Wolf-Rüdiger Krause

Wolf-Rüdiger Krause (born September 7, 1944 in Kolberg ) is a former German football player . As a player from Eintracht Braunschweig , he became German champions in the Bundesliga in 1967 .

career

Amateur, until 1966

In 1963, at the age of 19, Wolf-Rüdiger Krause moved from the small Braunschweig amateur club RSV to Eintracht Braunschweig, which had just been included in the new Bundesliga, but in their amateur department. He played the first round with the Eintracht amateurs in the amateur league Lower Saxony, Staffel Ost and finished in 4th place. The season winners were the amateurs of Hannover 96, which later also won the title of German amateur champion. In the 1964/65 round, the dangerous attacker Wolf-Rüdiger Krause and his teammates won the runner-up in the single-track amateur league of Lower Saxony behind the reigning German amateur champion Hannover 96 amateurs. Also in his third season with the Eintracht amateurs, 1965/66, Krause and his team belonged to the top group. They occupied third place in the table. The DFB had drawn attention to the success of the 96 amateurs, the Lower Saxony League in view and so Wolf-Rüdiger Krause was nominated for the amateur national team in the 1965/66 season. On October 27, 1965, the Braunschweiger made his debut in the international match in Wiesbaden against Finland in the team of the DFB amateurs. He had a debut made to measure: the German team won 6-2 goals and he contributed two goals as a right winger. Center forward Dieter Zettelmaier was even more successful with three goals. Of course, the talented attacker was already in the field of vision of the Bundesliga team coach Helmuth Johannsen at this point . On December 11, 1965 he formed the attack with Klaus Gerwien , Lothar Ulsaß , Werner Rinass and Erich Maas in the 2-0 home win against Karlsruher SC. In the 63rd minute of the game he scored the goal to make it 2-0. In his second game in the Bundesliga, on December 31, 1965, Eintracht won a 2-0 win at Tasmania Berlin. Before his second use in the amateur national team on March 20, 1966 in Châteauroux against France, the amateur was no longer used in the Bundesliga. This happened on April 26, 1966 in the home game against Eintracht Frankfurt. In June 1966 it was used twice with the DFB amateurs. In Ancona against Italy and on the 29th of the month in Bamberg at the UEFA Amateur Cup against Turkey. With the association selection of Lower Saxony, Krause played his way up to the final of the regional cup against Westphalia this season . After these performances, the striker received a license agreement with Eintracht Braunschweig for the round 1966/67.

Bundesliga, Regionalliga Nord, 2nd Bundesliga North, 1966 to 1975

Johannsen, who was continuously building up the team, found his main formation on the offensive very quickly in the 1966/67 round. Klaus Gerwien, Lothar Ulsaß, Gerd Saborowski , Hans-Georg Dulz and Erich Maas formed the Eintracht attack. Wolfgang Grzyb was the first choice when one of them had to be replaced. Thus Krause came in this round of the greatest success of Eintracht Braunschweig, the team of Helmuth Johannsen won the German championship, only to two missions. Both games, against Schalke 04 and MSV Duisburg, ended with Krause storming the right wing, 0-0 draw. The trained wholesaler then preferred the offer of the regional league club VfL Wolfsburg and a secure job at the VW plant to remaining a reserve in Braunschweig and moved to Wolfsburg in the Regionalliga Nord for the 1967/68 round .

In the third season at VfL, the team of coach Imre Farkaszinski took second place and thus moved into the promotion round to the Bundesliga in 1970. Now Krause and Dieter Thun pulled the strings in VfL midfield and goal scorer Wilfried Kemmer was primarily responsible for the goals . In the promotion round, Wolfsburg had no real chance against Kickers Offenbach, VfL Bochum, Hertha Zehlendorf and FK Pirmasens. Krause achieved a 1-0 home win against VfL Bochum on June 24, 1970 with a goal in the 25th minute . With two third places in 1972 and 1973 and fourth place in the last regional league season in 1974, Wolfsburg qualified for the newly introduced 2nd Bundesliga , North Season, for the 1974/75 round. Personally, Wolf-Rüdiger Krause could have been very satisfied with the result of the premiere year of 35 games with 19 goals, but the descent of VfL in 19th place was not really happy. The group's three half-day leave of absence for training was not enough to support the professional VfL footballers in the 2nd Bundesliga.

In the 1975/76 season, Krause scored 16 goals in 32 league games for VfL in the amateur Oberliga Nord and won the runner-up with the green-whites. In the promotion round to the 2nd Bundesliga, four more missions followed with one goal. Wolfsburg prevailed against Bonner SC and 1. FC Bocholt and returned to the 2. Bundesliga. Krause no longer went into the professional field, he went to MTV Gifhorn as a player-coach.

Trainer

For the 1976/77 round Wolf-Rüdiger Krause took over the position of player-coach at MTV Gifhorn . His team won the association league championship unbeaten. In the 1978/79 season Gifhorn qualified for the AOL Nord and striker Klaus Gahr was appointed to the amateur national team in 1979. In the 1982/83 round, MTV played for a long time for the championship, in the end St. Pauli prevailed. In 1984 Wolf-Rüdiger Krause returned as a coach for VfL Wolfsburg in the amateur Oberliga Nord. However, he could not build on the Gifhorn successes, coach and club parted at the end of the 1987/88 season.

In 1993 Krause again took over a club in the Oberliga-Nord, namely his former employer Eintracht Braunschweig, who had since been relegated from the Second Bundesliga. At the end of the 1993/94 season, Eintracht finished second and qualified for the promotion round to the second Bundesliga , but failed there because of the superior Düsseldorf Fortuna . After the season, the collaboration was not continued.

literature

• Heinz Graßhof et al .: Eintracht Braunschweig. Portrait of a Bundesliga team . Graff and Grenzland, Braunschweig 1967, p. 28.
• Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 3: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 1. The founding years 1963–1975. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-132-0 .
• Matthias Weinrich: 25 years 2nd division. AGON, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-145-2 .
• Ulrich Homann (Hrsg.): Hellfire on Ascension. The history of the promotion rounds to the Bundesliga 1963–1974. Klartext, Essen 1990, ISBN 3-88474-346-5 .