Rudolf Brunnenmeier

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Rudi Brunnenmeier
Personnel
Surname Rudolf Brunnenmeier
birthday February 11, 1941
place of birth Olching ,  Germany
date of death April 18, 2003
Place of death Munich ,  Germany
position Center Forward
Juniors
Years station
... –1968 SC Olching
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1960-1968 TSV 1860 Munich 207 (139)
1968-1972 Neuchâtel Xamax 88 (60)
1972-1973 FC Zurich 20 (5)
1973-1975 FC Vorarlberg
1975-1977 FC Balzers
1977-1988 FC 08 Tuttlingen
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1965 Germany B 1 00(2)
1964-1965 Germany 5 00(3)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
FC Garmisch-Partenkirchen
FC Wacker Munich
1 Only league games are given.
The 1965 national team with Brunnenmeier in the bottom row

Rudolf "Rudi" Brunnenmeier (born February 11, 1941 in Olching , † April 18, 2003 in Munich ) was a German football player . The center forward was one of the big stars of TSV 1860 Munich in its heyday in the 1960s. There he was cup winner, champion and moved into the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup. He was also the top scorer in the Bundesliga and a five-time national player. In the early 1970s he won the Swiss Cup with FC Zurich .

Live and act

Rudi Brunnenmeier, who grew up in Olching in the Fürstenfeldbruck district west of Munich, lost his father early to cancer. His two brothers soon died of the same disease. After graduating from primary school, he did a commercial apprenticeship. He was physically active at SC Olching, where he caused a sensation when he scored 87 out of 107 goals for his team in a single season. The mother still had to sign the contract when the traditional Munich club TSV 1860 hired the minor. There he got a very high hand money of 17,000 marks for a five-year contract. In addition, he received 400 marks a month basic salary plus 150 marks victory bonus and a part-time job at Coca-Cola .

Successes at TSV 1860 - games in the national team

The striker played for 1860 Munich from 1960 to 1968, had a large share in the success of the Lions in the 1960s with his numerous goals and is still a club icon today. He scored 139 goals in 207 games for the club.

In 1961 and 1963, Brunnenmeier was the top scorer in the then Oberliga Süd under Austrian coach Max Merkel . He scored a total of 73 goals in 88 games in the Oberliga Süd from 1960 to 1963. His two goals in the 3-1 win against FC Bayern, who were still tied in second place in the league table on matchday 21 of the 1962/63 season, were particularly important . This victory was a decisive factor in winning the championship, which secured the sixties qualification for the Bundesliga.

In the Bundesliga he scored 66 goals in 119 games, making him the Bundesliga record scorer of the 1860s to this day. In 1965 he was also king of the Bundesliga with 24 goals. He scored five of these goals, including a penalty, in a 9-0 home win against Karlsruher SC in February 1965 . He also achieved four hat tricks in the Bundesliga , although none of them are flawless.

In 1964 he won the DFB Cup in 1860 . In the final against Eintracht Frankfurt , Brunnenmeier produced the 2-0 final score. The following year, 1860 reached the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup , which was lost 2-0 to West Ham United around Bobby Moore at London's Wembley Stadium . In 1966 he finally got the big hit and in 1860 he won his only German championship title . In the round of 16 of the ensuing European Cup , 1860 won his home game against defending champions Real Madrid 1-0 in November . In the second leg, Brunnenmeier scored 1-0 for the sixties in front of 80,000 spectators at the Bernabéu Stadium , but in the end it was 3-1 for the Madrilenians. In 1967, Merkel was runner-up in 1860 after a team uprising in early December, just one week after the game in Madrid, despite the weak start to the season.

He made his national team debut on November 4, 1964 in the opening match for qualifying for the 1966 World Cup in Berlin against Sweden. Brunnenmeier took the lead in the 24th minute, but Italian professional Kurt Hamrin equalized shortly before the end. The press spoke of the “brilliant” right winger Brunnenmeier as “often the best and consistently straight forward striker”, especially since Uwe Seeler had largely been canceled by his Swedish opponents.

In his second international match, a 1-1 in a test match against Italy in Hamburg in March, Brunnenmeier unexpectedly received a captain's armband from national coach Helmut Schön in an Achilles tendon rupture due to the absence of regular captain Uwe Seeler . By the end of the year, Brunnenmeier had three more appearances for the DFB selection: in a 2-1 win in the second leg against Sweden, a 4-1, where Franz Beckenbauer made his debut for Germany, in a test match against Austria, where striker rivals Lothar Ulsaß from Eintracht Braunschweig impressed with a flawless hat trick within 16 minutes, and in November in the last game for the World Cup qualification, where Brunnenmeier achieved the 4-0 and 6-0 final score in Cyprus. For the squad of the World Cup in England he was no longer appointed.

In his last years his performance in the sixties flattened and in his last season - 1967/68 - he scored only one goal in twelve Bundesliga games. This went hand in hand with the decline of the Lions, who only made it to twelfth place in the league that season.

In Switzerland with Xamax and FC Zurich

After leaving Munich after the 1967/68 season, he joined the Swiss second division club FC Xamax, which merged into Neuchâtel Xamax in 1970 . In his four years there, in which he scored 60 goals in 88 games, he reached the sixth, fourth and most recently twice third place in the league with the team. In 1970 he was second on the scorers list with 22 hits behind the ex- Aachener Hans-Jürgen Ferdinand from FC Chiasso , who scored twice more. In 1972/73 he played one more season with the first division club FC Zurich , for which he scored five goals in 20 league games and was seventh in the fourteen league at the end of the season. In April, he won with the former teammates at 1860 Timo Konietzka trained Zurichers by a 2: 1 final victory after extra time against by Helmut Benthaus trained FC Basel to Ottmar Hitzfeld the Swiss Cup in 1972/73 .

In Zurich he was caught driving by the police drunk. That earned him 30 days in prison and expulsion from the country. After he fled to Munich to avoid prison, the expulsion from the country was only lifted after he had been imprisoned.

Finishes in Bregenz, Liechtenstein and Tuttlingen

From 1973 to 1975 he was in Austria in the squad of the Austrian FC Vorarlberg , a syndicate between Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz and FC Rätia Bludenz . With her he rose in 1974, at the side of the young Bruno Pezzey , who then completed his first season as a professional, from bottom of the table from the first-class national league. In 19 games he scored one of the 31 goals of his team.

In 1975 he moved to the Principality of Liechtenstein and played there for FC Balzers , with whom he was promoted to the highest Swiss amateur league after the first season. The Balzner lost the final of the Liechtenstein Cup in 1976 1: 3 against USV Eschen-Mauren .

In 1977/78 he played for one season in the then third-class Black Forest-Bodensee League for FC 08 Tuttlingen , which in the end clearly missed the desired qualification for the new league.

Trainer in Garmisch and at Wacker Munich

In the mid-1990s he worked as a coach at FC Garmisch-Partenkirchen and then FC Wacker Munich . For the regional league coaching office in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, he renounced alcohol, became "dry" and rose with the team within three years in 1996 to the state league. But there was a sporting failure and Rudi Brunnenmeier was subsequently dismissed. His consequence of this setback is said to have been: "I'm drinking myself dead now!"

Gravestone for Rudi Brunnenmeier in the Ostfriedhof Munich

After retirement

After the end of his career, a long social decline began. Brunnenmeier, who was already fond of alcohol as an active footballer, lost his social and material environment in later years due to severe alcoholism . At times he worked as a bouncer, pretzel seller and casual worker to make ends meet.

Rudi Brunnenmeier died on April 18, 2003 in the Altperlach hospital as a result of his alcohol addiction and cancer . His sister explained that there was no room for him in the family grave in Olching. Thereupon the TSV 1860 Munich agreed to finance a grave at the Ostfriedhof for the next ten years. So a few days later he was buried with great public sympathy in Munich's Ostfriedhof (grave no. 36b-2-63). A club delegation from TSV 1860, the championship team from 1966 and many fans paid their last respects to him. Maria Seelmann, sister of the former Löwen professional Hans-Dieter Seelmann , took pity on the grave and took care of it. In 2013, Rudi Brunnenmeier's great-nephew Michael, then a 32-year-old working as a businessman, paid the grave fee until 2033.

Remarkable

Despite his high alcohol consumption, he was able to perform as a footballer: in the summer of 1965, he was heavily drunk and received an urgent telegram from the postman calling him to the B national team. A game against the Soviet Union was scheduled for the same evening and his plane to Cologne was scheduled to take off a few minutes later. Brunnenmeier got the machine. After he had slept off his intoxication in the hotel in the afternoon, he scored twice in a 3-0 win against the USSR after his “short rehab”.

Because of a brawl he instigated in a pub in 1963, Brunnenmeier had to sit out for two weeks in the 1966/67 season because he was serving two weeks in prison in Fürstenfeldbruck . He was also jailed for six months in 1987 after a drunk drive, after which he was convicted of forgery of documents: he forged insurance contracts in order to get the commissions.

successes

Personal achievements

  • Top scorer in the league: 1961 (23 goals), 1962 (26 goals), 1963 (24 goals)
  • Bundesliga top scorer : 1965, 24 goals

Notes on the top scorer in the league:

1960/61: various statistics also see Erwin Stein as the sole top scorer with 24 goals.
1961/62: various statistics also see Lothar Schämer as the sole top scorer with 26 goals.
1962/63: Various statistics also see Kurt Haseneder as the sole top scorer with 25 goals.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Willi Wottreng: Der erloschene Stern , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , 2003-05-04
  2. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Rudolf Brunnenmeier - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. July 16, 2015. Retrieved July 16, 2015.
  3. ^ Hermann Rüping: German "Traum -Elf" at 1: 1 with broad work without profit: "To a new one", said Helmut Schön disappointed , Hamburger Abendblatt , 1964-11-05
  4. ↑ History , FC Balzers (as of 2019-11-26)
  5. ↑ Rudi Brunnenmeier - also Ex-Nullachter , schwäbische.de, 2003-04-23, accessed on July 10, 2013 ( fragmentary on archive.org )
  6. ↑ 1860 mourning the record scorer Brunnenmeier , Der Spiegel , April 22, 2003.
  7. ↑ a b c Bundesliga legends: Rudi Brunnenmeier , accessed on April 16, 2013
  8. ↑ Rudolf Meier Well , FuPa.net
  9. ↑ Olchinger pays grave fee for lion legend , Münchner Merkur , 2019-04-01
  10. ↑ Note in: RevierSport 29/2013, p. 52
  11. ↑ Marco Plein: Rudi Brunnenmeier - 70th birthday: The best of all times , Abendzeitung , 2011-02-10, accessed on April 16, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Brunnenmeier, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brunnenmeier, Rudi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 2003
Place of death Olching