Peter Ehlers (soccer player, 1933)

Hans-Peter Ehlers (1965)

Hans-Peter Ehlers (* 22. January 1933 in Kiel , † 5. June 2017 ) was a German football player , - coach , and - functionary . From 1953 to 1963, Ehlers, who started out often as a striker, later mostly in midfield as an outside runner in the World Cup system practiced at the time, and at the end of his playing career as a libero , Ehlers played 281 league games in the first-class football Oberliga Nord with 37 goals for Holstein Kiel . This makes Peter Ehlers the record player for Kiel in the Oberliga Nord. From 1990 to 1999 he was first chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein Football Association (SHFV) and later, until his death, SHFV honorary president.

career

As a player

Peter Ehlers was mostly a midfielder (former name: runner), came from Union-Teutonia Kiel via VfB Kiel and played for Holstein Kiel from 1953 to 1966 . To this day he is the record player of KSV Holstein with a total of 368 league appearances in championship and promotion games. First he played for many years as a striker and scored a total of 48 goals, later he was also libero and defender. After the North Vice Championship in 1953, Ehlers came to Holstein Kiel for the 1953/54 season. Under coach Hans Tauchert he made his debut on September 20, 1953 in a 2-1 home win against Eimsbütteler TV in the Oberliga Nord. In the 35th minute, the newcomer used on the half-left scored the 2-0 intermediate result for KSV. In his debut season he made 23 league appearances in which he scored ten goals alongside teammates such as Bernd Oles , Emil Maier , Henry Peper (goalkeeper) and Karl Schradi . From his second Holstein season, 1954/55, he got to know and appreciate the working methods of the trainer Helmuth Johannsen and attacker Diether Trede also joined. In the 1956/57 season , Kiel reached with Ehlers (28 games - four goals) and teammates such as Peper, Hermann Clausen, Kurt Müller, Dieter Biendara, Helmut Schmuck, Günter Matthies, Alfred Bornemann , Horst Christiansen, Harald Hardtke, Trede, Hans- Detlef Moers and Horst Mund the runner-up in the Oberliga Nord, two points behind the northern series champion Hamburger SV. Before the actual final round of the German soccer championship , the runners-up from North and South Germany had to play a qualifying game. On May 25, 1957 Kickers Offenbach prevailed 3-2 after extra time in front of 35,000 spectators in the Düsseldorf Rheinstadion. Kiel was with Ehlers after two goals from Bornemann at half time with a 2-0 lead. In the 118th minute, a goal from Gerhard Kaufhold decided the game for the runner-up from the Oberliga Süd.

On June 29, 1957, he was selected by the North German Football Association in Karlsruhe for the representative game against South Germany (2-2). Forty years later, Ehlers became its vice-president (1997 to 2000) and has been an honorary member of the NFV ever since. When Bornemann scored 20 goals in the league in the 1958/59 season and the KSV still only reached 10th place (Ehlers: 29-5), the team in the blue-white-red dress took an Easter trip to the GDR in 1959 Play through in Dresden and Leipzig. In Johannsen's last coaching year, 1960/61, the “Störche” amateurs won the title of German amateur champion and players like Peter Wittmaack, Rudolf Balsam and Dieter Krafczyk gained their first experiences in the league next to Ehlers, who played all 30 league games when they reached the 7. Graduated from Ranges. In the last two rounds of the old first-class Oberliga Nord, Ehlers and colleagues took fifth place in 1962 and 1963 under Johannsen's successor Erich Wolf. From the Oberliga Nord, the teams from Hamburger SV, Werder Bremen and Eintracht Braunschweig were added to the new Bundesliga from the 1963/64 season. At the beginning of June 1963, Kiel made a trip to Iceland. From 1953 to 1963 Ehlers had completed 281 league games with 37 goals in the then first-class Oberliga Nord.

In the first year in the second -rate regional football league North , 1963/64, the men around Captain Ehlers (28-7) again took fifth place. In the second year of the Regionalliga, 1964/65 , after an impressive 94:41 goals and 52:12 points, the championship was celebrated with a ten point lead. Captain Ehlers (33-2) was responsible for the defense together with goalkeeper Franz Möck, defenders Rudi Balsam, Jürgen Harm and runners Werner Bähnck and Günter Tams . Outstanding in this round was the attack formation with Josef Pistauer, Franz-Josef Hönig , Gerd Koll , Gerd Saborowski and Manfred Podlich. Kiel started the Bundesliga promotion round on May 29 with a 1-1 home draw against SSV Reutlingen. Braunschweig trainer Helmuth Johannsen took over the supervision of the Kiel team on this occasion. The second day of the group led the northern champions to the surprising western champions Borussia Mönchengladbach on June 5th. In the Bökelberg Stadium, which was packed to the brim with 35,000 spectators , Kiel held a deserved 0-0 draw until the 92nd minute. Ehlers and colleagues - Jürgen Rohweder had also strengthened the midfield - kept the highly praised "foal" attack with Herbert L Genealogie , Jupp Heynckes , Bernd Rupp , Günter Netzer and Werner Waddey in check with consistent man-marking. Captain Ehlers committed a foul on Heynckes in the 92nd minute, the referee imposed a free kick and Ehlers had to leave the pitch. Stopper Egon Milder headed the free kick to make Gladbach's 1-0 success. For Ehlers, the promotion round was over after two games.

After third place in the 1965/66 season , tied with runners-up Göttingen 05, Ehlers ended his playing career after 83 regional league games with 11 goals in the summer of 1966.

Trainer and functionary

Test match on the university sports field on Olshausenstrasse in Kiel. In the picture the trainer Hans-Peter Ehlers (3rd from left), the twin brothers Baumanns (2nd and 4th from left) and Ulrich Schulz (1st from left).

After his active career he became a coach at SV Friedrichsort and for four years (1968 to 72) coach of Holstein Kiel in the second-rate Regionalliga Nord. In the 1969/70 season he narrowly missed entry into the BL promotion round with Kiel as third in the table. This was followed by two more years as a member of the KSV board, until he went to the Schleswig-Holstein Football Association (SHFV). From 1990 to 1999 the father of two sons and Ehlers, who lived in Kiel-Altenholz, was first chairman there and later until his death SHFV honorary president.

literature

• Patrick Nawe: 100 years of Holstein Kiel: Kieler SV Holstein from 1900 . Berliner Sportverlag, 2000, ISBN 3-328-00891-8 . P. 99 (portrait)
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 69.
• 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. 116.
• 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 , pp. 91-95.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SHFV mourns honorary president Peter Ehlers. In: dfb.de. German Football Association , June 6, 2017, accessed June 7, 2017.
2. ↑ KSV mourns the loss of Peter Ehler's holstein-kiel.de on June 6, 2017

Web links

• The Peter Ehlers story holstein-kiel.de from June 7, 2017