Siegfried Stark (soccer player)

Siegfried Stark (born February 17, 1940 ; † August 31, 2011 ) was a German soccer player who was active in the Soccer-Oberliga Süd , Soccer-Bundesliga , Soccer-Regionalliga Süd and 2nd Soccer-Bundesliga South from 1960 to 1976 and has scored 112 goals in a total of 438 league games.

career

Amateur, Oberliga, Bundesliga, until 1965

With 1. FC Lichtenfels , the young offensive talent Siegfried Stark gained his first experience in what was then the first amateur league in Northern Bavaria from 1958 to 1960. After fifth place in 1959, he was a member of the championship team of 1960, which was able to bring the title to Lichtenfels before Kickers Würzburg and FC Bayreuth. In the promotion round to the 2nd League South, the Upper Franconia could not prevail against the competitors Borussia Fulda, Offenburger FV and SC Geislingen, but the technically outstanding and goal-threatening half-striker Stark was able to attract the attention of the upper division FC Bayern Hof with his offensive qualities signed for round 1960/61 as a contract footballer in the Saale city.

Trainer Gunther Baumann immediately relied on the 20-year-old technician from Lichtenfels. Stark made his debut on the starting day of the 1960/61 round , on August 14, 1960, in the home game against Karlsruher SC in the South Football League . On the second day of the match he scored his first goal in the league in a 5-2 away win at TSV 1860 Munich . The yellow-blacks from the Green Au Stadium , who had only been promoted to the top division in 1959, also won a 1-0 home win against FC Bayern Munich in Stark's first league round (with Árpád Fazekas , Karl Borutta , Willi Giesemann , Karl Mai , Peter Grosser , Werner Olk ) and got two more points with a 1-0 win at Eintracht Frankfurt . Stark completed 29 of the 30 games this season, scored ten goals and finished tenth with Hof.

In his second league year 1961/62 , the 21-year-old Stark was again 29 times for the black and yellow on the field and scored 15 goals. As in the previous year, the Upper Franconians got along well with the Munich clubs in this round. On the second match day, August 13, 1961, they won 5-0 goals against Munich Bayern, Stark scored a goal against goalkeeper Fritz Kosar . On the tenth game day, October 15, 1961, they won both points in the home stadium with a 2-1 win against 1860 Munich (with Johann Auernhammer , Rudolf Brunnenmeier , Hans Küppers , Hans Reich ). In the 62nd minute, Stark scored the goal to make it 2-0. The reigning German champions 1. FC Nürnberg (with Kurt Haseneder , Max Morlock , Stefan Reisch , Ferdinand Wenauer ) was put in their place on April 1, 1962 in Hof in front of 17,000 spectators with 3-1 goals. Again a strong hit contributed to this. The strong and goal-scoring half-striker concluded the game in the catch-up game against Kickers Offenbach (with Siegfried Gast , Gerhard Kaufhold and Engelbert Kraus ) on April 21 , when he distinguished himself as a three-time goal scorer in the 5-1 win against the team from Bieberer Berg. After the third season in the Oberliga Süd in the 1962 World Cup, FC Bayern Hof finished sixth. In the last year of the old first-class league system, 1962/63, Stark finished only 13th with his team- mates Walter Feilhuber , Walter Greim , Horst Kästner , Heinz Murrmann , Siegfried Werner and Heinz Winterling . With the deployment on matchday 30, April 28, 1963, against 1860 Munich, the chapter Oberliga Süd was over for Stark and Hof. Since the "small" upper division town on the zone border could not calculate any chances for the nomination for the new Bundesliga from the 1963/64 round, the motivation for a good placement in the last upper division year 1963 was not particularly high. After 85 league appearances with 28 goals for Hof, Siegfried Stark accepted the offer of Karlsruher SC , which had been nominated by the DFB as one of five southern clubs for the 1963/64 Bundesliga, and moved from Upper Franconia to Baden in the summer of 1963.

With his line-up for the Bundesliga opening game on August 24, 1963, when the KSC received Meidericher SV with the offensive forces Werner Krämer and Helmut Rahn , Stark belongs to the circle of players with whom a new chapter in German football on the debut day of the new DFB first class was initiated. The Karlsruhe team was put together in the attack by trainer Kurt Sommerlatt in the line-up with Horst Wild , Josef Marx , Otto Geisert , Stark and Erwin Metzger . The "zebras" from Wedau drove over the Wildparkelf in front of 40,000 spectators with 1: 4 goals and the Karlsruhe team was under the pressure of the relegation battle and the adjustment to the increased demands due to the significantly better opposition from the start. In the second half of the season, the KSC was able to avert relegation by reaching 13th place in the table. The newcomer from Hof ​​had scored six goals for KSC in 21 appearances. Behind Otto Geisert (7 goals) he was tied with Gerhard Kentschke in second place on the KSC goalscorer list. Technically and playfully, Stark had shown the ability for the Bundesliga, but in terms of speed, the old league standards were not sufficient, but that also applied to other players in the KSC squad. As a personal pressure, Stark was aggravated by the fact that he was measured by the qualities of the ex-playmaker Günter Herrmann , who had migrated to Schalke 04 and who played seven international matches for the DFB in 1960 and 1961.

The second year in Karlsruhe, 1964/65, was very unsatisfactory for the man from Upper Franconia. Under coach Kurt Sommerlatt, he came in the preliminary round on September 5, 1964 only to a Bundesliga assignment, and Sommerlatt's successor Helmut Schneider considered from January 27, 1965 Stark in any other game of the round. The KSC occupied 15th place and remained for the 1965/66 round only because of the increase to 18 teams in the league. As a consequence of the relegation battle in the first Bundesliga year, the offensive was reinforced in Karlsruhe with the newcomers Horst-Dieter Berking , Hans Cieslarczyk and Klaus-Peter Jendrosch . The victims of this personnel decision were Siegfried Stark - he was also thrown back by a protracted pleurisy - as well as the midfield talent Klaus Zaczyk , who only made 14 appearances in the Wildparkelf in 1964/65. In 1964 the KSC took 13th place with 24:36 points, and in 1965 with the same number of points 15th place. Stark, who was only used once in the Bundesliga during the season, moved back to his home country after two years in Karlsruhe. Armin Möbius, the chairman of Bayern Hof's game committee, signed a contract with him for the Regionalliga Süd in 1965/66.

Bayern Hof, 1965 to 1976

The playmaker qualities of the technician Stark, in combination with the above-average goal danger of the attacker Wolfgang Breuer , came into full effect from the 1966/67 round in Hof. With the new coach Heinz Elzner , the Upper Franconians took second place behind Meister Kickers Offenbach in 1967 and celebrated the championship in the Regionalliga Süd in 1968 . In the round 1971/72 Hof was able to win the runner-up again and moved into the Bundesliga promotion round for the third time with coach Herbert Wenz and teammates Reinhard Lippert , Ludwig Schuster , Werner Seubert and Karl-Heinz Zapf . The combination player with a goal risk, Siegfried Stark, completed the three years of promotion rounds for Hof against the competitors Borussia Neunkirchen, Schwarz-Weiß Essen, Arminia Hannover, Hertha BSC, Rot-Weiss Essen, SV Alsenborn, Göttingen 05, Wuppertaler SV, VfL Osnabrück and Tasmania 1900 Berlin all 24 games. However, it was not enough for Hof to get promoted to the Bundesliga in the three attempts. From 1965 to 1974, Stark recorded 288 games with 76 goals in the Regionalliga Süd for FC Bayern Hof.

In the first year of the newly installed 2nd Bundesliga South, 1974/75 , the now 34-year-old veteran - he was now playing in the libero position - was able to work together with teammates Helmut Achatz , Franz Dürrschmidt and Hartmut Werner behind Karlsruher SC, FK Pirmasens and Schweinfurt 05 took fourth place, but before 1860 Munich and 1. FC Nürnberg. Stark had scored two goals in 30 second division games. He played his last game in the 2nd Bundesliga at the age of 36 on March 28, 1976 in a 1-1 draw against SV Darmstadt 98. After 14 rounds of league football at FC Bayern Hof - Oberliga Süd, Regionalliga Süd, 2nd Bundesliga South - Siegfried Stark ended his high-class playing career in the summer of 1976.

literature

• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• Matthias Kropp: Germany's great football teams. Part 11: Karlsruher SC. AGON, 1998, ISBN 3-89609-115-8 .
• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .
• Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 3: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 1. The founding years 1963–1975. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-132-0 .
• 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 .
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): Regionalliga Süd 1963–1974. 2002, ISBN 3-930814-28-5 .
• Matthias Weinrich: Second League Almanac. All players. All clubs. All results. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-190-8 .
• Up, you heroes! N ° 19, pages 54-56, May 2012