Otmar Ludwig

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Otmar Ludwig
Personnel
birthday April 22, 1951
place of birth Kriegsfeld ,  Germany
size 182 cm
position attack
Juniors
Years station
FV Kriegsfeld
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1972 FV Kriegsfeld
1972-1973 SV Alsenborn 24 (19)
1973-1975 FC 08 Homburg 61 (45)
1975-1979 Fortuna Cologne 139 (49)
1979-1980 Freiburg FC 23 (11)
1980-1981 KSV Hessen Kassel 25 (15)
1981-1983 Sc freiburg 42 (12)
1984 VfL Herzlake
1 Only league games are given.

Otmar Ludwig (born April 22, 1951 in Kriegsfeld ) is a former German soccer player . The striker scored 108 goals in his 261 games in the 2nd Bundesliga, making him one of the most successful goal scorers in the history of this league. However , Ludwig was never used in the 1st Bundesliga .

Career

Otmar Ludwig's career began with his hometown club FV Kriegsfeld, based in the Donnersbergkreis , for which he was also active in athletics in his youth. In 1972 he moved to the nearby SV Alsenborn , which at that time was one of the strongest teams in the second-class Regionalliga Südwest . Between 1968 and 1970, the club had won the regional league three times, but always failed in the promotion round to the Bundesliga after the regular season . In the 1972/73 season the club could not build on the good third place of the previous season and finished eighth at the end of the season. For Ludwig personally, however, it was a very successful season, because with 19 goals he became top scorer in the Regionalliga Südwest together with Gerhard Dier and Gerd Klier and thus successor to Manfred Lenz , who was able to secure this title in the Alsenborn jersey in the previous two seasons. For the 1973/74 season , the attacker moved to the Saarland regional league club FC 08 Homburg . Ludwig was also able to prove his scoring qualities in the new environment. He scored 24 goals in 29 appearances, which contributed to the FCH being third in the regional league at the end of the round. Since the 2nd Bundesliga was newly introduced for the 1974/75 season , at that time it was still divided into two seasons (North and South), the eligible participants for the new class were determined on the basis of a five-year evaluation. The 2. Bundesliga South should consist of thirteen clubs from the Regionalliga Süd and seven clubs from the Regionalliga Südwest. Thanks to the strong placement from last season, FC Homburg took sixth place in the five-year ranking and thus qualified for the premier season of the 2nd Bundesliga South. Also thanks to Ludwig's 21 goals, the Homburgers took 14th place this season and thus secured themselves relegation. Right at the start of the season, Otmar Ludwig was twice successful in the 2: 3 defeat against Karlsruher SC . Other personal highlights were a three-pack in a 4-0 win against Wormatia Worms on matchday 13 , two goals in a memorable 5-6 away defeat on matchday 22 against 1. FC Nürnberg and two goals in a 3-1 win against Saarland Competitors Borussia Neunkirchen on matchday 27. Ludwig's good performances did not go unnoticed outside Homburg either. After a transfer to Athens failed, Ludwig was faced with the choice of switching to Eintracht Frankfurt in the 1st Bundesliga or joining Fortuna Cologne in the 2nd Bundesliga.

“Bundesliga in Frankfurt or 2nd division in Cologne, that was the question at the time. Since Fortuna paid more, I came here. "

Ludwig was also able to convince directly at Fortuna. On the first match day of the 1975/76 season he scored in a 2-1 win over FC St. Pauli and was Cologne's top scorer with a total of 17 goals in this second division season, which the Südstadters finished fourth. The 1976/77 season was much less successful for Fortuna compared to the previous season. With a balanced point ratio, they finished twelfth in the final classification. Ludwig contributed eleven goals to this result, including two goals in Cologne's highest win of the season, a 7: 2 against 1. SC Göttingen 05 . Behind Karl-Heinz Mödrath , who later became Fortuna's record scorer, with this yield he was the second most dangerous attacker within the club. In the following season , Fortuna showed itself to be strengthened again. At the end of the season, only two points separated the fourth place in the table from second place in the table, which would have entitled the club to participate in the promotion games to the 1st Bundesliga, which the table runners-up of the northern and southern seasons of the 2nd Bundesliga played to determine the third Bundesliga climber. A 2-2 draw on the penultimate matchday at Westfalia Herne and, above all, the 0-2 home defeat on the last matchday against direct rival Arminia Bielefeld destroyed all Cologne hopes for one of the top two table ranks. Otmar Ludwig showed his ability to be in good shape right at the start of the season again this season and had already scored five times in the opposing goal after four match days. At the end of the round, the war field had eleven goals, which made him the third most successful shooter in Fortuna after Volker Graul and Karl-Heinz Mödrath. Ludwig described the game against Preußen Münster on the 34th matchday of the season as the personal highlight of his time in Cologne . With his goal in the 90th minute, Fortuna celebrated a 4-3 victory and at the same time displacing the direct competitor from second place in the table.

“Yes, the 4: 3 against Preußen Münster in the cycling track when I shot out the victory at the last second. Yes, that was such a great number. "

In Ludwig's last season at Fortuna, the club again finished fourth in the final table of the 2nd Bundesliga. A 2-0 defeat on matchday 34 against later promoted Bayer 05 Uerdingen ended the Südstädter's dreams of promotion prematurely. 7: 1 points from the last four games of the season couldn't change that. The team led by Ludwig (10 goals), Mödrath (28 matches) and the 1. FC Saarbrücken committed Roland Stegmayer (14 goals), was a total of 84 goals scored by Bayer 04 Leverkusen the best attacking team in the league. When Ludwig wanted to leave Fortuna Cologne after the season, it was Jean Löring who prevented Ludwig from finding a new club with a high transfer fee. Only after months of unemployment was the attacker able to present a new employer to the second division club Freiburger FC . So it took until November 17, 1979 before Ludwig completed his first game in the 1979/80 season . Together with Reinhold Fanz , who was also signed by the FFC at short notice, he made his debut in the 1-1 draw in the local derby against SC Freiburg. Freiburg FC stayed in the middle of the table for most of the season and finished in ninth place at the end of the season, the FFC's best placement in the 2nd Bundesliga. With his eleven goals, Otmar Ludwig was the second best goalscorer for the Möslestadion team after Werner Seubert . Ludwig's personal highlight of the season was certainly his performance in the 10-2 victory of the FFC over the Würzburger FV , when he contributed five goals to the Freiburg record win in the 2nd Bundesliga. He is one of the ten players who managed to score five or more goals - Ottmar Hitzfeld was the only one to score six goals in a game - in a game in the 2nd Bundesliga. In the following season Ludwig wore the jersey of the North Hessian second division promoter Hessen Kassel . The team around the former German national player Klaus Zaczyk was able to occupy a good fourth place in the final accounts in their first season in the 2nd Bundesliga. As the team's top scorer, Ludwig made a significant contribution to the strong season in North Hesse with fifteen goals this season. As soon as Ludwig scored in a game, Hessen Kassel no longer suffered defeat. Since the single-track 2nd Bundesliga was introduced for the 1981/82 season, the final placement of the clubs in the 1980/81 season played a special role. As a newcomer, Hessen Kassel had no chance to qualify for the single-track 2. Bundesliga using the number of places (a point rating that took into account the final positions of the last three seasons in the 2nd Bundesliga before the 1981/82 season). In addition to the teams qualified by the number of places, the runners-up who were not promoted as well as the thirds and fourths of the 2nd Bundesliga North + South secured a starting place in the new class. In order to definitely qualify, Hessen Kassel had to occupy one of the first four places in the final table of the 1980/81 season. This was ensured by the “Löwen” on matchday 37 with a 1-0 win over FSV Frankfurt . As Ludwig did not accept that the club wanted to shorten the agreed with the players participating in the gate receipts, he moved to the 1981-82 season back in the Breisgau to SC Freiburg. There the attacker could not quite match his usual goal quota in his two second division seasons for the club and scored twelve goals in a total of 42 games for the SC. In its first season in Freiburg, the club was in danger of relegation for a long time before it was able to secure relegation through four games in a row without defeat (6: 2 points) in the final spurt of the season. The 1982/83 season took the opposite course . For a long time the SC was within striking distance of the promotion places, but 8:12 points from the last ten games of the season ensured that the club, for which Ludwig was active, was once again denied promotion to the 1st Bundesliga. After a short interlude at VfL Herzlake in the Lower Saxony Association League , Ludwig ended his playing career.

