Lothar Buchmann

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Lothar Buchmann (born August 15, 1936 in Breslau ) is a German soccer coach and former soccer player , who played 191 games as a player in the 1. FSV Mainz 05 and Eintracht Bad Kreuznach clubs from 1955 to 1963 in the old, first-class Southwest soccer league scored 49 goals. After the introduction of the Bundesliga from the 1963/64 season , another 131 league games with 26 goals were added in the then second-rate regional football leagues Southwest and South at the clubs Wormatia Worms and VfR Bürstadt from 1963 to 1974. In the Bundesliga he coached the clubs Darmstadt 98 , VfB Stuttgart , Eintracht Frankfurt , Kickers Offenbach and Karlsruher SC from 1978 to 1985 . The soccer teacher won the DFB Cup with Eintracht Frankfurt in 1981 .

career

As a player until 1974

Lothar Buchmann at the Eintracht Frankfurt Museum 2011

The young player Lothar Buchmann, who had moved up from the youth department, made his debut at Mainz 05 on January 22, 1956 in the away game against FK Pirmasens in the Southwest Football League. In the World Cup system at that time, he played on half right, but could also be used on half left. He scored his first goal for the Mainz league team in his third league appearance on February 5th, in a 6-2 win against Phönix Ludwigshafen . In the team of coach Gerd Higi he came in his first league season 1955/56 on twelve missions, where he succeeded five goals. For the next four rounds, 1956/57 to 1959/60 , he was part of the team from the Bruchwegstadion . The best placement with the Rheinhessen team was with coach Josef Kretschmann in the 1957/58 round , when he scored eleven goals in 27 games and the 05er took sixth place. Personally, however, the following year 1958/59 stood out for the half-striker , when he scored 17 goals in 24 league encounters and on April 19, 1959, in a 4-3 home win against Wormatia Worms, he was able to distinguish himself as a four-time goalscorer. After the first season of the new Mainz coach Heinz Baas , 1959/60, he joined the league competitor Eintracht Bad Kreuznach after 106 top division games for Mainz with 38 goals and moved to the Nahe valley.

The last three rounds of the old first-class league system, 1960/61 to 1962/63 , played Buchmann as a firm midfield size in the blue-whites from the Eintracht Heidenmauer sports field. In his first season he got to know the coaching qualities of the ex-national player Jupp Rasselnberg in Kreuznach , before Heinz Elzner ended the league era as a coach in Kreuznach from 1961 to 1963 . Buchmann completed 85 league games with eleven goals in his three years alongside goalkeeper legend Gottlieb Kappel (204 league appearances for the Eintracht sports community). With the introduction of the Bundesliga in 1963/64, he joined Wormatia Worms in the then second -rate regional football league Southwest .

In Worms, Buchmann, now mostly acting as a left wing runner , completed all 38 league games for Wormatia in the debut round of the Regionalliga in 1963/64 and scored twelve goals. The goal of entering the Bundesliga promotion round was missed with 58:18 points with one or two points behind Borussia Neunkirchen and FK Pirmasens as third in the table. As a runner-up he moved into the promotion round with Wormatia in 1965, but could not prevail against the later promoted Borussia Mönchengladbach and the other rivals SSV Reutlingen and Holstein Kiel . Outstanding was the performance on the last matchday, June 26th, when Buchmann and his teammates played the "foal elf" of coach Hennes Weisweiler with their outstanding attack L thanks , Heynckes , Rupp , Netzer and Waddey in the sold-out Bökelberg Stadium in front of 35,000 spectators, a 1-1 -Remis could wrestle. After 72 regional league games with 23 goals, the 31-year-old joined the South Hessian amateur club VfR Bürstadt in 1966.

There he celebrated the championship in the amateur league Hessen in 1971/72 with 64: 8 points in front of FSV Frankfurt and thus promotion to the regional soccer league south . Player- coach Buchmann acted in the libero position at the ripe old age of 37 and 38 and reached places 13th and 14th with the black and whites in the last two years of the second-rate regional league. For him there were another 59 games with three goals in the regional league, with which he a total of 131 regional league appearances with 26 goals. With the introduction of the 2nd Bundesliga from the 1974/75 series in two seasons, Bürstadt had to compete again in the Hesse amateur league. In 1974, Buchmann successfully completed his training as a football teacher at the German Sport University in Cologne under course leader Gero Bisanz and came to two runner-up championships with Bürstadt in 1975 and 1976. In 1975 he led the South Hesse to the German Amateur Championship as a coach .

