Günter Stephan (soccer player)
Günter Stephan (born October 8, 1912 in Frankfurt am Main ; † April 15, 1995 ) was a German football player .
Career
societies
Stephan started playing soccer at Schwarz-Weiß Frankfurt . When he got to Essen , he played from 1934 to 1943 for Schwarz-Weiß Essen in the Gauliga Niederrhein in one of 16 Gauligen at the time of National Socialism as the unified top division in the German Empire . In the 1935/36 season he was able to keep the class with the team only because of the better goal quotient compared to VfL Borussia Munich-Gladbach . The 1937/38 season was finished in second place behind the Gaumeister Fortuna Düsseldorf , as did the following season - and before the new league and city rival Rot-Weiss Essen ; the 1939/40 season ended with this constellation . During this season he recorded his greatest success by reaching the quarter-finals in the Tschammerpokal competition, which was lost 2-1 to 1. FC Nürnberg on October 20, 1940 . With the descent of Black and White Essen in 1943 in the second-rate district league, he left the club, for which he took the position of center runner and was also team captain .
He ended his active football career in the Gauliga Hessen-Nassau at the end of the 1943/44 season at Eintracht Frankfurt .
Selection / national team
Between 1932 and 1936, Stephan played six games as a member of the West German Game Association's selection team .
On August 18, 1935, he played his only international match for the second selection of the senior national team ; the encounter in Luxembourg against the national team of Luxembourg - a sighting game for the 1936 Olympic football tournament under the direction of Sepp Herberger - was decided 1-0 by Walter Günther's goal in the 43rd minute.
Reich coach Otto Nerz was also in charge of the first selection of the senior national team, which won 6-0 over the Finnish national team in Munich . Stephan could not recommend himself for this national team, as Ludwig Goldbrunner was an overpowering competitor in his position.
Web links
- Günter Stephan in the database of weltfussball.de
- Günter Stephan on dfb .de
literature
- Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
- Kicker Edition, 100 Years of German International Games, 2008.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stephan, Günter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 1995 |