Waldemar Brockmann

Waldemar Brockmann (born May 9, 1920 ) is a former German soccer player and coach . From 1948 to 1951, the defender played 63 league games for his club Rot-Weiss Essen in what was then the first-class West Football League.

career

"Wally" Brockmann was a real Red-White, he only played as a footballer for the team from Bergeborbeck, Rot-Weiss Essen. From 1939/40 he worked with RWE in the Gauliga Niederrhein and was also used in the Tschammer Cup during the war years . After the end of the Second World War he belonged to the team of Rot-Weiss, which took third place in the Ruhr district league in the 1946/47 season and thus did not belong to the start of the upper league in 1947/48 in the west. After a play-off on March 8, 1948 in Duisburg against VfB Hilden 03 tied on points, Brockmann and his teammates won the championship in the Lower Rhine regional league with RWE. In the games for the Lower Rhine Championship, they then prevailed against Duisburg SpV and local rivals TuRa 86 Essen and thus rose to the Oberliga West for the 1948/49 season. The promotion team of coach Werner Sottong included defender Brockmann, among others, the teammates Fritz Abromeit , August Gottschalk , Josef Gipka, Günther Karger and Erwin Zöllmann.

In the first league season 1948/49, the team of director Georg Melches reached the runner-up behind Borussia Dortmund and moved into the final round of the German soccer championship . Brockmann had played 16 league games in coach Raymond Schwab's team. In the qualifying game on May 29, 1949 in Braunschweig, however, the “miracle eleven” of the old international FC St. Pauli with Karl Miller , Walter Dzur and Hans Appel clearly won 4-1 goals. In Karl Hohmann's first year as coach , 1949/50, Brockmann completed all 30 rounds as a defender in the World Cup system then practiced and RWE took third place, which in 1950 allowed them to reach the finals. In this, the team from Hafenstrasse met Fritz Walter -Elf from 1. FC Kaiserslautern. The first game on May 21 in Karlsruhe ended 2-2 in a draw after extra time and “Wally” and Werner Göbel formed the defender pair. In the replay, the "Red Devils" from Betzenberg prevailed in Cologne with 3-2 goals after extra time. Brockmann completed his last 17 league games in the 1950/51 season on the side of Heinz Wewers .

After the end of his playing career, he worked as a trainer for the RWE amateurs for years. For a short time in 1962/63 he was also the coach of the Red-Whites in what was then the 2nd League West.

literature

• Georg Schrepper, Uwe Wick: “… RWE again and again!” The story of Rot-Weiss-Essen. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-467-7 .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .