Adolf Vetter

Adolf "Addi" Vetter (born November 18, 1918 in Bad Münder ; † in July 1973 ) was a German football player for VfL Osnabrück , who led the top scorers list in the Oberliga Nord three times in a row from 1948 to 1950 .

career

Before World War II

In the youth department of the Bad Münder am Deister sports association in the Weser Uplands, Adolf Vetter grew up as a student and youth player. At the age of 17 he was promoted to the first team in 1935. When he was drafted into the military in 1936, he came to the garrison town of Osnabrück. VfL Osnabrück had just been relegated from the Lower Saxony Gauliga with just five points and needed an accurate attacker. Vetter switched to VfL and celebrated his promotion again in his first round in Osnabrück in 1937, ahead of ASV Blumenthal and Lüneburger SK .

With 28: 8 points tied with Hanover 96 , the climber immediately took second place in the Lower Saxony Gauliga in 1938. Two further events contributed to the sporting rise of VfL Osnabrück and the simultaneous personal development of "Addi" Vetter: On June 22, 1938, SC Rapid Osnabrück reunited with VfL. After the merger, VfL comprised 900 members and won Reichsbund sports teacher Walter Hollstein , who had won the championship in Lower Saxony with Werder Bremen in 1936 and 1937 , as the new coach. The result was a renewed increase in performance by Vetter. Hollstein formed a top-class German team, the “Gartlager Elf”, from young players, including the center forward and goalscorer “Addi” Vetter. She won the Lower Saxony championship in 1939 and 1940 and moved into the finals of the German soccer championship. At the first Lower Saxony championship in 1939, the Hollstein-Elf defeated the reigning German champions Hannover 96 in the decisive game with 3-0 goals on the Gartlage sports field. The "Gartlager-Elf" formed Flotho; Coors, Sausmikat; Westerhaus, Zuback, Schulte; Hammersen, Billen, Vetter, Simon, Meyer.

"Addi" Vetter mainly played in the center forward position, but could also convince as a half-forward. Without any particular running speed, he impressed with enormous two-legged shooting ability and safe ball handling. His "nose for goal" made him a specialist in penalty area scenes. He was affectionately known as a "bear" by fans and friends. In the final round in 1939, the 4-2 home win on May 21, 1939 against Hamburger SV stood out with three cousin goals. In the 1939/40 round, the Lower Saxony Gauliga was divided into two squadrons. In the northern season, Osnabrück prevailed over Werder Bremen and defended the title in Lower Saxony after two finals against the southern champions Hannover 96. In the final round, however, “Addi” Vetter and his teammates could not prevail against Dresdner SC and Eimsbütteler TV . In the autumn round, on November 19, 1939, VfL eliminated the reigning German champions FC Schalke 04 in the 2nd cup main round with a 3-2 win . Vetter had scored the 1-1 in the 40th minute. On December 3, 1939, the VfL striker also scored a hit in the Lower Saxony district selection in the Reichsbund Cup game against the selection from the Lower Rhine. During the Second World War , Adolf Vetter was temporarily active as a guest player at FC Wacker Munich and was therefore also involved in city games for Munich and in the Bavarian district selection .

After the Second World War

After resumption of play, a city championship was first held in Osnabrück in 1945/46. TuS Haste 01 was champion in front of Eintracht Osnabrück and the 1st FSV Osnabrück . As a result, the FSV, which was only approved as VfL again from November 1946, almost gambled away its participation in the first unofficial North German championship round in 1946. VfL was entitled to participate by increasing the number to 13 clubs. In the Oberliga Niedersachsen-Nord, VfL finished second behind champions Werder Bremen with 38:10 points. "Addi" Vetter had scored 40 goals in 24 games. On April 4, 1947 alone, seven goals in a 13-3 win against Cuxhavener SV . The VfL center forward succeeded on September 14, 1947 after five minutes, the premiere goal in the Oberliga Nord in the opening game against Concordia Hamburg . Three rounds in a row - 1948 with 26, 1949 with 24 and 1950 with 28 goals - “Addi” Vetter won the top scorer in the north. The VfL team captain increased his hit rate to 30 goals in 1951, but Woitkowiak from Hamburger SV even scored 40 goals in this round, replacing “Addi” as the top scorer in the north. From 1946 to 1951, the striker had scored 148 goals in five rounds in the north. From 1947 to 1954, Adolf Vetter was officially led in 171 league games in the north with 138 goals. In the 1950 finals against VfB Stuttgart , he scored the consolation goal for Osnabrück. In the second final round after the war in 1952, the 34-year-old acted in midfield on the half-left, well behind the new striker and center forward Ernst-Otto Meyer . In 1954 "Addi" Vetter ended his career at VfL Osnabrück. In the round of 1954/55 he continued one season as a player-coach at Sportfreunde Oesede in the amateur camp.

Honors

"Addi" Vetter was awarded the Badge of Honor of the North German Football Association, the Silver Badge of the Lower Saxony Football Association and the Golden Badge of Honor from VfL Osnabrück. In memory of "Addi Vetter", the unofficial Osnabrück indoor soccer city championship has been named "Addi Vetter Cup" since 1981.

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 .
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's football. The encyclopedia. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00857-8 .
• Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-463-1 .
• Klaus Querengässer: The German football championship. Part 2: 1948–1963 (= AGON Sportverlag statistics. Vol. 29). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-107-7 .
• Hardy Grüne, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• Jürgen Bitter: Purple and white. The football history of VfL Osnabrück. Self-published, Osnabrück 1991.