Horst Romes

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Horst Romes (born September 5, 1944 , † September 19, 2004 in Elmshorn ) was a German football player. From 1968 to 1972, the offensive player played a total of 108 league games and scored 57 goals in what was then the second -rate regional football league north for the ASV Bergedorf 85 and FC St. Pauli clubs.

Player career

Germany, until 1972

Horst "Hotte" Romes attracted the attention of the Hamburg regional league team ASV Bergedorf in the 1967/68 season in the Lower Saxony Association League at Lüneburger SK with his quality in attack. The attacker, who - while still a member of Fortuna Cologne  - played in the international match against England in Manchester in the student national team on April 20, 1960 and also played against Scotland five days later in Glasgow, signed with ASV Bergedorf for the 1968/69 season a contract. With the black and white “Magpies” from the “Sander Tannen” stadium, relegation was only just achieved with 15th place and reinforcement on the offensive was urgently needed. In addition to Romes, other newcomers came to Bergedorf with Ernst Kreuz , Ulrich Spiegel, Hans Hille, Werner Jaschik and Dieter Strauss. Romes played the season opener on August 18, 1968 in a 4-1 home win against Holstein Kiel in the center-forward position and scored his first goal in the Regionalliga. On the fifth match day, September 15, he was the guarantee of victory with two goals in the 2-1 home win against Bremerhaven 93. Under coach Edgar Preuss , ASV finished 11th in the regional league in the debut season of “Hotte” Romes , and the strong attacker with 21 goals - Hardy Grüne leads in Bundesliga & Co on page 46 against Romes with 22 goals - actually proved to be the hoped-for reinforcement of the offensive. Behind Wolfgang Kaniber (30) and in front of Ulrich Kallius (20), he finished second in the regional league north's top scorer list. Kaniber scored his 30 goals at champions VfL Osnabrück and Kallius was the top scorer at St. Pauli, who was third in the table. Bergedorf, on the other hand, ranked 11th with 56:67 goals.

In the second season of Romes near Bergedorf, 1969/70, the two-way striker confirmed his scoring qualities with 14 goals in 29 league games, but the "Elsters" were relegated to the amateur camp as 16th. Equal with 22:42 points, the better goal difference decided for TSR Wilhelmshaven. As the fourth-placed FC St. Pauli, after 1967 completed End of career of the prolific attacker Horst Haecks , now with Peter Osterhoff the second Torgarant many years his time ended in professional football, those responsible brought from the Millerntor Stadium on Romes to the Brown-White the Heiligengeistfeld .

Under coach Erwin Türk , the newcomer from Bergedorf was substituted on the debut day of the 1970/71 season , August 16, 1970, in a 3-1 home win against Heider SV in the second half for center forward Herbert Liedtke . In addition to teammates like Udo Böhs (goalkeeper), Horst Wohlers , Alfred Hussner , Hartmut Hischer, Werner Greth , Reinhard Löffler and Wolfgang Wellnitz, Romes played 27 league games as a striker and scored eleven goals to win the runner-up. In the Bundesliga promotion round, St. Pauli finished third behind promoted Fortuna Düsseldorf and Borussia Neunkirchen and Romes had scored three goals in seven games.

In Rome's second season at St. Pauli ( 1971/72 ) the Millerntor-Elf won the championship in the Regionalliga Nord with 54:14 points. Under coach "Edu" Preuss he had scored eleven goals in 25 league appearances. With their attacking colleagues Siegfried Beyer and Walter Dobberkau as well as the new midfielder Rolf Höfert , St. Pauli took third place in the Bundesliga promotion round behind Kickers Offenbach and Rot-Weiss Essen. Romes had played five games in it and scored one goal. After a total of 51 regional league games (22 goals), eleven games in the Bundesliga promotion round (four goals) and two appearances (one goal) in the DFB Cup, Romes ended his activity at FC St. Pauli after two years and moved to Austria for the 1972/73 season .

Austria, 1972 to 1977

In Vorarlberg , near Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz , the attacker from the second-class German Regionalliga Nord continued his career in the first class of the Austrian National League from the 1972/73 season . In 29 league games he scored ten goals for the black and whites, Bregenz took 15th place. In the second year of Romes, 1973/74, the team entered the Bundesliga under the name FC Vorarlberg . Despite well-known teammates like Bruno Pezzey , Adolf Blutsch and Franz Wolny , it was only enough for 17th place in the table. Romes had played 29 league games and scored seven goals. After relegating Bregenz, he joined SC Eisenstadt in Burgenland for the 1974/75 round . On the side of the former Rapid striker Jørn Bjerregaard , he scored ten goals in 34 league games, but experienced relegation again. At the end of his playing career in Austria, Romes hung on for another year at Linz ASK from spring 1976 to winter 1976/77 . Under the coaches Felix Latzke (1975/76) and Wilhelm Huberts (1976/77), the veteran was no longer part of the regular line-up. In two semicircles he came to 15 league games in which he scored three goals. Then he went to Casino Bregenz (2nd division).

Trainer and manager

After his return to northern Germany, Romes was a coach at TuS Krempe in Schleswig-Holstein from 1996 to 2004. He then worked as a manager at FC Elmshorn . He also played in St. Pauli's traditional team for a long time. He died of a heart attack in September 2004 after a home game in Elmshorn.

Stations

As a player

As a trainer

  • 1996 to 2004: TuS Krempe

literature

  • 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 .
  • Ronny Galczynski, Bernd Carstensen: FC St. Pauli. Club Encyclopedia. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2009. ISBN 978-3-89533-613-3
  • Sportfunk, 30th year, 1976; 31st year 1977

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sports magazine. Volume 18. No. 24 / A. Date June 16, 1963. p. 17
  2. ^ DFB: Football Yearbook 1980. Limpert-Verlag. Bad Homburg 1980. ISBN 3-7853-1304-7 . P. 138
  3. ↑ Karn, Rehberg. P. 417
  4. ^ Galczynski, Carstensen. P. 362
personal data
SURNAME Romes, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1944
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 2004
Place of death Elmshorn , Germany