Heinz Wewers

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The German national players Hans Tilkowski (left) and Heinz Wewers (middle) against the two Dutch players Bram Appel and Cor van der Gijp (1957)

Heinz Wewers (born July 27, 1927 in Gladbeck ; † August 29, 2008 in Essen ) was a German football player who played twelve international matches for the German national team from 1951 to 1958 .

career

Association until 1962

The middle runner Heinz Wewers, who came to Rot-Weiss Essen in 1949 via forward and 1. FC Borbeck, played 338 games with two goals in the Oberliga West for the team from Bergeborbeck from 1949 to 1962 . In the first season of 1949/50 - the team of football lobbies Georg Melches took third place, one point behind runner-up Prussia Dellbrück - he played in all 30 league games for RWE. Coach Karl Hohmann opened the round with the runners Erwin Zöllmann , Wewers and Werner Göbel on the start day at Rhenania Würselen and also used the core of the team in the remaining 29 games. On May 21 and 29, 1950, the "long Heinz" was active for the first time in the final round of the German football championship . The first game ended in Karlsruhe against 1. FC Kaiserslautern 2-2 after extra time and the replay in Cologne was won by the Fritz Walter team with a goal from his brother Ottmar in the 116th minute with 3-2 goals.

In the third league round in 1951/52, the team from the stadium on Hafenstrasse won the first championship in the Oberliga West. With the outstanding wing tongs Helmut Rahn and Bernhard Termath - both wingers scored 20 goals each - and the leading figure August Gottschalk , Schalke 04, Aachen, Dortmund and 1. FC Köln were relegated to the places. Heinz Wewers was head of the defensive in all 30 league games with his overview and excellent header game on the ball. In the final round, VfB Stuttgart prevailed and also won the final after the group games.

In the 1952/53 round, the players Fritz Herkenrath and Franz Islacker came to the Rot-Weisse and the team landed with Wewers, who was active in all 30 games, in 3rd place in the league and moved in for the first time after the Second World War played DFB-Pokal in the final. On May 1, 1953, Essen won the trophy with a 2-1 win in Düsseldorf against Alemannia Aachen. Wewers, the “one-legged” stopper - he was a total left footer - had played all five cup games. On September 21, 1952, in the local derby in the Oberliga against ETB Schwarz-Weiß Essen, the game was abandoned when the goal post was broken and the score was 1: 1. RWE won the replay on December 28, 1952 with 8-1 goals.

In the world championship year 1954, Heinz Wewers and his teammates had to be content with the runner-up championship one point behind the champions 1. FC Köln and could not play for the German championship because of the shortened finals. The team was more than compensated by a nine-week trip to South and North America, which they embarked on on April 23, 1954 and which ended again in Düsseldorf-Lohausen on June 22.

In the 1954/55 season, the Red and White won the title in the West League ahead of SV Sodingen, prevailed in the final round and won the German championship in the final against 1. FC Kaiserslautern. Trainer Fritz Szepan had successfully relied on the organizational skills of his defense chief Wewers in all 30 league games. In total, the middle runner with the middle parting played 15 finals for Essen from 1950 to 1955.

After the championship year, August Gottschalk ended his career and Termath moved to the Oberliga Süd for Karlsruher SC. Wewers took part in September 1955 in the two games in the European Cup 1955/56 against Hibernian Edinburgh, where the meaningful character of this competition had not yet arrived in Germany, and finished fifth in the Oberliga West. On November 7, 1956, Wewers led the international friendly against Honved Budapest on the pitch as captain Rot-Weiss. The game ended 5-5. The best time in the league was now over, the entry into the finals was no longer successful, and permanent coaching changes - Elek Schwartz , Raymond Schwab , Willi Multhaup - could not stop the sporting regression. The retirement of Georg Melches in 1959 and the loss of Helmut Rahn in the summer of 1959 to 1. FC Köln also contributed significantly to this. Heinz Wewers, together with Fritz Herkenrath, could not prevent relegation to the 2nd division west in the 1960/61 season. After the fifth place in the 2nd league in 1961/62, where the stopper had accrued again in 20 games, Heinz Wewers ended his active career at the age of 35.

National soccer team, 1951 to 1958

In the spring of 1951 national coach Sepp Herberger became aware of Heinz Wewers. In the representative game on March 18, 1951 in Duisburg from West Germany to South Germany, he held the stopper role. He was part of a DFB course from April 2 to 6, 1951 in Duisburg, during which a test match against Saarland was held on April 4, where he also exercised his usual middle position. The first use in the national team took place on December 23, 1951 in Essen against Luxembourg. His teammates Rahn and Termath stormed on the wings and Bögelein, Bauer, Juskowiak, Schröder and Stollenwerk also made their debut.

Due to the competition from Herbert Erhardt , Werner Liebrich , Jupp Posipal , Herbert Schäfer and Robert Schlienz in the stopper position, the man from Essen made his second appearance in the national team after an almost five-year break. On May 26, 1956 in Berlin at the international match against England, Wewers was in the senior national team for the second time. Together with Schlienz and Mai he formed the German runner row in the 1: 3 defeat. In a temporal context, Wewers took part in test matches of the DFB selection against Saarland in March 1956 and against Rot-Weiss Essen in April, as well as in the course from May 14 to 19, 1956 at the Schöneck sports school in Karlsruhe. Immediately after the international match against England, he joined the B national team on May 31, 1956 in Barcelona in a 5-2 win against Spain. Until his eleventh international match on March 2, 1958 in Brussels in a 2-0 win against Belgium, he was part of the Herberger team during this period. After the World Cup course from May 12 to 24, 1958 in Munich-Grünwald, he was also a member of the squad for the 1958 World Cup in Sweden. There he said goodbye with the game for third place on June 28 against France after the 3-6 defeat - Just Fontaine and Raymond Kopa upset the defense around Heinz Wewers in Gothenburg - and twelve international appointments from the national team.

Next to the square

Wewers has been running the Rot-Weiss stadium restaurant on Hafenstrasse since 1957. After the end of his football career, he first took over an inn located in the immediate vicinity before he started working for a beverage company.

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personal data
SURNAME Wewers, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Gladbeck
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 2008
Place of death eat