Rolf Bauerkämper

Rolf Bauerkämper (born February 24, 1947 ) is a former German soccer player . The midfielder is with SC Fortuna Köln in 1973 from the Regionalliga West in the Bundesliga ascended.

career

Amateur and Regionalliga West until 1973

The Bauerkämper, who played in midfield and in the storm, played his way into the DFB's notebook in the 1966/67 season as an offensive player for SSVg Velbert in the Niederrhein Association. On April 12, 1967, the 20-year-old made his debut in the international match in Gladbeck against Holland in the German national soccer team of amateurs . The team of DFB trainer Udo Lattek won the game with 4-0 goals and the talent from Velbert excelled as a goal scorer in the half-forward position. When the later record national player of the DFB amateurs, Egon Schmitt , made his debut in the amateur team on May 25, 1967, Bauerkämper was the last player in the SSVg Velbert. He moved to the Essen Uhlenkrug for the 1967/68 round and played in the future with Black and White Essen in the West Regional Football League . In September and October 1967 he played two more amateur international games, including the Olympic qualifier against Great Britain in Augsburg. Coach Horst Witzler brought the newcomer to use for the first time in the second-class regional league at the start of the round on August 13, 1967, in the 2-1 defeat at Eintracht Gelsenkirchen. The young center forward Hans Walitza scored 15 goals this season and Schwarz-Weiß Essen took seventh place. From 1967 to 1971 Bauerkämper played a total of 120 regional league games for ETB and scored 23 goals.

Around 1971/72 he accepted the offer of President Hans Löring of Fortuna Cologne and moved to the cathedral city together with center forward Rolf Kucharski . In the first year, Fortuna took third place in the Western League in 1972, and in 1973 they moved into the Bundesliga promotion round through the runner -up. In this, Bauerkämper played all eight games against the competitors St. Pauli, Mainz 05, Karlsruher SC and Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin. He scored three goals for the team of coach Martin Luppen on the side of Günter Oleknavicius , Wolfgang Glock , Noel Campbell , Friedhelm Otters , Helmut Bergfelder , Kucharski, Karl-Heinz Mödrath and Wolfgang Thier and rose to the Bundesliga with Fortune . In total, he came in two rounds of regional league in Cologne to 56 league games and scored 14 goals.

Bundesliga and second division, 1973 to 1978

Fortuna President Löring tackled the Bundesliga challenge with Volker Kottmann as coach. Bauerkämper was on August 11, 1973 in the Bökelberg Stadium in the Fortuna formation, which opened the season with a 1: 3 defeat against the team of coach Hennes Weisweiler , Borussia Mönchengladbach. In the winter Löring took over the training himself, before he then took up the fight to stay in class in the second half of the season with the former decathlon Olympic champion Willi Holdorf from January 21, 1974. Bauerkämper came to 18 Bundesliga games and scored one goal, but Fortuna was relegated to the bottom of the table from the Bundesliga. In the first two rounds of the 2nd Bundesliga , 1974/75 and 1975/76, the return to the upper house of football could not be achieved. Bauerkämper came alongside Karl-Heinz Struth , Hans-Günter Neues , Johannes Linßen and Roland Hattenberger from 1974 to 1976 on 46 second division appearances and scored nine goals. In the summer of 1976 he left the southern part of Cologne and, together with his friend Helmut Bergfelder, joined the newly promoted Eintracht Trier in the 2nd Bundesliga South.

In the first year he was only just able to maintain the league with the newcomer; he had scored four goals in 28 missions for the team from the Mosel Stadium. In the second season, 1976/77, attacker Lothar Leiendecker scored 15 goals for Trier and Eintracht took 12th place. After two rounds with a total of 50 second division games and six goals, Bauerkämper ended his professional career and returned in 1978 to his home club SSVg Velbert on the Lower Rhine, where he then earned his living in the insurance industry.

Stations

• until 1967 SSVg Velbert
• 1967–1971 black and white Essen
• 1971–1976 SC Fortuna Cologne
• 1976–1978 Eintracht Trier
• from 1978/79 SSVg Velbert

literature

• Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Fohlensturm am Katzenbusch. The history of the Regionalliga West 1963–1974. Volume 2, Klartext, Essen 1995, ISBN 3-88474-206-X .
• 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 .
• Matthias Weinrich: Second League Almanac. All players. All clubs. All results. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-190-8 .
• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 40.