Heinz Papenhoff (soccer player)

Heinz Papenhoff
Personnel
Surname	Heinrich Papenhoff
birthday	October 30, 1923
place of birth	Bochum ,  German Empire
date of death	September 16, 2003
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
	Prussia Bochum
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
0000-1949	Leichlinger TV
1949-1957	Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1953-1956	Bayer 04 Leverkusen amateurs
1 Only league games are given.

Heinrich "Heinz" Papenhoff (born October 30, 1923 in Bochum ; † September 16, 2003 ) was a German football player . In the 1950s he was one of the leading players in the football division of Bayer 04 Leverkusen , with whom he was promoted to the Oberliga West in 1951 and thus to the highest German division.

Career

The street soccer player Heinz Papenhoff joined Prussia Bochum at the age of eight until he was drafted as a soldier. As a soldier he was a member of an eleven soldiers with whom he won the title of Gaumeist.

After the war he moved to Leichlingen , where he helped rebuild TV Leichlingen before he became a contract player at Bayer 04 Leverkusen in 1949 . With Leverkusen, he failed in his first season in promotion to the league, after defeats in the decisive promotion games in 1948/49 against 1. FC Köln, which emerged from a post-war merger, and later against FC Schalke 04, two opportunities for promotion to the first-class at the time Oberliga-West were missed. In 1951 he then managed to move up to the top German league with the club. Knee injuries threw Papenhoff back repeatedly and forced him to work his way back to the Oberligaelf via the second team.

Papenhoff worked professionally at Bayer AG as a technical employee (time tester master).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Feuerherdt, Alex: Bayer 04 Leverkusen - The Football Chronicle, Göttingen 2011, pp. 21-27.