Time after active professional career

After his football career, Ludwig planned to work as a tennis coach, although by his own account he had "never picked up a racket" at that time . After ten months of training in Switzerland, he had earned his tennis teacher diploma. From 1990 he worked as a trainer for the first women's team at the Ford Cologne tennis club. He was also the operator of a tennis hall and, as of 2004, owner of a sports shop in Cologne. Furthermore, he is the holder of the A license of the DFB and a member of the coaching staff of the "Düren Football School".

Web links

Notes & individual references

  1. ↑ There are various details on this. In their game dictionary 1963-1994, Karn / Rehberg name the number of 108 goals. Matthias Weinrich is in the 2nd league in 25 years. The second division almanac. again 107 hits and according to fussballdaten.de Ludwig scored 109 times in the 2nd Bundesliga. The information on the 2nd Bundesliga in this article is based on the figures from Karn / Rehberg.
  2. ↑ Best list of all times of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in the javelin throw of the students M14 with the 600 g javelin (PDF, p. 23; 703 kB) on lvrheinland.de. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
  3. ^ Robert Hohensee, Christoph Huber, Ulrich Matheja, Peter Schütz: Kicker Fußball-Almanach 2008 . Copress Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7679-0905-2 , pp. 312 .
  4. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Otmar Ludwig - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. April 17, 2014. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
  5. ↑ Regionalliga Südwest 1973/1974 season incl. Five-year rating and promotion regulation on wormatia.de. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
  6. ↑ FC 08 Homburg - Karlsruher SC on fussballdaten.de. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
  7. ↑ FC 08 Homburg - VfR Wormatia Worms on fussballdaten.de. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
  8. ↑ 1. FC Nürnberg - FC 08 Homburg on fussballdaten.de. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
  9. ↑ FC 08 Homburg - Borussia Neunkirchen on fussballdaten.de. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
  10. ↑ a b Axel Pollheim: Lück like me and you. 50 years of SC Fortuna Cologne . Ed .: SC Fortuna Köln eV 2. Erw. Edition. Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-00-002350-X , p. 169 .
  11. ^ Fortuna Cologne - FC St. Pauli on fussballdaten.de. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
  12. ↑ Fortuna Cologne - SC Göttingen 05 on fussballdaten.de. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
  13. ↑ Axel Pollheim: Luck like me and you. 50 years of SC Fortuna Cologne . Ed .: SC Fortuna Köln eV 2. Erw. Edition. Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-00-002350-X , p. 393 .
  14. ^ Westfalia Herne - Fortuna Cologne on fussballdaten.de. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
  15. ^ Fortuna Cologne - Arminia Bielefeld on fussballdaten.de. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
  16. ^ Fortuna Cologne - Preussen Munster on fussballdaten.de. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
  17. ↑ a b Axel Pollheim: Lück like me and you. 50 years of SC Fortuna Cologne . Ed .: SC Fortuna Köln eV 2. Erw. Edition. Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-00-002350-X , p. 170 .
  18. ↑ Bayer Uerdingen - Fortuna Cologne on fussballdaten.de. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
  19. ↑ Match report SC Freiburg 1: 1 Freiburg FC (jpg) on images.worldsoft-cms.info. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
  20. ↑ Match report Freiburg FC 10: 2 Würzburger FV (jpg) on images.worldsoft-cms.info. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
  21. ^ Matthias Weinreich: 25 years 2nd division. The second division almanac . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-145-2 , p. 8-56 .
  22. ↑ Otmar Ludwig's game data for the 1980/81 season on fussballdaten.de. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
  23. ↑ Kicker Sportmagazin (Ed.): Special issue Bundesliga 80/81 . Olympia-Verlag, Nuremberg 1980, p. 181-184 .
  24. ↑ KSV Hessen Kassel - FSV Frankfurt ( Memento from August 14, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) on ksvhessenkassel.de. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
  25. ↑ a b Otmar Ludwig's profile ( memento from February 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on ksvhessenkassel.de. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
  26. ↑ SC Freiburg season 1981/82 on fussballdaten.de. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
  27. ^ 1982/83 season of SC Freiburg on fussballdaten.de. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
  28. ↑ Season summaries of VfL Herzlake ( Memento of the original from November 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on vfl-herzlake.de. Retrieved February 24, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vfl-herzlake.de
  29. ↑ Chronicle of the TCFK (PDF, p. 37; 12.7 MB) on tcfk.de. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
  30. ↑ coaching staff of the Düren football school on duerenerfussballschule.de. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Ludwig, Otmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Kriegsfeld , Germany