Karlheinz Höger

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Karlheinz Höger (born January 9, 1922 - † December 3, 2009 ) was a German soccer player who worked as a goalkeeper for the clubs SV Werder Bremen , SpVgg Fürth and Schwarz-Weiß Essen from 1947 to 1955 in the first-class soccer leagues North , South and West has completed a total of 157 league games.

career

Youth and World War II

The son of the ex-national striker Karl Höger spent the first years of his youth in Mülheim an der Ruhr with Germania and SV 06 , then followed a short time with VfB Speldorf . When his father took over as a trainer at Gauligist SV Dessau 05 , he went to Central Germany. There he came to some missions in the Gauliga Mitte during the war years for the zero fives . As a member of the Wehrmacht, he was stationed in Hamburg and was therefore also a guest player in the Gauliga Nordmark at Hamburger SV and LSV Hamburg . In Prüß and Irle, his use on April 12, 1942 in the 3-1 away win at Holstein Kiel in the goal of Hamburger SV is noted. In the same data collection there are also four missions with the Rautenträger in May / June 1942 in the Tschammerpokal against LSV Uetersen, VfB Kiel and Orpo Lübeck, as well as on July 19 against the Eimsbütteler TV. After the end of the war he was initially active at SG Dessau-Nord before he joined SV Werder Bremen at the start of the North Football League in 1947/48.

League football and pain

With the green-whites from the Weser, the goalkeeper opened the league round on September 14, 1947 with a 4-7 away defeat at VfB Lübeck. Before Höger, Eduard Hundt , Hans Manthey , Hermann Kraatz, Ewald Fehrmann and Hans Tibulsky formed the vulnerable Werder defense. The two games in the local derby against Bremer SV (4: 1, 2: 0) were won, but the race for the first northern title could not be intervened. Höger had played all 22 round games. Hamburger SV and FC St. Pauli fought a lonely race at the top of the table. At the end of the round, VfL Osnabrück and Werder had the same record with 26:18 points each and therefore played a decider for fourth place. In the 3-1 win, Höger again guarded the goal and Hundt, Richard Ackerschott , Hugo Scharmann , Gerd Schüttners and Walter Hoffmeister completed the defense, which in particular did not allow north striker Adolf Vetter to hit. On May 8, Werder Bremen lost the game for the British Zone Championship with 2: 3 n. V. against Borussia Dortmund. In December 1948, Höger surprisingly moved on to Peine, where his father Karl had taken over as coach at the newly founded SC Peine and Dragomir Ilic became the successor of the goalkeeper at Werder Bremen overnight.

In Peine, the wine manufacturer Bruno Walter Engelhardt founded the SC Peine in 1948 and the "Weinelf" became superior champions in the district class and rose to the newly formed Lower Saxony Association League (3rd division) with players like Lothar Schröder , Heinrich Nehlsen and Josef Glowala. The performances that Höger had shown in the second half of the season at SC led him to the Lower Saxony team in May 1949, which played an international friendly against Rotherham United in Hanover and won 5-1 in front of 12,000 spectators. He played alongside Jupp Posipal , Fritz Apel , Willi Fricke , Ernst Naab and Walter Schemel . The climber succeeded in 1949/50 with 53: 7 points and 120:28 goals the immediate title win. The sudden end came in May 1950, only a few days after being promoted to the amateur league. Engelhardt's wine company had to register a settlement and the two successful years of the SC were history. The club went up in the FSV Peine , Höger accepted the offer of SpVgg Fürth from the Oberliga Süd and moved to southern Germany for the 1950/51 season.

Under coach Helmut Schneider , the Kleeblattelf reached the runner-up in the Oberliga Süd with 45:23 points and 86:43 goals, and Höger had proven the correctness of his commitment in 30 league appearances. With top performers such as Horst Hoffmann , Adolf Knoll , Richard Gottinger , goal scorer Horst Schade , Hans Nöth , Max Appis , Paul Vorläufer , Herbert Erhardt , Hans Plawky and Hans Bauer , he made it into the final round of the German football championship with Fürth . There the goalkeeper played all six group matches against 1. FC Kaiserslautern, FC Schalke 04 and FC St. Pauli.

In the second year he finished 6th with Fürth and had again played 30 league games before he turned his back on the Ronhof team after a total of 84 league appearances in the third year and from then on showed his fishing skills at Schwarz-Weiß Essen. In addition to Höger, the black and whites had also signed Edmund Kasperski , Adolf Knoll, Alfred Mikuda and Hubert Schieth and wanted to forget the relegation battle of 1952/53 with the 13th place. Höger completed 25 league games under coach Fritz Buchloh and the ETB reached 6th place with 31:29 points and had left the relegation places far behind. The 32-year-old veteran ended his career in the first class in the summer of 1955 and was then connected to football as an amateur coach at Essener SV 99 and Rheingold Emmerich.

literature

  • Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 152 .
  • Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .
  • Karl Heinz Niemeyer: 70 years of football ... and no end. The history of football in the Peine district , Hanover 1982

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Goals, points, players: the complete HSV statistics . compiled by Jens Reimer Prüß and Hartmut Irle. Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-586-0 , p. 73 f., 76 f . (352 pages).
  2. ↑ Jens R. Prüß (Ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. Klartext Verlag. Essen 1991. ISBN 3-88474-463-1 . P. 196/197
  3. ^ Lower Saxony Football Association (ed.): Football in Lower Saxony. 50 years of the Lower Saxony Football Association. A. Schlaeger printing house. Peine 1995. p. 18
  4. ↑ Hardy Greens: Legendary soccer clubs of Northern Germany. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2004. ISBN 3-89784-223-8 . P. 367
personal data
SURNAME Höger, Karlheinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player (goalkeeper)
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1922
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 2009