Günter Wilmovius

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Günther Wilmovius
Personnel
birthday August 30, 1929
date of death April 25, 2001
position attack
Juniors
Years station
Sports fans Gelsenkirchen
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
until 1951 SpVgg Röhlinghausen ? 0(?)
1951-1956 FC Schalke 04 70 (32)
1956-1952 Werder Bremen 154 (60)
1 Only league games are given.

Günter Wilmovius (born August 30, 1929 - April 25, 2001 ) was a German football player.

career

Youth, regional league and 2nd league, until 1951

The football career of the young attacker Günter Wilmovius began with Sportfreunde Gelsenkirchen, and was continued with the green and white squire of SpVgg Röhlinghausen . With the 2nd place in the Landesliga Westfalen in the 1948/49 season Röhlinghausen qualified for the 2nd League West, which was played for the first time in 1949/50. In terms of sport, Wilmovius and colleagues in Group 2 came out ninth against the competition from Katernberg, Mönchengladbach, Meiderich, Bochum, Hombruch, Herten and Bottrop. For economic reasons, the Zechenclub was refused the license for round 1950/51. After winning the championship in 1951 in the Landesliga Westfalen, the team returned from the Stratmanns Hof sports field to the 2nd Division West. But without the goal-scoring attacker Günter Wilmovius, who accepted an offer from "Royal Blue" and played from the 1951/52 round at FC Schalke 04 in the Bundesliga West .

Football Oberliga West and North, 1951 to 1961

Under coach Fritz Szepan , the newcomer made 14 appearances in 1951/52 and scored four goals. He made his debut in the Oberliga West on August 19, 1951 in a 5-2 away win at SpVgg Erkenschwick . Schalke won the runner-up and moved into the final round of the German soccer championship. There "Ippy" Wilmovius made two appearances against 1. FC Nürnberg and 1. FC Saarbrücken . In his second Schalke round, 1952/53, he was brought into use by coach Szepan in all 30 league games and scored thirteen goals. In the year of the soccer world championship 1954 he had to do with injuries for the first time and was able to contribute eleven goals in only 16 games for Schalke, which finished third behind 1. FC Köln and Rot-Weiss Essen. In the 1954/55 game year only nine league games with four goals were added and in the DFB Cup he was not used in the final on May 21, 1955 in Braunschweig against Karlsruher SC, who won 3-2 goals . In the semifinals against Kickers Offenbach , he scored a goal in a 2-1 win. The lightning-fast and technically adept attacker had his last appearance in the Oberliga West for Schalke on September 18, 1955 in a 4-3 home win against Bayer Leverkusen. Overall, he completed 70 league games with 32 goals for Schalke from 1951 to 1956. For the round in 1956/57 he joined Werder Bremen in the northern soccer league .

On the Weser, performance and operations were consistent again. He was part of the regular cast from the start and celebrated the runner-up in the north with Werder from 1959 to 1962. From 1956 to 1961 he made 154 league appearances on the Weser and scored 60 goals. In addition, he stormed in all 19 final round games from 1959 to 1961 for the green-whites and scored nine goals.

In 1961 he won the DFB Cup with Bremen after a 2-0 win in the final against 1. FC Kaiserslautern . The goal scorers included Willi Schröder and Helmut Jagielski . In the semifinals against Karlsruher SC he had kept Werder in the race with his equalizer to 2-2 in the 83rd minute of the game, who won the match with a third goal in extra time. Wilmovius made his last league appearance on October 1, 1961 in an 8-0 home win against Altona 93, after which he "said goodbye" to Berlin overnight and surprisingly ended his career.

swell

  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
  • Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-463-1 .
  • Georg Röwekamp: The myth is alive, The story of FC Schalke 04, Verlag Die Werkstatt, 2003, ISBN 3-89533-332-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Wilmovius, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1929
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 2001