Otto Render

Otto Render (born April 16, 1926 in Siegelbach ; † April 11, 1969 ) was a German football player and coach who won the German football championship as an active player at 1. FC Kaiserslautern in 1953 and as coach of SV Alsenborn in what was then the second class Football Regionalliga Südwest twice in 1968 and 1969 has won the championship.

career

Player - until 1964

Otto Render's football career began in the youth department of the “Blauen” from the Waldstadion am Erbsenberg at VfR Kaiserslautern and led him and his teammates to the championship in 1949 - Fritz Walter coached the VfR in 1948/49 - in the Southwest-West Palatinate regional league , in the soccer league southwest , group north. In their debut year in the league, 1949/50, the derbies were clearly lost against the "Reds" from 1. FCK with 1: 9 and 0: 3 goals. In the second year, 1950/51, the defeats remained with 0: 2 and 0: 3 goals in the frame. In both years, the VfR took ninth place. Render, he mostly played as the half left or the left outside runner position, played 55 league games for VfR from 1949 to 1951 and scored 21 goals alongside his teammates Ludwig Glaiber, Heinz Grzenia, Robert Jung and Herbert Schroer . For the round of 1951/52 he received an offer from Betzenbergelf and exchanged his jersey and stadium by moving to the first German championship 1. FCK.

In his first round at the Walter-Elf, he was a member of the regular team with 28 appearances in 1951/52. In the first half of the season 1. FCK won the home game in the local derby with 4-1 goals against VfR, but surprisingly lost on Matchday 29, 23 March 1952, on the Erbsenberg with 2-4 goals, against the former national striker Ernst Willimowski cited "blue ones". Render and colleagues only came third in the southwest, behind champions 1. FC Saarbrücken and TuS Neuendorf. In the second year of Render with the "Red Devils", 1952/53, the pursuers from Neuendorf and Saarbrücken were kept at a distance of seven points and the championship was won with 51: 9 points. During the league season it did not go well for Render, in only nine missions he was able to actively contribute to winning the title. In the final round of the German championship in 1953, however, he was again part of the regular line-up who made it into the final with 11: 1 points. With Horst Eckel and Werner Liebrich he formed the runner-up of the Lauterer in the final on June 21st in Berlin in front of 80,000 spectators in a 4-1 victory against defending champion VfB Stuttgart .

In the next two seasons - 1953/54 and 1954/55 - he was also a member of the series championship in the Oberliga Südwest, which in the 1954 world championship year achieved 30: 0 points in 15 home games and scored 139 goals Record result of the single-track southwest league reached. The reliable team player in midfield moved into the final of the German championship twice with 1. FCK. He lost in 1954 and 1955 with Kaiserslautern the finals against Hannover 96 and Rot-Weiss Essen and could not repeat the championship win of 1953. From 1953 to 1957 Render completed 18 final round matches with FCK and scored one goal. His last league appearance for Lautern he completed on April 14, 1958 in the 6-2 home win against 1. FC Saarbrücken. A total of 101 league appearances with eight goals were made for Render at FCK from 1951 to 1958. At the age of 32 he signed a new contract for the 1958/59 round with Sportfreunde Saarbrücken , who had made it back to the league as runner-up in the 2nd Southwest League.

On the fourth game day, September 7, 1958, he was a member of the Sportfreunde-Elf, who were able to beat 1. FCK with a 2-0 home win. At the end of the round, he finished sixth in the table with the promoted team and had scored four goals in 23 appearances. He stayed with Sportfreunde for two more years, but no longer played a decisive role due to an injury and ended his career as a contract footballer with the game on February 5, 1961 against Tura Ludwigshafen. From 1958 to 1961 he played 35 league games for Saarbrücken and scored four goals. Overall, Otto Render is listed in the statistics of the Oberliga Südwest from 1949 to 1961 with 191 games and 33 goals.

SV Alsenborn - 1962 to 1969

Player, player-coach, coach

The 36-year-old Otto Render joined the Palatinate A-class club SV Alsenborn, twelve kilometers from his home town of Kaiserslautern, as a player for the 1962/63 round. His former FCK teammate Edgar Fischer worked there as player-coach for the blue-whites , Willi Hölz guarded the goal, Lorenz Horr drew attention to himself with playmaker qualities and goal danger and the honorary captain of the national soccer team, Fritz Walter, was the small but ambitious village club advisory at the side. During the round 1963/64 he took over the position of player-coach in the 2nd Amateur League West Palatinate from Edgar Fischer, who was still active as a player, and celebrated promotion to the 1st Amateur League South West with his team and club. For coaches, teams and those in charge, the 1st amateur league was only a transit station, the SVA celebrated the third championship in 1965 in front of the competitors from Schifferstadt and Dahn, and in the promotion round against Bendorf and Ludweiler, promotion to the regional soccer league Southwest. The 38-year-old had now worked exclusively as a trainer and trusted the quality of the newcomers Gerhard Ahrens , Lothar Christmann, Manfred Feldmüller , Fritz Fuchs , Roland Kirsch and Klaus Schmidt .

The first regional league game took place for coach Render and his team from SV Alsenborn on August 14, 1965 in front of 2,500 spectators in the stadium at the Kinderlehre stadium against SV Völklingen with "World Champion" Horst Eckel. With a surprising 5-0 success, the coach and team started into the new league. At the end of the season Alsenborn finished ninth. The start of the second regional round was also successful: Render's team achieved a 2-0 start at Wormatia Worms on August 21, 1966 with the newcomers Manfred Krei , Werner Mangold and Jürgen Schieck . Alsenborn finished eighth at the end of the round with 32:28 points. The third round start, 1967/68, was set by Otto Render's team - at the end of 1967 he successfully completed his training as an A-license trainer and the “unofficial” appointment of Fritz Walter as a trainer was therefore irrelevant - on August 13, 1967 due to the surprising 0: 2 home defeat against Saar 05 Saarbrücken in the sand. Then the SVA with coach Render increased its home record to 28: 2 points, added 23: 7 points in the away games and won the championship in the southwest with 51: 9 points . Render's team scored the most goals and received the fewest goals in 30 games, conceding 21 goals. The best goal scorers were Jürgen Schieck with 31 and Lorenz Horr with 24 goals. With a sobering 0-3 away defeat on May 18, 1968, Alsenborn started the promotion round in Göttingen, took three points from Hertha BSC, who would later return to the Bundesliga, in the two games and ended up behind Hertha and Rot-Weiss Essen with 8: 8 points the third rank. The title win in the southwest and the appearance in the promotion round were the hallmarks of Otto Render's sporty, conscientious and humane coaching work.

When the round of 1968/69 ended on the 30th matchday on May 11, 1969, Alsenborn had defended the title tied with TuS Neuendorf, but suffered two tragic accidents during the season. First left winger Josef Sattmann had an accident on October 27, 1968 in a car accident and suffered a fractured skull base and team supervisor Obermüller died at the scene of the accident. Two days before the home game on the 27th matchday against FC Homburg, on April 11, 1969, Otto Render was killed in a traffic accident on the Lautertal bridge of the federal motorway 6 . On the drive home from training, he got off track on a wet road, broke through a railing and fell into the depths. Despite three point losses in the last two league games against Trier and Neunkirchen, the shocked team saved the title defense just over the rounds and moved back into the promotion round.

Professionally, Otto Render was employed in a design office at the iron works in Kaiserslautern .

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 .
• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The fear of the devil in front of the pea mountain. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963. Klartext, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 .
• Ulrich Homann (Ed.), "Höllgenglut an Himmelfahrt", The story of the promotion rounds to the Bundesliga 1963–1974, Klartext-Verlag, 1990, pp. 55–63, ISBN 3-88474-346-5 .
• Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 2: Bundesliga & Co. 1963 to today. 1st division, 2nd division, GDR Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-113-1 , p. 55 (SV Alsenborn).