Karl-Heinz Preuße

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Karl-Heinz Preuße (born January 22, 1926 ) is a former German soccer player. From 1947 to 1959 he played 277 league games and scored 175 goals for the clubs Bremer SV , Werder Bremen and Bremerhaven 93 in what was then the first-class soccer Oberliga Nord . Behind record scorer Uwe Seeler (267) he takes second place in the all-time ranking of the Oberliga Nord with his 175 goals.

career

Bremer SV, until 1949

The young footballer Karl-Heinz Preuße grew up with the Bremen SV 06 at the Blau-Weiß vom Sportplatz des Westens on Dedesdorfer Strasse. By taking third place in the Lower Saxony North League in the 1946/47 season behind SV Werder Bremen and 1. FSV Osnabrück, the BSV qualified for the Northern Football League, which started in the 1947/48 season. The later league players Franz Zembski, Armin Merz, Oskar Kurzawski, Willi Heitmann, Heinrich Tünnermann, Karl-Heinz Preuße, Willi Osterhorn and Alfred Fahrenholz were trained by long-time league player Paul Eckhoff. On the first matchday of the Oberliga Nord, on September 14, 1947, the home game against Hamburger SV was lost in front of 15,000 spectators in the Weserstadion with 1: 3 goals. "Wilhelm" Preuße acted as a center forward in the World Cup system of that time and could not score against HSV goalkeeper Walter Warning . After six league games, the BSV was under the new coach Arthur Schütz with 0: 12 points in last place. Nevertheless, the round brought the best audience average in the history of the blue-whites with 15,818. With 17:27 points it was enough to finish ninth at the end of the round and thus to stay in the league. Prussia had scored ten goals in 22 league games.

In the second year in the Oberliga Nord 1948/49, Bremer SV took fifth place, not least with 16 goals in 22 games - 12-man relay, as Holstein Kiel was excluded in November - by striker Prussia and thus relegated SV Werder as Table eight in the city duel on the places. In the 3-2 home win on March 6, 1949 in the local derby in front of 22,000 spectators, he distinguished himself as a two-time goalscorer. In the top scorer list of the Northern League, he took third place behind Adolf Vetter (24) and Kurt Hinsch (19). Within the club, Alfred "Coppi" Beck followed with seven goals behind the striker as the second best BSV scorer. For the 1949/50 season he joined the financially better off SV Werder Bremen.

Werder Bremen, 1949 to 1957

After the introduction of the contract player statute for the 1949/50 season in the four contract player upper leagues, in which there were up to 320 DM to be earned, the "Green-Whites" won through the activities of managing director Hans "Hansi" Wolff and the bustling "Macher" "Albert" Abbi "Drews added strong newcomers to Werder year after year. This was made possible on the basis of generous support from Bremen's economy. The "lure" was hand money and employment in the companies of the patrons. With Karl-Heinz “Wilhelm” Preuße for the 1949/50 season, the other players Hans Hagenacker , Horst Broschat (both Eintracht Braunschweig), Herbert Burdenski (FC Schalke 04), Kuno Klötzer (Helmstedter SV) and Heiner Tünnermann (also from local competitor Bremer SV ) to SV Werder. The debut at Werder came on the first match day, September 4, 1949, with a 3-0 away win at Göttingen 05. Prussia played on half-left and formed the Werder attack together with Kurt Wunderlich , Hans Hagenacker, Horst Gernhardt and Heinz Rath . The goal-threatening internal storm with Hagenacker (25), Gernhardt (11) and "Wilhelm" Preuße (18) scored a total of 54 goals. Preuße had played 24 league games for his new club, which had improved with fourth place compared to eighth place last year.

The prolific attacker came on May 14, 1950 at the representative game of West Germany against North Germany in Cologne 35,000 spectators in the second half in attack with 4: 3 gates victorious NFV selection alongside colleagues felix gerritzen , Hagenacker, Willi Schröder and Ihns to Commitment. In the two following rounds, 1950/51 and 1951/52, the striker, who was as strong as a shot and headed the ball, improved his hit rate to 23 and 24 round goals respectively in the Northern League.

But Werder did not reach the top in the next few years. The other “purchases” with Hans Pöschl , Otto Knefler , Günter Heyse , Erich Haase , Erich Ebert , Max Konopka and the national striker Willi Schröder did not change anything. The two third places in the rounds 1952/53 and 1954/55 represented the best placements. The man from BSV came in the first season with teammate "Krümel" Schröder, 1954/55, again with his 21 hits over the 20 mark. The Werder-Elf of this era, popularly known as the "Texas Elf" after a Brinkmann cigarette brand and also known as the "Sphinx of the North" because of their moodiness, had problems establishing themselves at the top. After the eighth league round at Werder Bremen, 1956/57, Preuße had topped the internal goalscorer list with Schröder (18) and Arnold Schütz (12) with 14 hits, he finished with the league game on May 11, 1957 at VfL Wolfsburg, after a total of 198 Major league appearances with 136 goals, his time with the "Green-Whites" and joined Bremerhaven 93.

Bremerhaven 93, 1957 to 1959

At the side of captain Werner Lang and the other top performers Wilfried Kapteina and Manfred Presche , the ex-Werderaner completed 28 league games in 1957/58 for the "Weinroten" from the "Zolli" and scored ten goals. TuS 93 took fifth place, ahead of his old club Werder Bremen, which was seventh. In the first half of the season, the experienced striker distinguished himself on October 6, 1957 with the two goals for a 2-1 home win against champions Hamburger SV, where he had to assert himself on the half-left in a duel against Jürgen Werner . In the high-scoring second round game on January 12, 1958 at SV Werder, it ended with 7-5 goals for the green-whites, he scored the interim 5-5 draw in the 72nd minute, before Werder left winger Günter Wilmovius with two goals the game finally decided.

Due to injuries, Karl-Heinz Preuße was only able to play seven league games for TuS 93 in 1958/59. Six games in the first half of the season and the last game on March 22, 1959, in the 1: 3 away defeat at Arminia Hannover. He said goodbye with the consolation goal for Bremerhaven 93 from the Oberliga Nord. After a total of 277 league games in the northern football league with 175 goals, the open player ended his playing career in the summer of 1959.

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 .
  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
  • Sven Bremer, Olaf Dorow: Green and white wonderland. The history of Werder Bremen. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2008. ISBN 978-3-89533-621-8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prüß: Bung bottle with flat-fitting cork. P. 199
  2. ↑ 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 , p. 293.
  3. ↑ Harald Klingebiel: in green and white wonderland. P. 337
  4. ↑ Harald Klingebiel: in green and white wonderland. P. 339
personal data
SURNAME Prussia, Karl-Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1926