Werner Lotz

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Werner Lotz
Personnel
birthday September 4, 1938
place of birth Duisburg ,  Germany
date of death 28th July 2018
size 176 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
0000-1957 MSV Duisburg
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1957-1969 MSV Duisburg 288 (55)
1969-1971 Hamborn 07 34 (8)
1 Only league games are given.

Werner Lotz (born September 4, 1938 in Duisburg ; † July 28, 2018 ) was a German football player . As an active member of MSV Duisburg , he played 145 games in the Bundesliga from 1963 to 1969 and scored 28 goals. He also completed 143 games in the league and scored 27 goals.

Career

Werner "Lölle" Lotz went through the youth stations at Meidericher SV and belonged to the A-youth, which in 1957 won the Lower Rhine Championship. Teammates who were then also used in the football Oberliga West or the Bundesliga were Dieter Danzberg , Hartmut Heidemann , Werner Krämer and Heinz Versteeg . In the 1957/58 season he gave his debut in the Oberliga West on October 13, 1957 in the 0-1 away defeat at Wuppertaler SV. Heinz Bohnes was the then MSV scorer with 17 goals and Heinz Versteeg, who was six months younger than him, was slowly prepared for the performance of the first-class Oberliga West with four appearances. From his second year of senior football, 1958/59, Lotz belonged to the regular line-up of the "Zebras" with 24 league appearances and four goals. Because of the fifth place in 1961/62, but decisive because of the third place in the senior year of the Oberliga era 1962/63 , Meiderich was nominated for the 1963/64 season for the newly created Bundesliga. On matchday 30, May 11, 1963, Meiderich won the last league game with 2-1 goals in the home game against fellow rivals Preußen Münster and thus claimed third place. Lotz, equipped with a tremendous willingness to run and the specialty of torpedo headers, made 143 league appearances from 1957 to 1963 and scored 27 goals.

Lotz belonged to the group of active players who stood on the pitch on August 24, 1963, the debut day of the new single-track Bundesliga. Meiderich won with a convincing performance in the Karlsruher Wildparkstadion against the local Karlsruher SC in front of 40,000 spectators with 4-1 goals. Lotz played in the right defensive position, but not only defensively, because the young coach Rudi Gutendorf practiced the then new "roll system" with the offensive full-backs and the defensive offensive players when attacking the opponent. On the right wing of Meiderich, Helmut Rahn and Werner Krämer performed magic. Behind the sovereign first Bundesliga champion 1. FC Köln , the "Zebras" from Meiderich surprisingly celebrated the runner-up. "Lölle" Lotz had scored seven goals in 29 games. He was also a member of the MSV team in the 1966 DFB Cup , which moved into the final on June 4 against Bayern Munich under coach Hermann Eppenhoff . The team around the young Franz Beckenbauer prevailed with 4-2 goals , Lotz formed the runner row together with Manfred Müller and Michael Bella . While he had completed 30 games under coach Gyula Lóránt in 1967/68 when he achieved seventh place in the table, he was only considered in eight Bundesliga games in 1968/69 under the new coach Robert Gebhardt , the last time on April 19, 1969 at 0-0 Kickers Offenbach.

Lotz joined the old local rival Hamborn 07 in the West Regional Football League for the 1969/70 round . In two rounds, he completed 34 games and scored eight goals before he graduated from higher-class football in 1971.

successes

  • Niederrheinmeister (A-youth) 1957
  • German runner-up in 1964
  • DFB Cup finalist 1966

Private

Lotz first learned formers at the Mülheim-Meiderich ironworks . He had to make gray cast iron basins. He practiced this profession in full until the start of the Bundesliga. After his active career, he invested the money he had saved in a restaurant and was an innkeeper in Duisburg-Hamborn for 16 years. From 1987 he worked for a waste disposal and industrial cleaning company in Cologne. For health reasons, Lotz had to have parts of his right leg removed. He died on July 28, 2018 after a serious illness at the age of 79, leaving behind a son.

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 .
  • Gerd Dembowski, Dirk Piesczek, Jörg Riederer: In the zebra territory. The history of MSV Duisburg . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89533-307-7 .
  • Ralf Piorr: From the ironworks to the Bundesliga turf . In: RevierSport 73/2012, p. 12 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Lotz Performance data as a player: Competitions. In: fussballdaten.de. Retrieved July 30, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Dagmar Dahmen, Hermann Kewitz, Bernd Bemmann: MSV Duisburg - the chronicle: where Meiderich wins ... published by MSV Duisburg GmbH & Co. KGaA. Mercator-Verlag, Duisburg, 2nd edition, 2005, ISBN 3-87463-391-8 , p. 214
  3. ↑ Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Spiellexikon 1963-1994 (= Encyclopedia of German League Football, 9). Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel, 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , p. 313.
  4. ^ Kristina Jäger: MSV Duisburg: mourning for runner-up Werner Lotz. In: RevierSport online . July 28, 2018, accessed September 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Lotz, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH 28th July 2018