Jochen Heisig

Jochen Heisig (born October 6, 1965 in Sinsheim ) is a former German football player who played 32 Bundesliga games (four goals) as a striker for Karlsruher SC from 1987 to 1989 and then in the 2nd Bundesliga 110 until 1993 for Hannover 96 and 1860 Munich Games (38 goals).

Stations until 1987

Jochen Heisig was born in Sinsheim and grew up in Bad Rappenau . His first positions as a football player were the local VfB Bad Rappenau, VfB Stuttgart and VfR Heilbronn . Heisig was in 1984/85 for the first time in the senior squad of the former second division club, which had since slipped into the fourth-class Verbandsliga Württemberg in the amateur camp. In the debut season he played all 36 games, scored nine goals and was the second best goalscorer behind VfR “legend” Erwin Kadlubsky . In the following year, VfR was promoted to the then third-class amateur league Baden-Württemberg , Heisig had contributed eleven goals in 27 games. As 17th in the table, the team of coach Helmut Röhrig rose immediately after the league season 1986/87 back into the association league. Jochen Heisig was VfR's most successful goalscorer with twelve goals in 33 league games.

Karlsruher SC, 1987–1989

On the mediation of the former professional Martin Kübler , who was working for VfR at the time and who had played for Baden in the 1970s, Heisig then moved to the Bundesliga newcomer Karlsruher SC in the summer of 1987 . The only 21-year-old Heisig matched the requirements profile of coach Winfried Schäfer , because the KSC was surprisingly promoted to the German upper house of football this year, but was primarily dependent on access from the youth and the amateur camp due to the financial situation of the club.

The young talent was signed for the Bundesliga round 1987/88 as a reinforcement for the offensive of Michael Harforth and Arno Glesius . Before the start of the season, the “team of the nameless” was the first candidate for relegation, but surprised the experts with courageous attacking football. Heisig made his Bundesliga debut on the second match day on August 8, 1987, when he was substituted on shortly before the end of the game in Bremen, which was lost 2-0. In addition to Arno Glesius, however, Helmut Hermann played himself as the second attacking spear in the starting eleven, Heisig only remained the joker role. He was used by Winni Schäfer in 15 games and scored three goals, but was only in the starting line-up twice. This did not change in the following round, Heisig only played one game over 90 minutes in 17 league appearances and scored his only goal of this season in this game against Hannover 96.

This encounter on February 18, 1989 was a special one for Jochen Heisig not only for this reason, because it took place at his old place of work, the Heilbronn Frankenstadion , due to a stadium ban imposed by the DFB . KSC won 2-0 and Heisig scored the opening goal. The highlight of his professional career, however, was the cup game four days earlier at FC Bayern Munich: In the round of 16 of the DFB Cup competition in 1988/89 , Baden won 4: 3 in the Olympic Stadium, and Heisig was 3 in the 61st minute : 2 came on for Munich and scored the equalizer for KSC in the 75th minute of the game, before Srećko Bogdan pushed in for the much-acclaimed winning goal in the 83rd.

Hannover 96 and 1860 Munich, 1989–1993

The Bundesliga relegated Hannover 96 became aware of the striker not least through Heisig's goal in the second half of the match at KSC. After relegation, the "Reds" were forced to make a radical change, because with Dammeier, Drews, Kohn, Zanter, Grillemeier, Willmer, Zechel, Palasz, Schatzschneider and Raps, numerous regular players had left the club, and the former goalscorer Siegfried Reich was still sold to Uerdingen for DM 700,000 in the first half of the season. One of the players who were signed up for the rebuilding in the second Bundesliga was Jochen Heisig, who never got beyond the joker role in Karlsruhe. He had initially signed a contract with Kickers Offenbach , but accepted the Hanoverians 'offer after the Kickers' license for the 2nd division was withdrawn at short notice. There he was a regular player and also regularly scored goals (1989/90: 35 games, 13 goals, 1990/91: 38 games, 19 goals), but the team was only moderately successful, the two years were due to frequent coach changes and ongoing financial problems of the club.

Shortly after the start of the second division round in 1989/90 , the newly signed coach Slobodan Čendić was dismissed on August 31, 1989 when Hannover 96 was in last place in the table with just one win from six games. He was replaced by Michael Krüger on September 13th , after the coach of the neighbor TSV Havelse , Volker Finke , had given the "Reds" a rejection. Jochen Heisig stood out in his first season with 13 goals as the best internally scorer, at the end of the season Hannover 96 was still eighth. Also the second game year 1990/91 of the ex-Heilbronners was marked by an early change of coach. From October 1, 1990, Michael Lorkowski took over from Krüger as coach. At the end of the round, Hannover 96 was in tenth place in the table, Heisig once again led the internal scorers list with 19 goals and was fourth behind Michael Tönnies , Marcus Marin and Thomas Adler in the scorers list of the second division round . Despite the good performance in the two years, Heisig received a contract offer from 96 manager Schmidt that was not acceptable to him.

After the negotiations did not lead to a successful conclusion in the preparation time for the new season, Heisig decided to change clubs. He had already turned down an offer from MSV Duisburg in advance, and so shortly before the start of the second division season 1991/92 he moved to the only club that was still looking for a striker at that time, TSV 1860 Munich . This second division round was, in order to integrate six clubs of the former GDR major league into the second level, in two seasons (north and south) of 12 clubs each and played in a different mode. Jochen Heisig was forced to take a longer break soon after the start of the season due to an injury after his first - for him personally with two goals in the first five league games quite successful -. In the course of the season he played a total of 21 games (3 goals) for the "Löwen", but was only used as a substitute player after the end of his forced break from coach Karsten Wettberg . The season was extremely disappointing not only for Heisig, but for the entire team: 1860 Munich, in order to qualify for the single-track league of the following season 1992/93, would have had to take 9th place in the southern round. For the eleven from Grünwalder Strasse, however, it was only enough for 10th place, and in the subsequent relegation round with Fortuna Köln and TSV Havelse, the team from Cologne's Südstadt secured the league, while 1860 and Havelse went to the amateur camp had to.

Hannover 96, on the other hand, qualified for the second Bundesliga in 1992/93 with fifth place in the northern group . Jochen Heisig had returned from the Isar on the leash, but under the new coach Eberhard Vogel it was in the "mammoth league" - the division had been increased to 24 clubs for this season - not very successful for the 96ers, after a mixed start the team slipped in the course of the preliminary round temporarily in the relegation ranks. Heisig only made his first appearance on the 16th of the 46 game days in Rostock, but scored important goals in the next home game (2-1 against Duisburg) and on the next matchday at 1-0 in Düsseldorf. The “Reds” were able to earn a positive point account by the end of the season and finished the season in 9th place in the table. In 1992/93 Jochen Heisig had 16 games (3 goals) in the league and 2 appearances (1 goal) in the DFB Cup. He played his last game as a professional footballer in the season-end game on June 6th in Hamburg's Millerntorstadion, in which FC St. Pauli beat Hannover 96 1-0 and thus secured relegation.

After the professional career

Heisig then returned to the amateur camp in Baden-Württemberg. At 1. FC Pforzheim he played 30 games in the 1993/94 season and scored 9 goals, the FCP finished tenth at the end of the round and thus did not qualify for the new third level, the regional football league . Heisig remained loyal to the club for two more years and during this time came in the fourth-class Oberliga Baden-Württemberg to another 43 games and 12 goals. In 1996/97 Heisig played for VfL Brackenheim (near Heilbronn), then returned to VfR Heilbronn for half a year (14 games, 3 goals in the Oberliga BW). This was followed by another six months at league competitor FV Lauda (January to June 1998, 11 games, 6 goals) and the 1998/99 season at VfB Eppingen . Heisig ended his football career as a player-coach for SG Bad Wimpfen.

After retiring from professional football, Jochen Heisig completed an apprenticeship at Sparkasse Pforzheim from 1993 to 1997 and graduated with a degree in business administration (BA) in banking. After returning home, he started his own business as a consultant in the financial sector in 1998 and is now the managing director / partner of the Heisig & Kollegen consultancy group based in Neckarsulm . In addition to his job, he is involved in local politics. Heisig is married and has two children.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Wildlife Park live 10/11 , No. 3 of September 24, 2010, p. 41
2. ↑ See: "The great day of the homecomer" (Voice.de)
3. ^ Matthias Kropp: Germany's great soccer teams, part 11: Karlsruher SC . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89609-115-8 , p. 341
4. ↑ 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 , p. 211.

Web links

• Jochen Heisig in the database of fussballdaten.de