Success as a player

  • 1965 runner-up in the Southwest Regional Football League
  • 1972 Champion in the amateur league Hessen and promotion to the Regionalliga Süd

Player stations

Trainer

Buchmann's entry as a coach in the professional division of the Bundesliga took place on November 15, 1976, when he replaced Udo Klug at SV Darmstadt 98 in the 2nd Bundesliga South. At the end of the round, the “lilies” from the stadium at Böllenfalltor were in sixth place with 46:30 points behind champions and Bundesliga returners VfB Stuttgart and the pursuers 1860 Munich, Kickers Offenbach, FC Homburg and 1. FC Nürnberg. In his second year as coach he led Darmstadt in 1977/78 with 90:43 goals and 58:18 points as champions of the southern league with five points ahead of 1. FC Nuremberg in the Bundesliga. The top performers of the surprise champion were Walter Bechtold , Peter Cestonaro , Manfred Drexler , Otto Frey , Uwe Hahn , Hans Lindemann , Bernhard Metz , Dieter Rudolf (goalkeeper), Willi Wagner , Joachim Weber , Willibald Weiss and Edwin Westenberger .

In the Bundesliga almost all of the players remained active in their professions. They worked part-time and only trained four times a week. They had relatively low basic salaries, but were given a share of the audience income. In the sports coverage one spoke of the "Darmstadt model". At the end of the round, Darmstadt was relegated from the Bundesliga with 21:47 points. The Buchmann protégés were able to land their first double point win on matchday eight with a 3-2 home win against Borussia Dortmund. The team gained a lot of sympathy through their playful appearances, the visibly existing system and the discipline, and Buchmann was included in the list of candidates to succeed Jürgen Sundermann in Stuttgart, who had announced his return to Switzerland after the round. On April 12, Buchmann was released in Darmstadt, he had previously announced his commitment to the next round at VfB Stuttgart and was replaced by his previous assistant Klaus Schlappner on April 18, 1979 , who on the last match day of the season with a 1: 7 -Home defeat against VfB Stuttgart ended the round. The sports journalist Ernst Huberty spoke in the ARD sports show "by the best bottom light that the Bundesliga has ever had".

Buchmann finished third in the Bundesliga in 1979/80 with VfB Stuttgart, tied on points and goals with 1. FC Kaiserslautern. In the DFB-Pokal he failed in the quarter-finals at Borussia Dortmund and after successes against Torino Calcio , Dynamo Dresden , Grasshoppers-Club Zürich (at GC worked "Wundermann" Sundermann), Lokomotive Sofia played up to the semi-finals in the UEFA Cup , where he was eliminated with the Swabians after a 2-1 home win due to the 0-2 defeat on April 22, 1980 in the Bökelberg Stadium near Borussia Mönchengladbach immediately before the final. But already in March 1980 the rumor mill was seething in Stuttgart. “Sundermann is coming back”, it was said, because the Swiss-by-choice, who lives in Zurich, suffers from a great longing for the Bundesliga. There have already been initial talks between “Sund” and “MV” about his return to Stuttgart, where his successor Buchmann was in the unloved focus of fans, media and players such as Hansi Müller and Karlheinz Förster . The fact that Dieter Hoeneß, a key figure in attacking football, had lost in the summer of 1979 was deliberately overlooked in Stuttgart by the new “eleven businessmen”, the executive committee, the media and the fans. Buchmann and VfB ended their cooperation after a good sporting round and he took over Eintracht Frankfurt from 1980/81 .

