Horst Wilkening

Horst Wilkening (* 14. December 1936 ; † 5. August 2018 ) was a German footballer who on September 23, 1959 in Dusseldorf for the second leg of the East-West German Olympic qualifying matches in the German national football team of amateurs against the East Germany national football team used came. From 1963 to 1969 he played a total of 85 league games and scored three goals for Freiburg FC in what was then the second -rate regional soccer league south .

career

Arminia Hannover, until 1960

Horst “Hoschi” Wilkening came from SV Limmer 10 to the Bischofsholer Damm to join the “blues” from SV Arminia Hannover . In 1958 and 1959, Wilkening, who played half-striker and played half-forward, won the championship in the Lower Saxony amateur league twice with Arminia (1958 in the West group; 1959 in the East group) and in the third year came second (East group). In the promotion rounds to the Oberliga Nord , Hanover failed three times in a row. In the games for the amateur championship in 1959, Wilkening and his teammates Joachim Thimm and Werner Olk lost the final on June 14, 1959 in Offenburg against FC Singen 04 with 2: 3 goals. He scored the next goal in the 66th minute to make it 2: 3. For the 1960/61 round he moved to the 2nd League South for Freiburg FC .

German-German qualifying games, 1959

Before the qualifying games for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, the German representative was determined through two elimination games . The Arminia players Olk, Thimm and Wilkening belonged to the squad of the DFB amateur national team supervised by coach Georg Gawliczek . On September 16 and 23, 1959, the games in Berlin and Düsseldorf took place in camera. When the DFB team won 2-0 in Berlin, Wilkening was on the bench. In Düsseldorf he formed the attack of the again victorious DFB representation together with Matthias Mauritz , Heinz Höher , Joachim Thimm and Gert Dörfel on half-left. In the 65th minute, “Hoschi” Wilkening scored the winning goal to make it 2-1. Lower Saxony was unable to play another role in the German national soccer team of amateurs and is therefore not listed as an amateur national player due to the political circumstances at the time.

Freiburg FC, 1960 to 1969

In Freiburg's Möslestadion , Wilkening played three rounds with the FFC in the 2nd South League. With the two sixth places in 1961 and 1962 and 5th place in 1963, coach Hans Wendlandt's team qualified for the new Regionalliga Süd for the 1963/64 round. In the first three rounds in the second division, Wilkening and his teammates Peter Kunter , Emil Poklitar , Gerd Klier and Peter Jendrosch did not get past lower midfield positions (1964: 10th; 1965: 11th; 1966: 15th). The placements of the rounds 1966/67 (7th) and 1967/68 (9th) could not satisfy the veteran Wilkening. Surprisingly, the Freiburg team belonged to a quartet with the competitors Karlsruher SC , Bayern Hof and Stuttgarter Kickers in the 1968/69 round , which fought a fight until the end for the championship in the Regionalliga Süd. In the preliminary round, Heinz Wilkening was still part of the regular line-up, which started the round with a 10: 2 point start. In the 3-2 home win on December 8, 1968 against Schwaben Augsburg, he was injured so badly that he could not be used in the entire second half of the season. With the same number of points as Karlsruher SC, the Freiburg team came in second and thus moved into the 1969 Bundesliga promotion round. In this, the southern representative continued to surprise with achievements that they would not have been expected to do before. In the end, the goal difference decided for Rot-Weiß Oberhausen and against Freiburg's equal points. Heinz Wilkening was still a substitute in the three games against VfB Lübeck (when he scored a goal), SV Alsenborn and Hertha Zehlendorf were able to work alongside Jürgen Billmann , Karl-Heinz Bente and Gert Fröhlich and then ended his career .

After the career

After his active career, Wilkening worked as a youth coach at Freiburg FC (including two South Baden championships and participation in the final round of the German youth championship with the FFC A Juniors), and as an active coach at SV Waldkirch (1972–1974), SV Breisach (1975) and Freiburg FC Amateure (1981 to 1982). In addition, from 1979 Wilkening worked as a functionary at the Südbadischer Fußballverband (South Baden Football Association), where he was responsible, among other things, as a promotional group leader for the youth teams in the Freiburg district.

Private

Horst Wilkening worked professionally in the telecommunications system of the Deutsche Bundespost.

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 .
• Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
• 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 .
• 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 .

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