Lothar Bechtel

Lothar Bechtel (born September 28, 1926 ) is a former German soccer player and coach. As a player at VfB Mühlburg and Karlsruher SC , he played 120 league games and scored 23 goals from 1948 to 1956 in what was then the first-class soccer Oberliga Süd .

career

player

With the Karlsruhe district club FV Daxlanden , Bechtel played after the Second World War in the rounds of 1946/47 and 1947/48 in the then second-class regional league North Baden, Group South. Bechtel and colleagues finished sixth in 1946/47 and VfB Mühlburg won the championship superiorly and rose to the Oberliga Süd. In the 1947/48 season, the inner-city competition was given by the two old masters of the Karlsruhe FV and Phoenix Karlsruhe, as well as the ASV Durlach. With ninth place, Daxlanden was relegated to the district league and Bechtel and teammate Herbert Dannenmeier joined VfB Mühlburg in the Oberliga Süd for the 1948/49 season.

On September 26, 1948, Bechtel made his debut at the home game in the stadium on Honsellstrasse against SV Waldhof in the Oberliga Süd. In front of 18,000 spectators, the center-forward playing newcomer from Daxlanden equalized the 1-0 lead of the Waldhof-Elf in the 70th minute of the game. Coach Robert Kraft had put in the attack on the players Ernst Kunkel , Hugo Rastetter , Bechtel, Georg Seeburger and Kurt Ehrmann . On the defensive, led by Heinrich Gärtner , Eugen and Max Fischer , Mühlburg finished ninth at the end of the round. Bechtel had scored 13 goals in 20 league games, leading the internal goalscorer list. In Hans Tauchert's first year as coach , 1949/50, VfB improved to seventh place and Bechtel ran in all 30 rounds in which he scored seven goals. In his second year in Mühlburg, his former Daxland player Herbert Dannenmeier had also made the breakthrough.

The sporty class of the newcomers Horst Buhtz and Heinz Trenkel massively changed Lothar Bechtel's range of activities in the 1950/51 season. Mühlburg played with the most accurate attack of the southern league with 94 goals scored - scorer Buhtz (21 goals), Rastetter (17 goals), Hermann Lehmann (17 goals) and Kunkel (16 goals) - seriously for the championship title and finished third at the end of the season Rank. Bechtel had scored one goal in eleven missions. In the following round, 1951/52, Bechtel increasingly moved into the defense and was mostly used as a right defender in his ten missions, as well as on the final day of the round when Mühlburg played the home game against Viktoria Aschaffenburg with his right on April 6, 1952 Defender Bechtel won 4-0 goals.

In the first season of the Karlsruhe SC, created by the merger of Phönix Karlsruhe and VfB Mühlburg, 1952/53, he was no longer part of the regular formation with the former Phönix player with seven league games (1 goal) under coach Hans Hipp Kurt Sommerlatt and the three newcomers Heinz Beck , Edmund Adamkiewicz and Hans Strittmatter took fourth place.

In the first round of the new coach Adolf Patek , 1953/54, however, he mainly formed the regular defender pair of the KSC with Walter Bauis . Bechtel came to 25 games (1 goal) and the blue-whites landed in fifth place. With the four appearances on August 27, 1955 against SSV Reutlingen (4: 2), September 4 against SpVgg Fürth (3: 2), October 2 against Schwaben Augsburg (0: 0) and finally on October 16, 1955 at Jahn Regensburg (3: 2), Lothar Bechtel's career in the Oberliga Süd ended. KSC won the southern German championship with a three-point lead over VfB Stuttgart and made it into the final of the German championship. In the games for the DFB-Pokal in 1955 he ran in the KSC-Elf in the games against FSV Frankfurt (5: 1), 1. FC Nürnberg (1: 0) and on November 27, 1954 at 5: 2 -Award success against VfB Stuttgart as a right defender. In the semifinals and the final, however, he was not used.

Trainer

For the 1956/57 season, Bechtel took over as a player-coach at Phoenix Bellheim in the Southwest Amateur League. In the game year 1961/62 he won the championship and was promoted to the II. Division. As a coach, he looked after the black-reds from the Phoenix Stadium on Zeiskamer Strasse from 1963/64 to 1966/67 in what was then the second division of the Southwest Regional Football League .

literature

• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963 . Klartext Verlag, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .
• Matthias Kropp: Germany's big soccer teams, part 11: Karlsruher SC . Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89609-115-8 .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .