Klaus Blumenberg

Klaus Blumenberg (born September 14, 1941 in Berlin ) is a former German football player . The striker completed from 1961 to 1963 for Eintracht Braunschweig in the then prime Oberliga Nord 42 games and scored nine goals.

Career

Klaus Blumenberg came to Braunschweig with his parents in 1952 and started playing football in the youth department of Eintracht. In 1959 and 1960 he won the North German Youth Championship twice with the A-Juniors. The fast and agile winger gained his first experience in senior football in the 1960/61 season in the Eintracht amateur team, which took ninth place in Lower Saxony in the amateur Oberliga Ost. For the 1961/62 season he was taken over into the contract player squad of the league team. Klaus Gerwien and Gerhard Schrader from VfL Wolfsburg and Helmut Hosung from Union Salzgitter came to Braunschweig as further newcomers .

On the first game day, August 6, 1961, Blumenberg made his debut under coach Hans-Georg Vogel in a 1-1 home draw against SV Werder Bremen in the Eintracht league. The blue-yellows were in the attack with Blumenberg, Hosung, Jürgen Moll , Joachim Bäse and Gerwien. At the end of the round, the "Löwen" reached sixth place and Blumenberg had played 28 games and scored seven goals in his debut round. In total, he played 42 league games in two years, in which he scored nine goals. In the 1962/63 season, he was particularly active in the 2-2 home draw in front of 23,000 spectators against the northern series champion Hamburger SV on January 6, 1963 and the two important final successes against VfB Oldenburg (April 22, 1963; 2-0) and on 29 April 1963 in the 2-1 win against VfB Lübeck , both as right winger. Thus, Eintracht qualified in third place for the football Bundesliga introduced for the 1963/64 season . The paths of Eintracht and Blumenberg parted in the summer of 1963. New signing Manfred Wuttich had prevailed in the attack of Eintracht in his attacking position, which is why Blumenberg had been used as a right defender in several games, and he preferred to move into the new Regionalliga Nord.

He then played from the 1963/64 season for VfV Hildesheim in the Regional Football League North . At the side of VfV legend Leo Zimmermann , goalkeeper Werner Gerstle and the two attackers Heiner Klose and Manfred Hufgard , Blumenberg completed 29 regional league games in his first season for Hildesheim under coach Heinz Hempel and scored four goals. At the end of the 1966/67 season , Hildesheim was 16 th in the amateur camp. Blumenberg had played 28 rounds (five goals) alongside Dieter Grünsch (goalkeeper), Ludwig Hesse, Wolfgang Träger, Claus Winkelmann and Gerhard Schrader. Overall, he was led for Hildesheim from 1963 to 1967 in the Regionalliga Nord with 110 games and 27 goals.

After relegation, he joined Leu Braunschweig . In his second year at Leu, 1968/69, he and his new teammates won the Lower Saxony championship ahead of Arminia Hannover , and thus made it into the regional league promotion round. There, Blumenberg and colleagues under coach Ernst Naab prevailed against SV Friedrichsort , TSV Uetersen and Teutonia Uelzen and were promoted to the Regionalliga Nord. Only in the course of the second half of the season did Blumenberg run up against the blue-whites from the field at the Humboldt barracks in what was then second class. For the 1970/71 season Hennes Jäcker took over as coach and Blumenberg completed 28 games and scored ten goals alongside teammates such as goalkeeper Wolfgang Dramsch and field players Michael Bartkiewicz, Jürgen Haase and Walter Szarafin. In the 3-1 home win on November 8, 1970 against Arminia Hannover, he distinguished himself as a three-time goalscorer. He played his last regional league game on April 16, 1972 in a 2-1 away win against SC Sperber Hamburg . He acted on the right winger and scored a goal, and Vladislav Dimitrijevic directed midfield. From 1969 to 1972 Leu Braunschweig played another 49 league games with 13 goals. A total of 159 regional league games with 27 goals are in the statistics for Blumenberg.

Blumenberg worked full-time as a designer at Volkswagen in Salzgitter .

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 .
• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963 - 1994 . Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 9 . AGON, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 (571 pages).
• Hardy Greens : Legendary football clubs. Northern Germany. Between TSV Achim, Hamburger SV and TuS Zeven. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-223-8 .

Individual evidence

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