Friedhelm Konietzka

Timo Konietzka as Bartlivater (2012 )

Timo Konietzka ( born August 2, 1938 in Lünen as Friedhelm Konietzka, † 12 March, 2012 Brunnen SZ, Switzerland ) was a German football player and coach, who also owned the Swiss citizenship in 1988. In the 1960s, the striker and scorer of the first goal in the Bundesliga title with Borussia Dortmund history and the TSV 1860 München won. As a coach, he led the FC Zurich to three championships and three cup victories.

Because of its resemblance to the Soviet General Timoshenko Friedhelm Konietzka once the nickname " Timo " was missed; later he took this name officially. His surname is pronounced without the letter "e".

Life

Konietzka grew up in Lünen and worked there since he was 14 years underground in the coal industry, as well as his father and three brothers in the Zeche Victoria. Later Borussia Dortmund him a mediated activity as a laborer the Dortmunder Union Brewery and then as a purifier of the gas lanterns for the Dortmunder Stadtwerke.

Career as a footballer

In his spare time he played football at VfB Lünen 08 until he was at the age of 20 years by Helmut Bracht, a player from Borussia Dortmund, discovered.

Oberliga West and Bundesliga

Max Merkel Konietzka built into the league team of the BVB. Together with his strike partner Jürgen " Charly " Contactor he was the highest-scoring inside forward the Oberliga West, where he scored 79 goals in 110 games. With contactor he understood brilliantly on the pitch, so they were referred to as " Max and Moritz". Konietzka played from 1963 to Borussia Dortmund and 1965 to 1967 for TSV 1860 München total of 100 Bundesliga matches and scored 72 goals. In the first three years of the Bundesliga, he came second in the scoring charts.

In the last final of the German football championship in Stuttgart Neckar Stadium, he was German in 1963 with a 3-1 victory against the favored first FC Cologne Borussia Dortmund champion.

Konietzka went down in football history when he scored in the first minute of Dortmund on August 24 at the 1963 game between Werder Bremen and Borussia Dortmund 's first goal of the newly formed league. In 1965 he succeeded again, and thus to achieve as the only player for the second time the first goal of the season, as he - in turn hit already in the first minute against local rivals and his early team FC Bayern - now for TSV 1860 München.

His greatest successes were as a player with Borussia Dortmund winning the German championship in 1963, the last before the introduction of the Bundesliga and the DFB Cup in 1965. Using the TSV 1860 Munich in 1966 he won the German championship. Gameday On the 8th of the season 1966/67, he was put in the game against Borussia Dortmund because of an assault against the referee off and locked for six months - until then longest suspension for a red card in Bundesliga history. A longer lock only received Hertha player Levan Kobiaschwili for a strike against the referee after a game in May 2012.

At the age of 29 years Konietzka changed in 1967 surprising to Switzerland for FC Winterthur, then playing in the National League B, even though he had offers from Inter Milan and Real Madrid. He helped the club in 1968 for immediate promotion back to the NLA and in the same year for entry into the Cup final, with 34 season hits, he was also doing scorer. In 1971 he took over the post of player coach at FC Zurich and was at winning the Swiss Cup in 1972 on the place, when re- Cup victory a year later, he no longer belonged to Finalelf. From the 1973/74 season he was active as a coach.

National

In nine internationals Timo Konietzka scored 1962-1965 three goals for the German national football team.

Coach

After his playing career, he worked as a trainer, among other things for Borussia Dortmund, Bayer Uerdingen, FC Zurich and Grasshoppers. With FC Zurich he was three times in a row Swiss champion (1974-1976) and in 1977 reached the semi-finals of the European Cup of Champions ( precursor of the Champions League), in which the FCZ against Liverpool - which at that time belonged in Europe - retired. In addition, Zurich won the Cupbewerb under his aegis 1972, 1973 and 1976. From 1978 to 1980 he was coach of BSC Young Boys and reached twice the Swiss Cup final YB. He then moved to the Grasshoppers, which in 1982 another Swiss league title secured. Only for a short time he was twice again he was replaced by Friedhelm glitter in a row coach at Bayer Uerdingen, in the relegation season 1990/91.

Private

Konietzka business together with his wife Claudia, Gasthaus " ox " in Brunnen on Lake Lucerne and worked as a freelancer for the daily newspaper look. In 1985 its name change to Timo became final. On August 2, 1988 he received Swiss citizenship. In the Swiss television, he continued in 2010 as ambassador in commercials for the euthanasia and confessed that he was preparing himself for his death due to health problems. On January 7, 2012, he was still chosen as the highest Bartlivater revelers the community Ingenbohl.

After an incurable bile duct carcinoma was diagnosed in February, sat Konietzka 12 March 2012 with the help of the Swiss euthanasia organization Exit, where he was a member since 2001, ended his life. He is survived by his wife, an adult son.