Martin Wiesner

Martin Wiesner (born December 25, 1958 in Schöllbronn , Black Forest ) is a German former soccer player who played 80 Bundesliga games (7 goals) for Karlsruher SC between 1980 and 1983 . In the second division, the midfielder was active for KSC, the Stuttgarter Kickers and TeBe Berlin and made a total of 187 second division appearances (16 goals). In 1981 he was called up to two games in the B national team. Since his relatively early career as a football player, he has been working as a player advisor in Switzerland .

Karlsruher SC (until 1983)

Martin Wiesner, who comes from the Schöllbronn district of Ettlingen not far from Karlsruhe, has already been through the last three years of youth at Karlsruher SC - improved through the training of association trainer Pál Csernai in the North Baden selection and came to the youth national team in March 1977 - and switched together with Michael Harforth for the second division season 1977/78 in the professional squad of Baden, who had just been relegated from the Bundesliga. The new coach Bernd Hoss strengthened the squad, which had been weakened by a few departures, alongside the two young talents from their own A-youth around Edmund Becker from the KSC amateurs as well as Emanuel Günther (Wormatia Worms) and Hermann Kohlenbrenner (FK Pirmasens); Rolf Dohmen from Fortuna Cologne also joined in December . The newcomers all turned out to be a good addition to the remaining player base around goalkeeper Rudi Wimmer , Libero Karl-Heinz Struth and playmaker Wilfried Trenkel . Above all, Emanuel Günther made sure with his goals that the Wildpark-Elf topped the table after ten game days and was thus on the way to promotion. At this point in time - Wiesner had not yet played under Hoss - a coach change came as a complete surprise: Bernd Hoss was dismissed on the grounds that the team was not playing attractively enough. Rolf Schafstall was hired as the new coach , which turned out to be the wrong choice, because the team not only reacted with incomprehension to this decision, but under Schafstall could not build on the successful season opener and ended up on a disappointing 7th place at the end of the season.

In his first year as a professional, the young Martin Wiesner hardly got beyond the role of reservist. He had only made his debut on November 26, 1977 in the away game in Homburg (0: 3) and only made seven appearances. In his second season, the 1978/79 season , Wiesner was already a regular under the new coach Manfred Krafft . Together with Wilfried Trenkel and newcomer Gerd Bold , he formed the midfield of the KSC, played all 38 KSC games in the 2nd Bundesliga South and scored his first goal on matchday three against Hanau 93, which was followed by four more. Similar to the previous year, however, the Karlsruhe team buckled this year after a promising start in the second half of the season and once again clearly missed the rise with 5th place. With an almost unchanged squad, the Karlsruhern finally managed to return to the Bundesliga in 1979/80 , albeit via the detour via the promotion games against north-second Rot-Weiss Essen. Wiesner had played all games again and was successful as a goal scorer seven times.

At the beginning of the Bundesliga season 1980/81 , the Karlsruher SC hosted the German champions Bayern Munich. Wiesner's first game in the Bundesliga was lost 3-0 on August 16, 1980 in front of 47,000 spectators in the local wildlife park. The KSC had hardly been able to increase its personnel this year and went into the season as relegation candidate number 1. But the "eleven of the nameless" - quite a number of players had never before sniffed Bundesliga air - soon acclimatized after initial difficulties in the German football club, caused some surprises, especially in the second half of the season, and closed the round after a 7-2 victory 1860 Munich from a 10th place in the table that was hardly thought possible. Wiesner scored four of the 56 goals - a club record in the Bundesliga at the time. The achievements of the KSC's own generation were also noticed by the DFB and the running midfielder with perspective was used in two games in the B national team on April 28 and May 21, 1981.

In the second Bundesliga year 1981/82 it was much tighter for the KSC. With the regular eleven from the previous year you could only briefly free yourself from the relegation zone and fought a tough battle against relegation with Nuremberg, Düsseldorf, Leverkusen and Darmstadt. Manfred Krafft had been replaced by "start trainer" Max Merkel in the preliminary round . Under him there was a sensational 4-1 home win against Bayern, but otherwise the second half of the season was rather mixed, but the Badeners were able to hold the class at the end of the season.

The 1982/83 round was the last Bundesliga season for the time being for the KSC. With the new trainer Horst Franz , Erhard Hofeditz (1. FC Kaiserslautern), Max Hagmayr (VOEST Linz) and Helmut Zahn from the relegated Darmstadt 98 were relatively prominent newcomers to the wildlife park compared to previous years, but they did not turn out to be the hoped-for reinforcements. After two wins at the start, the Karlsruhe team were briefly at the top of the table, but on the third and fourth matchdays they were 0: 4 against Bayern Munich and Hamburger SV, and the KSC subsequently slipped continuously into the table cellar. Even a change of coach in February could not prevent the third relegation of Karlsruher SC to the - now single-track - 2nd Bundesliga.

Martin Wiesner had to take a long break after a herniated disc and was only used in the second half of the season. The home game on matchday 34 against Arminia Bielefeld (1: 1) on June 4, 1983 was his 80th and last Bundesliga game - and also the last for Karlsruher SC. In total, Martin Wiesner has played 163 games for KSC and scored 18 goals in his six professional years in Karlsruhe.

Stuttgarter Kickers (1983 to 1985)

After the descent of KSC, Wiesner had the option to sign a new contract with his parent club, but he was also faced with an offer from second division competitor Stuttgarter Kickers . He finally decided to move to Stuttgart-Degerloch. The experienced Horst Buhtz had been the coach since January 1983 when he was fifth in the table last year , when he replaced the unfortunate Jürgen Sundermann . In addition to Wiesner, the other newcomers Peter Hobday , Egon Flad , Arthur Jeske and from the amateur area Ralf Vollmer and Bernd Schindler came to the club of President Axel Dünnwald-Metzler for the 1983/84 round . The start did not succeed in Degerloch, however, the first double point win could only be booked on the eighth game day and the Kickers were in 14th place with 6:10 points. The man from KSC, Martin Wiesner, had played all eight games. On matchday 10, he scored the interim equalizer to 2-2 against his former employer Karlsruher SC in the 57th minute, but Gerhard Kleppinger scored the 3-2 winning goal for KSC in the 87th minute in front of 8,400 spectators. The KSC then led the table with 17: 3 points and the Kickers were with 6:14 points on the disappointing 19th place in the table. In the second half of the season, Wiesner and his comrades managed a 1-1 draw in the Karlsruhe Wildpark Stadium, with striker Emanuel Günther only scoring an equalizer in the 89th minute. At the end of the round he had 34 league games with two goals, the Kickers finished eighth and the KSC returned as champions in the Bundesliga.

In the second Kickers year, 1984/85 , coach Buhtz was replaced by Dieter Renner in October 1984 . The departure of Egon Flad and especially the young hopeful striker Jürgen Klinsmann to the “Reds” from VfB Stuttgart made it clear early on in the round that more than a midfield position was not possible. The Kickers finished the round in 9th place and Wiesner had scored a goal in 33 games. He played his last game for the "Blauen" on June 2, 1985 in a 4-2 away win against SG Wattenscheid 09. In the 85th minute he scored the final score of 4-2 victory.

TeBe Berlin (1985/86)

After two rounds in Stuttgart, he accepted the offer of the promoted player in the 2nd Bundesliga, Tennis Borussia Berlin , and moved to Berlin. He opened the season on August 3, 1985 under coach Gerd Achterberg with a 3-0 defeat at SpVgg Bayreuth. At the first home game with TeBe, Wiesner and his teammates met his first professional club, the Karlsruher SC, on August 7th. The Baden team prevailed with a 2-1 win.

TeBe stayed nine games in a row after the 10th matchday and could not catch up on the non-relegation places in the second half of the season. The derbies against Hertha BSC and Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin stood out. For Wiesner, the games against KSC and the Stuttgarter Kickers in this round also had a special tension. From October 1985 coach Eckhard Krautzun tried to keep the class with the climber. The "Veilchen" finished the round in penultimate place and, like Hertha BSC - Blau-Weiß 90 rose to the Bundesliga - had to return to the amateur camp. The last encounter of the season was also Martin Wiesner's last game in professional football: In front of 22,000 spectators, TeBe defeated Blau-Weiß 90 2-1 on May 11, 1986 in the Berlin local derby. The opponent's coach was an old friend of Wiesner: Bernd Hoss had looked after him in his first few months as a professional footballer. Wiesner had played 37 games for TeBe and scored two goals.

After the professional career

After the herniated disc in 1982 Wiesner had repeatedly plagued back problems, so that after relegation with TeBe Berlin in 1986 he decided to end his professional career at the age of 27. He moved to Switzerland, acquired all coaching licenses within a year and set up as a freelance player advisor. Martin Wiesner runs his sports management company in Wettingen in the canton of Aargau.

literature

• Matthias Kropp: Germany's big football clubs. Volume 11: Karlsruher SC. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89609-115-8
• Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 4: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 2. Goals, crises & a successful trio 1975–1987. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-89784-133-9 .
• Matthias Weinrich: Second League Almanac. All players. All clubs. All results. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-190-8 .

Web links

• Martin Wiesner in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Martin Wiesner Sports Management
• Interview with Martin Wiesner (heldenmagazin.de)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heimann / Jens: Kicker Almanach 1989. Copress-Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7679-0245-1 , p. 415
2. ↑ see the comments by Wimmer and Trenkel in Putzing, Zurück aus dem Tal der Tränen , Karlsruhe 2007, page 91/92