Werner Lungwitz

Werner Lungwitz
Personnel
birthday	April 9, 1942
place of birth	Essen-Borbeck ,  Germany
date of death	January 12, 2021
Place of death	Germany
Juniors
Years	station
1959-1962	SSVg Velbert
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1962-12 / 1965	Prussia Munster	90 0(4)
1966	Tennis Borussia Berlin	? (?)
1966-1974	Fortuna Dusseldorf	224 (10)
1974-1975	SSVg Velbert	? (?)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1962	Germany amateurs	2 0(0)
1963	Germany U23	1 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1980s	1. FC Wuelfrath
1 Only league games are given.

Werner Lungwitz (born April 9, 1942 in Essen-Borbeck ; † January 12, 2021 ) was a German football player who played 29 games with two goals as a player for Prussia Münster in the premiere year of the Bundesliga 1963/64 .

career

Youth and amateur, 1952 to 1962

As an active member of the SSVg Velbert , the 20-year-old young footballer Werner Lungwitz was appointed to the two international matches of the German national football team of the amateurs in the 1961/62 season . On April 7, 1962, he made his debut in the 2-1 win in Hanover against Italy on the side of Bernd Patzke , Heinz Höher and Lothar Ulsaß . On May 31, 1962, he was used again as an outside runner in the 3: 3 draw in Merlebach against France.

Prussia Münster, 1962 to 1965

For the round 1962/63 Lungwitz signed a contract with Preußen Münster for the Oberliga West and was therefore no longer available for the DFB amateurs. In Münster, the last round of the Oberliga was about qualifying for the new Bundesliga from the 1963/64 season. Coach Richard Schneider was able to use the ex-amateur from Velbert in 29 games straight away. The Prussians came fourth in the table and thus found their way into the Bundesliga. The same number of points Alemannia Aachen (both had 37:23 counter) in fifth, however, was not included in the Bundesliga.

Werner Lungwitz was also one of Münster's regulars in the 1963/64 Bundesliga round with 29 appearances and two goals. With 15th place in the table, one point behind Hertha BSC and Karlsruher SC with 23:37 points , the Prussians were relegated from the Bundesliga at the end of the season. The standard runner series were Dagmar Drewes , Klaus Bockisch and Werner Lungwitz. The man from Velbert stayed in the cathedral city for the 1964/65 season after relegation. After the round, a trip to the Far East lasting several weeks was on the program, which was initiated by trainer Richard Schneider. Through the stops in Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland, Adelaide, Melbourne, Fiji Islands and in particular the four-day stay in Tahiti, the trip was an unforgettable experience for everyone involved. The promotion goal could not be achieved in the 1964/65 round in the Regionalliga West . Lungwitz played 32 games and scored two goals, but the Prussians ended up in eighth place in the table and thus had no chance of promotion. The decisive factor was the weak 14:20 points in the second half of the season. Lungwitz accepted the offer from Tennis Borussia Berlin for the round in 1965/66 and moved to the Spree.

Fortuna Düsseldorf, 1966 to 1974

Since Tennis Borussia did not come up against the supremacy of Hertha BSC and had to make do with second place in the Berlin city league, Lungwitz moved back to the West after 28 games with four goals for TeBe for the 1966/67 round. The contract offer from Fortuna Düsseldorf , who had just been promoted to the Bundesliga, came at the right time for Lungwitz, he signed a license player contract with coach Kuno Klötzer's team and thus returned to the Bundesliga. Düsseldorf finished 17th in the 1966/67 series and was relegated. At the side of Werner Biskup , Waldemar Gerhardt , Hans-Josef Hellingrath and Peter Meyer , Lungwitz played 26 games with two goals for Fortuna and stayed in the Regionalliga West in Düsseldorf after relegation. Fortuna Düsseldorf achieved a sixth and twice fourth place in the 1970/71 season after an exciting three-way battle with rivals VfL Bochum and Wuppertaler SV and thus moved into the 1971 promotion round. The team around Libero Werner Lungwitz with the dangerous strikers Reiner Geye and Dieter Herzog prevailed confidently against Borussia Neunkirchen , FC St. Pauli , 1. FC Nürnberg and Wacker 04 Berlin and moved into the Bundesliga. From 1967 to 1971 Lungwitz had played 133 games with three goals for Düsseldorf in the Regionalliga West. In the DFB Cup in 1971, Düsseldorf eliminated three rivals - Werder Bremen, Wuppertal and Mönchengladbach - before Bayern Munich blocked the way to the final in the semifinals on May 12, 1971.

With the away game on August 14, 1971 at FC Bayern Munich , Düsseldorf started the Bundesliga round 1971/72. Libero Lungwitz secured the defense with Egon Köhnen , Werner Kriegler and Heiner Baltes , but Bayern still won the game with 3-1 goals. In the third attempt in the Bundesliga, Lungwitz managed to stay in league, Fortuna came in 13th, he had played 29 games. In the 1972/73 round, Gerd Zewe, a strong player, was added and the veteran Lungwitz had a very successful year. The team of trainer Heinz Lucas took third place in the table. Libero Lungwitz had participated in 27 missions. In the 1973/74 season, the man from Velbert only came to eight missions and therefore retired to the amateur camp at the age of 32 for the 1974/75 round. In the summer of 1974 he moved to his hometown club SSVg Velbert in the Lower Rhine amateur league. Overall, Lungwitz came in the Bundesliga from 1963 to 1974 to 120 games with nine goals.

International Games, 1962 to 1973

For Velbert, he played two international matches with the amateur national team in 1962. In the preliminary round of the first Bundesliga season 1963/64, national coach Sepp Herberger appointed him on November 27, 1963 in the U23 junior national team that played in Liverpool against England. Together with center runner Peter Kaack , defender Horst-Dieter Höttges and strikers Klaus Gerwien and Rudi Brunnenmeier , he tried to stop the pressure of the English as an outsider, but in vain, the British won clearly with 4-1 goals. In his last season as a licensed player, 1973/74, he was able to play in the UEFA Cup in the games against Næstved IF and FC Admira / Wacker in both the first and second leg.

statistics

• Bundesliga (119 games / 10 goals)
• Oberliga Alt (29 games / 1 goal)
• Regional league (193 games / 9 goals)
• DFB-Pokal (16 games / 0 goals)
• European Cup (4 games / 0 goals)

literature

• Hans Dieter Baroth : Boys, heaven is yours! The history of the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1988, ISBN 3-88474-332-5 .
• Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 3: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 1. The founding years 1963–1975. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-132-0 .
• Ulrich Merk, André Schulin: Bundesliga chronicle 1963/64. Volume 1: Triumphal procession of the billy goats. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-083-9 .
• KICKER, Football Almanac 1993, Copress-Verlag, 1992, ISBN 3-7679-0398-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fortuna mourns Werner Lungwitz. Fortuna Düsseldorf, January 15, 2021, accessed on January 15, 2021 .