Lothar Böhm once jumped the shovel of death - thanks to three guardian angels.
The ex-soccer coach from Starnberg is part of our series "Detected - what became of ...?".
Starnberg - When researching the "Detected" series, the same question came up again and again: "How is Lothar Böhm?" That should be answered at this point: The former soccer coach is 79 years old today and lives with his wife Elfriede he has been married for 57 years, a little withdrawn in Starnberg.
Lothar Böhm barely manages large undertakings such as the recent visit to the memorial service for his friend Karl Geitner, the former vice-president of SpVgg Starnberg, due to various physical problems.
But he is mentally in top shape and is happy when he can chat about old times.
And above all: Böhm is happy that he is still in this world.
In Starnberg they said to my wife: He will be dead in three days.
Lothar Böhm on his blood poisoning 22 years ago
The reason is now 22 years ago.
Sepsis, blood poisoning, nearly cost him his life.
On October 3, 1999, he was hospitalized.
“I was practically dead then,” he says.
The doctors in Starnberg and Tutzing only gave him a few more days: "In Starnberg they said to my wife: He'll be dead in three days."
The cause of the sepsis was an injection: “I was being treated for back problems and received three injections in the back and in the buttocks.
One wasn't clean. "Böhm admits:" Since then I've been terrified of injections. "
The three guardian angels by Lothar Böhm
Back then, his chances were extremely slim.
But Böhm had three very special guardian angels.
First of all, his ex-daughter-in-law Brigitte, who worked in the Tutzing hospital.
She had him taken to the intensive care unit there and put him in touch with two professors who were working on a project on blood purification options.
“At first it was said, too, that everything will be over in a day or two.
Fortunately, I was still so physically together that I could be included in the project and treated with the means, ”recalls Böhm.
“This is how the two professors in Tutzing saved my life” - his other two guardian angels.
And he still remembers: “The doctors were amazed when my wife picked me up.
They couldn't believe that I survived. "
Böhm spends most of his football life at SpVgg Starnberg
It is quite possible that his good constitution helped him out of a long life as an athlete.
Lothar Böhm began playing football at the age of eight under the legendary youth leader Georg Schiller (1934 to 1974 in office) at SpVgg Starnberg.
Fritz Groll was on the team.
Under coach Max Fundeis he played in the seventies as a right defender in the first - among others at the side of club legend Alfred "Buale" Haas.
Böhm's coaching career began a decade later.
Initially as a coach of the youth team in which his son Andi (56) - later a player in Tutzing and Grünwald as well as a coach in Wolfratshausen and Weßling, among others - played.
"We were close to being promoted to the Bayern League," says Lothar Böhm.
1984 Lothar Böhm inherits master lion Rudi Zeiser as head coach in Starnberg
In the 1984/85 season he, meanwhile coach of the Starnberg Reserve, became the assistant of head coach Rudi "Fuchse" Zeiser, the champion lion from 1966, who should lead the SpVgg from the district to the state league.
The ex-professional was fired after just two match days - for behavior that was harmful to the club.
Zeiser, who had a fatal accident on the railway tracks in Munich in 1993 under unexplained circumstances, had publicly announced: "Those responsible in Starnberg don't understand anything about football."
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Today Lothar Böhm only watches football on television.
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Böhm was promoted to head coach, but like his predecessors did not make it up and was replaced by Sigi Daschner at the end of the season.
"They didn't want me anymore," says the Geschosses today and remembers the top team: "Goalkeeper Hans Estner was outstanding, Herfried Ruhs and Richard Mamajewski were great players, and striker Joe Schuster was lightning fast and scored his goals."
The decline of football in Starnberg, according to Böhm, "a disaster"
After that, Böhm, who worked in the development department at Rodenstock until his illness, left SpVgg for the first time.
Department head Günter Neubig brought him to train for A-Class TSV Tutzing, where he worked with players like “penalty area ghost” Jogi Schwinghammer, Viro Pocchiesa and the Threm brothers Didi and Wolfgang.
After two years with the green shirts, I went to TSV Gilching-Argelsried for two seasons, then to FC Ludwigsvorstadt Munich, before Böhm took over the reserve of SpVgg again.
“That's it then,” he says.
"Then I stopped my coaching job."
And is the former coach still interested in football?
“Of course,” he says.
“In front of the TV stop.
I am still very enthusiastic about sports, but I don't just watch football. ”Who does his heart beat for?
The “former blue” is diplomatic: “I follow 1860 in the third division just like Bayern in the Champions League.” And what does Lothar Böhm say about the decline of Starnberg football, for which he has done so much?
He doesn't have to think long: "This is a catastrophe."
