Horst Wandolek

Horst Wandolek (born June 11, 1936 in Bochum ) is a former German soccer player. The striker won the championship in the West Football League with Westfalia Herne in the 1958/59 season and from 1957 to 1963 he played a total of 159 games with 44 goals in what was then the first-class West Football League.

career

Oberliga West, 1957 to 1963

The amateur soccer player Horst Wandolek from Bochum-Riemke came as a new addition to the 1957/58 season from Teutonia Riemke from the Landesliga Westfalen to Westfalia Herne in the Oberliga West. The winger in the then mostly cultivated World Cup system made his debut under coach Fritz Langner on August 18, 1957 in a 1: 3 away defeat at 1. FC Köln on left winger in the Oberliga West. Together with the left connector Helmut Benthaus , he formed the left wing of the blue-whites from the stadium at Strünkede Castle . On the final day of the round, on April 13, 1958, he again stormed on the left wing and the young talented goalscorer Gerhard Clementwas able to celebrate as a double goal scorer in the 2-1 away win at Rot-Weiss Essen. At the side of the top performers Hans Tilkowski , Alfred Pyka and Helmut Benthaus, he played 22 league games in his debut round and scored five goals. The club from the inner city of Herne took twelfth place in 1957/58 - one rank ahead of local rivals SV Sodingen - and nothing indicated that coach Langner's team could move up to the top of the league in the next few rounds.

With an outstanding defensive performance - in 30 rounds of games the opposing attackers only hit the Herner Tor guarded by Hans Tilkowski 23 times - and the 28 goals of the new West top scorer Gerhard Clement, Westfalia Herne surprisingly got six points ahead of the 1958/59 1. FC Cologne and Fortuna Dusseldorf the West German championship. The players Horst Wandolek, Kurt Sopart , Gerhard Clement, Siegfried Burkhardt and Alex Kraskewitz formed the regular formation in the attack of the new champions, who, like vice 1. FC Köln, scored 60 goals. Wandolek and colleagues opened the league round on August 24, 1958 with a 1-0 home win in the "local derby" against SV Sodingen. The attacker, who was now storming to the right wing, contributed the winning goal to the 1-0 win at 1. FC Köln on October 5, and Westfalia led the table in the west with 11: 3 points. On the last round matchday, April 22, 1959, the new champions finished the round with a 2-1 home win against VfL Bochum.

In the final round of the German championship in 1959, Herne was only able to occupy third place with 4-8 points, but Wandolek had played all six games and scored four goals. He scored in the 2: 4 against Hamburger SV in front of 70,000 spectators in the Volksparkstadion , in the 1: 4 against Offenbacher Kickers in the Rote Erde stadium in Dortmund and distinguished himself as a two-time goalscorer in the home game against Nordmeister HSV, which won 3: 1 goals. The defending champion started the league season 1959/60 on August 23, 1959 with a 2-0 home win - one goal each from Wandolek and Clement - against Fortuna Düsseldorf. In the course of the round, however, with top players - in defense with Fritz Ewert , Georg Stollenwerk , Karl-Heinz Schnellinger , Hans Sturm and Leo Wilden as well as in the attack with Helmut Rahn , Christian Müller and Hans Schäfer - 1. FC Cologne won through with aplomb . Westfalia Herne came seven points behind the championship runner-up and thus made it back to the finals. Wandolek had 12 goals in 26 league games. Herne could be satisfied with the home record of 23: 7 points, but the negative away result of 14:16 points made the difference to the Cologne team. To have relegated Borussia Dortmund to third place with the two dangerous goalscorers Jürgen Schütz (31 goals) and Friedhelm Konietzka (25 goals) testified to the class of the Langner-Elf. With a 1-0 win in qualifying against Offenbach, Herne got into the final round . Herne lost the opening game 4: 5 at Karlsruher SC on May 14th and the final round ended with a 2-2 draw in the home game against Baden on June 18, 1960. Horst Wandolek played a total of thirteen finals between 1959 and 1960, scoring four goals.

In his third league year with Herne, 1960/61, he finished fifth with the blue-whites and scored six goals in 25 league appearances alongside the talents Jürgen Koch , Jürgen Bandura and Otto Luttrop . From 1957 to 1961 he played for Westfalia Herne in the football Oberliga West in 102 games, where he scored 31 goals. For the 1961/62 season he accepted an offer from the “Blue Sparks” of TSV Marl-Hüls and said goodbye to Herne after three years of play.

In the German amateur championship of 1954 , the blue-whites from Jahnsportplatz , which had been promoted to the league in 1960, the man from Herne immediately belonged to the regular formation; Wandolek played all 30 league games and scored nine goals for TSV. Despite teammates like Karl-Heinz Sell and Heinz van Haaren , they fought against relegation and just finished 14th. In the last year of the old league first class, 1962/63, he finished 16th with coach Rudi Gutendorf ; he had played 27 games and scored four goals. For the round 1963/64 he returned to Herne, that from this season belonged to the new second division of the West Regional Football League .

Regionalliga West, 1963 to 1968

With coach Hans Hipp and a 3: 3 home draw against Duisburg 48/99, Westfalia Herne started the first round of Regionalliga West on August 4, 1963. With goalkeeper Wolfgang Scheid and midfielder Hans Sondermann , the Herne returnees had new teammates at his side and with Hans Cieslarczyk an ex-SV Sodingen player who tried a fresh start after long injuries. The attack was manned by Wandolek, Cieslarczyk, Clement, Bandura and Koch on the day it started. Herne came in sixth in 1963/64, but far behind master Alemannia Aachen and the vice Wuppertaler SV. Wandolek had scored seven goals in 33 league games. On the last day of the match, May 10, 1964, the match between Herne and Fortuna Düsseldorf in the 1-1 score, after an unintentional injury to Fortuna goalkeeper Görtz in the 79th minute by center forward Clement while jumping over the goalkeeper, caused tumult and brawls by spectators running onto the field and then the game was abandoned. In the next few rounds, Westfalia went down in the table; In the summer of 1968, the West Champion of 1959 was even relegated to the Westphalia amateur league. Wandolek played 138 regional league games for Herne from 1963 to 1968, scoring 15 goals. The former winger had long since moved to midfield.

Trainer

Coming from BV Herne-Süd, the ex-player took over Westfalia Herne in January 1972 as Herbert Burdenski's successor in the Regionalliga West. At the end of the lap he finished 14th with Herne. In the 1972/73 series, however, he was replaced by Eduard Virba in January 1973. This was followed by other coaching stations at BV Herne-Süd (1975/76, 1977/78) before he coached the amateurs of Westfalia Herne in 1978/79 in the Landesliga Westfalen. After the "Goldbach bankruptcy" , he took over Westfalia, which was facing a complete crash financially and athletically, for the 1979/80 season in the amateur league of Westphalia . Against all expectations, with a ninth place, the league and the new start at SC Westfalia 04 Herne succeeded. At the end of 1981 he was replaced by Dieter Tartemann .

His achievements are recognized in the 100 year book as follows: “If you absolutely have to emphasize a name, then it is Horst Wandolek. He made himself available as a coach for this core group and really managed to keep this team in the top division. That was a sensation. He was the right man in this situation, he was connected to Westfalia and therefore not a rip-off. "

literature

• Hans Dieter Baroth : Boys, Heaven is yours! The history of the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1988, ISBN 3-88474-332-5 .
• Harald Landefeld, Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Helmut, tell me dat Tor ... New stories and portraits from the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-043-1 .
• Ulrich Homann (Ed.): Farmer's heads, miners and a pascha. The history of the Regionalliga West 1963–1974. Volume 1, Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-345-7 .
• Ralf Piorr (Ed.): Much more than just a game. 100 years of SC Westfalia 04 Herne. FRISCH -tex publishing house. Herne 2004. ISBN 3-933059-38-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ralf Piorr (ed.): The pot is round. The lexicon of Revier football: The clubs. Klartext Verlag. Essen 2006. ISBN 3-89861-356-9 . Pp. 185/186.
2. ↑ Ralf Piorr (ed.): Much more than just a game. 100 years of SC Westfalia 04 Herne. P. 175.