Anton Lutz (soccer player, 1911)

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Anton Lutz (born December 7, 1911 in Bellheim , † May 6, 1985 there ) was a German football player . The offensive player scored a total of 107 goals in league games from 1933 to 1944 in the Gauliga Südwest and Gauliga Baden at the clubs FK Pirmasens and VfR Mannheim . In addition, he was in the finals for the German soccer championship from 1938 to 1944Completed 15 games for the Mannheim lawn players and scored ten goals. The goal-threatening attacker won the championship in the Gauliga Baden four times with VfR Mannheim in 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. After returning from Russian captivity, he worked as a coach at his home club Phönix Bellheim until 1955.

career

Jugend und Gauliga Südwest, until 1936

At the age of 16, the talented and dangerous young player was already playing in the first team of his home club Phönix Bellheim. He was instrumental in the successes in 1929 (district champion) and 1931 (championship in the A-class). The Phönix Chronicle states that Lutz scored over 50 goals almost every season. With the introduction of the Gauliga in 1933, the attacker switched to FK Pirmasens and played in what was then the regional top division. With the blue-whites from the stadium on Zweibrücker Strasse , he took second place for three years in a row, from 1933 to 1936, scoring 41 goals alongside national player Heinrich Hergert . On January 5, 1936, he was also in the district selection Southwest in the semi-final game for the Reichsbund Cup in Augsburg against the representation of Bavaria. He formed the left wing of the south-west selection, which won 2-1 goals afterwards, on half-left with left winger Josef Fath . VfR Mannheim won the campaign for the offensive player with ball distribution skills and scoring qualities; for the 1936/37 season, the "Lutze-Rot", the nickname derived from his red-blonde hair color, joined the club from the stadium at the breweries in Mannheim.

VfR Mannheim, 1936 to 1945

With the offensive reinforcement from Pirmasens, the VfR won the Gauliga championship in Baden in 1938 and 1939 . Lutz contributed 12 goals in 18 league games to his first championship title and scored 11 goals in the year he was defending his title. In the two "derbies" 1937/38 against Waldhof (3: 2) and VfL Neckarau (2: 2) he scored all five goals for the eventual champions. Lutz and his playmates just barely missed the semi-finals in the final round of the 1938 German soccer championship. With the attacking line-up Kurt Langenbein , Philipp Rohr , Lutz, Gustav Adam and Karl Striebinger , the Baden champions won the group game at FC Schalke 04 with 2-1 on April 18. Lutz shot VfR 1-0 in the 73rd minute. In the second leg on April 30, the two rivals parted for the first group place in the Mannheim stadium in front of 34,000 spectators 2-2 and VfR went into the last group game at SV Dessau 05 on May 8 with one point ahead of Schalke. Lutz scored the 1-0 lead in the 37th minute, but VfR lost their point advantage over the men around Ernst Kuzorra and Fritz Szepan with the 1-1 equalizer from the zero five in the 73rd minute . Königsblau won the last game on May 22nd in the home game against Dessau with 6: 1 and thus achieved a tie and, thanks to the better goal difference, made it into the semi-finals. Lutz had scored six goals in six finals.

Why Lutz did not play a game for VfR in the Nordbaden group in the first year of the war in 1939/40 and only played in the derby on May 5, 1940 against SV Waldhof, in a 2-0 defeat, can be explained not justified from the available literature. Even in the next two rounds of the war, which did not produce the usual battle for the championship for the lawn players, Lutz was not permanently on the field. But he was able to play a total of 17 games and score eleven goals in the two rounds 1940/41 and 1941/42. According to Ebner, he was only seconded to the Eastern Front at the end of 1943. In the 1942/43 round, Lutz scored 26 goals in 18 league games at the side of record scorer Walter Danner (58 goals) in the Gauliga championship with 137:12 goals and 36: 0 points. Most of the VfR attack ran this season with August Schwab , Walter Danner, Herbert Druse , Anton Lutz and Karl Striebinger , including in the three final rounds of the German soccer championship in 1943 against 1. FC Nürnberg (3-1), Westende Hamborn (8: 1) and the FV Saarbrücken (2: 3).

On the Eastern Front, near Sverdlovsk, today's Yekaterinburg , he was taken prisoner by Russia and did not return to Germany until 1949.

Philipp "Fips" Rohr, a Mannheim football veteran and VfR teammate from the footballer from Bellheim, writes about Anton Lutz in his 1992 book "Ein Bloomaul am Ball": "I would like to remind you of a center forward who ' Top 'and' Sturmführer 'at the same time. He actually came from the semi-left post: Anton Lutz from Bellheim / Landau, red-haired, excellent at handling the ball, shielding the ball well with the body, a little slow, almost leisurely, and still quick to react. He skillfully distributed the balls and had a short, dry shot. He became a competitor for the "Worschd" (Kurt Langenbein). 'Attention le rouge!' I heard the call in Paris - the VfR was there during the 1937 World's Fair - when the burly Anton was on the ball in the game against Red Star. [...] In the group game in Schalke-Gelsenkirchen in 1938, 'Lutze Anton' scored the important 1-0 for the later 2-1 victory. We fellow players almost crushed him when congratulating him. 'The balls feschd on the foot of kleewend he hodded his cords from em Geleng vun de Schdroofraumgrends with ugly growth uff de Kaschde. De Klodt doesn't know anything anymore. The thing hodded exactly. The Klodt must appear like a poor Schlugger. "

Selection player

As a player from FK Pirmasens, Lutz was called up several times in the south-west district selection together with the national players Edmund Conen , Wilhelm Sold , Rudolf Gramlich and Heinrich Hergert. As a player from VfR Mannheim, he represented the colors of Baden in nine games and was a nine-time goal scorer. Outstanding teammates in addition to his VfR team-mates in the Baden region were players like Erich Fischer , Hermann Gramlich , Fritz Hack , Ernst Heermann , Josef Erb , Georg Herbold , August Klingler and Helmut Schneider .

Trainer

When Lutz returned from captivity as a late returnee in 1949, he took over his hometown club Phönix Bellheim first as a player-coach, then as a coach and qualified for the new 1st Amateur League Southwest after the 1951/52 season . In the first year of the 1st amateur league, 1952/53 , he finished 4th with Phoenix and was cup champion. In the summer of 1955 he stopped working as a trainer and devoted himself to his second hobby, hiking, after the war he had worked in the field for the Körtner cutlery factory in Solingen. He died on May 6, 1985 at the age of 73 of complications from a heart attack.

literature

  • Gerhard Zeilinger: The football stronghold Mannheim 1920 to 1945. Football archive Mannheim, Mannheim 1994, ISBN 3-929295-05-9 .
  • Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933–1945. Publishing house regional culture, Ubstadt-Weiher 2016,

successes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. P. 370
  2. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. P. 371
  3. ↑ Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Spiellexikon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 241 .
  4. ↑ Fips Rohr: A Bloomaul on the ball. Mannemer Fuball and Dialect. SVA Südwestdeutsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH & Co. Mannheim 1992. ISBN 3-87804-218-3 . Pp. 55/56
  5. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933–1945. P. 371

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personal data
SURNAME Lutz, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Bellheim
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1985
Place of death Bellheim