Ewald Dytko

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Ewald Oskar Dytko , later Edward Jan Dytko , (born October 18, 1914 in Zalenze , German Empire , † June 13, 1993 in Katowice ) was a Polish football player .

life and career

Ewald Dytko was born in 1914 as a Prussian citizen.

Interwar period

When the eastern part of Upper Silesia was annexed to Poland in 1922, he received Polish citizenship . As a teenager he joined the Dąb Katowice association. In 1936 Dąb rose to the top division , but had to relegate the following year because of a point deduction due to a bribery scandal.

Despite this relegation, Dytko remained in the defensive midfield regular of the national team , for which he appeared a total of 22 times between 1935 and 1939. In 1936 he reached the semifinals in the Polish colors at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin . In 1938 he took part in the World Cup in France, which began with the round of 16 . The Polish team lost there in their only game to the Brazilians 5-6 after extra time.

He took part in international matches against the DFB-Elf three times , but the Poles failed to win: 1935 in Breslau (0: 1), 1936 in Warsaw (1: 1), Josef Herberger's first game as Reich coach, and in 1938 in Chemnitz ( 1: 4). In the last of these three games, Dytko retired prematurely after a clash with Helmut Schön .

In July 1939 he was one of the participants in the "alcohol affair": recruiters from the major Warsaw clubs had come to a training camp for the national team. On an evening with lots of alcohol, several players from Upper Silesia, including goal scorer Ernst Willimowski and Dytko, signed contracts with them for the following season.

Second World War

Dytko was scheduled for the international match against Yugoslavia , which was agreed for September 6, 1939. It did not take place because of the German invasion of Poland. As a Polish conscript he became a German prisoner of war , but was released as a former citizen of the Reich and was able to return to Upper Silesia, the eastern part of which was rejoined to the German Empire . Like all other former Polish national football players from Upper Silesia, he also signed the German People's List .

The Katowice NSDAP district leader Georg Joschke assigned him to 1. FC Kattowitz with the Polish selection players Erwin Nytz and Ernst Willimowski . Joschke himself ran the club of the German minority in Poland in the 1930s. Dytko was invited to the first selection course for players from Upper Silesia held by Reichstrainer Herberger, which took place in Katowice at the end of June 1940. He was also appointed to the selection of the Gauliga Silesia .

In May 1942 he was drafted into an infantry regiment of the Wehrmacht in Koblenz . There, thanks to the advocacy of the local soccer star Josef Gauchel, he was used by the strongest club in the region, TuS Neuendorf , among and also in the selection of the Gauliga Moselland . The two knew each other from the internationals in 1936 and 1938.

A few weeks before the war came Dytko, now a medical unit of the Air Force added, in American captivity.

post war period

After the end of the war he returned to Katowice. Like other Upper Silesian top players, he had to justify himself to the communist-controlled security office UB for his appearances in German clubs. After his presentation he explained later during interrogation in his defense that he himself for the US Army had defected, but he was then in custody were taken. He was only released after signing a declaration of loyalty to the new regime.

First he was assigned to the Police Club Guardia Katowice, but was soon able to switch to the traditional club Baildon Katowice . According to the "Decree of November 10, 1945 on the change and definition of first and last names" Dytko had to discard his "non-Polish sounding" first names. From now on he was officially called "Edward Jan".

In 1950 he ended his active career and obtained the coaching diploma. Without much success he coached several Upper Silesian clubs in the lower divisions in the following years.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 75 lat PZPN. Księga jubileuszowa. Wydawnictwo Andrzej Gowarzewski. Katowice 1994, p. 53.
  2. ↑ Przegląd Sportowy, January 18, 1937, p. 1.
  3. ↑ The big games: The emergence of a legend ( German ) In: fifa.com . Archived from the original on April 4, 2012. Retrieved on August 29, 2012.
  4. ↑ Teodor Peterek: Z butami piłkarskimi na boiskach Europy. Chorzów 1957. p. 10.
  5. ^ Kattowitzer Zeitung, August 12, 1939, p. 8.
  6. ↑ "Ilustrowany Kuryer Codzienny" 30 August 1939, Supplement "Kuryer Sportowy", p. 2
  7. ^ Kattowitzer Zeitung, November 23, 1939, p. 10.
  8. ↑ Kattowitzer Zeitung, June 25, 1940, p. 6.
  9. ↑ Kattowitzer Zeitung, January 2, 1940, p. 4.
  10. ↑ a b German Office, GZ II C2 - 111014/209, p. 1.
  11. ↑ Der Kicker, February 23, 1943, pp. 4–5.
  12. ↑ 90 lat Śląski ZPN Katowice. Wyd. A. Gowarzewski. Katowice 2010, p. 47.
  13. ↑ Decree z dnia 10 listopada o zmianie i ustaleniu imion i nazwisk , Dz.URP, no.56, poz.310, 1945; see: Matthias Kneip: The German language in Upper Silesia . Dortmund 1999, pp. 169-171.
personal data
SURNAME Dytko, Ewald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dytko, Ewald Oskar (full name); Dytko, Edward (Polish); Dytko, Edward Jan (full Polish name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Zalenze , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1993
Place of death Katowice , Poland