Karl-Heinz Wettig

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Karl-Heinz Wettig

Karl-Heinz Wettig ( April 3, 1927 - April 17, 2015 ) was a German football player. The offensive player played 289 league games with 124 goals for the clubs 1. FSV Mainz 05 , 1. FC Kaiserslautern , Phönix Ludwigshafen and Wormatia Worms in the first-class Southwest soccer league from 1945 to 1959 .

Career

player

The attacker Karl-Heinz Wettig, who grew up at MTV Mainz in 1817, played for FSV Mainz 05 until 1950 after the end of the Second World War. Reliable deployment dates for the beginnings of the Oberliga Südwest for the three rounds 1946 to 1947/48 are from the documentation on which the article is based from Werner Skrentny (The history of the Oberliga Südwest) and Christian Karn (From year to year 1925-2008) cannot be found. Therefore, it cannot be stated with certainty that Wettig, in the surprising 3: 1 home win on “Shrovetide Saturday” in front of 9,000 spectators against the “Walter team” of 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the so-called “spring round” 1946/47 (January 12th 1947 - June 8, 1947) was active. In the Jenrich book one learns that Wettig and Mainz played a friendly game against Schonach in the Black Forest on June 28, 1947. Under player-coach Helmut Schneider , the zero fives took eighth place in a 14-man relay in 1947/48. For this round, too, one can learn from the “Wettig anecdotes” from the Jenrich book that the “outright rascal” for Mainz was active in the league operations. From the 1948/49 season onwards, Karn documents in his "year to year" book, which is considered the newly created "club archive" of Mainz 05, of course also with the detailed mission and goal dates of Karl-Heinz Wettig. As to the course of the round, it is noted that the “highly talented young” center forward or winger scored twelve of the 39 goals in Mainz in 24 league games, which put the zero five just ahead of SG Weisenau in eighth place. After the end of the round, a three-week trip to northern Germany with games in Göttingen, Goslar, Helmstedt, Visselhövede, Neumünster, Eutin, Cuxhaven and against SV Werder Bremen was carried out.

In the 1950/51 round, the dangerous winger joined the defending champions 1. FC Kaiserslautern. Under the new coach Richard Schneider , the Mainz player completed 16 league games and scored eleven goals when winning the championship in the southwest. On November 11, 1950 Wettig came to the representative game between Southwest and South Germany in Ludwigshafen in a 2-2 draw in front of 62,000 spectators after 20 minutes for Fritz Walter. At the side of the goalscorers Ottmar Walter (28 goals) and Werner Baßler (25 goals), as well as the outstanding playmaker Fritz Walter , the talent of the young Horst Eckel developed so rapidly at the end of the second half of the season at FCK that Wettig reached the successful final around the German football championship 1950/51 was no longer used. After only one year on the Betzenberg, he signed a new contract with Phönix Ludwigshafen for the 1951/52 season.

In the blue-whites of “Phönix”, the fast and dynamic center or winger demonstrated his impressive accuracy with 18 goals in 28 league games, but with a goal difference of 58:56 goals, his new club only finished eighth. The trained master baker then returned to Mainz 05 for the 1952/53 season.

Under coach Georg Bayerer , Wettig immediately scored the most goals for the zero five, twelve in 28 league games. In June 1953, a friendly game was played at TSV 1860 Munich, which was framed by a joint vacation of the FSV squad on Schliersee. In Emil Izsó's first coaching year , 1953/54, the team from the Bruchweg Stadium achieved a sensation on November 15, 1953 with a 5-2 home win in front of 20,000 spectators against 1. FC Kaiserslautern. Wettig scored three regular hits against the Lauterer, who competed with the eventual world champions Fritz and Ottmar Walter, Horst Eckel and Werner Kohlmeyer, a fourth goal in stoppage time of the first half was not recognized. When Mainz was in massive danger of relegation in 1954/55, when Gerd Higi replaced coach Izso, Wettig met eight times in 25 league games. After relegation, which had just been averted, the Mainz team were able to celebrate their 50th anniversary with a clear conscience, the highlight being a 2-1 win against the English FA Cup finalist Manchester City with its goalkeeper legend Bert Trautmann . The zero five ended the 1955/56 season in the safe midfield of the table - without Josef Meinhardt and Wettig who had scored another eleven goals in 24 games on the right wing. The two veterans were suspended after a scandal in the players' meeting and had to leave the club. After 108 league games with 44 goals from 1952 to 1956 Wettig switched to Wormatia Worms for two years for the 1956/57 season. At the side of Hans Mechnig , another 38 league games with 13 goals were added in the Nibelungenstadt, before the 31-year-old attacker returned to Mainz for the 1958/59 season.

At Bruchweg he could no longer connect to old heydays, but scored six goals in 16 games. Ulrich Muhl , Lothar Buchmann , Bernhard Christ and occasionally Werner Sommer were all comrades in the FSV attack.

After a total of 289 games in the Oberliga Südwest with 124 goals, Wettig ended his player activity in the southwest in 1959 and took over as player-coach Xamax Neuchatel in Switzerland. Under course leader Hennes Weisweiler, he had successfully completed his training as a football teacher in Cologne in 1958 with colleagues such as Alfred Beck , Gero Bisanz , Zlatko Čajkovski and Georg Stollenwerk .

Trainer

Wettig was a coach at SV Weisenau and FSV Mainz 05 in the Südwest regional football league. On March 17, 1968, he took over the position of trainer from his predecessor Erich Bäumler on Bruchweg and also headed training in the 1968/69 round.

Wettig died on April 17, 2015 at the age of 88.

literature

  • Reinhard Rehberg, Christian Karn: Carnival on Bruchweg. The great years of Mainz 05. Verlag Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-624-9 .
  • Christian Karn: 1. FSV Mainz 05: From year to year 1925–2008. Mainz 2008.
  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Festschrift for the 75th anniversary of 1. FSV Mainz 05. Mainz 1980. p. 47.
  2. ↑ Bernd-Dieter Jenrich: Mainz 05. We're up again. Press Line Publishing House. Essen 1991, p. 147.
  3. ↑ Bernd-Dieter Jenrich: Mainz 05. We're up again. Press Line Publishing House. Essen 1991, p. 148.
  4. ↑ Bernd-Dieter Jenrich: Mainz 05. We're up again. Press Line Publishing House. Essen 1991, p. 149.
  5. ↑ Karn: From year to year. P. 44.
  6. ↑ Karn: From year to year. P. 50.
  7. ^ Mourning for Karl-Heinz Wettig mainz05.de, accessed on April 23, 2015.

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personal data
SURNAME Wettig, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH 17th April 2015
Place of death Mainz