Karl-Heinz Bechmann

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Karl-Heinz Bechmann (born February 7, 1944 in Herten ) is a former German football player . The offensive player played a total of 143 league games and scored ten goals for the clubs FC Schalke 04 and Alemannia Aachen from 1963 to 1970 in the Bundesliga .

Career

Schalke 04, until 1967

The childhood friend and later best man of Reinhard "Stan" Libuda was appointed to the youth national team of the DFB in 1962 with friend "Stan". In the international match on March 31, 1962 against England (0-1), Bechmann made his debut in the youth national team. The attack was manned by Libuda, Wolfgang Overath , Rainer Waberski , Bechmann and Horst Wild . In April he took part with the DFB selection in the UEFA youth tournament in Romania with three group matches against Portugal (1-1), Belgium (1-1) and Romania (0-3). In his fifth and last international youth game against Switzerland (3-1) in Augsburg on June 23, he scored two goals. For the last round of the old first-class football Oberliga West , 1962/63, the previous youth players Bechmann, Libuda and Willi Kraus got a contract for the Oberligaelf. In addition, Horst Mühlmann , Friedel Rausch and Walter Rodekamp were hired . On the third game day, September 2, 1962, Bechmann made his debut in a 4-2 home win against Borussia Mönchengladbach in the Oberliga West. Schalke was attacked in the then World Cup system with Libuda, Waldemar Gerhardt , Willi Koslowski , Werner Ipta and Bechmann. The debutant scored one hit and reached 20 missions in the entire round, in which he scored six hits while taking 6th rank. Schalke was nominated from the western league alongside 1. FC Cologne, Borussia Dortmund, Meidericher SV and Preußen Münster for the Bundesliga’s performance concentration starting in 1963/64.

The Schalke team strengthen the team for the Bundesliga with the newcomers Günther Herrmann , Hans-Georg Lambert (both from Karlsruher SC), Klaus Matischak (Viktoria Köln) and the home grown Uwe Kleina and Harald Klose . The Karlsruhe “double pack” did not go well, as the KSC reservist Lambert was paid the maximum amount of 50,000 DM as a transfer fee. In order to get national player Herrmann under all circumstances, the action was carried out with Lambert. Schalke was charged with violating the new licensed player statute and sentenced to deduct four points at the end of the season. The Bundesliga wasn't even kicked off. In the second instance, however, the judgment was overturned. Since the trial of Schalke presidium members for unauthorized payments from a “black box” to the contract players of the Oberliga era, where the money was lost through unaccounted tickets and with the help of “deferral”, in the spring of 1964 before the regional court in Essen Amusement tax became available through the city, the complete concentration on the sporting challenge of the Bundesliga was not really given in Schalke. However, coach Georg Gawliczek's team started the round on August 24, 1963 with a 2-0 home win against VfB Stuttgart. The attack had come together with Libuda, Herrmann, Koslowski, Bechmann and Gerhardt. After the first half of the season, Schalke finished second behind leaders 1. FC Köln with 20:10. In the second half of the season "Royal Blue" collapsed completely with 9:21 points and ended the first round in the Bundesliga with 29:31 points. Coach Gawliczek was dismissed on April 25, 1964 and replaced by Fritz Langner. Bechmann had played in ten league games. With the change of president from Georg König to the “legend” Fritz Szepan , the Bundesliga did not recognize the signs of the times, it was not a decision that was helpful in overcoming the problems on the way to professionalism. The real crash was still to come: In the 1964/65 season, Schalke 04 finished last in the table with 22:38 points. Bechmann was able to expand his personal record to 19 missions with one goal, but the performance of the team around the national players Willi Schulz , Hans Nowak , Günther Herrmann, Willi Koslowski and Reinhard Libuda was completely unsuccessful. Center forward Matischak had switched to Werder Bremen, with goalkeeper Gyula Toth , Heinz Crawatzo and Werner Grau , Schalke completed the squad. The threatened relegation had already ensured during the second half of the season that the top-class players were happy to listen to the offers of other clubs. With all their hearts, these Schalke players were no longer involved in the end.

