Werner Tönges

Werner Tönges (born January 21, 1936 ) is a former German football player . From 1963 to 1968 he played 105 point games and scored 30 goals at Wuppertaler SV in the then second-class regional football league West . Previously, the offensive player had played 43 games with ten goals in what was then the first-class football league West .

Career

Werner Tönges, who mostly acted as a half-striker in the World Cup system at the time , moved from FC Solingen 95 from the Lower Rhine regional league to the Oberliga West to the "Löwen" from Sportfreunde Hamborn 07 in the 1957/58 season . The black and yellow had returned to the league as champions of the 2nd division west. At the side of teammates Rolf Schafstall and Horst Jesih , the man from Solingen scored three goals in 15 league games. Hamborn rose as bottom of the table but again from the 2nd division. Tönges joined the second relegated, the Wuppertaler SV and played from the 1958/59 season with the WSV in the 2nd League West. In his first year in Wuppertal, 1958/59, he experienced the football skills of Horst Szymaniak and 19 goals from center forward Ulrich Kohn . Tönges had scored 13 goals in 30 games and placed the WSV in fifth place. In the second season with the team from the Stadion am Zoo , 1959/60, Tönges won the top scorer's crown with 28 goals in 28 games. The team of coach Willibald Kreß stayed level with the promoted SV Sodingen and TSV Marl-Hüls - all three teams showed 41:19 points - because of the worse goal difference than third in the table in the 2nd division. In Robert Gebhardt's first season as a coach, 1961/62, Tönges succeeded as runner-up with Wuppertal in the first-class Oberliga West. In the scorers list, he was also second with 26 goals in 30 games behind Hans-Otto Peters from Bayer Leverkusen (29 goals). The runners-up included teammates such as Helmut Domagalla (goalkeeper), Erich Haase , Erich Ribbeck , Vitus Sauer , Günther Glomb , Günter Augustat , Axel Kiefer and Kurt Schulz . The goal-scoring half-forward scored a total of 83 goals for Wuppertal in 116 games from 1958 to 1962. On March 4, 1962, Tönges had accrued in the representative game in Wuppertal in the team of West Germany against Berlin. In the host's 3-2 success, he played half right and club colleagues Augustat and Sauer were also in action.

In the last year of the old first-class league, 1962/63 , Wuppertal only reached 15th place. Tönges had scored seven goals in 28 games. Since he led the internal goalscorer list together with Kurt Schulz (7 goals) and Günter Augustat (6 goals), the 43 goals scored by the WSV, with 66 goals conceded, were not enough to achieve a better ranking. The home balance of 14:16 points was insufficient, the away balance of 6:24 points devastating. On the last league match day, May 11, 1963, Tönges and colleagues said goodbye to the league era with a 1-0 home win against Borussia Dortmund.

After the new league structure with the Bundesliga and the substructure of the regional leagues, Tönges played with Wuppertal for the 1963/64 season in the Regionalliga West. Since the 1963 DFB Cup was played shortly before the start of the round in 1963/64, Tönges was used in the first main round in the two games (one replay) against KSV Hessen Kassel. A 1-0 home win against Borussia Neunkirchen was successful in the quarter-finals on July 31. The sporting highlight was the semi-final match against Hamburger SV on August 7th in front of 38,000 spectators in the stadium at the Zoo. The men around Uwe Seeler and Gert Dörfel reached the final with a narrow 1-0 win. Under coach Robert Gebhardt , he made his regional league debut on August 4, 1963, in a 2-1 home win against Hennes Weisweiler 's Viktoria Köln. The WSV internal trio consisted of Manfred Reichert , Werner Tönges and Emil Meisen . The Red-Blue team from the stadium at the Zoo won the runner-up behind master Alemannia Aachen with players like Günter Augustat, Erich Haase, Günter Jäger , Jürgen Papies , Manfred Reichert, Emil Meisen and Tönges. Tönges had scored 14 goals in 34 games. But they lost the two qualifying games to move into the promotion round to the Bundesliga against the Southwest representative FK Pirmasens (0: 2/1: 2).

This was followed by three rounds with single-digit placements, but without a chance to move into the Bundesliga promotion round. In the third Tainer year of the former Dortmund master player Alfred Preißler , 1967/68 , the WSV fought with Tönges to stay in the league. The departures of Augustat, Haase, Papies and Horst Stockhausen could not be compensated and Preißler was replaced by Kuno Klötzer during the first half of the season. With the 15th place in the season of 18 the relegation just succeeded. Tönges had played 23 games and scored nine goals alongside teammates such as Rolf Müller , Manfred Reichert, Willi Esskuchen, Frank Kreinberg, Emil Meisen, Hans-Peter Kirchwehm , Horst Arnrich, Rainer Plich, Horst Heese and Erich Miss . After a total of 105 regional league games with 30 goals, Werner Tönges' contractual playing career ended in the summer of 1968.

With his youth club FC Solingen 95 he let his career end from 1968/69.

literature

• 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 .
• Ulrich Homann (Ed.): Farmer's heads, miners and a pascha. The history of the Regionalliga West 1963–1974. Volume 1, Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-345-7 .
• German Sports Club for Football Statistics (DSFS): Football in West Germany 1958–1963. Hövelhof 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 6: German Cup history since 1935. Pictures, statistics, stories, constellations. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-146-0 , p. 193.