But the coaching station at Eintracht was also dominated by unsolved problems from the start. Jürgen Grabowski , the outstanding player of the last decade, ended his career after winning the UEFA Cup in 1980 due to an injury. In the Bundesliga, the Adlerträger had to be content with a negative point account with ninth place, and the future of striker Harald Karger was uncertain because of the injury suffered in the final against Gladbach. Above all, however, the shadow of ex-trainer Friedel Rausch, who was very popular with the fans, hung in the air as a heavy mortgage. Buchmann finished the first half of the season with Frankfurt with a 2-2 home draw on December 13, 1980 against Fortuna Düsseldorf and was sixth with 19:15 points. In the UEFA Cup, however, the defending champions were eliminated in the third round, three days earlier, due to a 2-0 defeat at FC Sochaux (with Revelli , Stopyra , Genghini ). In the DFB Cup, on the other hand, they had survived the third main round with a 3-0 win against SSV Ulm 1846 and had to do with VfB Oldenburg in the 1981 round of 16 . In the second half of the season, Eintracht had the same point yield as in the preliminary round and finished fifth after 34 days of play, without a goal from Harald Karger, who could only attempt a comeback in three games. In the cup in Oldenburg they won 5: 4 goals, in the quarter-finals the Sundermann-Elf from Stuttgart on February 28, 1981 with 2: 1 goals from the competition and a 1: 0 in the semifinals against Hertha BSC in the final moved in. Coach Buchmann's team prevailed on May 2, 1981 in Stuttgart with 3-1 goals against 1. FC Kaiserslautern . After winning the cup, Bernd Hölzenbein also ended his career at Eintracht Frankfurt and flew to Florida to take it easy at Fort Lauderdale Strikers . With 37:31 points, Buchmann came eighth in the Bundesliga with Eintracht in 1981/82 and took up his new position in the 2nd Bundesliga in the summer of 1982 at the main competitor Kickers Offenbach .

Buchmann led the team from Bieberer Berg to runner-up in 1982/83 and rose to the Bundesliga with the Kickers. On March 15, 1984, he was dismissed with 13:33 points in 18th place and replaced by Hermann Nuber. He followed the call of his old club from Bürstadt and took over the promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga. From March 25, 1985 Buchmann was working for the Bundesliga club Karlsruher SC as the successor to Werner Olk . He could not save the Baden from relegation and rose with the KSC in the second division for the 1985/86 round . There he created with his successful personnel planning in the summer of 1985 - he was responsible for the athletic qualification of the newcomers Srećko Bogdan , Günter Franusch , Oliver Kreuzer , Milorad Pilipović , Jürgen Schmidt , Lars Schmidt , Rainer Schütterle and Wolfgang Trapp - the basis for the KSC Success under trainer Winfried Schäfer . On April 25, 1986, he was released in Karlsruhe in fifth place.

This was followed by two more engagements in the 2nd Bundesliga with Viktoria Aschaffenburg and Rot-Weiss Essen , before after a short visit to Linz ASK from 1989 onwards he only worked in the amateur field.

Success as a trainer

  • 1975 German amateur champion with VfR Bürstadt
  • 1978 champion in the 2nd Bundesliga South with Darmstadt 98 and promotion to the Bundesliga
  • 1980 Third place in the Bundesliga and semi-finals in the UEFA Cup with VfB Stuttgart
  • 1981 DFB Cup winner with Eintracht Frankfurt
  • 1983 runner-up in the 2nd Bundesliga and promotion to the Bundesliga with Kickers Offenbach

Coaching stations

After Bürstadt, Lothar Buchmann was a coach at the following clubs:

After the career

Lothar Buchmann lives in Klein-Gumpen , a small part of the large community of Reichelsheim (Odenwald) . There the former property clerk for the Heppenheim district office runs a private soccer school for young talents. A report about him in the Frankfurter Rundschau from September 17, 2010 is headed “The first Quälix” and states that “since the beginning of his coaching career he was known for being more like no other for order and discipline. "

swell

  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
  • 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: Second League Almanac. All players. All clubs. All results. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-190-8 .
  • Hardy Greens: With the ring on your chest. The history of VfB Stuttgart, Verlag Die Werkstatt 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-593-8 .
  • Ulrich Matheja: Schlappekicker and sky striker. The history of Eintracht Frankfurt, Die Werkstatt 2004, ISBN 3-89533-427-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hardy Green (ed.): Of gray mice and great masters. AGON Sportverlag 1999, p. 82.
  2. ↑ Hardy Grüne: With the ring on the chest: The history of VfB Stuttgart, p. 151.
  3. ↑ Ulrich Matheja: Schlappekicker and Himmelsstürmer: The story of Eintracht Frankfurt, p. 237.
  4. ↑ rs: Buchmann wants to prevent relegation.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Bergstrasse Anzeiger. 3 January 2011.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.morgenweb.de  
  5. ^ The first Quälix , Frankfurter Rundschau , Friday, September 17, 2010, supplement, A7.
personal data
SURNAME Buchmann, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw