Fritz Wetzel

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Fritz Wetzel (born December 12, 1894 in Pforzheim ; † January 19, 1982 ibid) was a German football player .

Career

societies

Wetzel, born in Pforzheim , joined the local 1. FC Pforzheim as a high school student at the age of eleven , which in that year, 1906, achieved its greatest club success to date, second place in the final of the German championship . Out of adolescence, he moved up to the first team in the 1911/12 season , for which he was in the southern district , one of four districts at the time, in which the respective champions were determined in the association of southern German football clubs in the round-robin tournament , who then took part in the Final round of the South German Championship was qualified, was used.

Wetzel had learned the trade of a businessman and lived from 1912 to 1914 in La Chaux-de-Fonds in the canton of Neuchâtel . There he also went to the football game and played for the local FC La Chaux-de-Fonds in the top division, which is divided into three groups, Serie A Central . The contact was possibly made through the former Pforzheim national player Marius Hiller , who had also played for the Swiss club before he emigrated to Argentina and became a national player there.

After returning to Germany, Wetzel played again for 1. FC Pforzheim. He was used from the 1919/20 season under the coach and former national player Max Breunig as a left runner . The club played in the regional top division, the Baden district league , from the 1920/21 season in the Southwest district league , which Wetzel won with his team, and again in the Baden district league from the 1922/23 season , which he also won with his team , and the last two seasons in the Württemberg / Baden district league . At the end of the 1925/26 season he ended his active football career in the year in which 1. FC Pforzheim was relegated to the district league as penultimate and after the relegation round to remain in class. Due to a lack of players as the Second World War progressed , he played another game for 1. FC Pforzheim as a 49-year-old during the Gauliga Baden 1943/44 on February 13, 1944 in the game against FV Daxlanden .

Stations

  • 1911 to 1912: 1. FC Pforzheim
  • 1912 to 1914: FC La Chaux-de-Fonds
  • 1914 to 1926: 1. FC Pforzheim

Selection / national team

As a player of 1. FC Pforzheim he became in 1921 the first time the national team in the South German Football Association in the Federal Cup contest against the national team of the Association Brandenburg ballgame teams called. On February 25, 1923, as a player in the selection team of the South German Football Association, he won the final against the selection team of the West German Game Association in Frankfurt am Main with 2-1.

He played his only international match for the senior national team on April 23, 1922 on the Hohe Warte in Vienna . In the 2-0 win in front of 85,000 spectators, he and his club teammate Viktor Weißenbacher , who made it 1-0 in the 69th minute, achieved their first international success against the national team of Austria .

successes

Others

After the end of his career, he remained connected to his club throughout his life - also as a manufacturer (partner in the watch and metal goods factory Wetzel & Distel in Pforzheim) and was active in the senior men’s and a private team.

From 1946 to 1949 he was the first chairman of the association. He was an honorary member of 1. FC Pforzheim and was awarded the gold badge of honor by the Badischer Fußballverband and the DFB . In 1976 he helped found the FCP “Old Friends” department, was connected to the club's “Singer Pleasure” department and attended his club's home games. From 1977 until his death in 1982, he lived in the August-Kayser-Stift in Pforzheim.

Web links

literature

  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
  • Pforzheimer Zeitung, December 12, 1964, December 12, 1969, January 20, 1982
  • Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football: The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933-1945. Verlag Regionalkultur , 2016, ISBN 978-3-89735-879-9
personal data
SURNAME Wetzel, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1982
Place of death Pforzheim