Peter Diringer

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Peter Diringer (born March 15, 1947 in Mannheim ; † July 21, 2020 ) was a German football player who played 64 competitive games with eleven goals as a midfielder at VfL Neckarau and VfR Mannheim in the then second -rate regional football league South and in the debut year of the 2 . Football Bundesliga 1974/75 with the blue-white-red grass players completed 28 second division games with three goals. The son of the Gauliga and senior league keeper Otto Diringer was a top performer in the championship and promotion teams from Neckarau and Mannheim to the Regionalliga Süd in 1967/68 and 1973/74 .

Athletic career

Neckarau, until 1972

In the last A youth year, 1963/64, the playful and technically outstanding talented son of the legendary Gauligatorkeeper Otto Diringer, Peter, won the A youth district championship in Mannheim with his teammates from VfL Neckarau. The athletic path of the midfielder led him directly to the first team of the blue-whites from the Waldweg Stadium for the 1964/65 season. Under coach Philipp "Fips" Rohr , VfL won the championship in the 2nd amateur league Rhein-Neckar, season 2 with 115:25 goals and 48: 4 points and also defeated ASV Durlach's rivals Viktoria Wertheim in the promotion round , FC Neureut and VfB Wiesloch and rose to the 1st Amateur League North Baden . In the first two rounds, the class could be held with 12th and 11th place respectively. The young midfielder from Neckarau was used for the first time on September 18, 1966 in the competition for the national cup in the selection of North Baden. In Pforzheim the Nordbad team, supervised by former Bundesliga coach Herbert Widmayer , won 4-2 against the representatives of Württemberg; Diringer appeared as a half-left at the side of players like Walter Kitter and Horst Kunzmann . When Nordbaden secured the state cup with a 2-1 win against Hessen on May 15, 1967, Diringer was not in the final formation.

In the third year of the 1st amateur league, 1967/68, Neckarau and the teammates around Peter Diringer first celebrated the title win in North Baden and then in the promotion round against TSF Esslingen, SC Freiburg and FC Wangen, the promotion to the then second-rate regional football league South . The start in the regional league was successful on August 18, 1968 with a 1-0 home win against SpVgg Fürth; Diringer was in front of 4,000 spectators in the left midfield. In the second home game, on September 1, the Bundesliga relegated and later regional league champion Karlsruher SC came to Neckarau and after a 0-0 halftime score in front of 10,000 spectators, in the end just 2-1 against the home team. While well-known football greats were involved on the KSC side with Jupp Marx , Helmut Kafka , Klaus Slatina , Jürgen Weidlandt , Horst Blechinger , David Scheu , Theo Menkhaus and Christian Müller , it was on the host side with Peter Diringer's teammates with players like Goalkeepers Hans-Werner Laabs, Charles Adler, Alfred Kull, Karl-Heinz Thiele, Wolfgang Poly, Rudolf Geier, Ernst Zinser, Fritz Preissler and the coach's sons Hans and Rüdiger Rohr are not given under any circumstances. The Neckarau were only good amateur footballers from the North Baden amateur area and had a recognized football specialist as their coach. In the local derbies against VfR Mannheim (2: 4, 0: 0) and SV Waldhof (1: 1, 0: 0) Diringer and colleagues showed respectable performances, but after the 1-1 on the last round matchday, May 11th In 1969, with a 1-1 draw at SV Darmstadt 98, Neckarau was relegated to the amateur camp as 16th out of the 18-team with 26:42 points. Diringer had only missed one of the 34 point games and scored four goals.

The midfield technician stayed with VfL and celebrated the runner-up in North Baden in the first year after relegation, in 1969/70 , alongside new teammates Gerd Störzer and Günter Oleknavicius, and thus entered the competition for the amateur championship . There they failed in the semifinals against defending champions SC Jülich in 1910 after a 1: 3 defeat after extra time in the second leg. With the selection of North Baden Diringer moved in the regional cup competition to the final, which ended on October 6, 1971 with a 0-2 defeat against Bavaria. In the next two rounds Neckarau took 4th place and Diringer gave in to the advertising of VfR Mannheim for the 1972/73 season and from then on played with the lawn players.

