Fritz Wittenbecher

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Fritz Wittenbecher
Personnel
birthday February 20, 1910
place of birth Stendal ,  Germany
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1936-1937 Werder Bremen 6 (8)
1949-1951 Locomotive Stendal 38 (3)
1 Only league games are given.

Fritz Wittenbecher (born February 20, 1910 in Stendal ; † unknown) was a German soccer player and soccer coach who was active both before and after World War II . He played u. a. at Werder Bremen .

Fritz Wittenbecher as a Werder Bremen striker (left, second from above)

Athletic career

Before 1945

Wittenbecher began his career as a football player at the club "Siegfried" in Altmark Wahrburg . He later moved to multiple Altmarkgau champion Viktoria Stendal and then to Werder Bremen .

For Werder Bremen he was a successful goalscorer. In the German soccer championship in 1937 he was Bremen's only goalscorer in the 1: 5 defeat against Schalke 04 on April 4th. Two weeks later he contributed to the 3-1 success against Hertha BSC with a good game in front of 18,000 spectators in the Berlin Post Stadium . He had scored the opening goal and prepared the second goal. In the 4-0 win against Viktoria Stolp on April 25, he scored three goals. The success against Hertha BSC was repeated on May 9th on the Eintracht-Platz in Braunschweig in front of 15,000 spectators. Wittenbecher was again one of the goalscorers.

In June 1937 he played in a friendly against Victoria Hamburg .

After 1945

After the Second World War he helped rebuild football in his hometown of Stendal. From 1949 to 1951 he played for the company sports community Lokomotive Stendal in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) . There he played 38 point games in which he scored three goals.

After Wittenbecher had trained Lok Stendal 's team at short notice from May to June 1950 , in 1951 he began studying football at the Leipzig Sports University DHfK . Then he was initially the main trainer of the central sports association Lokomotive (umbrella organization of the company sports associations of the Deutsche Reichsbahn ), further stations were the SC Lokomotive Leipzig and the SC Motor Karl-Marx-Stadt (February to May 1958). During the 1958 season, Wittenbecher took over as coach at SC Aufbau Magdeburg , which played in the second-rate GDR league . Within a year and a half, he led Magdeburg into the GDR top division . Since the SC structure did not get beyond midfield in the next two years, Wittenbecher was replaced by Ernst Kümmel after the 1961/62 season . Wittenbecher then became a coach at the newly founded SC Frankfurt , but was also dismissed there after two years after the team had to relegate to the third-class district league after the 1963/64 season . After another two years as a base coach in the Rostock and Halle districts, Wittenbecher was again allowed to take over a league team with Lok Stendal at the beginning of the 1966/67 season. But he was only able to keep this team in the league for two seasons, in 1968 Lok Stendal was relegated and Wittenbecher had to leave.

On December 3, 1966, the "Deutsche Sportecho" reported: "Fritz Wittenbecher was awarded three times as an activist and was awarded the GDR Medal of Merit."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Knappen-Sturm shoots goals in: Badische Presse of April 5, 1937.
  2. ↑ Hertha Berliner SC - Werder Bremen 1: 3 in: Badische Presse from April 19, 1937.
  3. ↑ Hertha BSC switched off by Werder in: Hamburger Anzeiger from April 19, 1937.
  4. ^ Wittenbecher triple goalscorer in: Badische Presse from April 26, 1937.
  5. ↑ Werder Bremen better than Hertha BSC in: Hamburger Anzeiger from May 10, 1937.
  6. ↑ Victoria versus Werder Bremen in: Hamburger Anzeiger from June 5, 1937.
personal data
SURNAME Wittenbecher, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Stendal
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century