Ernst Willimowski

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Ernst Willimowski
Ernest Wilimowski 1936.jpg
Ernst Willimowski 1936
Personnel
Surname Ernst Otto Willimowski
birthday June 23, 1916
place of birth Katowice ,  German Empire
date of death August 30, 1997
Place of death Karlsruhe ,  Germany
size 172 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
1927-1934 1. FC Katowice
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1934-1939 Ruch Wielkie Hajduki 86 (112)
1939 Bismarckhütter SV
1939-1940 1. FC Katowice
1940-1942 PSV Chemnitz
1942-1943 TSV 1860 Munich
1943 LSV Mölders Krakow
1944 1. FC Katowice
1944 Karlsruhe FV
1944 VfB Stuttgart
1946 SG (Kurhessen) Kassel
1946 SG Merseburg
1946-1948 SG Chemnitz-West
1947 SG Babelsberg 2 00(0)
1947 TSG Arolsen (guest)
1948 Hamelin 07
1948 Olympia Niederzwehren (guest)
1948 TSV Detmold (guest)
1948-1949 BC Augsburg 6 00(3)
1949 Racing Strasbourg 1 00(0)
1949-1950 Offenburg FV
1950-1951 FC Singen 04 30 0(16)
1951-1955 VfR Kaiserslautern 90 0(70)
1956-1959 Kehler FV
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1934-1939 Poland 22 0(21)
1941-1942 Germany 8 0(13)
1 Only league games are given.

Ernst Otto Willimowski (sometimes Ernst Wilimowski ; Polish : Ernest Wilimowski ) (* 23. June 1916 as Ernst Otto Pradella in Katowice , Upper Silesia , German Empire , now Poland , † the thirtieth August 1997 in Karlsruhe ) was a Polish and German soccer players from Upper Silesia. He played 22 times for the Polish national soccer team and 8 times for the German national soccer team .

career

Ernst Willimowski's family home in Katowice

Willimowski began his football career in 1927 at the age of eleven at 1. FC Kattowitz , the football club of the German minority in the city of Katowice, which has belonged to Poland since 1922, and for which he played successfully until 1934. After moving to Ruch Wielkie Hajduki , he became the 18-year-old Polish soccer champion in 1934. He won this title with his team in 1935, 1936 and 1938. Willimowski scored 112 goals in 86 games for Ruch Chorzów and was Polish top scorer in 1934 and 1936 .

On May 21, 1934 he made his debut in the Polish national team in Copenhagen against Denmark . The Poles lost the game 2-4. Before the Second World War he played 22 times for the Polish national team. His best game was the round of 16 at the 1938 World Cup in France, when he scored four goals in the 5-6 defeat after extra time against Brazil - making him the first to score four goals in a World Cup game. He scored a total of 21 goals for the Polish national team.

After the German occupation of Poland , Willimowski signed the German people's list , as did his teammates from Ruch, Teodor Peterek , Eryk Tatuś and Gerard Wodarz , who were also Polish national players. In November 1939 all four competed for their club, which had got its old name Bismarckhütter SV 99 and a German club management. But after only one game he moved to his first club, 1. FC Kattowitz. After only four months he left Katowice to play for the police sports club Chemnitz for two years .

Appointed to the Gau Sachsen team, he took part in the Gau selection competition for the Reichsbund Cup in 1940/41 . After victories over the selected teams Gauliga Westphalia , Gauliga Pomerania , Gauliga Silesia , Gauliga Baden , he reached the final , which was won on September 7, 1941 in Chemnitz 2-0 against the Gauliga Bayern team.

In 1941/42 he completed eight international matches for the German national soccer team and scored 13 goals. He made his debut on June 1, 1941 in Bucharest against Romania , where he contributed two goals to the 4-1 victory. In the 5-3 success against Switzerland on October 18, 1942 , he repeated his feat from the World Cup four years earlier and scored four goals.

In 1942 Willimowski went to TSV 1860 Munich . In the sixties he reached the final of the Tschammer Cup , the predecessor of today's DFB Cup . In the 80th minute he scored the 1-0 lead against FC Schalke 04 . In the end it was 2-0 for Munich, who won their first national trophy. He scored a total of 14 hits in this competition in just four appearances - a record to date. Seven goals were scored in the round of 16 against the SS Strasbourg team (15: 1, the remaining goals for the Löwen were shared by only three other players with Krückenberg (5), Janda (2) and Schmidhuber). In the semifinals against TuS Lipine Willimowski scored four goals.

Also in 1942 he had to enlist in the Wehrmacht , officially he did service in a tank destroyer unit , but was released for football games. In 1943 his unit was relocated to the Generalgouvernement , Willimowski played for the military club LSV Mölders Krakow . The following year he played again for his hometown club and was then transferred to Karlsruhe, with other soldiers he completed the eleven of the Karlsruhe FV , including in the - lost - Baden cup final. Several weeks later Willimowski was still a guest at VfB Stuttgart .

Continued after 1945

After 1945 Willimowski stayed in Germany . A return to the Upper Silesian homeland was impossible, also because he was considered a traitor by the German national team in Poland due to his commitment as a former Polish national player after the occupation of Poland and Upper Silesia was now part of Poland. Apparently he let himself be recruited in 1945/46, and later again, for a (failed) professional football club in Kassel, possibly also playing a few games for a “wild” club called Kurhessen , then Rapid Kassel . Willimowski became a sports teacher in Merseburg and played for SG Chemnitz-West until around February 1948 with short "unofficial" trips to SG Babelsberg and Arolsen. In autumn 1947 he was supposed to have joined the up-and-coming national league team Hameln 07 , which was soon denied, but was realized the following spring. The now 32-year-old striker finally left the Soviet occupation zone in 1948 , made a brief guest appearance in Kassel (really) and at TSV Detmold and became a contract player at BC Augsburg at the beginning of the new season . After a month-long ban, he moved to Racing Strasbourg in France in the summer of 1949 , but after only one friendly match there, as in Augsburg, there were problems in the non-sporting area and the newcomer was immediately dismissed.

From 1949/50 Willimowski found his way back into calmer waters. He became a player-coach at Offenburger FV , still worked as a top scorer oldie, most successfully at VfR Kaiserslautern , and belongs to the small group of footballers across Europe who have scored more than 200 first division goals in the course of their careers (in Poland and Germany , without Gauliga). Overall, Willimowski is said to have scored at least 1,175 goals over the course of his career, but this requires verification.

Ernst Willimowski is the only player who was successful as a goal scorer both against Germany (on September 9, 1934 at 2: 5 in Warsaw) and for Germany (13 in 8 games).

Willimowski's international matches

for Poland

for Germany

successes

Artistic representations

  • In the 1983 film “Do góry nogami” (German: Stand upside down ) by the director Stanisław Jędryka about the fate of a group of young people in Upper Silesia during the Second World War, their idol is a football star with red hair and sailing ears, the likes to reach for the vodka bottle, but his name is not mentioned.
  • The German poet Stan Lafleur described his visit to the old and forgotten former star in a poem from 2006.
  • On the occasion of the footballer's 100th birthday, the Polish translation of the novel Wilimowski by the Bosnian-Croatian writer Miljenko Jergović was published in 2016 .

literature

  • Diethelm Blecking : Ern (e) st "Ezi" Wil (l) imowski - The player, in: From conflict to competition. German-Polish-Ukrainian football history. Edited by D. Blecking / L. Pfeiffer / R. Traba. Göttingen 2014, pp. 71–88. ISBN 978-3-7307-0083-9 .
  • Diethelm Blecking: Ernst Willimowski - a modern athlete in confusing times , in: The East is a sphere. Football in the culture and history of Eastern Europe . Edited by Stephan Krause / Christian Lübke / Dirk Suckow. Göttingen 2018, pp. 277–289. ISBN 978-3730703885 .
  • Karl-Heinz Harke / Georg Kachel: Soccer - Sport without borders. The life story of the national football player Ernst Willimowski. Dülmen 1996, ISBN 3-87466-259-4 .
  • Thomas Urban : Black Eagles, White Eagles. German and Polish footballers at the heart of politics. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89533-775-8 , pp. 28–48.
Fiction

Video documentation

Web links

Commons : Ernst Willimowski  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kattowitzer Zeitung, November 20, 1939, p. 3.
  2. ↑ Der Kicker, November 10, 1942, p. 4.
  3. ^ Warschauer Zeitung, December 14, 1943, p. 6th
  4. ↑ football / soccer on 11 January 1944: 5. From that Willimowski repeatedly ran aground during the war for Katowice, suggests that he still belonged to the club and in Chemnitz, Munich, etc. guest player was.
  5. ↑ Der Kicker, July 4, 1944, p. 7th
  6. ↑ Badische Presse of August 29, 1944, page 4 (8: 3 against FV Zuffenhausen, 5 goals)
  7. ↑ Poland vs Germany (2: 2) - Poldi, Klose and the Schalke Kreisel on YouTube
  8. ↑ cf. Horst Biese, Herbert Peiler, page 90: Co-author Herbert Peiler therefore played himself for this club, which, however , had wrongly appropriated the name Kurhessen and was soon dissolved. The sports magazine in turn reported only two years later, in July 1948, about a professional football project Rapid Kassel and (again) connects Willimowski with it.
  9. ^ New Germany of July 23, 1946, p. 4.
  10. ↑ Sport (Munich) No. 18/1947, p. 14.
  11. ↑ ibid., No. 41/1947, p. 14.
  12. ↑ ibid., No. 39/1947, p. 15; but then No. 41/1947, p. 14; finally No. 9/1948 (March 3rd). Willimowski's debut in Hameln was against Vreden / Leine at the end of February 1948. Already in autumn 1947 he had been nominated for the Lower Saxony selection, although he was banned for the time being because of the Arolsen affair, but his appearance in the 6: 2 against Bremen was not possible due to injury.
  13. ↑ Hessische Nachrichten of July 8, 1948, page 3
  14. ↑ "In autumn 1948 the future of the team was surrounded by names that could even guarantee a good place in the championship (...) That was the Langner, Muß and the legendary Willimowski (...) But Ernst Willimowski left Detmold at night and gave a short, successful guest role in the southern German upper house. ”- Siegfried Klemm, eight months fight of the TSV. Detmold , there 1949, p. 4.
  15. ↑ cf. Sports magazine No. 31/1949, p. 4.
  16. ↑ see kicker sportmagazin no. 100/1969, p. 2. The breakdown there states 48 goals for Poland, 108 (sic) for Offenburg and 81 for Singen and does not seem plausible on all points.
  17. ↑ Do góry nogami filmweb.pl
  18. ↑ ernst willimowski ( memento from August 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) lyrikmail.de
personal data
SURNAME Willimowski, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilimowski, Ernst; Wilimowski, Ernest (Polish); Prandella, Ernst Otto (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German and Polish soccer players
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Katowice
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1997
Place of death Karlsruhe