Karl-Heinz Bente

Karl-Heinz "Kalla" Bente (born September 13, 1941 in Gelsenkirchen , † January 25, 1984 near Bahlingen ) was a football player and coach. With SC Preußen Münster he played the first season of the Bundesliga after its introduction. In the further course of his career he played first with KSV Hessen Kassel and then with the two well-known clubs from Freiburg im Breisgau - the FC and the SC - still second class. He eventually settled in the region and became a top amateur coach.

Life

Bente began his career at Eintracht Gelsenkirchen , in 1959 and 1960 he was a midfielder in what was then the right runner in the World Cup system for the DFB youth national team and took part in the UEFA youth tournaments in Bulgaria and Austria with the DFB A youth team. He played his first two rounds in senior football in 1960/61 and 1961/62 with Eintracht in the 2nd League West. At the side of teammates like Willi Kostrewa , Franz-Josef Sarna , Rainer Schönwälder and Heinz Pliska , he completed a total of 52 second division games under coaches Jean Paffrath and Heinz Kersting in which he scored four goals. In the 1962/63 season he played for the first time for Freiburg FC . There he came to 32 missions in the 2nd Oberliga Süd .

When the first Bundesliga season began in 1963 , Bente moved to Preußen Münster . On the fifth match day he played his first Bundesliga game against VfB Stuttgart . Overall, Bente was involved in 21 of the Münster team's 30 games this season, and at the end of the season Münster was relegated.

Bente played for the next two years at KSV Hessen Kassel in the Regionalliga Süd. From 1966 to 1973 the midfield director was again active at Freiburg FC. In the 1968/69 season the Freiburg FC finished second behind the Karlsruher SC , in the promotion round at the end Rot-Weiß Oberhausen was just ahead of the Freiburgers and rose to the Bundesliga.

In 1973 Bente moved to the 1st Amateur League South Baden for Offenburg FV , after two years he returned to Freiburg FC, which had missed qualifying for the 2nd Bundesliga in 1974 and was now also playing in the Amateur League South Baden. In 1977 the Freiburg FC rose to the 2nd Bundesliga and Bente played there for two years as a director of the Breisgauer, for which he played in 73 of 76 possible games. After another season with Offenburg FV, Bente returned to Freiburg, this time to SC Freiburg , who played in the southern group of the 2nd Bundesliga . On December 13, 1980, the now 39-year-old played his last game as the oldest active professional in Germany in a 1-1 home game against SV Waldhof .

From the 25th matchday on February 14, 1981, he replaced Norbert Wagner as coach of SC Freiburg. The club was sixth in the table at the time. At the end of the season, the SC was seventh and thus one of the ten clubs that could qualify for the single-track 2. Bundesliga from the following season.

Lutz Hangartner trained the SC there while Bente worked in management. In 1983 he took over the coaching position at Offenburg FV. Karl-Heinz Bente died on January 24, 1984 in a traffic accident near the town of Bahlingen am Kaiserstuhl. From 1985 the Bente memorial tournament was held there, which has been known as the Kaiserstuhl Cup since 2000.

His successor as coach at Offenburger FV was Alfred Metzler , player of the FV and long-time companion of Bentes - both also played together in the second division at Freiburg FC - who led the Offenburger to the greatest success in the club's history until the end of the season German amateur championship from 1984 .

Player statistics

• 21 games in the 1st Bundesliga, no goal
• 89 games in the 2nd Bundesliga, 13 goals
• 272 games in the Regionalliga Süd, 63 goals

Web links

• Karl-Heinz Bente in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Portrait near Hessen Kassel ( Memento from February 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive )