Max Lorenz (soccer player)

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Max Lorenz
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Personnel
birthday August 19, 1939
place of birth Bremen ,  Germany
size 186 cm
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
1949–0000 SV Hemelingen
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1960 SV Hemelingen
1960-1969 Werder Bremen 250 (26)
1969-1972 Eintracht Braunschweig 71 0(2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1965-1970 Germany 19 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.

Max Lorenz (born August 19, 1939 in Bremen - Hemelingen ) is a former German soccer player who played 19 games in the German national soccer team from 1965 to 1970 and was German champion with Werder Bremen in 1965 .

Athletic career

Club career

Werder Bremen

Bremen, handprint in the Lloyd-Passage

Lorenz grew up in the Bremen district of Hemelingen and went through all the youth stations and the beginnings of senior football at SV Hemelingen . After the promotion in 1959/60 with the sports association in the amateur league Bremen, he accepted the offer of the then north league club Werder Bremen and became a contract player for the round 1960/61. On the fourth game day, September 4, 1960, he made his debut in the 7-1 home win against Bremerhaven 93 in the football Oberliga Nord . Coach Georg Knöpfle had nominated the former amateur soccer player for the right wing runner position in the World Cup system at the time. Werder took second place behind the series champions Hamburger SV, and Lorenz had made his contribution in 24 games with six goals. Lorenz saw his first game in the final round of the German soccer championship on May 20, 1961 in the game against 1. FC Köln. The game ended 1-1 in Cologne; the people of Bremen were attacked by Günter Wilmovius , Arnold Schütz , Lorenz, Klaus Hänel and Horst Barth . In the last two years of the old first-class league system Lorenz failed with Werder in the qualifying games before the final round: 1962 in Hannover against Schalke 04 in front of 60,000 spectators by a 1: 4 defeat after extra time and in 1963 by a 1: 2 defeat against the 1. FC Nürnberg in front of 58,000 spectators in Ludwigshafen. In both games, he formed the runner-up line of coach Georg Knöpfle's team with Helmut Jagielski and Helmut Schimeczek .

In the 1961 DFB Cup, Lorenz played in the encounters against 1. FC Saarbrücken, 1. FC Cologne and in the semi-final on August 23, 1961 against Karlsruher SC, which won 3-2 goals after extra time. In the final on September 13, 1961 in Gelsenkirchen against 1. FC Kaiserslautern, however, he was missing. In most cases, the two-footed Lorenz was used as an external rotor. He gained international experience with Werder in the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1961/62 when he played all four games against Aarhus GF and Atlético Madrid .

In total, he completed 74 league games in the Oberliga Nord from 1960 to 1963, scoring eleven goals.

When the Bundesliga 1963/64 opened with the first day of the game on August 24, 1963, Lorenz formed the defense line-up of Werder at 3-2 with goalkeeper Klaus Lambertz and field players Josef Piontek , Wolfgang Bordel , Helmut Jagielski and Arnold Schütz. Home win against Borussia Dortmund . With the new trainer Willi Multhaup , the Bremen team took tenth place in the field of the then 16 founding members of the Bundesliga with 28:32 points in the premiere year 1963/64. When SV Werder relegated their favorite defending champions 1. FC Köln to second place with a three-point lead in the second Bundesliga year, 1964/65 , Lorenz had made 27 appearances with two goals when Bremen won the title. In 30 rounds, the Werder defense with goalkeeper Günter Bernard , defenders Josef Piontek and Horst-Dieter Höttges , the runner row with Heinz Steinmann , Helmut Jagielski and Lorenz, and the two half-strikers Arnold Schütz and Diethelm Ferner allowed only 29 goals against and was one Guarantor of the Bremen championship.

Lorenz personally experienced recognition of his performance at Werder Bremen through his international debut on April 24, 1965 in the World Cup qualifier in Karlsruhe against Cyprus in the spring of the championship round. As the defending champion - coach Multhaup had switched to Borussia Dortmund - Bremen reached fourth place in 1966. In the European Champions' Cup they had easily defeated APOEL Nicosia , but then failed against the Yugoslav title holder FK Partizan Belgrade . In Belgrade, Lorenz lost 3-0 with his teammates, so the 1-0 home win on November 17, 1965 was not enough. Two years after winning the title, the Weser almost fell into the regional league, and relegation was avoided in 1967, just in 16th place. Under coach Fritz Langner , Lorenz and colleagues pushed into the top of the table again in 1968 and became runner-up. After falling to ninth place in 1969 - he played his last Bundesliga game for Bremen on June 7, 1969 in a 6-5 home win against Borussia Mönchengladbach - Lorenz said goodbye to Bremen after 176 Bundesliga appearances with 15 goals and joined Eintracht Braunschweig.

Eintracht Braunschweig

Before Helmuth Johannsen's last coaching year , 1969/70, Lorenz had switched to the Bundesliga champion of 1967 for 400,000 marks. In what was then the " border area " on Hamburger Strasse , Lorenz did not experience any success in the 1969/70 round at Eintracht, while Braunschweig barely escaped relegation from just 16th place. Lorenz had played 33 Bundesliga games and conceded 49 goals in 34 league games. That was a good league figure, but the only 40 goals scored were too few to play more than just to stay up. National coach Helmut Schön took Lorenz with him to the 1970 World Cup in Mexico.

In the first year under coach Otto Knefler , 1970/71, Braunschweig moved up to fourth place. Lorenz had played in 24 games and Lothar Ulsaß made the most effective attack on the offensive for a goal threat with his 18 goals. In his third year at Eintracht, 1971/72, Lorenz was on the field for Eintracht from 1st to 14th match day before he was suspended due to the consequences of the Bundesliga scandal - because of the 1-1 home game on June 5th 1971 against RW Oberhausen, before which an additional bonus was promised and partly paid out by a third party - and could not play another Bundesliga game. His last Bundesliga game was on November 6, 1971, when Braunschweig played 1-1 at Rot-Weiß Oberhausen and was 11th with 13:15 points. Defense and midfield formed with Bernd Franke in goal, Wolfgang Grzyb , Peter Kaack , Joachim Bäse and Franz Merkhoffer in defense, and Friedhelm Haebermann , Bernd Gersdorff and Max Lorenz in midfield. For Braunschweig, Lorenz played 71 Bundesliga games with three goals. Overall, his record in the Bundesliga from 1963 to 1972 is 247 league appearances with 17 goals.

Selection bets

Lorenz (r.) And Hans Tilkowski in the training camp of the national team

On April 24, 1965, at the World Cup qualifier against Cyprus in Karlsruhe, Lorenz made his debut in a 5-0 success in the German national soccer team. National coach Helmut Schön trusted Willi Schulz , Klaus-Dieter Sieloff and the Werder Bremen man in the runner row . He was a member of the team for the 1966 World Cup in England, but was not used in the tournament. In the two historic "first" victories against England (1-0 in Hanover) and Brazil (2-1 in Stuttgart) on June 1 and 16, 1968, respectively, he was on the defensive of the German team. When the DFB-Elf outclassed Cyprus on May 21, 1969 in Essen with 12-0 goals in the World Cup qualifier, Lorenz scored his only goal in the national dress. At the end of his international career, he took part in his second World Cup tournament. He was a member of the DFB's 22-man squad for the 1970 World Cup in Mexico. On June 20, 1970 he was substituted on in the game for third place against Uruguay (1-0) in the 46th minute for Karl-Heinz Schnellinger and thus completed his 19th international match. For participating in the soccer world championship, he and the team received the silver laurel leaf.

successes

Club successes

  • 1961, DFB Cup winner with Werder Bremen
  • 1965, German champion with Werder Bremen
  • 1968, runner-up with Werder Bremen

National team, 1965 to 1970

  • 1966, vice world champion (without commitment)
  • 1970, World Cup third, 1 game

Further career / trivia

Lorenz, who was employed at Jacobs Kaffee at a young age, worked for a leading sporting goods retailer after his career.

He was the partner of the actress Hildegard Krekel, who died on May 26, 2013 .

Lorenz received a handprint on the Mall of Fame in Bremen in 2006 .

In 2008 he suffered a stroke , which he survived with no damage left behind.

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 , page 238.
  • Matthias Kropp, Joachim Schweer: Germany's great soccer teams, part 6: Werder Bremen, AGON Sportverlag, 1994, ISBN 3-928562-52-5 .
  • 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: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 3: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 1. The founding years 1963–1975. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-132-0 .
  • Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-463-1 .
  • Ulrich Merk, André Schulin: Bundesliga chronicle 1964/65. Volume 2: Werder's surprise coup. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-084-7 .
  • Fritz Tauber: German national soccer player. Player Statistics from A to Z . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-397-4 , page 77.
  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 9: Player Lexicon 1963-1994 . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , page 312.

Web links

Commons : Max Lorenz (footballer)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Max Lorenz - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . RSSSF.com . July 8, 2020. Accessed July 13, 2020.
  2. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Max Lorenz - International Appearances . RSSSF.com . July 8, 2020. Accessed July 13, 2020.
  3. ↑ Information given to the Bundestag by the Federal Government on September 29, 1973 - Printed matter 7/1040 - Appendix 3, pages 54 ff., Here page 58
personal data
SURNAME Lorenz, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Hemelingen