Lutz Steinert

Lutz Steinert (born March 18, 1939 in Berlin ) is a former German soccer player who, as an active member of Hertha BSC, won the championship in the city ​​league twice in 1961 and 1963 , in the regional soccer league in 1966 and 1967 and again in 1970, now as players from Hertha Zehlendorf won.

career

City league and Bundesliga, 1958 to 1965

The attacker Lutz "Husche" Steinert, who came from the Hertha youth team, made his debut on the first day of the 1958/59 season, on August 20, 1958, at Hertha BSC in the Berlin City League. With the two half-strikers Helmut Faeder and Lutz Steinert, the team from Gesundbrunnen won the home game against Viktoria 89 Berlin with 3-0 goals. The offensive talent played all 33 league games - only defender Hans-Günter Schimmöller also played 33 rounds for Hertha - and with 18 goals he made a lasting start in the attacking game of third in the table. Only Helmut Faeder surpassed the newcomer in the team of coach Gerhard Graf with 20 goals.

In the 1960/61 season, the mostly half-left acting "Husche" Steinert won the Berlin championship for the first time with Hertha. Confident - with a six point lead and only 19 goals conceded in 27 league games - defending champion SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin was relegated to second place. Trainer Johannes "Hanne" Sobek had led the men around goalkeeper Wolfgang Tillich , defender Hans-Günter Schimmöller, center runner Günter Schüler , outside runners Hans-Joachim Altendorff and Peter Schlesinger as well as attackers Peter Engler , Helmut Faeder, Lothar Groß and Steinert on a master class. In the final round of the German soccer championship, however, Steinert experienced their superior performance for the first time in competitive matches against 1. FC Nuremberg , Werder Bremen and 1. FC Köln . When he finished the round with Hertha as runner-up in 1961/62 - one point behind Tasmania 1900 - he and Wolfgang Seeger from Tennis Borussia led the scorers list in the city league with 18 goals . The fast and dangerous striker ended the city league era in 1962/63 with another championship win and six appearances in the finals. From 1958 to 1963 "Husche" Steinert completed 128 city league games and scored 63 goals. In the Messe Cup on September 20, 1960, in the first round first leg against FC Barcelona , he scored the winning goal for the Berlin city selection. The following week, however, the Berliners had to retire after a 3-0 defeat at the final finalists, where the 1954 Hungarian world champion Sándor Kocsis was in the squad. From 1958 to 1969, Steinert made 35 appearances in the city selection.

Hertha started on August 24, 1963 in front of 60,000 spectators in the Olympic Stadium with a 1-1 home draw in the new Bundesliga . Coach Jupp Schneider had called the formation Carl-Heinz Rühl , Uwe Klimaschefski , Harald Beyer , Helmut Faeder and Steinert in the attack and "Husche" belongs to the group of Bundesliga footballers who were active on the day of the premiere. Hertha finished in 14th place, keeping the class and Steinert was involved in 27 games with six goals. In the 1963/64 DFB Cup , he and his team moved into the semi-finals on May 20, eleven days after the end of the Bundesliga season, after the surprising 4-2 victory in the quarter-finals over the first Bundesliga champions 1. FC Köln. There, however, the local Eintracht Frankfurt prevailed on June 3 with a 3-1 victory in the Waldstadion and instead of Hertha BSC moved into the final. In the Messe-Cup, he played two games against AS Roma , with Jürgen Schütz , the ex-Dortmund, distinguished himself as the Romans' goalscorer. Hertha also took 14th place in the Bundesliga in their second year in the Bundesliga, 1964/65. Steinert last played for Hertha on March 27, 1965 in a 0-0 home draw against Werder Bremen. In the goalless draw, the Hertha attack acted with Carl-Heinz Rühl, Helmut Faeder, Michael Krampitz , Steinert and Willibert Kremer . Since Hertha was excluded from the Bundesliga after the round for violating the license statute, Steinert had 40 games with eight goals from 1963 to 1965. In the trade fair cup on October 3, 1964, he shot Hertha with two goals to a 2-1 home win against Royal Antwerp - but a 2-0 defeat in the second leg meant the first round of the match.

Regionalliga, 1965 to 1973

After the two years in the Bundesliga, eight more rounds followed in the Berlin Regional Football League: two years each with Hertha BSC and Tennis Borussia and four rounds with Hertha Zehlendorf from the 1969/70 round. In 1966 and 1967 he was a member of the Hertha championship team, but also experienced the unsuccessful attempts in the promotion rounds to return to the Bundesliga. When he reached the runner-up in 1967/68 with the Charlottenburg "Veilchen", he completed seven more promotion rounds against Kickers Offenbach, Bayer Leverkusen, TuS Neuendorf and Arminia Hannover alongside Georg Damjanoff , Bernd Gersdorff , Michael Krampitz and Horst Lunenburg . At Hertha Zehlendorf he celebrated another championship in 1969/70 with his old Hertha comrades Faeder, Krampitz and Schimmöller as well as the talents Uwe Kliemann and Wolfgang Sühnholz , but he was not used in the promotion round. The last regional league game was completed by "Husche" Steinert on December 19, 1972 in a 3-0 win against BFC Preussen . Between 1965 and 1972 he played 117 games in the Regionalliga and scored 60 goals.

In the summer of 1973 he ended his high-class career after 15 years of competitive football.

literature

• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• Michael Jahn, Hertha BSC, “A love in Berlin”, Die Werkstatt publishing house, 1999, ISBN 3-89533-257-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lutz Steinert - player profile. Retrieved August 24, 2019 .