Willi Löhr

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Willi Löhr (born August 6, 1947 in Niederlahnstein ) is a former German soccer player . The defensive player made it to the clubs 1. FC Nürnberg and 1. FSV Mainz 05 in the then second division of the regional league south and regional league south west from 1969 to 1974 on a total of 127 league appearances with one goal, as well as eight appearances in the Bundesliga promotion round 1973. For In Mainz he was active in another 23 games in the first year of the 2nd Bundesliga , 1974/75, in addition in five games in the League Cup 1972/73 , as well as in a total of six DFB Cup games for Nuremberg and Mainz. He was a member of the championship teams of 1971 (Nuremberg) and 1973 (Mainz).

career

Niederlahnstein and Nuremberg, 1956 to 1971

At the age of nine, the boy Willi Löhr began playing football in the club in the youth department of his home SV Niederlahnstein . His footballing talent led him to the district and association selection and at the age of 17 in the first team. After SV Niederlahnstein returned to the Amateur League Rhineland in 1967 , he was able to prove his skills at the highest amateur level in the following two years and was also a member of the Rhineland selection in the competition for the amateur country cup . In the 1968/69 season Löhr and his teammates from Niederlahnstein were runner-up in the Rhineland League after a playoff against SpVgg Andernach (3-1) and took part in the games for the German amateur championship. But he drew the shorter with the SV against the southern Baden FC Emmendingen and was eliminated. With the association selection, the midfielder and defender had played two exciting games against the eventual cup winners North Baden in October and November 1968 (2: 1, 0: 3 a.s.) and had himself in the notepads of several regional league clubs in the substructure at that time played in the Bundesliga . In 1969 he also took part in a training course under the direction of the then DFB trainer Udo Lattek to inspect the amateur national team in the run-up to the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.

Not least on the advice of his former playmate from the Rhineland selection , Dieter Nüssing , who had switched from FC Metternich to the "Club" in 1968, he was invited by the reigning German champions to a trial training in Nuremberg during his fight against relegation to the Bundesliga. Löhr convinced the people in charge of Nuremberg and signed a contract with 1. FC Nuremberg for the 1969/70 season. When he started his service in Franconia in the summer of 1969, Nuremberg played under coach Kuno Klötzer in the second -rate regional soccer league south . In addition to Löhr, the Bundesliga relegated team also signed goalkeepers Gerd Welz , Jürgen Billmann , Heinz Lubanski , Dieter Meis , Helmut Metzler , Dieter Renner and Werner Seubert . The newcomer from Niederlahnstein made his debut on the start of the round, August 17, 1969, in a 3-1 away win at ESV Ingolstadt in the Regionalliga Süd. In front of goalkeeper Welz, he and the old club players from the Bundesliga Horst Leupold , Ferdinand Wenauer and Fritz Popp formed the Nuremberg defensive as a stopper. On the third match day, August 27, the Franks lost the away game with the same defensive formation at Kickers Offenbach with 0-2, although coach Klötzer also defensive players Amand Theis and Johnny Hansen against the strong Kickers attacker Horst Gecks , Walter Bechtold , Klaus Winkler and Erwin Kremers . At the end of the round, the German champion of 1968 just missed making it into the Bundesliga promotion round in third place . On the penultimate game day they lost 3-0 away at VfR Mannheim on May 18, 1970 - the lawn athletes had played with players like Rainer Ulrich , Theodor Homann , Wolfgang Platz , Dietmar Danner and Klaus Slatina and Löhr had in vain at Heinz Müller's side tries to stop the Waldhof attacks at an early stage - destroying Nuremberg's hopes for advancement. Löhr had played 14 league games in the round.

Under the new coach Barthel Thomas , the former association coach from the Rhineland, with Nüssing, Theis, Löhr and Wolfgang Riemann , the "Club" started again in 1970/71 to return to the Bundesliga. First, in the quarter-finals of the DFB Cup on August 5, 1970, a sensational 2-1 home game win against the clearly favored Bayern Munich. Löhr formed the midfield of the regional league in front of 70,000 spectators with Rudolf Kröner and Riemann. Ten days later, on August 15, the Bayern conquerors started the 1970/71 regional round with a 3-0 home win against Hessen Kassel. After the first half of the season, the club was unchallenged at the top of the table with 30: 6 points. The 1. FCN remained unbeaten this season for no less than 27 straight games. The newcomers Manfred Drexler , Rudolf Kröner, Günther Michl , Wolfgang Riemann and Roland Stegmayer had made a significant contribution to this. The Franconians celebrated a superior championship in the south with 55:17 points ; Löhr had scored a goal in 23 appearances. In the promotion round, the southern champion could not assert himself; Nuremberg only finished fourth and Löhr was not used in any game. At this point he had already signed a new contract with FSV Mainz 05, as there was massive unrest in Nuremberg because of the coach's youth and the former champions from the Bundesliga, who were supposed not to strive for promotion with absolute conviction. The player, who can be used in defense as well as in midfield, moved after 37 appearances (1 goal) in the Regionalliga Süd at 1. FC Nürnberg in the 1971/72 season with his teammate Herbert Renner to Rheinhessen for FSV Mainz 05 in the Regional Football League Southwest.

Mainz 05, 1971 to 1975

In the first year of coaching under Bernd Hoss , thanks to the "Blendax money" with Paul Göppl , Gerd Schmidt and striker Gerd Klier , further reinforcements besides Löhr and Renner came to the Bruchweg. That led the zero fives to fourth place and Löhr had been convincing mainly in the pre-stopper position in 30 league games. Mainz prevailed in both games against runner-up Röchling Völklingen - with players like Jürgen Stars , Klaus Hommrich , Detlef Rosellen and Walter Spohr . The decisive setback in making the move into the Bundesliga promotion round was the 2-0 home defeat on March 26, 1972 against FV Speyer.

When the Hoss team prevailed against Völklingen in 1972/73 with 80:41 goals tied and won the championship, the zero fives with the "legendary 54-goal storm" Herbert Renner, Gerd Klier and Manfred Kipp played most games in attack . On the defensive, coach Hoss relied on Libero Herbert Scheller , Vorstopper and team captain Willi Löhr, as well as on the defenders Jürgen Richter and Jürgen Janz . Löhr occupied the pre-stopper position in all 30 rounds before Scheller. However, due to his technical skills and good play opening, he was not a classic man marker with a mostly dogged duel, but was also able to help the team effortlessly as a playing libero. Mainz did not disappoint in the promotion round, but SC Fortuna Köln successfully prevailed with players like Wolfgang Fahrian , Karl-Heinz Struth , Wolfgang Glock and Hans-Günter Neues . Löhr had played in all eight games and was a guarantee that Mainz only conceded eleven goals in eight games against Fortuna Köln, FC St. Pauli, Karlsruher SC and Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin.

Also in his third Mainz season, 1973/74, Löhr underlined his value for the zero five with another 30 rounds. The team from Bruchwegstadion could not defend the title, however, they finished fifth at the end of the round, but moved into the newly installed 2nd Bundesliga from 1974/75 . The humanly very sociable coach Hoss, he led the team "on a long leash", but changed the club and the zero fives started with the former Bundesliga defender and FC Homburg coach Uwe Klimaschefski , as Hoss' successor in the 2nd Bundesliga.

In the debut year of the two-tier 2. Bundesliga, Mainz immediately saw three coaches in action with Klimaschefski, Gerd Higi and Gerd Menne . "Klima" provoked his departure from Mainz after eight league games, the old league legend Higi took over for three second division games on an interim basis and handed over the task to Menne at the end of October 1974, who made his debut on match day 11 in a 2: 3 away defeat at FC Homburg . The sensitive 3: 8 away defeat in the second main round of the DFB Cup on October 26th at FC St. Pauli also fell during the difficult reorientation phase. With three successes in the last three league games against FC Augsburg (3: 2), VfR Heilbronn (4: 1) and Wormatia Worms (3: 2), Mainz still reached 11th place and Löhr had 23 appearances, mostly as a stopper , his part in it. Before the start of the round, Herward Koppenhöfer and Gerd Schwickert, two additional defensive players, had come to Bruchweg. Löhr played his last competitive game for Mainz on April 12, 1975 in a 2-5 home defeat against FC Homburg, where Uwe Klimaschefski was again in office as coach. Since he had heard in the contract negotiations with Mainz, like goalkeeper Wolfgang Kneib who joined SV Wiesbaden, that it could only continue with drastic financial losses, Löhr ended his career in the professional field after the end of the round and joined the 1975/76 season FVgg. Kastel 06 as a player-coach.

Player-coach, coach, scout

After a round in Kastel he took over the TuS Taunusstein-Hahn in the same function and then from 1977/78 he worked for TSV Bleidenstadt for four years . With the blue-whites, not far from Wiesbaden, Löhr surprised in the DFB Cup of the 1977/78 season. In the first main round, on July 30, 1977, the Hessian amateur club achieved a 2-1 away win n.V. at SG Wattenscheid 09 from the 2nd Bundesliga . In the second main round, Löhr and his team even had to compete at Bundesliga club FC Schalke 04 . On August 20, Löhr's team lost 8-1 at Schalke.

From 1981 coaching stations at SG Harxheim, Eintracht Lahnstein, VfR Nierstein , the U19 of Mainz 05, TSV Zornheim, FSV Winkel, VfL Fontana Fintheim and again from 2001 to 2005/06 in the junior department of Mainz 05. With the work in the junior area Löhr has good memories of the development of the players Roman Neustädter and Mario Vrančić . Then he switched to scouting for the zero fives, where he was first on the road for manager Christian Heidel , before the work for the junior performance center of the zero fives came to the fore and where he still works today (2020).

literature

  • Christoph Bausenwein, Bernd Siegler, Harald Kaiser: The legend of the club. The history of 1. FC Nürnberg. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2012. ISBN 978-3-89533-907-3 .
  • 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 . P. 311.
  • 1. FSV Mainz 05 (Ed.): From year to year 1925–2008. Author: Christian Karn. Self-published. 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karn, Rehberg: Spiellexikon 1963-1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. p. 311
  2. ↑ Willi Löhr in the archive of FSV Mainz 05
  3. ^ German sports club for football statistics (DSFS): Südwest-Chronik. Football in Southwest Germany 1963 / 64–1968 / 69. Seelze 2014. p. 346
  4. ^ German sports club for football statistics (DSFS): Südwest-Chronik. Football in Southwest Germany 1963 / 64–1968 / 69. Seelze 2014. p. 353
  5. ^ German sports club for football statistics (DSFS): Südwest-Chronik. Football in Southwest Germany 1963 / 64–1968 / 69. Seelze 2014. p. 354
  6. ^ Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Green: German Cup History since 1935. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2000. ISBN 3-89784-146-0 . P. 250
  7. ↑ Karn: From year to year. P. 76
  8. ↑ Karn: From year to year. P. 78
  9. ↑ Karn: From year to year. Pp. 82/83
  10. ^ Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Green: German Cup History since 1935. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2000. ISBN 3-89784-146-0 . Pp. 322, 324
personal data
SURNAME Löhr, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederlahnstein