Klaus Meyer (soccer player)

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Klaus Meyer
Personnel
birthday August 5, 1937
place of birth Braunschweig ,  Germany
position Defender
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
VfL Oker
0000-1958 MTV Gittelde
1958-1968 Eintracht Braunschweig 199 (2)
1 Only league games are given.

Klaus Meyer (born August 5, 1937 in Braunschweig ; † April 4, 2014 ) was a German football player . From 1963 to 1968 he played a total of 123 Bundesliga games (1 goal) for Eintracht Braunschweig and was German champion with the team in 1966/67 .

childhood

Meyer, who was born in Braunschweig, was evacuated to Bentierode near Bad Gandersheim during the Second World War . His later club mate Werner Thamm , who was playing in Goslar at the time, became his role model there.

career

The defender Klaus Meyer came through the amateur clubs VfL Oker and MTV Gittelde for the round 1958/59 to Eintracht in the Oberliga Nord . Under coach Kurt Baluses he had his league debut on the 26th matchday (March 15, 1959) in a 1-1 draw at VfV Hildesheim. He was used as a left outside runner and was the shooter of the Eintracht goal. During this time, Heinz Patzig and Rolf Kassel formed the standard defense at Eintracht. Meyer played five league games in his first league season against Hildesheim, Bergedorf 85, Hamburger SV, VfL Osnabrück and VfR Neumünster and scored one goal. In the last league season 1962/63 , Braunschweig qualified as third for the newly established football league. Meyer, the defensive player who went straight to work on the defensive, was the only Braunschweig player to complete all 30 round matches. He was at the start of the round on August 19, 1962 (1-0 win at VfB Lübeck), as well as on the last match day, April 29, 1963, again in a win against VfB Lübeck (2: 1), in the team of Trainer Hans-Georg Vogel in action. After the first half of the season he was with Eintracht with 14:16 points clearly behind VfL Osnabrück, which took the decisive 3rd place with 20:10 points. With an excellent 23: 7 points in the second half of the season, the blue-yellows achieved 3rd place at the end of the round. In addition to the tough full-back Meyer, who was considered to be as ambitious as he was a tough player, this placement was also guaranteed by the other defensive players Hans Jäcker (goalkeeper), Joachim Bäse , Wolfgang Brase , Walter Schmidt and the goal scorers Jürgen Moll (23 goals) and Manfred Wuttich ( 14 hits).

Overall, Meyer is listed in the statistics from 1958 to 1963 with 76 league games and one goal.

In the debut round of the Bundesliga, 1963/64, he was again in no game of the team of coach Helmuth Johannsen . On the debut day of the Bundesliga, on August 24, 1963, with a 1-1 draw at Munich 1860, Sechzig coach Max Merkel also recognized that the Eintracht defensive with Jäcker, Brase, Meyer, Schmidt, Peter Kaack and Bäse would bring Lower Saxony Verbund was available, which should be among the best in the league. When the Braunschweiger won the championship title completely surprisingly in 1966/67, Meyer came again to 30 missions. Together with goalkeeper Horst Wolter and field players Jürgen Moll , Peter Kaack, Walter Schmidt and Joachim Bäse, he belonged to the Braunschweig defense, which only conceded 27 goals in 34 games. Before the start of the season, the “Frankfurter Allgemeine” oracle said: “The danger that the Hanseatic League of the Bundesliga cities will be the next foreign body to repel the staid Braunschweiger cannot be dismissed out of hand. Your departure would be a logical straightening of the geographical and economic Bundesliga committees. ”In the special edition“ Eintracht 1967. 50 Years of the German Championship ”, Klaus Meyer is quoted on winning the title after the last round game with the following statement:“ Perhaps the joy in front of one was even greater Week when our game against Mönchengladbach was won within six minutes and we then heard about the defeats of our rivals. At that time, almost everyone in the cabin shed tears of joy. Of course the joy is still great today. Our team is not full of national players, but there are many other things that are better for us. We have worked hard to achieve this goal. The next way is to the dentist, because some of my teeth at the front sit very loosely in the first minute since a collision with Achim Bäse. "

Meyer played his last Bundesliga game on November 25, 1967, in a 2-0 defeat in the away game at Eintracht Frankfurt.

Meyer first completed an apprenticeship in a bank and then studied mechanical engineering. He later switched to the insurance industry. For a short time he trained the MTV Hondelage. Occasionally he still played in the university or traditional team of Eintracht.

Meyer died on April 4, 2014 at the age of 76.

literature

  • Christian Göttner: What's up, Eintracht Braunschweig? Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2007, ISBN 978-3-89784-336-3 , p. 16 f.
  • Heinz Graßhof et al .: Eintracht Braunschweig. Portrait of a Bundesliga team . Graff and Grenzland, Braunschweig 1967, p. 32.
  • Horst Bläsig, Alex Leppert: A red lion on the chest. The story of Eintracht Braunschweig. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2010. ISBN 978-3-89533-675-1 . P. 368.
  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
  • 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 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bläsig, Leppert: A red lion on the chest. P. 368
  2. ↑ Kicker special issue: 40 years of the Bundesliga. Olympia Publishing House. Nuremberg 2003. ISSN 1612-0116. P.56
  3. ^ BZV Medienhaus GmbH (Hrsg.): Reprint Eintracht 1967. 50 years German championship. Braunschweig 2017. p. 81
  4. ↑ http://www.eintracht.com/aktuelles/neues/eintracht-braunschweig-trauert-um-klaus-meyer/
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 2014