Jürgen Weidlandt

Jürgen Weidlandt (born September 6, 1940 in Hamburg ; † August 16, 1999 ) was a German football player who was active from 1961 to 1972 in the Oberliga Nord , the Regionalliga Nord , the Bundesliga and the Regionalliga Süd .

career

In the north, until 1966

Growing up in the youth of Vineta Hamburg, the young defensive talent Jürgen Weidlandt had first contact with high-class football at the traditional club Union 03 Altona through the round matches at Kreuzweg-Platz in the Hamburg amateur league. After the 1960/61 season - Union 03 had taken twelfth place with the young head of defense - the headed 20-year-old middle runner received a contract offer from Concordia Hamburg from the northern soccer league. In Ulrich Homann's book, Weidlandt, who worked as an insurance salesman in Hamburg, reported on the financial dimensions of the "small" clubs of the Oberliga Nord at the time:

“ At Concordia Hamburg in the Oberliga Nord there was a monthly salary of DM 80 and a DM 50 bonus. "

He made his debut on the first day of the round 1961/62 at the home game against VfV Hildesheim in the league. Coach Günter Woitas had occupied the runner row with Bela Bodnar, Weidlandt and Rainer Vormelker, the game was lost by "Cordi" with 1: 3 goals. The newcomer from Union 03 completed all 30 rounds and Concordia came in 12th place. For the young stopper, the sporting duels against the then outstanding German center forward Uwe Seeler in the two games against Hamburger SV stood out. On the fourth match day the series champions of the Northern League won the home game 4: 3 and on the 19th match day in the Marienthal stadium on Oktaviostraße 4: 0 goals. In both games, the record shooter from the north only managed one goal. In the second season with the Black-Reds in Wandsbek, 1962/63 , Weidlandt did not miss any of the 30 league games. In the year of the introduction of the Bundesliga as the top division, Wieland entered the first year of the second division of the North Regional Football League with “Cordi” in 1963/64 . He got off to a completely unsuccessful start with 0:16 points. Ironically, with the later champions St. Pauli, Concordia won the first point of this round on October 12, 1963 with a 2-1 win. Weidlandt stood out against the dangerous inner trio of the Millerntorelf with Rolf Bergeest , Horst Haecks and Peter Osterhoff as an outstanding defensive player. He completed 33 regional league games and scored five more goals, Concordia finished 16th and escaped relegation only because of the better goal difference against VfL Oldenburg. Since Master St. Pauli was expressly interested in signing the stopper, he signed a better paid contract for the 1964/65 round - the basic salary at Millerntor was 320 marks - with a better sporting prospect at FC St. Pauli .

The first two games at St. Pauli resulted in two 0-0 draws under coach Otto Coors in the home game against Bremerhaven 93 and at the Bremer Brücke with a 1-1 draw against VfL Osnabrück . At the purple-whites in Osnabrück, the new St. Pauli defense chief immediately had to prove himself in the duels against the header specialist Günter Pröpper . At the end of the round in 1964/65 St. Pauli took second place behind Master Kiel, who had won the title race with a ten point lead, although the Weidlandt team scored 3-1 points in the two big games against the “Storks”. The dangerous Kiel inner storm with Franz-Josef Hönig , Gerd Koll and Gerd Saborowski bit its teeth on the St. Pauli defensive. The north runner-up had to play two qualifying games to participate in the Bundesliga promotion round against the south runner-up SSV Reutlingen . In the home game it was enough on May 16, 1965 to a narrow 1-0 success. In the second leg, the team from the Stadion an der Kreuzeiche forced the decision for themselves with a 4-1 win in extra time and developed into the toughest rivals for the Bundesliga promoted Borussia Mönchengladbach in the promotion round. In Weidlandt's second season at Millerntor, 1965/66 , coach Kurt Krause was responsible for sporting matters. The round stood under the three-way battle at the top of the table between St. Pauli, last year's champion Holstein Kiel and Göttingen 05. With the security radiating row of runners Werner Pokropp - Jürgen Weidlandt - Ingo Porges and the two goal scorers Siegfried Bronnert and Horst Haecks, St. Pauli decided the championship close to himself and moved into the Bundesliga promotion round in 1966.

