Heinz Wewers

Heinz Wewers ( born July 27, 1927 in Gladbeck, † August 29, 2008 in Essen ) was a German football player who in 1951 contested twelve matches in the German national team until 1958.

Career

Club until 1962

The above Onward and FC Borbeck in 1949 to Rot- Weiss Essen Come center half Heinz Wewers played from 1949 to 1962 for the team from Bergeborbeck 338 games with two goals in the Oberliga West. In the first season 1949/50 - the team of soccer chairman Georg Melches finished one point ahead of runner- Prussia Dellbrueck third place - he was in all 30 league games for RWE in use. Coach Karl Hohmann opened the round with the rotor row Erwin Zöllmann, Wewers and Werner Goebel on launch day at Rhenaniastraße Wuerselen and brought the core of the team in the remaining 29 games to use. On 21 and 29 May 1950, was " long Heinz" first active in the final round of the German soccer championship. The first game ended in Karlsruhe against 1 FC Kaiserslautern 2:2 after extra time and the replay in Cologne, Fritz Walter team won by a hit by his brother Ottmar in the 116th minute game 3-2 gates.

In the third round of premier league 1951/52, the team won from the stadium on the port road the first championship in the Oberliga West. Achieved both winger ever 20 goals - - With the outstanding wingers Helmut Rahn and Bernhard Termath and the leading figure in August Gottschalk were referred to the courts Schalke 04, Aachen, Dortmund and 1.FC Cologne. Heinz Wewers was in all 30 league games as head of the defense with his review and excellent heading ability on the ball in the final round of the VfB Stuttgart prevailed and won after the group matches and the final.

In the round of 1952/53, the player Fritz and Franz Herkenrath Islacker were new to the Red - Whites and the team ended up with the active in all 30 games Wewers on the 3rd place in the league and moved to the first time after the Second World War the played DFB Cup in the final. On 1 May 1953, food took a 2-1 victory in Dusseldorf Alemannia Aachen against the cup. Wewers, the " one-legged " stopper - he was a total left-footed - it had denied all five cup games. On September 21, 1952, was in the local derby in the league against ETB Schwarz-Weiß Essen by Torpfostenbruch a game crash at the registry of 1:1. The replay won RWE on 28 December 1952 8:1 gates.

In the World Cup 1954, Heinz Wewers and his teammates had one point behind behind the champions 1.FC Cologne content with the runner-up and could not play for the German championship because of the shortened final. More than makes up was the team through a nine -week North and South America trip, which they set out on April 23, 1954, which again ended on 22 June in Dusseldorf - Lohausen.

In the 1954/55 season, the Red - Whites took the title in the Western League before the SV Sodingen and prevailed in the finals and won the German Cup in the final against 1.FC Kaiserslautern. Coach Fritz Szepan had set successfully in all 30 league games on the organizational skills of his defense chiefs Wewers. Overall, the center-half played with the middle parting 1950-1955 for food 15 finals matches.

After the championship year August Gottschalk ended his career and Termath moved to the Oberliga Süd for Karlsruher SC. Wewers took in September 1955, the two games in the European Cup of Champions 1955/56, against Hibernian in part, where the meaningful character of this competition had not yet arrived in Germany, and came in the Oberliga West the fifth. On November 7, 1956 Wewers captained Rot-Weiss for international friendly against Honved Budapest on the square. The match ended 5:5. The best time in the big leagues was now over, the Final Tournament was no longer possible and permanent coaching change - Elek Schwartz, Raymond Schwab, Willi Multhaup - could not stop the sports throwback. Also contributed significantly to the retirement of George Melches in 1959 and the loss of Helmut Rahn in the summer of 1959 to the first FC Cologne. Heinz Wewers could in association with Fritz Herkenrath in the 1960/61 season relegation to the 2nd League West not prevent it. After the fifth place in the 2nd league 1961/62, where the stopper was once again accumulated in 20 games, Heinz Wewers finished with 35 years of his active career.

National football team, 1951-1958

In the spring of 1951 national coach Sepp Herberger became aware of Heinz Wewers. When representative game on March 18, 1951 in Duisburg, West Germany against Southern Germany, he held the stopper role. He was a DFB course from 2 to 6 April 1951 in Duisburg under which a test match against the Saarland was held on April 4, where he held his usual center half position. The first use in the Länderelf found on 23 December 1951 in Essen against Luxembourg. His teammates Rahn and Termath stormed on the wings and Bögelein, Farmer, Juskowiak, Schröder and Stollenwerk also made ​​their debut.

Due to the competition from Herbert Erhardt, Werner Liebrich, Jupp Posipal, Herbert Schäfer and Robert Schlienz on the stopper position, came for the man from eating his second deployment in the national team after a nearly five -year hiatus about. On May 26, 1956 in Berlin during the international match against England Wewers was the second time in the senior team. Together with Schlienz and May, he was the German runner number in the 1-3 defeat. In the temporal relationship Wewers took in March 1956 to test games the DFB selection against the Saar and in April against Rot -Weiss Essen and part of the course from 14 to 19 May 1956 the Sports School Schoeneck in Karlsruhe. Immediately after the match against England, he joined with the B team on May 31, 1956 in Barcelona in a 5-2 victory over Spain. Until his eleventh international match on 2 March 1958 in Brussels in the 2-0 victory against Belgium he was in this period, the main cast of the Herberger team. He was after the World Cup course from 12 to 24 May 1958 in Munich - Grünwald also the squad for the FIFA World Cup 1958 in Sweden. He said goodbye to the third place match on 28 June against France after the 3:6 defeat - Just Fontaine and Raymond Kopa swirled the defense to Heinz Wewers in Gothenburg duly confused - and twelve international game appeals from the national team.

Off the pitch

Since 1957, Wewers led the Stadiongaststatte of red and white on the port road. After the end of his footballing career, he became first a location nearby restaurant before he became active in a beverage company as an employee.

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