Walter Ziehmer

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Walter Ziehmer ( November 2, 1943 - January 20, 2019 ) was a German football player . From 1963 to 1973 he played ten years as a defender in the league teams of SV Weisenau and 1. FSV Mainz 05 in what was then the second division of the Regionalliga Südwest . He played a total of 250 league games and scored 38 goals.

career

SV Weisenau, until 1970

With the Red-Whites from the stadium on Bleichstrasse, the SV Weisenau, the young player Walter Ziehmer already gained competitive experience in the senior division in the 2nd league southwest, the foundation of the first-class football league southwest, in his first years . With 3rd place in the 2nd league in the last year of the old league system, 1962/63 , Weisenau was included in the Southwest Football Regionalliga, which was newly introduced from 1963/64. Under coach Heinrich Stillger, Weisenau made his debut on August 4, 1963 in an away game in the Ellenfeldstadion against Borussia Neunkirchen in the new local substructure of the Bundesliga. The team from the coal city, trained by Horst Buhtz and at the end of the round champions and promoted to the Bundesliga, won 1-0 with a goal from right winger Elmar May from the sixth minute. Ziehmer had occupied the central role as head of defense in the World Cup system, which was predominantly in use at the time . In the second half of the season, Ziehmer and colleagues were able to take a point from Neunkirchen with a 2-2 draw shortly after Christmas in 1963. Weisenau lost both derbies against Mainz 05. At the end of the round, the Mainz district club finished 14th and Ziehmer had scored two goals in 36 league games.

After finishing ninth (1964/65) and tenth (1965/66), the team from Bleichstrasse under coach Erich Gehbauer put in a surprisingly good lap in the fourth regional league year, 1966/67 . After seven match days, the Gehbauer troop had 11: 3 points to show and played seriously for the two places to move into the Bundesliga promotion round. With the newcomers Dieter Franzreb (Wormatia Worms) and in particular the goal scorer Alfred Brecht (Ludwigshafener SC), the goal danger in the attack was greatly improved, as Karl Wagner was also able to underline his qualifications. On the defensive, Ziehmer and teammates Erwin Kluge, Manfred Fink, Walter Rühl and Klaus Opitz formed a well-rehearsed block in front of goalkeepers Manfred Meierhöfer and Dieter Rauch. At the end of the lap, Weisenau just missed making it into the promotion lap in third place. Not least because of financially limited opportunities, this position could not be repeated in the following years; in the table the way led down. Under coach Horst Hülß , Weisenau rose to the amateur camp after the 1969/70 season, tied with FC Homburg on the saving 14th place. After relegation, after 195 regional league appearances with 28 goals for Weisenau, Ziehmer joined the city's local rivals FSV Mainz 05 for the 1970/71 round.

Mainz 05, 1970 to 1973

In the zero fives, the experienced defender met the successful coach of the 1966/67 series in Weisenau, Erich Gehbauer. In the summer of 1970, he succeeded in realigning the Mainz team. The departures of goalkeeper Kurt Planitzer , the two defenders Carlo Storck and Heinz Wassermann , and the attackers Gerhard Bopp and Horst Klinkhammer were replaced by the two talented goalkeepers Wolfgang Kneib and Wolfgang Orben , in defense with Herbert Scheller from Gimbsheim and the "experienced Weisenauer Libero Walter Ziehmer ”and on the offensive by Peter Scherer , Jürgen Janz , Bernd Schmitt and Hans-Joachim Jakobi . The ex-Weisenauer played in 30 league games and mostly scored four goals as a Libero; Mainz 05 took seventh place on the final day. The 6-0 home win in August 1970 against the previous three-time champions SV Alsenborn with Walter Frosch and Manfred Lenz , Ziehmer's free-kick in November 1970 for a 1-0 win against Völklingen and the 2-1 home win in March 1971 were impressive against runner-up FK Pirmasens .

In the first year of coaching under Bernd Hoss , 1971/72, reinforcements came to the Bruchweg with Willi Löhr , Paul Göppl , Gerd Schmidt , Gerd Klier and Herbert Renner . That led the zero fives to fourth place and Ziehmer had contributed to this with six goals in 18 league games. Against runner-up Röchling Völklingen - with players like Jürgen Stars , Klaus Hommrich , Detlef Rosellen , Walter Spohr - Mainz prevailed in both games; Ziehmer contributed the converted penalty to the 1-0 home win at the beginning of January 1972. When the Hoss troupe prevailed against Völklingen with a score of 80:41 in 1972/73 and won the championship, Ziehmer played his last seven point games in the Regionalliga Südwest. He put the finishing touch on January 14, 1973 in a 3-2 home win against TuS Neuendorf. He acted in front of goalkeeper Kneib on the defensive alongside Libero Scheller, Vorstopper Löhr and the other full-back Janz.

After the end of his playing career, Walter Ziehmer later worked as a junior and assistant coach at Mainz 05 from 1973 to 1983. On the final day of the 1980/81 series, the zero fives won under coach Herbert Dörenberg the championship in the Oberliga Südwest before southwest Ludwigshafen, assistant coach Ziehmer came on the last round matchday, May 24, 1981, in a 6-1 away win against SV Viktoria Herxheim , as well as head coach Dörenberg, even to a championship appearance.

Ziehmer died after a long illness in January 2019 at the age of 75.

literature

  • Reinhard Rehberg, Christian Karn: Carnival on Bruchweg. The great years of Mainz 5. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-624-9 .
  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 9: Player Lexicon 1963-1994. Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 .
  • 1. FSV Mainz 05 (Ed.): From year to year 1925–2008. Author: Christian Karn. Self-published. 2008

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b mainz05.de: Mainz 05 mourns Walter Ziehmer (Jan. 25, 2019) , accessed on January 25, 2019
  2. ↑ Walter Ziehmer in the archive of FSV Mainz 05
  3. ↑ Karn: From year to year. P. 74
  4. ↑ Karn: From year to year. P. 76
  5. ↑ Karn: From year to year. P. 94
personal data
SURNAME Ziehmer, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1943
DATE OF DEATH 20th January 2019