Willibert Kremer

Willibert Kremer
Personnel
birthday	October 15, 1939
place of birth	Hochneukirch ,  German Empire
date of death	December 24, 2021
size	173 cm
position	Midfield , striker
Men's
years	station	Games (goals) 1
0000-1959	Rheydter SV
1959-1961	SC Viktoria Cologne
1961–1962	Borussia Monchengladbach	14 (1)
1962-1964	SC Viktoria Cologne	36 (6)
1964-1966	Hertha BSC	28 (4)
1966-1972	MSV Duisburg	91 (6)
National team
years	selection	Games (goals)
1960	Germany amateurs	3 (0)
Stations as a trainer
years	station
1971-1973	MSV Duisburg (assistant trainer)
1973-1976	MSV Duisburg
1976-1981	Bayer 04 Leverkusen
1982	TSV 1860 Munich
1982-1985	Fortuna Dusseldorf
1985-1986	Eintracht Braunschweig
1988-1989	1. FC Bocholt
1989-1992	MSV Duisburg
1992-1993	Tennis Borussia Berlin
1994-1995	Tennis Borussia Berlin
1 Only league games are given.

Willibert Kremer (born October 15, 1939 in Hochneukirch , † December 24, 2021 ) was a German football coach and football player . The left wing and midfielder played a total of 258 league games from 1960 to 1971 in the first-class football Oberliga West , the second-rate football regional league West and Berlin and the Bundesliga with the clubs SC Viktoria Köln , Borussia Mönchengladbach , Hertha BSC and MSV Duisburg and scored 44 goals. After his time as a player, he became a coach and also worked in the Bundesliga.

career

Player, until 1970

He spent his active time as a contract and professional player from 1960 to 1961 at SC Viktoria Köln , from 1961 to 1962 at Borussia Mönchengladbach , from 1962 to 1964 again at SC Viktoria Köln and from 1964 to 1966 at Hertha BSC . His last and longest position was with MSV Duisburg in the Bundesliga from 1966 to 1971 . He was discovered by the later master coach Hennes Weisweiler in the youth of FC Jüchen and brought to Viktoria Köln. In the 1959/60 season, the amateur footballer of Viktoria was used in March, April and May 1960 in three games in the amateur national team of the DFB. Kremer made his debut in the DFB selection on March 5 in a friendly against the English amateur selection in London. The international game ended 1: 1 and Kremer had formed the left wing with Gerhard Neuser from Siegen on the left wing. The two following Olympic qualifying games against Poland (1: 3) and Finland (2: 3) were lost and the DFB amateurs lost their ticket to the 1960 Summer Games in Rome and Kremer moved to the top division of Viktoria Köln for the 1960/61 season on.

Kremer made his debut in the Oberliga West on the start of the round, August 14, 1960, in a 1: 4 away defeat at Borussia Dortmund. In the World Cup system practiced at the time , Carl-Heinz Rühl , Heinz Lorenz and Kremer were the attacking tips of the Weisweiler-Elf. The debutant was used by his coach in all 30 round games and scored seven goals when he reached 10th rank. The fact that he was included in the U23 selection on March 15, 1961 at the international match in London against his English peers can also be seen as confirmation of his good round performance . In the 1: 4 defeat, the strikers Gustav Flachenecker , Jürgen Schütz , Heinz Strehl , Hermann Straschitz and Kremer were shown the difference in performance to professional football on the island. After the successful league debut, Kremer accepted the offer from league competitor Borussia Mönchengladbach and moved to the Lower Rhine for the 1961/62 season .

Coach Bernd Oles' team played a disappointing first half of the season and Kremer returned to the Viktoria in Cologne after six months. He had played 14 league games (1 goal) for the Bökelbergstadion team alongside teammates such as Albert Brülls , Franz Brungs , Helmut Fendel , Ulrich Kohn and Karl-Heinz Mülhausen . Due to the suspension, he was only able to accumulate again at the start of the round in 1962/63 in the Oberliga West . In the last year of the old league first class, the agile, fun-to-run and combination-safe team player seamlessly continued the performance from his debut round in 1960/61; he played all 30 league games and scored twelve goals for coach Weisweiler's team. The Viktoria finished 8th and had scored the most goals in the Oberliga West with 81 hits; significantly more than champions 1. FC Köln with 65 goals. The 69 goals conceded prevented a better performance and an advance on the top positions. The coach mostly relied on the attack line-up with Rühl (24/14), Horst Hülß (21/10), Klaus Matischak (25/17), Jürgen Schult (26/14) and Kremer. With a 3-2 away win at Rot-Weiß Oberhausen on May 11, 1963, Kremer (2 goals) and colleagues ended the era of the Oberliga West and in the next season 1963/64 they had to compete in the newly created second division of the Regionalliga West , because the nomination for the new concentration of the Bundesliga was not possible. With Rühl (Hertha BSC) and Matischak ( FC Schalke 04 ), Viktoria lost two dangerous strikers to the Bundesliga and opened the regional league's debut round with 7-1 points. The reliable endurance runner on the left side of the game was used by trainer Weisweiler again in all competitive games; but now in 38 games, since the new league started with 20 clubs. Kremer scored seven goals and the Viktoria took 5th place. Weisweiler and his players failed to get into the Bundesliga promotion round and the coach joined the league competitor Borussia Mönchengladbach on April 27, 1964, as their coach Fritz Langner had taken over the Bundesliga club FC Schalke 04. But Kremer also found his way into the Bundesliga, he signed a contract with Hertha BSC for the 1964/65 season , like his previous team-mate Jürgen Sundermann . In addition to the two Viktoria players, Hertha also signed goalkeeper Wolfgang Fahrian and the attackers Michael Krampitz and Kurt Schulz .

