Lothar Weschke

Lothar Weschke
Personnel
Surname	Lothar Weschke
birthday	October 11, 1943
place of birth	Germany
date of death	December 28, 2019
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1963-1966	Eintracht Braunschweig	15 0(0)
1966-1968	Kickers Offenbach	67 (25)
1968-1972	Fortuna Dusseldorf	96 (17)
1972-1975	Röchling Völklingen	89 (17)
1 Only league games are given.

Lothar Weschke (born October 11, 1943 - † December 28, 2019 ) was a German football player . The offensive player, mostly used as a winger, played 21 Bundesliga games between 1963 and 1972 at Eintracht Braunschweig and Fortuna Düsseldorf and scored one goal. In 1968 and 1971 he was promoted to the 1st Bundesliga with Kickers Offenbach and Fortuna Düsseldorf.

career

When Klaus Gerwien was absent for months from January 1964 due to illness, Lothar Weschke was accepted from the amateur team in the squad of the Bundesliga team of Eintracht Braunschweig. He made his debut on January 18, 1964 in a 2-0 away win at Preußen Münster in the Bundesliga. At the end of the round, Weschke had played 13 league games. In the second Bundesliga year 1964/65, coach Helmuth Johannsen strengthened the blue-yellow "lions" with the three offensive forces Lothar Ulsaß , Dieter Krafczyk and Erich Maas , with Maas in particular being a clear man for the wing with great performance potential. When Gerwien was operational again, there was no getting past the Gerwien - Maas wing tong. With his two missions in the 1965/66 season - on October 30 and November 6, 1965 against Munich 1860 (2: 2) and Eintracht Frankfurt (1: 4) - Weschke said goodbye to Braunschweig and joined the southern regional division Kickers Offenbach.

In his first regional round he won the championship with the Kickers in the south in 1966/67 , for which he had scored eleven goals in 33 league appearances. At the side of teammates like goalkeeper Rudolf Wimmer , Hermann Nuber , Josef Weilbächer , Engelbert Kraus and Gerd Becker , Weschke completed all eight games in the promotion round and scored five goals. Three point losses against 1. FC Saarbrücken (0: 0, 3: 4) brought Alemannia Aachen two points ahead of Offenbach. In his second year in Offenbach, he increased his hit rate in 34 league games to 14 hits and moved again with Offenbach in the BL promotion round. With the reinforcements Ferdinand Heidkamp , Dieter Fern , Egon Schmitt and Roland Weida , Bayer Leverkusen has now been promoted to the Bundesliga. Weschke had played in six games and scored one goal. But it didn't work with a contract extension with the Kickers and he signed a new contract in the Regionalliga West with Fortuna Düsseldorf for the 1968/69 season.

At Fortuna, too, the agile man on the wing was part of the regular line-up in three regional league rounds: The winger, who was appointed to succeed Bernhard Steffen , completed 90 regional league appearances and scored 16 goals for the Rheinstadion team from 1968/69 to 1970/71. After two fourth places in the first two rounds under coach Otto Knefler succeeded after the runner-up in 1970/71 under coach Heinz Lucas in the promotion round 1971 of the Bundesliga promotion. Since Lucas favored the top three with Hilmar Hoffer , Reiner Geye and Dieter Herzog , Weschke only made three appearances with one goal in the promotion round. For the Bundesliga round 1971/72 Herbert Gronen was added to the already three existing competitors in the attack and Weschke only made six Bundesliga appearances (1 goal). After four rounds in Düsseldorf, he joined the Southwest regional league team Röchling Völklingen for the 1972/73 season .

In Völklingen he met his former Braunschweig trainer Helmuth Johannsen and reached the runner-up at the side of teammates such as goalkeeper Jürgen Stars , Robert Pötzschke , Horst Berg , Klaus Hommrich and Walter Spohr . Weschke and colleagues started the Bundesliga promotion round on May 23, 1973 with a 2-1 away win at VfL Osnabrück . In particular against the newcomer Rot-Weiss Essen , however, the quality of the southwest runner-up was not enough. The home game was lost 4-0 and the game on Hafenstrasse 1: 3. In the last year of the old regional league second division, 1973/74, he finished fourth with Völklingen and had scored ten goals in 28 league appearances. He went with Völklingen to the new 2nd Bundesliga for the 1974/75 season and scored three goals in 36 league games. Then he ended his higher-class playing career.

Statistics as a player

• 1st National League
  • 15 games, 0 goals for Eintracht Braunschweig
  • 06 games, 1 goal for Fortuna Düsseldorf
• 2nd Bundesliga
  • 36 games, 3 goals for Röchling Völklingen
• Regional league
  • 67 games, 25 goals for Kickers Offenbach
  • 90 games, 16 goals for Fortuna Düsseldorf
  • 53 games, 14 goals for Röchling Völklingen
• Promotion round to the Bundesliga
  • 14 games, 6 goals for Kickers Offenbach
  • 03 games, 1 goal for Fortuna Düsseldorf
  • 04 games, 0 goals for Röchling Völklingen

Success as a player

Promotion to the Bundesliga with Kickers Offenbach in 1968 and with Fortuna Düsseldorf in 1971.

literature

• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , p. 542.
• Michael Bolten, Marco Langer: Everything else is just football. The story of Fortuna Düsseldorf. 2nd, updated new edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89533-711-6 .
• Horst Bläsig, Alex Leppert: A red lion on the chest. The story of Eintracht Braunschweig. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89533-675-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ulrich Merk, Andre Schulin, Maik Großmann: Bundesliga Chronicle 1970/71. Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2007, ISBN 978-3-89784-090-4 , pp. 195/196.

Web links

• Lothar Weschke in the database of fussballdaten.de