Horst Haecks

Horst Haecks
Personnel
birthday	August 12, 1936
place of birth	Hamburg ,  Germany
date of death	July 21, 2010
Place of death	Hamburg ,  Germany
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
	ETSV Altona
until 1955	HEBC Hamburg
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1955-1957	Eimsbütteler SV
1957-1968	FC St. Pauli	253 (158)
1968-1970	Altonaer SpVgg
1970-1973	SV St. Georg
1973-1974	TuS Güldenstern Stade
1 Only league games are given.

Horst Haecks (born August 12, 1936 in Hamburg ; † July 21, 2010 ibid) was a German soccer player who played in the then first-class Oberliga Nord from 1957 to 1963 and then until 1966 in the second-rate Regionalliga Nord for FC St. Pauli played.

Career

As a teenager

Horst Haecks began his club career as a youth with the railroader TSV Altona , the HEBC and from 1955 to 1957 with Eimsbütteler SV , where he moved up to the first team that played in the Association League Hamburg (Germania-Staffel), at that time the third-highest German league. There, the prolific fell half left the Oberliga side FC St. Pauli on which it shortly before his majority to the Heiligengeistfeld fetched.

In the big league

Haecks was carefully built into the league team by trainer Heinz Hempel , which was just undergoing a generation change; of the “wonder team” of the immediate post-war years , only Captain Harald Stender was left on the lawn. Haecks achieved his breakthrough in 1959, who now also taught the opposing defensive ranks fear at this level - especially together with the rather withdrawn Ingo Porges and striker Peter "Oschi" Osterhoff (from 1958), which made the attack of the Brown-Whites difficult to predict . In the 1960/61 season Horst Haecks appeared for the first time high in the league chaser list, finished tenth with 15 hits (and Osterhoff even second with 20 “stalls”). It was not enough for the storm duo to participate in the German championship finals until 1963: St. Pauli finished the season four times in a row in fourth place, and in the last season before the introduction of the Bundesliga , the "Kiezkicker" were sixth. Haecks, however, was even in sixth place among the North German storm aces with 18 goals in 1962/63. In the end, that was not enough for the club to join the new German elite league.

In the regional league

1963/64 was possibly the best year for Horst Haeck, who knew Guy Acolatse - whom Hempel's successor Otto Westphal had brought with him from Togo - had another good striker at his side: Haecks' 36 goals scored in 34 points gave him the top scorer's crown not only in the north, but in all five regional leagues - and FC St. Pauli as champions participate in the promotion to the Bundesliga. Because the old stadium on Glacischaussee had to give way to construction work and the new Millerntor Stadium was not yet completed, St. Pauli moved to the Volksparkstadion , which was already unpopular at the time, and was only able to win against Tasmania 1900 Berlin , while against FC Bayern Munich and the promoted Borussia Neunkirchen not even managed to hit their own. Haecks played all six encounters and scored a goal at 3: 3 in Berlin, but the team finished group 2 bottom.

1964/65 St. Pauli was North second behind Holstein Kiel and had to qualify for the promotion round against the South second SSV Reutlingen 05 ; Haecks had scored 22 goals. After a 1-0 win in the first leg and an early 1-0 lead a week later with the Swabians (goal scorer: Haecks in the first minute), this hurdle seemed already overcome; In the end, however, Reutlingen won 4-1 after extra time and the Millerntor-Elf had to postpone their hopes for promotion by a year.

In 1965/66, Horst Haecks again contributed significantly to the first place of his club as the new North German top scorer (26 hits). In the promotion round he could not deny the first three matches of group 2 due to injury; in the second half of the season he was there again, also scored once (against 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 ) and in the end, like all Paulians, he was on the ground: despite two wins in direct encounters against the Essen Red-Whites , they had equal points the better goal difference and rose.

Haecks was never so close to the Bundesliga again; because in the series of the regional league season 1966/67 he injured himself so badly that he had to end his career from one day to the next. He brought it to a total of 158 Oberliga and 95 regional league appearances, scored 74 and 84 hits respectively; there were also eleven promotion games to the Bundesliga with another three goals and two games with the North German (NFV) selection. After the Second World War, until today (2010) only Peter Osterhoff has scored more league goals for the club from Millerntor.

Life after competitive sport

Horst Haecks, who was only 30 years old at the time of his injury, struggled with this injury for a long time, first tried to walk with a lower team at FC St. Pauli (until 1968?), Then for two years at Altonaer SpVgg , in the amateur area again to understand. He actually succeeded again from 1970 at SV St. Georg , for whom he played regularly again. In 1973 Güldenstern Stade followed as the last station .

Now retired, Horst Haecks lived in the north-east of Hamburg and still regularly attended TSV Sasel games . In the meantime, he wasn't so good at FC St. Pauli, for which he played with great commitment and countable success for nine years, because hardly anyone on the part of the club took care of him after the injury; he also never received an invitation or an honor card. However, on May 15, 2010 he celebrated the 100th birthday of FC St. Pauli with former teammates . He fell seriously ill shortly afterwards and died just under two months later.

literature

• Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 2: Bundesliga & Co. 1963 to today. 1st division, 2nd division, GDR Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-113-1 .
• Ralf Hohmann / German Sports Club for Football Statistics e. V .: Football in Hamburg 1945 to 1963. All leagues, all tables, all results. AGON, Kassel 2007 ISBN 978-3-89784-333-2 .
• Ulrich Homann (Hrsg.): Hellfire on Ascension. The history of the promotion rounds to the Bundesliga 1963–1974. Klartext, Essen 1990, ISBN 3-88474-346-5 .
• Bernd Jankowski, Harald Pistorius, Jens Reimer Prüß : Football in the North. 100 years of the North German Football Association. History, chronicle, names, dates, facts, figures. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-270-X .
• Hardy Grüne, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• René Martens: Miracles always happen. The history of FC St. Pauli. The workshop, Göttingen 2002 ISBN 3-89533-375-1 .
• Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-463-1 .

Remarks

1. ↑ Article  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from the FC St. Pauli website  
2. ↑ Hohmann / DFDS, p. 137.
3. ↑ Knieriem / Grüne, p. 124.
4. ↑ Prüß, p. 216 ff.
5. ↑ Martens, p. 83
6. ↑ Greens, p. 11.
7. ↑ Jens R. Prüß, "Seven rounds of promotion, never first". In: Homann, p. 80.
8. ↑ Homann, p. 109 f.
9. ↑ Prüß, in: Homann, p. 81.
10. ↑ Homann, p. 113.
11. ↑ Knieriem / Grüne, p. 124; according to Martens, p. 250, even 159 goals
12. ↑ Jankowski / Pistorius / Prüß, p. 372.
13. ↑ These two stations can only be found in Knieriem / Grüne, p. 124.
14. ↑ Knieriem / Grüne, p. 124; Martens, p. 250.
15. ↑ so Haecks in 2004 in a conversation with the main author of this article
16. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt , July 22, 2010.