Kremer presented himself to the Berlin audience in the international friendly games against Rapid Wien (2-2) and Olympique Lyon (2-2) at the beginning of August and started with an unexpected 3-2 away win against defending champions 1. FC Köln on August 22, 1964 in the second Bundesliga year. Trainer Josef Schneider took part in the attack in Cologne with Rühl, Hans-Joachim Altendorff , Helmut Faeder , Schulz and Kremer. At the end of the round, Hertha had 25:35 points and thus took 14th place in the table. Kremer had scored four goals in 28 league games. The last round game on May 15, 1965, the Berlin team lost 3-1 at Hannover 96 . Kremer had also participated with Hertha in the quarter and semi-finals of the International Football Cup 1964/65 against Slovan Bratislava and SC Leipzig and was also part of the delegation, which carried out a Latin American tour with several games immediately after the end of the round. But the bang came: Due to financial irregularities, Hertha BSC's Bundesliga license was revoked for the next 1965/66 season and Hertha had to compete in the second-rate Berlin Regionalliga . Kremer stayed in Berlin and was part of the championship team, which won the Berlin title with 58: 2 points and 136:25 goals. He had scored six goals in 27 games. In the Bundesliga promotion round, Kremer (3 games) and colleagues clearly failed at Fortuna Düsseldorf.

After two years in Berlin, he returned to the West, he signed a new contract with Bundesliga club MSV Duisburg for the 1966/67 season . In the next four rounds he ran for the "Zebras" in 91 Bundesliga games and scored six goals. He was no longer the man on the left wing, he moved back into midfield. At MSV he experienced the way the coaches Hermann Eppenhoff , Gyula Lóránt and Robert Gebhardt work and began as assistant coach under the new head coach Rudi Faßnacht in the 1970/71 season . As early as 1967 he had successfully completed his training as a football teacher in Cologne under course leader Hennes Weisweiler .

Trainer

From the 1970/71 season, Kremer worked as an assistant coach at MSV and was also responsible for the A-Juniors. In the 1971/72 round he led the MSV Juniors to the German Youth Championship . With players like Ronald Worm , Werner Schneider , Lothar Schneider , Hans-Jürgen Baake , Klaus Bruckmann and Ernst Savkovic , he won the final in Stuttgart against VfB Stuttgart 2-0 on July 2, 1972. On October 22, 1973, he took over the post of head coach from Rudi Faßnacht . He moved into the finals of the DFB Cup with MSV in 1975 . After delayed contractual negotiations, he terminated his contract at the end of the 1975/76 season and was then given leave of absence from the MSV board on March 16, 1976. In April he took over the relegation-threatened team from Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the 2nd Bundesliga and achieved relegation with 15th place.

On the fourth last match day of the 1978/79 season , Bayer 04 Leverkusen were one point short of promotion to the Bundesliga . This should be won in the home game against Bayer 05 Uerdingen . Almost 20 minutes before the end of the match it was 0: 3, but his team managed to secure the promotion 3: 3. Kremer stayed in Leverkusen until 1981 . In 1982 he had a short guest appearance at TSV 1860 Munich , in the same year he then moved to Fortuna Düsseldorf .

1985 his time in Düsseldorf ended. He became a trainer at Eintracht Braunschweig , where he was released after less than a year. In 1989 he returned to his first coaching station, MSV Duisburg. In 1992 he switched to Tennis Borussia Berlin . After seven defeats in a row, he asked for a leave of absence in October 1993, which was granted. But since his successors were not more successful than him, he was signed again in 1994 - and dismissed again after an unsatisfactory first half of the season.

From 1998 to 2013 Kremer was a player observer at Bayer 04 Leverkusen .

Personal

Kremer was born in October 1939 in Hochneukirch , which is now part of Jüchen . He died at the age of 82 in December 2021.

literature

• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994: Bundesliga, Regionalliga, 2. Liga (= encyclopedia of German league football; 9). Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , p. 278.
• Harald Tragmann, Harald Voss: The Hertha Compendium. Harald Voß Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-935759-27-4 .
• Gerd Dembowski, Dirk Piesczek, Jörg Riederer: In the zebra area: The history of MSV Duisburg. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89533-307-7 .

Web links

• Willibert Kremer in the database of weltfussball.de
• Willibert Kremer in the database of fussballdaten.de
• He should live high - Willibert Kremer is 80. In: bayer04.de. 15th October 2019. 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karn / Rehberg: Spiellexikon 1963 to 1994. P. 278.
2. ↑ Alex Feuerherdt: Bayer 04 Leverkusen - The Football Chronicle. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89533-819-9 , p. 46.
3. ^ Aretz, Giebeler, Kreuels: Borussia Mönchengladbach. The Chronicle. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2010. ISBN 978-3-89533-748-2 . P. 175
4. ↑ Tragmann, Voss: The Hertha Compendium. Pp. 294, 296
5. ↑ ? (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on August 5, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
6. ↑ Willibert Kremer celebrated his 70th birthday. In: bayer04.de. October 15, 2009, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on August 5, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Viktoria Köln mourns Willibert Kremer. In: viktoria1904.de. December 25, 2021, accessed December 25, 2021 .