Hermann Ross

Hermann Roß (born June 21, 1939 ) is a former German soccer player. The goalkeeper completed 21 league games in the Bundesliga with Rot-Weiss Essen in the 1966/67 season . In the game year 1965/66 he had played all 34 regional league games or six promotion round games with the team from Bergeborbeck in reaching the runner-up and the success in the promotion round to the Bundesliga. When the team from Essen's Hafenstrasse was promoted to the Bundesliga for the second time in the 1968/69 season , Roß was once again a runner-up in the Regionalliga West.

career

societies

The tall and athletic goalkeeper developed football in the youth department of TuS Duisburg 48/99 . After the championship in the Verbandsliga Niederrhein in 1958/59 , winning the amateur championship of West Germany against Beckumer SpVgg and Bonn FV and the games for the German amateur championship against SV Norden-Nordwest Berlin (3: 1) and in the semi-finals on June 7th against SV Arminia Hannover (1: 2 afterwards) - Werner Olk , Horst Wilkening and Joachim Thimm were in action at Arminia Hannover - the black and whites from the south of Duisburg belonged to the Oberliga Unterbau for four years from the 1959/60 game year 2. League West on. Ross and his teammates were trained by ex-national player Willy Busch .

In the last year of the old league system with the regional top leagues as the top performance, 1962/63, TuS Duisburg fought for the championship title with VfB Bottrop. Equal on points with 37:23 points each, the team of goalkeeper Roß had to be content with the runner-up behind Bottrop. A promotion to the first-class Oberliga West was not possible due to the introduction of the Bundesliga for the 1963/64 season, but 48/99 belonged to the second-rate Regionalliga West's debut because of the second place. The runner-up team included the assertive attacker Werner Gräber , who joined Hannover 96 for the 1963/64 round. The local derbies against the Duisburger Spielverein and Duisburger FV 08 were part of the program in the 2nd League West. In 1962/63, players like Klaus Beckfeld , Fred-Werner Bockholt , Diethelm Ferner (VfB Bottrop), Rudolf Assauer , Günter Graetsch (SpVgg Herten), Werner Jestremski , Manfred Otta , Rudolf Schmidt (STV Horst-Emscher), Peter Blusch , Paul Haase , Albert Kühn , Gerhard Neuser (Spfrde. Siegen), Eckehard Feigenspan , Klaus Fetting , Heinz-Dieter Hasebrink , Werner Kik , Otto Rehhagel , Adolf Steinig , Herbert Weinberg (RW Essen), Bernd Kirchner , Friedhelm Renno , Dieter Schulz (Arminia Bielefeld), Rolf Benning Albert Eichholz , Herbert Kurwan , Karl-Heinz Poll (DSV), Alfred Schmidt , Helmut Lipinski (SV Sodingen), Heinz Pliska , Franz-Josef Sarna (Eintracht Gelsenkirchen), Franz Islacker , Hans- Peter Kirchwehm , Emil Meisen (SV Neukirchen), Werner Jablonski , Otto Keller , Egon Milder , Walter Zastrau (VfL Bochum), Manfred Frankowski , Manfred Kroke (Duisburger FV 08), Herbert Dörner , Heinz Fischer , Heinz Rohloff (Bonner FV), Rolf Pawellek , Gerhard Prokop (Spfrd e. Gladbeck) and Günter Sibilski were in action at the Dortmund SC 95. Players who have played in the major league for years or who have made a career in the regional league or even in the Bundesliga afterwards. After a total of 106 appearances in the 2nd League West, Roß tackled the challenge of the Regionalliga West with his team from the Fugmann-Kampfbahn in the summer of 1963.

Sporty and financially, TuS 48/99 was not up to the competition, especially the former upper division clubs, in the Regionalliga West 1963/64. With 47:88 goals and 22:54 points, they finished 19th in the season of 20 and would have been relegated to the amateur camp. By merging with the game club on July 7, 1964 to form the new club Eintracht Duisburg , the class could be kept. Roß, he had guarded the goal of TuS 48/99 in 29 league games, but accepted Rot-Weiss Essen's offer for the second regional league year, 1964/65, and moved to Hafenstrasse in Bergeborbeck.

The table tenth of the first year of the Regionalliga West took seventh place under trainer Fred Harthaus in the first year of Roß in the Red-Whites, but with a large deficit to the top teams from Mönchengladbach and Aachen. The newcomer from Duisburg was only missing in one of the 34 league games. In the year of the football World Cup in England in 1966, in 1965/66, Fritz Pliska, a new coach, joined the team at the Georg Melches Stadium . At the top of the table there was a three-way battle for the championship and two places to participate in the Bundesliga promotion round. Fortuna Düsseldorf, Rot-Weiss Essen and Alemannia Aachen were the rivals and Aachen ended up in third place at the end of the lap. RWE had conceded 31 goals with goalkeeper Roß in 34 league games - Roß had not suspended in any game - and thus laid the foundation for the runner-up championship. In the successful BL promotion round against the competition from St. Pauli, Saarbrücken and Schweinfurt, he then completed the six games to move into the Bundesliga. With 10: 6 versus 10: 8 goals, the goal difference decided in favor of RWE versus the tied FC St. Pauli.

In the Bundesliga round 1966/67 , Roß was in goal in 21 Bundesliga games, Fred-Werner Bockholt the remaining 13 games. One of the highlights of the first half of the season was the 3-1 home win on September 24, 1966 against FC Bayern Munich. In front of 32,000 spectators, Roß delivered a great goalkeeping game and is listed in the Bundesliga Chronik 1966/67 with a player rating of 1.0. In the match report it is noted, among other things: "Essen's cover was not infrequently combined, but the Cajkovski team showed terrifying agility in exploiting various scoring chances or failed against the great goalkeeper Roß." The Bayern attack with Rudolf Nafziger , Gerd Müller was more like a goal , Rainer Ohlhauser , Peter Werner and Dieter Brenninger not. With a weak second round balance of 10:24 points, RWE could not get the class at the end of the round and immediately relegated to the regional league.

In the next two rounds, the red-whites came to the runner-up and in the Bundesliga promotion rounds; But now the goalkeeper was Fred-Werner Bockholt. When in the second attempt, in 1969, the Bundesliga return was successful, Roß had again completed eleven regional league games and on June 25, 1969 against Karlsruher SC (2: 2) also a promotion round match.

In total, goalkeeper Roß is listed with 108 regional league games, seven promotion rounds and 21 Bundesliga appearances.

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 .
• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 9: Player Lexicon 1963-1994. Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , p. 419.
• Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Fohlensturm am Katzenbusch. The history of the Regionalliga West 1963–1974. Volume 2, Klartext, Essen 1995, ISBN 3-88474-206-X .

Individual evidence

1. ^ German Sports Club for Football Statistics (DSFS): West Chronicle. Football in West Germany 1958–1963. Berlin 2013. pp. 218–220
2. ^ Ulrich Merk, André Schulin: Bundesliga chronicle 1966/67. Volume 4: Braunschweig's defensive artist. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-086-3 , p. 73.