Werner Thamm

Werner Thamm (born August 24, 1926 , in Klein Korbetha ; † October 20, 1987 in Braunschweig ) was a German football player who, as a player for Eintracht Braunschweig, played 260 games in the Oberliga Nord from 1950 to 1962 and scored 110 goals Has.

career

TSV Goslar 08, 1948 to 1950

Thamm came to the old imperial city of Goslar as a refugee and strengthened the team of TSV Goslar from the 1948/49 round in the Verbandsliga, Braunschweig relay . With the ex-Dessauer Kurt Scheibe - he moved to SV Arminia Hannover for the 1949/50 round - he brought about a significant increase in the team from the Osterfeldstadion and came in his first year at the blue-whites for the runner-up. In the second year, 1949/50, the championship was won in the amateur Oberliga Ost in front of VfL Wolfsburg . In the promotion round to Oberliga Nord, however, Altona 93 , Itzehoer SV and Eintracht Osnabrück prevailed and Werner Thamm accepted the offer from Eintracht Braunschweig and switched to BTSV.

Eintracht Braunschweig, 1950 to 1962

Coach Hans-Georg Vogel - senior teacher and national student coach - immediately put the ex-amateur in 1950/51 on the first day of play, August 22, 1950, in the away game against Bremerhaven 93 in the league team. Thamm played a total of 27 point games in his debut round in the Oberliga and the attacker with powerful jumping and strong header shot himself to the top of the internal Eintracht goalscorer list with 16 hits. In his second year with the Blue-Yellows, 1951/52, the BTSV got into the relegation battle with a completely renewed squad, which did not conform to the rules. The NFV punished Braunschweig with the forced transfer to the amateur class. Thamm remained loyal to Eintracht and, together with the former GDR players Winfried Herz , Werner Oberländer , Heinz Senftleben and Heinz Wozniakowski, was available to the new coach Edmund Conen for the mission of "immediate resurgence". With an outstanding Werner Thamm - the extremely versatile all-rounder was able to hold the defense together as a center runner - the BTSV was in the 1952/53 season with a goal difference of 123:39 goals and 54:10 points champion in the amateur Oberliga Ost before the VfL Wolfsburg and VfV Hildesheim and also prevailed in the promotion round against the competition ASV Bergedorf 85 , VfL Wolfsburg and VfR Neumünster and thus actually managed to get promoted back to the Oberliga Nord. In this round, Thamm also strengthened Lower Saxony's association selection in the competition for the DFB country cup . It was not until the final on April 25, 1953 in Hanover, that another title win was prevented by a 2: 5 defeat against Bayern.

Under Conen's successor Kurt Baluse , the “Löwen” improved to seventh place in 1956/57 and even won the runner -up in the 1958 World Cup in Sweden behind the record title winner in the north, Hamburger SV . Thamm, now playing in attack again, made a significant contribution to this success with his striker quality. He scored two goals in five games, scored three goals in a 3-0 win against VfR Neumünster and scored four goals in a 5-2 win against Göttingen 05 . With a total of 23 goals in this round, he won the top scorer's crown in the north from Uwe Seeler , Gustav Rathmann and Ernst-Otto Meyer , who each scored 22 goals. The final round of the German football championship in 1958 was held in a shortened form due to the preparation of the national team and also in neutral places. Thamm and his Eintracht colleagues did not want to have the big experience in the games against Schalke 04 in Frankfurt, Karlsruher SC in Nuremberg and Tennis Borussia Berlin in Oberhausen. Only the final game against the Berliners could be won with an 8: 3 success - Thamm ended the scoring with his goal in the 89th minute - and Schalke 04 took the title with a 3: 0 win against HSV. The 32-year-old veteran once again underscored his scoring risk with his 20 goals in the following round. Behind Uwe Seeler (29) and Arnold Schütz (23) he finished third in the north with Alfred Bornemann and Klaus Stürmer . When Thamm made 20 missions with twelve goals in his eleventh round for Braunschweig, 1960/61, at the age of 34, he was one of the regular cast of Eintracht for the last time. He played his 260th and last league game on January 28, 1962 in the Eintracht Stadium in a 1-1 home draw against Concordia Hamburg . The attack by coach Hans-Georg Vogel's team consisted of Thamm, Aykut Ünyazici , Jürgen Moll , Gerhard Schrader and Klaus Gerwien . Werner Thamm is by far the most successful top division shooter at Eintracht Braunschweig. With his 110 goals he is clearly ahead of Jürgen Moll, who follows in second place with 73 goals.

End of career

Werner Thamm, who also played many international friendly matches with BTSV - u. a. FC Basel, Birmingham City, Admira Vienna, Tottenham Hotspur, Young Fellows Zurich, PSV Eindhoven, FC Santos - ended his career in the amateur camp at the Braunschweig Free Gymnastics Federation in 1962/63.

literature

• Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-463-1 .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• Hardy Greens: Legendary football clubs. Northern Germany. Between TSV Achim, Hamburger SV and TuS Zeven. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-223-8 .

Web link

Players A – Z (bung bottle) , visited on March 17, 2020