Winfried Herz

Winfried Herz (born May 11, 1929 ) is a former German football player who played 216 games with 84 goals in the GDR Oberliga or Oberliga Nord from 1949 to 1961 .

career

SG Erfurt-West / Fortuna / KWU / Turbine Erfurt, until December 1951

The talent of the technically skilled Thuringian striker Winfried Herz led him to win the Thuringia state championship in the final against SG Altenberg-Nord and Vorwärts Gotha as a 20-year-old with Fortuna Erfurt . In the east zone championship 1948/49 the final was reached after successes against SG Wismar Süd and in the semifinals against SG Meerane . Against Meerane, the nervous talent scored the winning goal with a penalty in the 101st minute of the game, making it 4: 3. On June 26, 1949, the final took place in Dresden in front of 50,000 spectators against ZSG Union Halle . Against the Halle residents Karl Gola , Otto Knefler ,Herbert Rappsilber and Otto Werkmeister did not have a serious chance of winning the “Blumenstädter” in the clear 1: 4 defeat. In the first year of the zone league (DS League) in 1949/50, Herz played 16 games with eight goals in the team that was renamed KWU Erfurt and finished fourth with his club. In the DDR Cup ( FDGB Cup ) he was in the final on September 3, 1950 in Berlin against EHW Thale . But here too there was a clear defeat with 4-0 goals. In the 1950/51 round Winfried Herz convinced in 27 games with 18 goals and was thus an asset when reaching first place in the table. Since Erfurt had finished the round tied with BSG Chemie Leipzig with 50:18 points each, there was a playoff for the championship. However, this was preceded in April 1951 by a controversial ban on the two Erfurt top performers Helmut Nordhaus and Wolfgang Nitsche by the "football division of the GDR DS". You could not participate in the last two round games against Turbine Halle and Motor Zwickau , as well as in the final on May 20, 1951 in Chemnitz against Chemie Leipzig. The association ban against Nitsche and Nordhaus was imposed after incidents in unofficial selection games between the GDR and Poland. Leipzig won the play-off with 2-0 goals in front of 60,000 spectators. In the 1951/52 season, Winfried Herz completed 16 games with eight goals for Turbine Erfurt until December 1951, before moving to Germany with Werner Oberländer and Heinz Wozniakowski before the turn of the year . From March 25, 1950 - in a GDR selection that was supervised by Helmut Schön - until June 16, 1951, Herz played several selection games for Thuringia and the then still unofficial GDR team.

Eintracht Braunschweig, 1952 to 1961

The Braunschweiger used their newcomers immediately on January 6, 1952 in the away game at Göttingen 05 in the league. Despite the internal trio "Herz, Oberländer, Wozniakowski", the game was lost with 1: 4 goals. The worst was still to come for the players and for Eintracht: Due to the lack of a game permit, the players were banned until the end of the season. After the end of the season, the club was declared a forced relegation because of suspected manipulation; the former GDR players had nothing to do with this, but it meant they could only become contract players a year later. In the 1952/53 season, with coach Edmund Conen, he immediately won the title in the Lower Saxony East Amateur League and returned to the Northern League in the promotion round against ASV Bergedorf 85 , VfL Wolfsburg and VfR Neumünster . On June 13, 1953, Herz and his teammate Wozniakowski were appointed to the German amateur football team at the international match against France in Wuppertal . With the inner storm Herz, Hans Zeitler and Wozniakowski, the DFB selection achieved a 1-0 success. The best placement in the Oberliga Nord was achieved by the "team captain" Herz in the 1957/58 season, when coach Kurt Baluses led the "Lions" to the runner-up and thus to the final round of the German soccer championship . In the final round (only three group games at the end of April / beginning of May), which was only played out simply because of the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, Braunschweig only achieved success in the final game in Oberhausen against Tennis Borussia Berlin ; that fell out with 8: 3 goals then also clearly. Against the eventual German champions FC Schalke 04 and the southern champions Karlsruher SC there were two defeats despite the dangerous strikers Ernst-Otto Meyer and Werner Thamm .

From the 1959/60 season onwards, Herz, who worked as a banker, was only used sporadically at Eintracht. In twelve missions he accompanied the following talents Joachim Bäse , Jürgen Moll and Walter Schmidt until 1961 and then ended his playing career after 157 league games with 49 goals for Eintracht Braunschweig, also because Eintracht downsized the squad for financial reasons.

literature

• Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
• History of the Oberliga Nord, Klartext-Verlag, 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 .
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .
• LIBERO, number D 15, 1998, IFFHS.

Web link

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