Weidlandt won - each with 1-0 against RWE with their attackers Heinz-Dieter Hasebrink , Willi Lippens , Herbert Weinberg - and his teammates both games in the promotion round against the team from Hafenstraße, but Rot-Weiss Essen tied with 8 : 4 points through the better goal difference against St. Pauli and won the race for a place in the Bundesliga. In all six group games, Weidlandt was convincingly in the middle position and thus also aroused the interest of Bundesliga clubs. He decided on the offer from Karlsruher SC and moved to southern Germany for the 1966/67 round. From 1964 to 1966 he had played 59 regional league games for St. Pauli and scored two goals.

Karlsruhe, 1966 to 1972

With his wife Helga and son Achim - the second Weidlandt son Michael was born in 1968 in the fan-shaped city - Jürgen Weidlandt moved to Baden in the summer of 1966 , to the Bundesliga club Karlsruher SC. In the first three rounds of the new Bundesliga, 1963/64 to 1965/66, the South German champions of the upper league years 1956, 1958 and 1960 had not yet adapted to the significantly better and above all more balanced opponents and had three rounds in a row fought against relegation. The changeover certainly did not only affect the team of players, even in the coaching area and in the presidium, Karlsruhe had not yet reached the Bundesliga in this decade, and had not yet picked up the necessary drive to meet the new challenges. For the fourth round of the Bundesliga, 1966/67 , it was hoped that the newcomers Lars Granström , Christian Müller , Dragoslav Šekularac , Friedhelm Strzelczyk and Jürgen Weidlandt would gain sporting opportunities . The former league player Werner Roth was in charge of the sport . He had no qualifications in the coaching sector of the first leagues.

The newcomer from St. Pauli made his debut in the Bundesliga on the first day of the match. The away game at 1. FC Kaiserslautern was lost with 1: 3 goals. Together with Walter Rauh , Weidlandt had formed the defensive headquarters. Since the KSC was back in the bottom of the table from the fourth day of the game, it was not surprising that Werner Roth was dismissed after the eleventh day of the game. The blue-whites from the Wildpark Stadium were in 16th place with 6:16 points. The reasons for the failure of Horst Saida , the unsuccessful integration of the wing talent Strzelczyk and the early end of the career of Horst Saida , were irritations with the excellent footballing but deficits in the sporting lifestyle of the Balkan ball artist Šekularac in Karlsruhe. On November 2, 1966, the Strasbourg football educator Paul Frantz began his coaching work in the wildlife park. In the second half of the season - Weidlandt was only missing in one game - he and his team had a positive point ratio of 18:16 and thus led the KSC to 13th place in the table after 34 games. Weidlandt and colleagues ended the round on June 3, 1967 with a 3-1 away win at FC Schalke 04. In the second half of the table, the Frantz squad came in tenth. Eugen Ehmann , Josef Marx , Jürgen Weidlandt and Helmut Kafka formed the main defense in front of goalkeeper Siegfried Kessler . Weidlandt made a total of 29 missions and scored two more goals. In the storm, the striker from Cologne, Christian Müller, ensured with his 17 hits that the intensive complex work - defensive and offensive - the midfielder Arthur Dobat , Willi Dürrschnabel , Horst Wild and Klaus Zaczyk could also lead to success. The home wins against Borussia Dortmund (3rd), TSV 1860 Munich (2nd) and the new German champions, Eintracht Braunschweig, were outstanding .

In terms of personnel, Weidlandt experienced the departures of Walter Rauh and Horst Wild in his second Bundesliga season at KSC, 1967/68 . Šekularac had already left Karlsruhe during the previous winter break. The left full-back Helmut Kafka, who is strong at the head and eager to attack, injured himself during the course of the round and was only able to play 16 games. When it came to the newcomers, the greatest hopes were placed in midfield technician Günter Herrmann and French national left winger Gérard Hausser . The young talented goalkeeper Jürgen Rynio came into the Wildpark as the clear number two behind regular goalkeeper Kessler. Klaus Slatina and Lutz Streitenbürger completed the squad. The start did not succeed with 0: 6 points and the reaction was immediately hectic: regular goalkeeper Kessler, who had successfully guarded the KSC goal in 33 games last year, was replaced by the 19-year-old talent Rynio. Already after the tenth game day, the technically and personally competent coach Frantz was dismissed and replaced by Georg Gawliczek , who was replaced on February 10, 1968 by ex-national player and KSC amateur coach Bernhard Termath . In addition to this management chaos, the winger Hausser was not in danger of scoring, who only scored one goal, and Herrmann's lack of leadership qualities. The top performers Marx, Müller, Weidlandt and Zaczyk could not prevent the fall of the KSC, with a disappointing 17:51 points, Karlsruhe was relegated to the second class for the first time since the merger in 1952. Weidlandt had played 30 games and scored one goal. He made his last Bundesliga appearance on May 25, 1968, when KSC finished the round with a 1-1 draw at 1. FC Kaiserslautern.

Weidlandt went to the regional league with Karlsruhe and moved into the Bundesliga promotion rounds with the KSC under coaches Kurt Baluses and Heinz Baas in the following three years. As southern champion in 1969 and vice-versa in 1970 and 1971. In these three rounds, the ex-Hamburger completed 106 regional league games and scored six goals. His headball strength, defensive quality, combative commitment, consistency of performance and the resulting acceptance among the fans made him an indispensable player in the wildlife park during this time. Weidlandt narrowly missed his return to the Bundesliga with the KSC in 1970 . With one point behind Arminia Bielefeld , the promotion was missed. The KSC defense at that time was formed with goalkeeper Rudi Wimmer and the defenders Eugen Ehmann, Weidlandt, Friedhelm Groppe and Günther Fuchs . In the three rounds of promotion, the Libero ran in 22 games for Baden. In the 1971/72 round, the relationship of trust with coach Heinz Baas was disturbed and the straightforward and consistent man from northern Germany ended his career on the final day of the round, on May 14, 1972, with the 2-0 away win at SSV Reutlingen Licensed football. Weidlandt, he had successfully completed his training as a specialist teacher for sport and technology in 1969 together with Helmut Kafka, Christian Müller and Klaus Slatina at the Schöneck sports school on Durlacher Turmberg, thus creating a solid livelihood for himself. He joined the 1972/73 round of FC Alemannia Eggenstein in the Karlsruhe district in the 2nd Amateur League Middle Baden.

In the amateur field

With Eggenstein - it became a new home for him and his family - he celebrated promotion to the 1st Amateur League North Baden in the 1973/74 season . In the first year in Eggenstein, 1972/73, he had won the national cup of amateurs with the association selection from North Baden alongside coach Pál Csernai and teammates Eugen Ehmann, Reinhold Fanz and Gerd Störzer . In the 1974/75 season, the veteran with North Baden lost the final on March 31, 1975 in Meppen against the southwest after a 0-0 after extra time on penalties. When, after his playing career, he exercised the coaching office in Eggenstein, Friedrichstal, Durlach-Aue, Linkenheim and Wiesental, he made - with son Achim as a sweeper - especially at FV Wiesental by marching through from the district league Karlsruhe / Bruchsal to the association league North Baden and there with the runner-up in the 1987/88 season, the talk continued.

Next to the square

Weidlandt - he practiced his profession as a sports teacher at the schools in Eggenstein and Neureut - was still in contact with Karlsruher SC, despite three knee operations he played for the traditional team there from time to time, was friends with Rainer Ulrich and maintained contacts with former teammates Jupp Marx, Helmut Kafka and Klaus Zaczyk. Visits to Hamburg - he had kept his apartment there until 1971 - always involved a detour to the Braun-Weißen clubhouse at Millerntor. “His two years in St. Pauli were the best for him in terms of camaraderie and environment,” he reported in Ulrich Homann's book in 1990.

literature

• 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 .
• 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 .
• Matthias Kropp: Germany's big soccer teams, part 11: Karlsruher SC . AGON Sportverlag. Kassel 1998. ISBN 3-89609-115-8 .
• 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. 536.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ulrich Homann (Ed.), Höllenglut an Himmelfahrt, The story of the ascension rounds, Klartext-Verlag, 1990, page 76