscorers. SC Viktoria finished ninth in the table and Lorenz had played 28 games and scored eight goals. From the 1958/59 round, the 29-year-old striker got to know Hennes Weisweiler's training work in the “Schäl Sick”. With the black and white red from the right bank of the Rhine, however, it never reached a place in the top group. In his last league season, 1961/62 , he scored 15 goals in the fifteen games of the preliminary round and had to end his playing career due to injury after the 4-2 home win on November 26, 1961 against Borussia Mönchengladbach. As a center forward, he had once again distinguished himself as a two-time goalscorer alongside his striker colleagues Carl-Heinz Rühl , Dieter Klever , Jürgen Schult and Manfred Lefkes . From 1957 to 1961 Lorenz completed 99 games in the Oberliga West for Viktoria Köln and scored 47 goals.

literature

• Harald Landefeld, Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Helmut, tell me dat Tor ... New stories and portraits from the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-043-1 .
• Raphael Keppel, Die deutsche Fußball-Oberliga 1946-1963, Volume 1, Sport- und Spielverlag Edgar Hitzel, 1989, ISBN 3-9802172-3-X
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .