Lorenz Horr

Lorenz Horr (* 27. September 1942 in Ludwigshafen-Oggersheim ) is a former German footballer of the playmaker of the SV Alsenborn in the years 1968 and 1969 two league titles in the then second-class Regionalliga Southwest won and after his move to Hertha BSC between 1969 and 1977 played 240 Bundesliga games and scored 75 goals.

Career as a player

SV Alsenborn, 1963 to 1969

The striker and midfielder Lorenz Horr moved as a 20-year-old in the 1962/63 round from FSV Oggersheim from the 1st amateur league southwest to SV Alsenborn in the A-class, group West Palatinate / North. There, the captain of the 1954 world championship team, Fritz Walter , was persuaded to take on a "supervisory and advisory role" at the SVA in his home in Alsenborn . The Alsenborn rose every year. As a promoter, the championship in the amateur league southwest and promotion to the regional league southwest was achieved in 1964/65 . Already in the 1963/64 season - Horr was playing with the SVA in the 2nd amateur league West Palatinate - the playmaker and goalscorer in the regional cup in the southwest selection on September 29, 1963 in Wiesbaden against Hessen was used. In the championship year 1964/65, two appearances against Württemberg followed (2: 1.3: 3). Fritz Walter states in his book “SV Alsenborn, Rise of a Village Team” about Lorenz Horr: “From the day he was first deployed, Lorenz Horr became the dominant figure in our attack, a real playmaker, and has remained so through the years. The half-striker and captain has played and ruled in midfield since 1963 and can do offensive and defensive tasks equally well. ” In the first two rounds, SVA and playmaker“ Lenz ”Horr occupied midfield positions in the regional league. This was followed in 1968 and 1969 by winning two titles in the stadium for children's teaching . In the promotion round in 1968, the village team came third after Hertha BSC and Rot-Weiss Essen . The achievements of Horr stood out, in the 2-1 home win against Hertha he scored both goals. The Berliners then wanted to sign him for the Bundesliga immediately. But Horr stayed one more round in Alsenborn and in 1969 failed in the second round of promotion just to Rot-Weiß Oberhausen to get into the Bundesliga. When he won the second title in 1968/69, he scored 24 goals in 29 league games, leading the internal goalscorer list in Alsenborn ahead of Alban Wüst with ten goals.

Hertha BSC, 1969 to 1977

In 1969 he moved to the Bundesliga for Hertha BSC. In his first season for Herthan he scored 13 goals in 22 Bundesliga games, although he had to take a break for almost three months after an injury from the game on September 27, 1969, and quickly became one of the most popular players in Berlin . Although he was a member of the 40-man squad of the DFB , which was reported to FIFA on April 23, 1970 , he was not part of the 22-man squad for the 1970 World Cup . From his second season he was part of the regular team at Hertha. Thanks to his goals, Hertha BSC was third in 1970 and 1971 and German runner-up in 1975 behind Borussia Mönchengladbach . Under coach Georg Keßler , he belonged to goalkeeper Thomas Zander , defenders Uwe Kliemann , Ludwig Müller , Michael Sziedat , Hans Weiner , midfielders Erich Beer , Erwin Hermandung , Wolfgang Sidka , Holger Brück and strikers Gerhard Grau and Kurt Müller of the regular Hertha line-up on. The first leg at Borussia Mönchengladbach ended on November 2, 1974 with a 1-1 draw, Horr and colleagues won the home game on April 19, 1975 in front of 91,000 spectators in the Olympic Stadium with 2-1 goals.

At European level, he competed with Hertha in the 1969/70 and 1970/71 trade fair cup and in the 1971/72 and 1975/76 UEFA Cup . In his first European appearances in the 1969/70 series, he distinguished himself as a goal scorer in the games against Vitória Setúbal and in the quarterfinals as the winning goal scorer to 1-0 on March 18, 1970 against Inter Milan . In the 1971/72 round he scored both goals for a 2-1 home win against AC Milan , but could not prevent the elimination due to the first leg defeat with 2-4 goals. Horr has scored ten goals for Hertha in 17 European Cup games.

On May 30, 1977 he played for Hertha for the last time and as a professional player, namely in the replay of the DFB Cup final against 1. FC Köln , which his club lost 1-0. In all four Hertha BSC DFB Cup finals (twice professionals with a replay, and once the amateurs) Horr is the only goalscorer in a Berlin final with his goal in the 1-1 draw against Cologne on May 28, 1977.

Career finale, 1977 to 1979

From the Spree it went to the Rhine in the summer of 1977. Horr played in 1977/78 for the second division promoted Wormatia Worms . He played for Wormatia in 37 league games and scored five goals on the side of teammates like Thomas Zander , Helmut Zahn , Hans-Dieter Seelmann and Werner Seubert when he reached ninth place. In 1979 he finally ended his active career at SV Waldhof Mannheim .

For Lorenz Horr the following appearances and scoring successes are noted in his career: 240 Bundesliga appearances for Hertha BSC (1969-77) with 75 goals scored; 115 regional league appearances for Alsenborn (1965–69) with 77 goals, as well as 14 games in the Bundesliga promotion round with nine goals; 47 games in the 2nd Bundesliga (1977–79) with eight goals.

He is described in the players' lexicon as a dangerous, technically excellent midfielder. In addition there were the characteristics of a brilliant header game, good shooting technique inside and outside the penalty area as well as with standards. It is also stated that he would have had the class for an international career in the national team.

Trainer

After the end of his playing career, Horr worked as a coach in the south-west German amateur area. From 1979 to 1982 was active at southwest Ludwigshafen and reached 1980/81 the runner-up in the amateur league southwest . The FSV Salmrohr joined in 1982/83 with the fourth place, before he tried from 1983 to 1985 to bring his old love SV Alsenborn forward with impulses outside the playing field. In the 1985/86 round he was a trainer at FK Pirmasens before he also ended his coaching activity after three years at TuS Hohenecken .

literature

• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 9: Player Lexicon 1963-1994. Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 .
• Michael Jahn: We're just not going home. The history of Hertha BSC Berlin. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2006. ISBN 978-3-89533-535-8
• Matthias Kropp: Triumphs in the European Cup. All games of the German clubs since 1955 (= "AGON Sportverlag statistics." Volume 20). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-75-4 .
• Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 6: German Cup history since 1935. Pictures, statistics, stories, constellations. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-146-0 .
• Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 3: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 1. The founding years 1963–1975. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-132-0 .
• SV Alsenborn, Books on Demand GmbH, ISBN 3-8311-1846-9

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Jahn: We're just not going home. The history of Hertha BSC. P. 423/424
2. ↑ ^{a b} Karn, Rehberg: Spiellexikon 1963-1994. P. 215