Peter Osterhoff
Peter Osterhoff (born August 25, 1937 in Hamburg ) is a former German soccer player . From 1958 to 1970 he played for FC St. Pauli , whose most successful goalscorer he is with 171 goals in the upper and regional leagues to this day.
Senior league years (1958–1963)
"Oschi" Osterhoff came in 1958 with the recommendation of 60 goals in 22 point games for the DSC Stern / Pfeil to FC St. Pauli, with which he had helped the SC from Dulsberg to rise to the Association League Hamburg, the third highest division at the time. Together with Horst Haeck , who was one year older , he soon formed an extremely goal-hungry attacking duo near St. Pauli. The striker , who usually came from the left , first drew attention to himself for the first time in the 1959/60 season, when he finished second among the Oberliga Nord goal scorers with 20 goals this season behind Uwe Seeler . In the following two years, too, he was highly successful due to his speed and goal instinct and increased his hit rate further: In 1960/61 21 goals behind Seeler and Arnold Schütz ( Werder Bremen ) meant third place, in 1961/62 Osterhoff scored 27 goals - only "us Uwe" could complete one more time. In these years, FC St. Pauli never did better than fourth place in the table and therefore had no chance of a place in the Bundesliga, created in 1963 .
Regional League (1963-1970)
In return, the striker, also known as “black peter” because of his hair color, became champions twice with his Paulians in the following second division seasons, and in between he was runner-up in the Regionalliga Nord and took part in the respective promotion rounds to the Bundesliga. In 1964, despite four Osterhoff goals, the FC failed relatively clearly to Borussia Neunkirchen , Bayern Munich and Tasmania 1900 Berlin ; In 1965 he was eliminated in the qualifying games against the South Second SSV Reutlingen 05 . In 1966, however, the promotion was only missed by a hair's breadth: despite two wins in direct encounters against the Essen Red-Whites , the "Kiezkicker" against Schweinfurt 05 and 1. FC Saarbrücken failed to use this advantage, so Essen did so if there was a tie had better goal difference and St. Pauli remained second class.
In the following season 1966/67 the striker had his sights again set particularly well and with 24 goals was second best league scorer behind Günter Pröpper from VfL Osnabrück . The joy was clouded by the serious injury that forced his long-time strike partner Horst Haecks to end his career in the first half of the season. In the last few years at St. Pauli, Osterhoff played mostly withdrawn in the left defensive position ; his successors in the storm were Horst Romes and Alfred Hussner .
When Peter Osterhoff moved to the amateur league team Duwo 08 after twelve years at Millerntor in 1970 , he had scored 86 goals in 138 first division games and 85 goals in 169 second division games for FC St. Pauli; there were also eleven games with seven goals in the promotion rounds to the Bundesliga and twelve games with six goals in the North German national team in the early 1960s. In 1972, "Oschi" ended the competitive sport chapter for itself.
literature
- 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 .
- Ralf Hohmann / German Sports Club for Football Statistics e. V .: Football in Hamburg 1945 to 1963. All leagues, all tables, all results. AGON, Kassel 2007 ISBN 978-3-89784-333-2
- Ulrich Homann (Hrsg.): Hellfire on Ascension. The history of the promotion rounds to the Bundesliga 1963–1974. Klartext, Essen 1990, ISBN 3-88474-346-5 .
- Bernd Jankowski, Harald Pistorius, Jens Reimer Prüß : Football in the North. 100 years of the North German Football Association. History, chronicle, names, dates, facts, figures. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-270-X .
- Hardy Grüne, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
- René Martens: Miracles always happen. The history of FC St. Pauli. The workshop, Göttingen 2002 ISBN 3-89533-375-1
- 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 .
Remarks
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Osterhoff, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |