Heinz Steinmann

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Heinz Steinmann (born February 1, 1938 in Essen ) is a former German soccer player . He won the DFB Cup with Schwarz-Weiß Essen in 1959 and the German soccer championship with Werder Bremen in 1965 . From 1963 to 1973 he played 214 games in the Bundesliga, scoring five goals.

Career

Heinz Steinmann usually played the right runner, in later years more and more in the stopper position. For years, he embodied reliability in person.

1956 to 1963 - SW Essen

Heinz Steinmann started playing soccer in his hometown of Essen when he was young at Wacker Steele and in 1951 moved to Schwarz-Weiß Essen at the Uhlenkrug. From 1956 to 1963 he played with Schwarz-Weiß Essen in the 2nd division and Oberliga West . After the 2-1 semi-final win after extra time at Hamburger SV on December 12, 1959, he and his teammates Hans Küppers , Theo Klöckner and Horst Trimhold won the DFB Cup final in Kassel in 1958/59 against Borussia Neunkirchen with 5 : 2 goals. After this success, however, he quickly experienced failure. At the end of the round in 1959/60, SW Essen was relegated from the Oberliga West. The men from Uhlenkrug stayed together and moved back to the league after the round in 1960/61. The employee at Ruhrkohle AG then played in this league with SWE until 1963. In the year of the soccer world championship in Chile in 1962 , the national coach Sepp Herberger invited him to various test matches of the national team. He was named by the DFB after the international match on April 11 in Hamburg against Uruguay and the FIFA in the 40-man squad. He also played representative in the WEST selection in 1962. But he came to his first international match after the World Cup tournament on October 24th in Stuttgart as a substitute for Willi Schulz . He succeeded in the 82nd minute, the equalizer for a 2-2 draw.

1963 to 1964 - 1. FC Saarbrücken

At the beginning of the Bundesliga in 1963/64, he moved to Saarland. The 1. FC Saarbrücken put on the defensive force from the West and gave him a job at the mine administration. The midfielder, who was loyal to coverage, showed the expected reliable performance in all 30 games of the round, but was often on the field without the necessary support. At the end of the round, Saarbrücken was relegated from the Bundesliga. Volker Danner , Dieter Krafczyk and Erich Maas were able to stay in the Bundesliga as well as Heinz Steinmann by changing.

1964 to 1970 - Werder Bremen

Coach Willi Multhaup brought the Essen native to Bremen for SV Werder in 1964. Together with Josef Piontek , Horst-Dieter Höttges , Max Lorenz and Helmut Jagielski , they formed the best defense of the 1964/65 season. The tenth of the 1963/64 season became the German football champion in 1965 . Due to the club successes with Werder Bremen, he moved back into the sights of the national coach in 1965. Helmut Schön called him on March 13th against Italy and on May 12th against England as a substitute for two further national team games. At the end of the season, he was also in the squad, which flew to the international match against Brazil in Rio de Janeiro in June. However, it was not used in the game on June 6th. He was also appointed by the DFB in 1966 in the 40-man squad for the World Cup in England. In the 1967/68 round he was able to celebrate the runner-up in Bremen with coach Fritz Langner . With the use on September 19, 1970 at the home game against Hertha BSC , he ended his playing career. In his prime in the national team, he was behind Willi Schulz at the beginning and then behind Franz Beckenbauer .

Stations

  • 1956–1963 Schwarz-Weiß Essen , 2nd division West / Oberliga West, 110 games - 2 goals, DFB Cup winner 1959
  • 1963–1964, 1. FC Saarbrücken , Bundesliga, 30 games - 1 goal
  • 1964–1970, Werder Bremen , Bundesliga, 184 games - 4 goals, German champion 1965

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