Theo Kolkenbrock

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Theodor Kolkenbrock (born March 29, 1932 in Bottrop ) is a former German football player who played for VfB Bottrop and Wuppertaler SV in the highest and second highest league.

career

At the end of the war , Kolkenbrock, whom the media always only called Theo, joined VfB Bottrop. With the black and whites he was A-Youth Niederrheinmeister in 1949 . The center forward was taken in 1950 by Dettmar Cramer on a trip to England of the north-west German A-youth selection, with which he played four games. From 1951 he belonged to the men's team of VfB, which played in the 2nd League West . In 1952 the eleven, who had finished second behind SV Sodingen, failed in the promotion round to Oberliga West at SpVgg Erkenschwick and STV Horst-Emscher , in 1953 and 1954 they only occupied places in the middle of the table, although the goal-threatening and "lightning-fast right wing", as the Theo Kolkenbrock was set up in the meantime, won the Ligatorschützenkronen each time. When the Bottrop in the following season (1954/55) under coach Willi Multhaup just missed the promotion - they finished third behind Wuppertaler SV and Hamborn 07 - he switched to the WSV, which was more successful in this respect, against which he was in this one Year at home 2: 2 and 1: 2 in the stadium at the zoo had scored all VfB goals.

At the Bergische he met a number of well-known players such as "Coppi" Beck , Horst Szymaniak , goalkeeper Klaus Wilhelm and the young Günter Augustat , and a year later the WSV strengthened with Erich Haase and Erich Probst . Nevertheless, the blue-reds only finished in midfield in the league table at the end of both seasons. Kolkenbrock was retrained as a defender in 1957 by coach Jupp Schmidt after center runner Jochen Menze had ended his career; in the summer of 1958 the WSV had to return to the second division. It was not until the 1962/63 season that Kolkenbrocks Wuppertaler played first class again, but only for one year because they were not accepted into the newly created Bundesliga . And of all things in the WSV's greatest success to date, reaching the semi-finals in the DFB Cup 1962/63 , coach Robert Gebhardt did not use the defender. In the subsequent regional league season, Theo Kolkenbrock suffered a fracture of the metatarsal bone in the second leg at Schwarz-Weiß Essen . After the healing process turned out to be difficult and lengthy, he ended his playing career in the summer of 1964.

He has played a total of 87 point games for Wuppertaler SV in the major league and scored ten goals therein; in the regional league he still had 21 encounters without a goal of his own. The numbers of his second division appearances for VfB Bottrop and WSV could not yet be determined.

Life next to and after football

As a young man, Theo Kolkenbrock trained as an insurance salesman and worked in this profession until 1955. He then worked for the Rheinisch-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerk in Gelsenkirchen until his retirement . The father of the family lived in Bottrop his entire life and during his nine years at Wuppertaler SV he always commuted between the two cities for training - "two to three times a week 60 km there and 60 km back," as he recalled. The Jahnstadion where his old VfB plays, he rarely visited by now though.

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 .
  • 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 .
  • Manfred Osenberg: The WSV will never go under! 50 years of the Wuppertal Sports Club 1954-2004. Edition Osenberg, Wuppertal 2004, ISBN 3-9808059-4-8

Notes and individual references

  1. a b c Osenberg, p. 156
  2. Ralf Piorr (ed.): The pot is round. The lexicon of Revier football: The clubs. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2006, ISBN 3-89861-356-9 , p. 35
  3. Second division placements according to Landefeld / Nöllenheidt, pp. 118–125
  4. Osenberg, pp. 20-22
  5. Osenberg, p. 107
  6. Knieriem / Grüne, p. 203
  7. Theo Kolkenbrock confirmed both statements in a conversation with the main author of this article in February 2011.