Otto Geisert

Otto Geisert
Personnel
birthday	November 18, 1939
place of birth	Nordhorn ,  Germany
size	180 cm
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
0000-1962	Eintracht Nordhorn
1962-1965	Karlsruher SC	70 (25)
1965-1970	1. FC Kaiserslautern	153 (21)
1970-1971	Royal Charleroi Sporting Club	24 0(7)
1971-1974	FC 08 Homburg	55 (23)
1974 - ????	FV Kusel
1 Only league games are given.

Otto Geisert (born November 18, 1939 in Nordhorn ) is a former German soccer player . In his active time he stood u. a. under contract with Karlsruher SC and 1. FC Kaiserslautern and scored the first (flawless) hat trick in the Bundesliga .

Career

Oberliga North and South

Geisert played for Eintracht Nordhorn in the 1961/62 season in the Oberliga Nord . Before the final round of the Oberliga Süd 1962/63 , the 22-year-old striker moved from the relegated Oberliga Nord, Eintracht Nordhorn, to the Karlsruhe Wildlife Park in the summer of 1962 . He came to Baden with the recommendation of 20 goals in 30 league games in the 1961/62 season. With his 15 goals, he made an active contribution to reaching 5th place at the KSC. Since the most dangerous attacker from Karlsruhe stood next to Geisert with eleven goals ( Horst Wild ), the hit rate of the ex-Nordhorn was important. The final placement was essential for qualifying for the Bundesliga.

Bundesliga

In the Bundesliga, Otto Geisert represented the colors of the KSC in 45 games between 1963 and 1965 and scored ten goals. In the 1964/65 season he retired from the center-forward position to midfield.

For the 1965/66 season he was signed by 1. FC Kaiserslautern , for whom he was active in five seasons under the coaches Gyula Lóránt , Otto Knefler , Egon Piechaczek and again in 1969/70 - Geisert played 33 point games and scored nine goals - Lorant was active . During this time he played 153 league games on the Betzenberg , in which he scored 21 goals. Then the Bundesliga chapter was over for him. On the final day of the 1969/70 season, in the 2: 4 defeat in the away game against Hannover 96 , he played his last Bundesliga game.

Career finale

For the 1970/71 season he moved to Belgium for the first division club Royal Charleroi Sporting Club . There he came to 7 goals in 24 games. In 1971 he came back to the southwest, he moved to FC 08 Homburg in the Regionalliga Südwest and met his former KSC trainer Kurt Sommerlatt there . After three seasons, the end of his playing career came in the summer of 1974 after 55 regional league appearances and 22 goals for the almost 35-year-old. Geisert was also active in the FCH when the team from Homburg won the association game at SV Alsenborn with 8: 6 goals on February 18, 1973 . He scored two goals for Uwe Klimaschefski's team . In the last year of the second-rate regional league system, 1973/74 , he finished third in the southwest with Homburg behind Borussia Neunkirchen and 1. FC Saarbrücken . He played his last competitive game on March 3, 1974 in the 3-2 defeat in the away game against 1. FC Saarbrücken, when he came on for Manfred Lenz in the 46th minute . For FC Homburg he scored 23 goals in 55 games.

First hat trick in Bundesliga history

Geisert was on October 5, 1963 (6th matchday) of the newly founded top German division, the first player to succeed in a hat trick . In the game between 1. FC Nürnberg and Karlsruher SC, he scored three times between the 55th and 90th minute and ensured the victory of his team after the 1: 2 break deficit. For once, Geisert played in the unfamiliar position of the left winger in this game.

Web links

• Otto Geisert in the database of weltfussball.de
• Otto Geisert in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Otto Geisert in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Players A – Z (bung bottle) , visited on March 17, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "The first of its kind" on weltfussball.de
2. ↑ Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , p. 151.
3. ↑ Match report on fussballdaten.de
4. ↑ The forgotten hat trick. Otto Geisert - a Bundesliga story with a delay of 50 years. In: New Osnabrück Newspaper. 5th October 2013.