Timo Konietzka

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Timo Konietzka
Timo Konietzka Brunner Carnival 2012.JPG
Timo Konietzka as Bartlivater (2012)
Personnel
birthday August 2, 1938
place of birth Lünen ,  Germany
date of death March 12, 2012
Place of death Brunnen SZ ,  Switzerland
size 177 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
VfB Lünen
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1958-1965 Borussia Dortmund 160 (126)
1965-1967 TSV 1860 Munich 47 0(30)
1967-1971 FC Winterthur (71)
1971-1973 FC Zurich 33 00(6)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1962-1965 Germany 9 00(3)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1971-1978 FC Zurich
1978-1980 BSC Young Boys
1980-1982 Grasshoppers
1982-1983 KSV Hessen Kassel
1983-1984 Bayer 05 Uerdingen
1984 Borussia Dortmund
1985-1986 Grasshoppers
1990-1991 Bayer Uerdingen
2011 FC Ebikon III
1 Only league games are given.

Timo Konietzka (born August 2, 1938 in Lünen as Friedhelm Konietzka ; † March 12, 2012 in Brunnen , Switzerland ) was a German football player and coach who also had Swiss citizenship from 1988 . In the 1960s, the striker and scorer of the first goal in Bundesliga history won titles with Borussia Dortmund and TSV 1860 Munich . In 1967 he surprisingly moved to the Swiss second division club FC Winterthur , with whom he immediately made promotion to National League A and reached the cup final. As a coach, he led FC Zurich to three championships and three cup wins.

Because of Konietzka's hairstyle, which was greatly shortened for military service , which made him resemble the Soviet general Semjon Konstantinowitsch Timoshenko , his teammate Helmut Bracht once gave him the nickname "Timo". He officially adopted this name in 1985. The letter "e" is not spoken in his last name.

Life

Konietzka grew up in Lünen as one of six children and from the age of 15 worked underground in coal mining , like his father and three brothers at the Victoria colliery . Borussia Dortmund later found him a job as an unskilled worker at the Dortmund Union brewery and then as a cleaner for the gas lamps for the Dortmund public utility company .

Career as a footballer

Beginnings

In his free time Konietzka played soccer at VfB Lünen until he was discovered by Dortmund player Helmut Bracht at the age of 20 and shortly afterwards he moved to Borussia.

Oberliga West and Bundesliga

Max Merkel built Konietzka into the BVB league team. On January 18, 1959 Konietzka made his debut for BVB in the Oberliga West in the 2-1 win against Alemannia Aachen. In this game he scored his first goal for Dortmund. Together with his future strike partner Jürgen Schütz , he formed the most dangerous indoor storm of the Oberliga West, in which he scored 84 goals in 107 games. He got along with Schütz so well on the pitch that they were also referred to as “Max and Moritz”.

In 1961, Konietzka and Dortmund were federal German runner-up; In the final on June 24, 1961, BVB lost 3-0 to 1. FC Nürnberg . In 1963, Dortmund won the German championship with a 3-1 win at the Neckar Stadium in Stuttgart against the favored 1. FC Köln . It was the last final before the Bundesliga was introduced . Konietzka played a total of 11 games in the final round of the German soccer championship, in which he scored eight goals.

From 1963 he played for Borussia Dortmund and from 1965 to 1967 for TSV 1860 Munich a total of 100 Bundesliga games and scored 72 goals. This makes Konietzka the player with the most goals in the first 100 Bundesliga games. In the first three Bundesliga years he was second on the top scorer list.

Konietzka went down in football history when he was able to overcome the Bremen goalkeeper Klaus Lambertz in the first minute of the game against Werder Bremen for Dortmund on August 24, 1963 and thus scored the first goal of the newly founded Bundesliga. 1965 he succeeded again and the only as long time player for the second time to score the first goal of the season when he - now for TSV 1860 München - again as early as the first minute against local rivals and his early movers Bayern Munich met . It was only Thomas Müller who scored the first goal in a season for the second time in a season by scoring 1-0 against VfL Wolfsburg on matchday 1 of the 2014/15 season, after he scored the first goal in 2010/11 , also against Wolfsburg would have.

His greatest successes as a player were winning the German championship in 1963 and the DFB Cup in 1965 with Borussia Dortmund . With TSV 1860 Munich he won the German championship in 1966. On the 8th match day of the 1966/67 season he was sent off the pitch for assault against the referee in a game against Borussia Dortmund and suspended for six months - the longest suspension for expulsion in the history of the Bundesliga. Only Hertha player Lewan Kobiaschwili received a longer suspension for a blow to the referee in the relegation second leg against Fortuna Düsseldorf in May 2012.

Change to Switzerland

Konietzka 1967 in the dress of FC Winterthur

At the age of 29, Konietzka surprisingly moved to Switzerland in 1967 for FC Winterthur , who was then relegated to National League B , although he is said to have had offers from Inter Milan and Real Madrid . He helped the club with 34 goals in 26 games in its season to an immediate promotion to the NLA and in the same year to the cup final . In the next three seasons he scored a further 38 goals in 76 first division games for Winterthur.

In 1971 he became player-coach at FC Zurich and was on the field when he won the Swiss Cup in 1972; when he won the cup again a year later, he was no longer part of the winning team. 1973 Konietzka ended his active career as a player.

National team

In nine international matches, Timo Konietzka scored three goals for the German national soccer team between 1962 and 1965 .

Trainer

After his active career, he worked as a trainer for Borussia Dortmund, Bayer 05 Uerdingen , Hessen Kassel, FC Zurich and the Grasshoppers, among others . With FC Zurich he was Swiss champions three times in a row (1974-1976) and also reached the semi-finals of the European Cup in 1977 (forerunner of the Champions League ), in which FCZ was eliminated against FC Liverpool - the dominant team in Europe at the time . In addition, Zurich won the Swiss Cup in 1972, 1973 and 1976 under his aegis. From 1978 to 1980 he was the trainer of BSC Young Boys , he reached the Swiss Cup final twice with YB. He then moved to the Grasshoppers, with whom he secured another Swiss championship title in 1982. For only a short time he was twice in a row coach at Bayer Uerdingen, in the relegation season 1990/91 he was replaced by Friedhelm Funkel .

successes

  • German soccer champion: 1963, 1966
  • DFB Cup: 1965
  • Swiss football champions: 1974, 1975, 1976, 1982
  • Swiss cup winners: 1972, 1973, 1976

Private

Together with his wife Claudia, Konietzka ran the “Ochsen” inn in Brunnen on Lake Lucerne and worked as a freelancer for the daily Blick newspaper . In 1985 his name change to Timo became legally binding. On August 2, 1988, he received Swiss citizenship. In 2010, he campaigned for euthanasia as an ambassador in commercials on Swiss television and confessed that he was preparing for his death due to health problems. On January 7th, 2012 he was named the highest carnival in the Ingenbohl community as a beard fan .

After an incurable bile duct carcinoma was diagnosed in February , Konietzka put an end to his life on March 12, 2012 with the help of the Swiss euthanasia organization Exit , of which he had been a member since 2001. He left a grown son next to his wife.

literature

  • Karl-Heinz Knepper: I, you, he, she, it ... all Timos. In: Hermann Beckfeld (editor): ... the boss continues to play in heaven. Football stories from the Ruhr area. Henselowsky Boschmann Verlag, Bottrop, ISBN 3-922750-62-1 .
  • Michael Lütscher: One city, one association, one story. FC Zurich from 1896 until today. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-03823-643-6 .
  • Kai Griepenkerl: Ata, Ennatz, Susi, Yyyves. 82 heads of district football. Klartext Verlag, Essen, ISBN 978-3-8375-0724-9 .
  • Timo Konietzka in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tagesspiegel: Death by euthanasia: First Bundesliga scorer Timo Konietzka
  2. ↑ a b I don't want to suffer, Interview in: RevierSport 11/2012, p. 52
  3. ↑ after interview in: Ata, Ennatz, Susi, Yyyves: 82 heads of Revierfußballs.
  4. ^ "Kicker" from January 19, 1959, page 8
  5. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Friedhelm 'Timo' Konietzka - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . RSSSF . June 8, 2017. Retrieved June 9, 2017.
  6. ↑ http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/bundesliga/startseite/660900/2/slideshow_konietzka-uneinholbar_auba-vor-robben-und-lewy.html
  7. ↑ fussballdaten.de: Match report 1860-Bayern
  8. ↑ DFB.de: It happened on the 8th matchday: When Konietzka fouled the referee
  9. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Friedhelm 'Timo' Konietzka - Goals in International Matches . RSSSF . June 8, 2017. Retrieved June 9, 2017.
  10. ↑ Timo Konietzka - a moving document about his accompanying suicide. Video in: Swiss television from March 19, 2012 (5 minutes)
  11. ^ A life for football and chicken from Cabo Ruivo , accessed on March 13, 2012.
  12. ↑ Sandro Brotz : Konietzka's suicide leads to a run on exit. In: The Sunday of March 17th, 2012.
  13. ↑ Timo Konietzka has died ( Memento from April 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Konietzka, Timo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Konietzka, Friedhelm (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Luenen
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 2012
Place of death Well SZ