Heinz Wewetzer

Heinz Wewetzer (born September 5, 1927 , † September 4, 2001 ) was a German soccer player who won the German soccer championship as an active member of Hannover 96 in 1954 . The striker, who was mostly attacking on the right wing in the World Cup system at that time, played a total of 254 league games in the Northern Football League for the "Reds" from 1950 to 1960 and scored 102 goals.

Athletic career

The striker Heinz Wewetzer moved in 1950 from the black and whites of BV Werder Hanover from the amateur league Lower Saxony to the league team of Hanover 96. After the rise with the "Black Hussars" from the Schulenburger Landstrasse in the season 1949/50 in the amateur league west , he became a contract player with the "96er", for which he played until 1960. In addition to Wewetzer, Werner Müller and Ludwig Pöhler also got a contract in the summer of 1950 . Since with Willi Hundertmark , Hans Krämer , Erich Loth and Hans Tkotz four high-performing players had joined the squad the year before, in 1949/50, the 11th place in Wewetzer's debut year can only be explained by the unrest in the coaching bench: with Robert Fuchs (until September 1950), Slopianka-Hoppe (until December 1950) and, from January 1, 1951, an internal committee of three around Kögel, Bieritz and Neckar, were involved in the training management. The newcomer from Werder Hannover made his debut on September 4, 1950 in a 2-2 draw against VfB Oldenburg in the Oberliga Nord. In the 42nd minute he had put “96” 2-1 ahead. He made 27 appearances and scored nine goals alongside striker Erich Loth (20 goals). Even under the new coach Emil Iszo , the team around 13-time goalscorer Wewetzer did not get past 11th place in the 1951/52 season. Improvement occurred in Wewetzer's third league year, 1952/53, when a new man took over the coaching position with Helmut Kronsbein and the newcomers Hannes Kirk and Rolf Paetz immediately proved to be reinforcements. Wewetzer completed all 30 rounds and scored 17 goals as a winger; Hannover 96 reached seventh place in the northern league.

In the 1953/54 season Hannover 96 surprisingly won the championship of the Oberliga Nord and qualified for participation in the final round of the German soccer championship . The 96ers opened the league round on August 9, 1953 with a 1-0 home win against the northern series champions Hamburger SV. After the eleventh game day, November 1, 1953, Wewetzer and colleagues led the table with 22: 0 points, nine points ahead of their pursuers. The winger scored 18 goals in 29 games. On May 23, 1954 he was with Hanover in the final of the DFB soccer championship, which the Kronsbein-Elf won against the clear favorite 1. FC Kaiserslautern with 5-1 goals. Wewetzer scored a goal in this game.

He was also used in the DFB Cup . In the 3: 6 against Kickers Offenbach he scored two goals. For the runner-up in 1955/56 he contributed 16 goals in 29 league games. A total of twelve games with three goals are noted for him in the finals in 1954 and 1956.

Under coach Fritz Silken , Wewetzer was a regular player in 1958/59 with 23 league appearances and eight goals. After he had only made nine appearances in the major league in the 1959/60 season, in which he scored four goals, he ended his contract playing career in 1960 and returned to Werder Hannover. In the meantime, Walter Gawletta and Herbert Weinberg, younger wingers, belonged to the “96” squad. When he played on April 24, 1960 in the 4-2 away win at Bremerhaven 93, his playing career in what was then the first-class Oberliga Nord ended. In the attack, the "Reds" in Bremerhaven with Wewetzer, Hubert Wiezorek, Heinz Fischer, Gerhard Gollnow and Georg Kellermann competed. The professional offensive player who works as a locksmith leads the 96 annals of the league era as a record shooter as well as a record player.

He came to two selection games for the North German Football Association in 1953 and 1956 and was used twice by Hanover in the trade fair cup against AS Roma in 1959 .

literature

• Notbrense, Hardy Greens: The Reds. The story of Hanover 96. Verlag Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2006. ISBN 3-89533-537-1 .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Web links

• Heinz Wewetzer in the database of weltfussball.de