Vogler celebrated the biggest success of his career at the Alpine World Skiing Championships 1966 in Portillo , as he, after August 7 age of 21 leaving behind the two Frenchmen Jean-Claude Killy and Léo Lacroix won the bronze medal. He was a runner in group 2 (starting number 23) and was therefore not one of the "elite runners" at that time. - In the giant slalom on 10./11. On August 14th he started with number 47 and in the slalom on August 14th with number 37, both times he was disqualified because of a peat error. He hadn't even been nominated by the DSV for these world championships (reason: lack of technical skills and still too young), but the residents of his home community collected the money for his flight.
Two years later at the Winter Olympics in Grenoble , he did not manage to confirm this success and he only finished 15th in the downhill. In 1969 and 1971 Vogler won the title of German downhill champion. He had not been able to compete for the downhill run at the Alpine World Ski Championships in 1970 because he had a serious fall three days before the race in training on the Saslong slope and sustained a large cut on his left knee.
At the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo , he was only 24. Two weeks later, he achieved the only World Cup victory of his career in Crystal Mountain, USA . His first placings in the World Cup were - in each case in the downhill - 10th place on January 14, 1967 on the Lauberhorn , a week later he was 2nd on the Hahnenkamm and on January 27th he was third in Megève ; He also achieved this placement on February 2, 1969 at the Kandahar descent in St. Anton am Arlberg . It was second again on January 31, 1971 at the second descent in Megève.
After the 1971/72 season Vogler withdrew from competitive sports and worked as an architect in Oslo and Oberstdorf. However, there was a comeback in the 1973/74 season.
World cup
Vogler achieved a total of 6 podium places, including 1 victory:
Germany
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