[1] After the war, Buhtz left the Soviet occupation zone and went to play for Kickers Offenbach, winning a South German championship with the team in 1949.
In 1950 he was part of the Offenbach team that lost to VfB Stuttgart in the German football championship final.
[2] Buhtz was one of the stars of the newly formed Torino team that had to be rebuilt after 18 players had died in the Superga air disaster in 1949.
He began his managing career at Oberliga Südwest club Sportfreunde Saarbrücken and led them to a respectable 6th place.
[4] Under Buhtz the club constantly improved, eventually winning the league and qualifying for the Bundesliga promotion play-offs, in which Wuppertal won all eight of their matches,[5] a feat unmatched in all eleven seasons featuring that playoff format.
[6] In their first year, Wuppertal finished on a sensational fourth place and qualified for the UEFA Cup, where they would go on to succumb to a first-round aggregate defeat by Polish side Ruch Chorzów.
In the second year, however, the team could no longer keep up their performance, only barely avoiding relegation with a 2–2 draw at VfB Stuttgart on the final day of the season.
The third year started out even worse, and Buhtz was sacked ten games into the season on 20 October 1974 after a 4–1 loss at Hamburger SV.
Despite that, Buhtz's only win of the 1974–75 campaign became a memorable one, as WSV managed to defeat the defending German champions and European Cup winners Bayern Munich who were having a disappointing domestic campaign despite eventually managing to defend their European Cup title.
[7] After Buhtz's departure, Wuppertal still only managed one more victory and were relegated with the second-worst record in Bundesliga history to date.
[9] Buhtz led Dortmund to a second place in the league, allowing them to take part in the promotion play-offs against the second-placed team of 2.
In the following season Aachen started well, but after a slump in results, the club lost touch with the promotion ranks and Buhtz was sacked.
[13] After his spell in Stuttgart, where Buhtz had worked with future stars such as Jürgen Klinsmann or Guido Buchwald, he all but retired, only taking over at 2.