In the third Bundesliga year, 1965/66, the "Knappen-Elf" came only through the forced relegation of Hertha BSC and the subsequent increase to 18 clubs. Before the start of the round, Schalke lost prominent players such as Schulz, Egon Horst , Gerhardt, Koslowski, Libuda and Nowak and could mostly only fill the gaps with the 1860 reservist Alfred Pyka , amateur national player Gerhard Neuser , regional league players like Heinz Pliska and amateur players like Klaus Fichtel and Josef Elting ( Goalkeepers, own amateurs). The whole round was characterized by the fight against relegation and characterized by the away weakness of 5:29 points in 17 games. Bechmann and colleagues achieved the basis of relegation with impressive 22:12 home points. The "playoff" took place on the 32nd matchday, May 14, 1966, in front of 36,000 spectators in the local Glückauf arena against the penultimate Borussia Neunkirchen. Bechmann brought the "Knappen" 1-0 lead in the 75th minute, Manfred Kreuz scored the goal to make it 2-0 in the 85th minute. With the regular eleven around Elting, Fichtel, Hans-Jürgen Becher , Rausch, Pyka, Pliska, Herrmann, Neuser, Kreuz, Bechmann and Klose, the league was successful. Bechmann had scored three goals in 22 appearances. In the fourth year, 1966/67, things didn't get any better either: Again the last-time German champion in 1958 fought permanently for relegation and achieved relegation with 30:38 points in 15th place. Bechmann had made his contribution to this in 24 league games with three goals. For the next round in 1967/68 he joined the Bundesliga promoted Alemannia Aachen.

Aachen and Wattenscheid, 1967 to 1972

He belonged to the Tivoli in 1967/68 under coach Michael Pfeiffer with 31 missions and three goals together with Gerhard Prokop (goalkeeper), Erwin Hermandung , Rolf Pawellek , Josef Thelen , Erwin Hoffmann , Josef Martinelli , Herbert Gronen , Karl-Heinz Krott , Heinz -Gerd Klostermann , Hans-Jürgen Ferdinand and Horacio Troche were the starting eleven of the Black-Yellows, who reached 11th place with 34:34 points.

For Alemannia Aachen, Bechmann completed a total of 68 Bundesliga games (3 goals) in three rounds (1967/68 to 1969/70) and was German runner-up behind Bayern Munich in the 1968/69 season .

In 1970 he moved to SG Wattenscheid 09 in the second-class football regional league West , where he ended his high-class career after 30 league appearances (4 goals) in the summer of 1972 at the prime football age of 27 due to a meniscus injury and cruciate ligament damage.

However, the Gelsenkirchen native remained loyal to football as a coach. With the BG Schwerin, for example, he made it into the association league three times in a row. He was also active at the Erler Forsthaus. However, the youngsters were particularly important to the former Bundesliga player. From 1990 to 1994 he was youth coach at FC Schalke 04.

literature

  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 42.
  • Georg Röwekamp: The myth is alive. The history of FC Schalke 04. Verlag Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2003. ISBN 3-89533-332-8 .
  • Ulrich Merk, Andre Schulin: Bundesliga Chronicle 1963/64. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2004. ISBN 3-89784-083-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl-Heinz Heimann, Karl-Heinz Jens: Kicker-Almanach 1989. Copress-Verlag. Munich 1988. ISBN 3-7679-0245-1 . P. 408
  2. ↑ Georg Röwekamp: The myth lives. P. 149
  3. ↑ Georg Röwekamp: The myth lives. P. 142
  4. ↑ Georg Röwekamp: The myth lives. P. 153
  5. ^ Ulrich Merk, Andre Schulin, Heinz Fricke: Bundesliga chronicle 1965/66. P. 50

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personal data
SURNAME Bechmann, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Herten