Wolfgang Tillich

Wolfgang Tillich (* 25. November 1939 , † 23. November 1988 ) was a German football player , who as keeper of Hertha BSC in the first year of the football league was 1963-64 in 26 games in goal for Berlin.

career

Berlin City League, 1957 to 1963

At Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin , the career of goalkeeper talent Wolfgang Tillich began with an appearance in the 1957/58 round in the Berlin City League . On May 15, 1958, he was also in the youth national team of the DFB at the international match in Flensburg against Denmark. When the 20-year-old had significantly more opportunities to draw attention to his talent through his 18 league games in the 1958/59 season, Hertha BSC signed the goalkeeper capable of development for the round in 1959/60. Hertha played the first game in the city league series in 1959/60 at Blau-Weiß 90 on August 23, 1959 and lost the match with goalkeeper Tillich with 2: 3 goals. The new goalkeeper completed all 30 games for Hertha, which finished the round as runner-up. In 1961 and 1963 Tillich won the championship in Berlin with his club and moved into the respective finals of the German soccer championship with Hertha BSC . He played a total of eleven finals. The sporting yield was not good for the Berlin representative with only one win (1961: 4: 3 win at 1. FC Cologne) and a draw in 1963 against 1. FC Kaiserslautern. Tillich played a total of 102 games in the city league for Hertha and moved into the new Bundesliga 1963/64 when Hertha was nominated as Berlin representative.

Football Bundesliga, 1963 to 1965

Hertha strengthened itself significantly with the newcomers Harald Beyer , Uwe Klimaschefski , Otto Rehhagel and Carl-Heinz Rühl compared to the last year of the Berlin City League, but the level of the Bundesliga was immediately not comparable with the previous competitive situation in Berlin. On the first matchday, August 24, 1963, Hertha opened the round with goalkeeper Tillich with a 1-1 draw at home against 1. FC Nürnberg , but in the further course of the round it was only against relegation. With the 14th place, the relegation could be fended off with a point ahead of Preußen Münster . The 65 goals received did not speak for a stable defense, only Kaiserslautern with 69 and the relegated 1. FC Saarbrücken with 72 goals had a worse record. Tillich had played in Hertha goal in 24 games, Hans-Jürgen Krumnow had played the remaining six games. For the second year in the Bundesliga, Hertha BSC brought the national team goalkeeper of the 1962 World Cup, Wolfgang Fahrian , from Ulm in 1846 to the Spree. In the second half of the season, in January 1965, Tillich made the only two appearances in the 1964/65 round against Borussia Dortmund and VfB Stuttgart. Fahrian was number one with 25 games, Krumnow made three appearances. Hertha did not get beyond 14th place and conceded the most goals of the season with 62 goals together with Karlsruher SC. The new champions Werder Bremen , on the other hand, demonstrated how a functioning defense is composed. A goalkeeper alone couldn't make out the quality of the defense at Hertha or at Werder.

Regionalliga Berlin, 1965 to 1969

After Hertha was forced to move to the Regionalliga Berlin in 1965, Tillich stayed for two rounds as a reserve keeper - three appearances in two seasons - and switched to his old club Blau-Weiß 90 in the summer of 1967, where he made 42 appearances in the Regionalliga until 1969 brought. He played his last game on May 18, 1969 in a 6-0 win at Reinickendorfer Füchsen.

International Games, 1960 to 1963

In his first season at Hertha BSC, 1959/60, Wolfgang Tillich was appointed to the German national soccer team of amateurs . He made his debut on March 5, 1960 together with Gerhard Neuser at the international match in London against England in the German amateur team. Captain and center runner Herbert Schäfer directed the defense with defenders Willi Gerdau and Jürgen Kurbjuhn and the Berlin goalkeeper impressed in the 1-1 draw on the island. Therefore, he was again in the goal of the DFB team on April 18, 1960 at the Olympic qualifying second leg in Warsaw against Poland. In Warsaw, however, the German defense was unable to decisively prevent the hosts from attacking and Poland won 3-1 goals and was thus qualified for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome. On May 26, Tillich came in Saarbrücken in the international match against France for his third appearance in the amateur national team.

After the Berlin city selection won the first round first leg of the Messestädte-Pokal 1961/62 thanks to a goal by Erhard Foit from Tennis Borussia in the home Olympic Stadium against CF Barcelona with 1-0, the Berliners had to go to the goalkeeper in the second leg in Catalonia at the beginning of October Hans-Joachim "Jockel" Posinski from Tasmania Berlin waived because his employer did not release him for the trip. Tillich came on for him, but was left behind with two goals from Brazilian center forward Evaristo de Macedo and one from José Antonio Zaldúa to make it 3-0.

In the 1963/64 trade fair cup , Tillich and Hertha lost the two first round matches against AS Roma with 1: 3 and 0: 2. The former Dortmund Jürgen Schütz brought the Italians in the lead. Carl-Heinz Rühl scored the equalizer in the home game.

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 .
• 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 .
• Ulrich Merk, André Schulin: Bundesliga chronicle 1963/64. Volume 1: Triumphal procession of the billy goats. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-083-9 .
• Ulrich Merk, André Schulin: Bundesliga chronicle 1964/65. Volume 2: Werder's surprise coup. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-084-7 .
• Hardy Grüne, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .