Siegfried Burkhardt

Siegfried Burkhardt (born February 26, 1930 in Munich ; † August 30, 2013 in Straubing ) was a German football player. The striker had won the championship in the West Football League with Westfalia Herne in the 1958/59 season and from 1951 to 1963 he had played a total of 278 games with 36 goals in what was then the first-class West Football League.

career

Oberliga West, 1951 to 1963

The amateur soccer player Siegfried Burkhardt from Munich came to ETB Schwarz-Weiß Essen in the 2nd League West via ASV Cham from Upper Palatinate . With the team from the south of Essen he reached in the 1950/51 season under coach Josef Uridil as runner-up - in the 2nd division Burkhardt had scored six goals in 21 appearances - in the relegation against Alemannia Aachen, SSV Wuppertal and Rot-Weiß Oberhausen the rise in the first class of the Oberliga West. He mostly played in the World Cup system at the time as the left wing runner for the team from the Uhlenkrug Stadium. The trained auto mechanic finished 11th in the Oberliga West with ETB 1951/52 and had completed 18 league games. For the 1952/53 season he joined the league rivals Sportfreunde Katernberg in the north of Essen.

In the green-whites of the Am Lindenbruch stadium , however, he experienced a round without success: personally he only made five appearances at the side of goalkeeper Heinz Kubsch and the attacker Willi Vordenbäum and the sports fans were relegated to the 2nd division as 15th. He then returned to the Uhlenkrug for the 1953/54 season by signing a new contract with SW Essen. In addition to coach Fritz Buchloh , Burkhardt and the other players Hubert Schieth , Edmond Kasperski , Adolf Knoll and Alfred Mikuda also joined ETB. In addition to storm conductor Kurt Zaro , Burkhardt made 20 league appearances in which he scored six goals. ETB took sixth place. After a total of 68 league games with eleven goals, the "football wanderer" ended his activity in Essen in the summer of 1956 and accepted a new contract offer with Westfalia Herne for the 1956/57 season.

He made his debut on August 18, 1956 in a 2-1 away win against FC Schalke 04 under coach Fritz Langner in the Herner team. Right from the start he belonged to the narrow circle of the regular cast and played all 30 league games. Westfalia took 11th place in 1956/57. For the round of 1957/58, Horst Wandolek, a new winger, joined the team from the stadium at Strünkede Castle . The club from downtown Herne ranked twelfth around the axis of Hans Tilkowski , Alfred Pyka and Helmut Benthaus in 1957/58 - one rank ahead of local rivals SV Sodingen - and there was nothing to indicate that the team of coach Langner in the next few rounds the top of the league could move up.

With an outstanding defensive performance - in 30 rounds of games the opposing attackers only hit the Herner Tor guarded by Hans Tilkowski 23 times - and the 28 goals of the new West top scorer Gerhard Clement , Westfalia Herne surprisingly got six points ahead of the 1958/59 1. FC Cologne and Fortuna Dusseldorf the West German championship. The players Horst Wandolek, Kurt Sopart , Gerhard Clement, Siegfried Burkhardt and Alex Kraskewitz formed the regular formation in the attack of the new champions, who, like vice 1. FC Köln, scored 60 goals. Burkhardt and colleagues opened the league round on August 24, 1958 with a 1-0 home win in the "local derby" against SV Sodingen. On the last round matchday, April 22, 1959, the new champions finished the round with a 2-1 home win against VfL Bochum. "Siggi" Burkhardt had taken over the role of game conductor from Günter Grandt in Herne , was captain of the championship team and officially worked for Funke & Huster. Thanks to Langner's training, the team had an unlikely endurance, morale, fighting spirit and strength. Langner's motto was to "go from fighting to play".

In the final round of the German championship in 1959, Herne was only able to take third place with 4: 8 points, Burkhardt had played all six games against Kickers Offenbach, Hamburger SV and Tasmania 1900 Berlin. The home games in Herne in the final round of the German soccer championship were played in Dortmund's Rote Erde stadium.

The defending champion started the league season 1959/60 on August 23, 1959 with a 2-0 home win - one goal each from Wandolek and Clement - against Fortuna Düsseldorf. In the course of the round, however, with top players - in defense with Fritz Ewert , Georg Stollenwerk , Karl-Heinz Schnellinger , Hans Sturm and Leo Wilden as well as in the attack with Helmut Rahn , Christian Müller and Hans Schäfer - 1. FC Cologne won through with aplomb . Westfalia Herne came seven points behind the championship runner-up and thus made it back to the finals. Burkhardt had scored four goals in 22 league games, but was no longer used in the 1960 finals.

From 1956 to 1960 he played for Westfalia Herne in the football Oberliga West in 110 games, where he scored nine goals as a development player. For the 1960/61 season he accepted an offer from the "Blue Sparks" of TSV Marl-Hüls and said goodbye to Herne after four years of play.

With the German amateur champions of 1954 , the blue-whites from Jahnsportplatz , which had only been promoted to the top league in the summer, the man from Herne immediately belonged to the regular formation; Burkhardt played 29 league games and scored eleven goals for TSV. Mostly he formed the left wing of the blue-whites on half-left with the talent of Heinz van Haaren . The relegation of the climber succeeded with reaching the 12th rank. On the start of the round, August 14, 1960, he made his debut in a 2: 5 away defeat at Meidericher SV with a hit in the ranks of the team from Hüls. He lost the home game against his ex-club from Herne with Marl-Hüls on September 11, 1960 in front of 10,000 spectators with 2-4. Against FC Schalke 04 they managed a 0-0 draw at home in front of 15,000 spectators in the first half of the season, and in Gelsenkirchen they even managed a 2-1 away win in April 1961. Burkhardt had brought TSV 1-0 up in the 27th minute and had to do with Willi Schulz in most of the duels . In the second league year with Marl-Hüls, 1961/62, despite teammates like Karl-Heinz Sell , Horst Wandolek and Heinz van Haaren, they only fought against relegation and barely reached the 14th place. After two rounds with 47 league appearances and 15 goals, he joined Borussia Mönchengladbach in the 1962/63 round, the last of the old first-class Oberliga era, and moved to the Lower Rhine.

The former trainer from Herne, Fritz Langner, began his work on the Bökelberg as the successor to Bernd Oles and brought in Burkhardt and Heinz Crawatzo and Werner Moldovan to join the later "foals" who, in Albert Brülls, had lost their outstanding attacker to Italy to FC Modena . Borussia lost the first four games with Burkhardt on the half left, before moving to the left wing position in the further course of the round. The 32-year-old veteran played all 30 league games and Borussia came in 11th. With Franz Brungs , Ulrich Kohn and the young Herbert L Bäumen there were three above-average offensive players in the BMG squad, which was also on the defensive with goalkeeper Manfred Orzessek and players like Gerd Schommen , Heinz Lowin , Albert Jansen , Heinz de Lange and Karl-Heinz Mülhausen Had to show quality. After the end of the round, Borussia continued to rejuvenate the squad at the start of the second-class Regionalliga West, 1963/64, with Günter Netzer , Rudolf Pöggeler , Egon Milder and Horst-Dieter Höttges and the veteran signed a contract with SpVgg Herten .

Regionalliga West, 1963 to 1968

With coach Kurt Sahm and a 1-1 away draw at Sportfreunde Siegen , Herten started the first round of Regional League West on August 4, 1963 with players like Günter Graetsch , Rudi Assauer and "Siggi" Burkhardt. The team from Kampfbahn Katzenbusch suffered their first defeat on the fourth game day, August 25, 1963, in a 2: 3 home defeat against eventual runner-up Wuppertaler SV. In particular, the two successes on the tenth and eleventh matchdays against Borussia Mönchengladbach (3: 1) and Fortuna Düsseldorf (2: 1) made the green-whites hopeful that they would be able to successfully survive the intended relegation in the season of 20. In the further course of the round, Herten was more and more in the direct relegation battle, where Burkhardt but from February 1964 - until then he had played 18 league games (1 goal) - but was no longer used.

On the last matchday, May 10, 1964, the away encounter at VfB Bottrop was lost in the final minute by a penalty with 1: 2 and thus Herten rose tied with STV Horst-Emscher in 16th place in the amateur league.

death

Burkhardt had to struggle all his life with illnesses and an unhealed myocarditis, as he returned to training and games early during his active time as a convalescent and did not fully cure illnesses. He died on August 30, 2013 Straubing at a pneumonia .

literature

• Hans Dieter Baroth : Boys, Heaven is yours! The history of the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1988, ISBN 3-88474-332-5 .
• Harald Landefeld, Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Helmut, tell me dat Tor ... New stories and portraits from the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-043-1 .
• Ulrich Homann (Ed.): Farmer's heads, miners and a pascha. The history of the Regionalliga West 1963–1974. Volume 1, Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-345-7 .
• Ralf Piorr (Ed.): Much more than just a game. 100 years of SC Westfalia 04 Herne . FRISCH -tex publishing house. Herne 2004. ISBN 3-933059-38-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hardy Green , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 49.
2. ^ German Sports Club for Football Statistics (DSFS): Football in West Germany 1945–1952. Western Chronicle. Hövelhof 2011. p. 180.
3. ↑ Personal details : Der Bajuware im Revier, in: RevierSport 75/2013 of September 16, 2013, p. 47.