Herbert Weinberg

Herbert Weinberg (born January 27, 1939 in Essen ) is a former German football player .

career

Amateur and Oberliga Nord, until 1961

With the blue-blacks from the sports field at Kaiserpark, the BV Altenessen 06 , Herbert Weinberg went through all youth classes and also experienced the beginnings in the senior class in the district class. At the age of 20, the talented winger was taken under contract by Hannover 96 for the 1959/60 round and moved to the North Football League . The offensive talent from Altenessen celebrated his debut in the northern German league immediately on the first match day, August 16, 1959, in a 2-1 home win against Hamburger SV . Weinberg stormed the right winger and had to deal in particular with HSV defender Franz Klepacz . Under coach Günter Grothkopp , the “Reds” placed fifth and the newcomer made 27 appearances and scored four goals. With his engagement on the final day of the round 1960/61, on April 30, 1961, at VfR Neumünster, Weinberg said goodbye to Hanover and returned to Essen, where he joined Rot-Weiss Essen from the round 1961/62 . From 1959 to 1961 he had completed a total of 44 league games for Hanover and scored five goals.

Essen, 1961 to 1973

The German champion of 1955, Rot-Weiss Essen, was relegated from the Oberliga West to the 2nd division in 1961. Weinberg completed 24 games in 1961/62 alongside the veterans Fritz Herkenrath and Heinz Wewers and scored six goals. With coach Günter Hentschke , RWE achieved fifth place. Also in the second year in the II. Division - now he stormed together with Eckehard Feigenspan and Heinz-Dieter Hasebrink - he had almost the same data with 23 games and five hits and the team from Hafenstrasse took sixth place. RWE was thus qualified for the new West Regional Football League for the 1963/64 season. In the first two rounds with trainer Fred Harthaus , the Bergeborbecker did not belong to the top group.

This changed in the year of the football World Cup in England in 1966, when coach Fritz Pliska was able to win the runner-up behind champion Fortuna Düsseldorf , to which Weinberg contributed six goals in 29 games on the right and the new wing talent Willi Lippens 14 goals in 32 games on the left had achieved. In the successful promotion round, Weinberg was active in all six matches against St. Pauli, 1. FC Saarbrücken and FC Schweinfurt 05 and also scored two goals for promotion to the Bundesliga. Herbert Weinberg played 33 games for RWE in the Bundesliga season 1966/67 alongside the newcomers Peter Dietrich and Heinz Simmet . At the end of the round, however, the relegation could not be prevented.

With the coaching novice Erich Ribbeck , the runner-up in the Regionalliga West in 1967/68 immediately made it into the Bundesliga promotion round, but also took second place there behind Hertha BSC and had to spend another year in the second division. In the following round in 1968/69, however, Essen successfully prevailed in the promotion round against VfL Osnabrück, Karlsruher SC, Tasmania 1900 and TuS Neuendorf and moved back into the upper house for the round in 1969/70. Weinberg had played 28 regional league games in the promotion round and scored five goals and played all eight promotion round matches, this at the side of Willi Lippens - "duck" scored ten goals in the promotion round - and also scored three goals. Weinberg played with Essen for two years in the Bundesliga and played 48 games with three goals from 1969 to 1971, before he again had to play the association games in the Regionalliga in 1971/72. The technically skilled hardworker in attack and midfield celebrated his fourth entry into the Bundesliga promotion round as runner-up in 1972. Kickers Offenbach prevailed in the promotion games and RWE made another attempt to return to the Bundesliga in 1972/73.

On the second match day of the 1972/73 season, on August 6, 1972, in the 0-2 home defeat against Fortuna Cologne, the 33-year-old veteran played his last regional league game for Rot-Weiss Essen. In the 67th minute he was substituted on by coach Horst Witzler for Dieter Bast in midfield alongside Diethelm "Didi" Ferner and Günter "Nobby" Fürhoff . After a total of 305 games and 51 goals - 151 regional league games with 30 goals and 81 Bundesliga games with four goals - for Rot-Weiss Essen Herbert Weinberg ended his playing career. Weinberg was often noticed by his swallows in the penalty area, for which there was no handling at the time, which led to the fact that he suffered several penalties, but was never warned. This earned him the nickname "wheelchair" Herbert.

In the RWE book it is noted about Weinberg:

“ As a right winger, he was a role model for the teammates due to his enormous workload. The team captain impressed with his dribbling skills and speed "

Today (2009) he lives in Essen-Borbeck , where he has owned a house for many years.

literature

• Georg Schrepper, Uwe Wick: “… RWE again and again!” The story of Rot-Weiss-Essen. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-467-7 .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schrepper / Wick, “… again and again RWE”, page 212

Web links

• Herbert Weinberg in the database of fussballdaten.de