Klaus striker

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Klaus striker
Personnel
birthday August 9, 1935
place of birth Glinde ,  German Empire
date of death June 1, 1971
Place of death Zurich ,  Switzerland
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
1946-1952 TSV Glinde
1953 Eimsbüttel TV
1953-1954 Hamburger SV
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1954-1961 Hamburger SV 158 (114)
1962-1964 FC Zurich 49 0(33)
1964-1965 Young Fellows Zurich 17 00(4)
1965-1967 FC Zurich 47 0(24)
1967-1969 FC Grenchen 22 00(5)
1969-1971 FC Winterthur 21 00(5)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1953 Germany U-18
1954-1961 Germany 2 00(1)
1955-1956 Germany B 2 00(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Klaus Stürmer (born August 9, 1935 in Glinde ; † June 1, 1971 in Zurich - Oberengstringen ) was a German football player who became German champions in 1960 with Hamburger SV and Swiss champions in 1963 and 1966 with FC Zurich .

career

Hamburger SV, 1953 to 1961

The DFB national youth team took part in a FIFA youth football tournament for the first time from March 31 to April 5, 1953 . Uwe Seeler and Jürgen Werner from Hamburger SV were there in Belgium, from TSV Glinde - from the Stormarn district - the technically adept half-forward Klaus Stürmer, who has meanwhile switched to Eimsbüttel TV , was part of the squad. A close friendship quickly developed between Seeler and the striker. This, captain of the youth national team, left the ETV again and went to HSV in the summer of 1953, which caused a dispute between the clubs and gave the young player a one-year ban. HSV President Carl-Heinz Mahlmann made sure that the two outstanding offensive talents Seeler and Striker could be used in friendly matches before their first league round in the north in 1954/55. In the league team, the two friends were for the first time on August 5, 1953 in the friendly game against Göttingen 05 , where the striker was not used. On the start day of the 1954/55 league round, on August 29, 1954, the young talents, dubbed the “twins” on and off the pitch, made their debut in a 3-0 home win against VfB Oldenburg in the Oberliga Nord . From 1955 to 1961, the "driver" of the HSV game, which was also characterized by the danger of scoring and tireless commitment in addition to his brilliant technique, took part in 35 games with 12 goals in the final round of the German soccer championship . With HSV, he was in the final against FC Schalke 04 in 1958 and won the German championship with him on June 25, 1960 with a 3-2 win against 1. FC Köln . The Hamburg playmaker also impressed in this competition in the 1960/61 European Cup against Young Boys Bern , FC Burnley and in the three games against FC Barcelona . For financial reasons, Striker moved to Switzerland for FC Zurich in October 1961. He played his last league game for HSV on September 17, 1961 in a 3-1 home win against FC St. Pauli , where he also shot his comrades 1-0 ahead. In total, the man from Glinde played 158 games for Hamburger SV in the Oberliga Nord from 1954 to 1961, scoring 114 goals.

Team player Gerhard Krug later described Klaus Stürmer's move to Zurich as a "serious mistake" for Hamburger SV. "With him we would have been up there for years," said the defender.

Selection appointments, 1954 to 1961

After just six league games, Klaus Stürmer made his debut on October 16, 1954 together with Uwe Seeler in the international match in Hanover against France in the German national soccer team . Before that, he was already in the squad of national coach Sepp Herberger for the international match against Belgium on September 26, 1954 in Brussels. Two appearances in the B national team followed in 1955 and 1956. The Hamburger SV playmaker and goalscorer also played in several representative games for Northern Germany. Herberger only called him to his second international match after a seven-year break. At the World Cup qualifier on May 10, 1961 in Berlin against Northern Ireland, he formed the German attack together with Richard Kress , Günter Herrmann , Uwe Seeler and Albert Brülls in the decisive 2-1 victory for participation in the 1962 World Cup in Chile. Striker did not take part in the World Cup tournaments in 1958 and 1962, and was not even part of the 40s squad at the time. Just because of his "blind understanding" with Uwe Seeler, whom the HSV driver was able to stage like no other, Klaus Stürmer's only two international matches were not understandable for many.

Switzerland, 1961 to 1970

The ex-Hamburg resident of Stallikon, away from Lake Zurich, won the Swiss championship with FC Zurich in 1963 and 1966 . With the 2-0 success in the cup final on April 11, 1966 in Bern against Servette Geneva together with his teammates Jakob Kuhn and Fritz Künzli , he was also the cup winner in 1966 . In the 1963-64 European Cup , he moved with FC Zurich after successes against Dundalk FC, Galatasaray and PSV Eindhoven in the semi-final against Real Madrid one. In Round 1964/65 striker played for FC Young Fellows Zurich in the National League B .

From 1967 to 1969, Striker worked as a player-coach at FC Grenchen . Most recently he moved to FC Winterthur in 1969 and served from midfield to Timo Konietzka in the storm. When he was diagnosed with testicular cancer in the 1971/72 season , Stürmer resigned in the spring of 1971 and died shortly afterwards at the age of 35.

death

In 1970 Klaus Stürmer was diagnosed with testicular cancer, from which the trained radio mechanic died in June 1971 at the age of 35. At Rothenbaum, the world championship eleven from 1954 under the direction of former national coach Sepp Herberger competed in a memory game in honor of the deceased and in support of his wife and son. In 1972 the street Am Sportplatz in the Osnabrück district of Hellern was renamed Klaus-Stürmer-Straße .

Karl-Heinz Jens, the then head of the Kicker-Sportmagazin , stated in his obituary on June 3, 1971:

“ Klaus Stürmer can claim to have written a proud chapter in HSV history. Especially in cooperation with his ideal partner Uwe Seeler. The once inseparable "twin pair" of HSV experienced the climax of the post-war era of Hamburg's success between 1957 and 1961, which is based to a large extent on the great ability of these two. Klaus Stürmer was the thinker - Uwe the executor. What Striker was planning, Seeler put into practice. Seeler guessed Klaus's moves. The word of "understanding oneself blindly", of harmony and harmony was valid here as rarely between players who complemented each other as ideally as Klaus and Uwe. "

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Appearances and goals for this club only until relegation in 1968. All Swiss data from: Malherbe, Jean-Pierre / De Dekker, Guy: Swiss National Players' Record Ligue Nationale A 1933/1934 to 2007/2008 , Xtra-time, Holsbeek no year
  2. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt of April 1, 1953, page 9. Eimsbüttel is named as the Stürmers club; It is unclear when exactly the change took place or did not take place.
  3. ↑ cf. Kicker No. 39/1954, p. 13.
  4. ^ Skrentny / Prüss: Hamburger SV. Always first class. P. 194.
  5. ↑ Jerzovskaja: Football hero Winterthur . Winterthur Football Heroes. Herzglut, 2013, ISBN 978-3-03834-002-7 , pp. 31 ( issuu.com ).
  6. ↑ Kicker-Sportmagazin , No. 45, June 3, 1971, p. 24.
personal data
SURNAME Striker, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Glinde , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1971
Place of death Zurich , Switzerland