VfR Mannheim, from 1972 to 1975

Right away he celebrated the championship in the first amateur league North Baden in 1973 alongside teammates like Klaus Schmidt and Jürgen Schieck , as well as under coach Heiner Ueberle with 112: 34 goals and 54: 6 points . In the promotion round, the VfR prevailed against the competition from FC Villingen, Ulm 1846 and SC Baden-Baden and rose to the Regionalliga Süd.

In the last year of the second-rate regional league, 1973/74 , it was primarily a matter of being nominated for the 2nd Bundesliga, which started in 1974/75. After a desperate 7-0 defeat at SpVgg Bayreuth on September 15, 1973, VfR scored 11-3 points from the next seven rounds and was back in the race for places in the 2nd Bundesliga under Ueberle's successor Gunther Baumann . In the 4: 7 goal in the local derby against SV Waldhof on March 16, 1974, the penalty specialist converted two penalties in front of 12,000 spectators. He repeated the same thing on March 30th in a 5-4 home win against VfR Heilbronn. Since Hessen Kassel, Freiburg FC and Jahn Regensburg ended up on the relegation spots, VfR Mannheim qualified 13th for the 2nd Bundesliga despite poor points from the past. Diringer had scored seven goals in 31 league games.

With an 8:30 away record and 18:20 home points, Diringer and his teammates such as Bernd Detterer , Bernhard Schwarzweller , Rolf Schmitt , Ludwig Hartmann (14 goals) and Manfred Mattes could not successfully survive the relegation battle in the debut year of the 2nd Bundesliga. Even the change of coach in November 1974 from Baumann to Hermann Jöckel did not bring the hoped-for improvement. Diringer played his last game in the 2nd Bundesliga on June 8, 1975 in a 1-1 draw at FC Augsburg. In total, he had completed 28 second division games with three goals in the 1974/75 season . After relegation, he rejoined his hometown club VfL Neckarau.

Return and end of the playing career in Neckarau, 1975 to 1979

With VfL slipping into the Mannheim A-class, Diringer immediately became champion of the A-class south in the 1975/76 season, and in the following year 1976/77 champion in the 2nd amateur league Rhein-Neckar, season 2. After a third place In 1978/79 in the Association League North Baden with VfL Neckarau, Peter Diringer ended his long and successful playing career.

When the “Franz Beckenbauer Foundation” played a charity game in Mannheim on July 24, 1985 between the “Uwe Seeler traditional team” and a Mannheim selection of former contract players in the Waldhof Stadium in front of 7,000 spectators, the Neckarau resident again laced his midfield Kick shoes at the side of Walter Pradt , Wolfgang Platz , Karlheinz Harm , Walter Duttenhofer and Ludwig Hartmann in the 6-2 success of the prominent guest team (Franz Beckenbauer, Jürgen Grabowski, Uwe Seeler, Gerd Müller, Wolfgang Overath, Bernd Hölzenbein, Sigfried Held , Lothar Emmerich).

Private

Peter Diringer took over the civil engineering company from his father Otto and ran it in the second generation. On October 20, 2016, Peter Diringer was honored by VfL Kurpfalz Neckarau for his 60-year membership at the general assembly. The civil engineer died on July 21, 2020.

literature

  • Gerhard Zeilinger: Triumph and decline in Mannheim's football sport 1945 to 1970. Odenwälder printing works. Buchen-Walldürn 1995. ISBN 3-929295-14-8 .
  • Gerhard Zeilinger: Mannheim, the somewhat different Bundesliga city 1970 to 1997. Odenwälder printing company. Buchen-Walldürn 1997. ISBN 3-929295-29-6 .
  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 9: Player Lexicon 1963-1994. Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , p. 102.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.morgenweb.de/mannheimer-morgen_artikel,-fussball-peter-diringer-gestorben-_arid,1666358.html
  2. ↑ https://trauerverbindungen-mannheimer-morgen.morgenweb.de/trauerbeispiel/peter-diringer
  3. ^ Rehberg, Karn: Spiellexikon 1963–1994. P. 102
  4. ↑ Gerhard Zeilinger: Triumph and decline in Mannheim's football sport 1945 to 1970. P. 183
  5. ↑ Gerhard Zeilinger: Triumph and decline in Mannheim's football sport 1945 to 1970. P. 203
  6. ↑ 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. 39.
  7. ^ Gerhard Zeilinger: Mannheim, the somewhat different Bundesliga city 1970 to 1997. P. 155
personal data
SURNAME Diringer, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 2020