Günther Wirth (soccer player)

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Günther Wirth 1955

Günther Wirth (born January 9, 1933 in Dresden ) (called Wibbel Wirth) is a former soccer player and national player of the GDR .

Athletic career

Two years before the end of the Second World War, ten-year-old Günther Wirth signed up for the Guts Muts Dresden soccer team in 1943 . After the war he played for six years at SG Johannstadt Dresden, after which, after brief episodes at BSG VVB Tabak Dresden and HSG Wissenschaft Karlshorst, in autumn 1951 he joined BSG Motor Oberschöneweide , whose football team was in the top division of the GDR, the Oberliga , was represented.

Wirth quickly gained a permanent position there as a left wing striker and, along with his storm colleagues Horst Assmy and Lothar Meyer, was one of the team's top performers. Although Oberschöneweide was relegated to the second-rate GDR league in 1953, all three strikers were used for the first time in a game of the GDR national team on May 8, 1954, but all played too harmlessly, so that the encounter in Berlin was lost 1-0 to Romania . While the motor team missed promotion in the 1953/54 season despite their parade storm, another Berlin team, the army team ZASK Vorwärts Berlin , was promoted and tried hard to recruit the three Oberschöneweider strikers.

Despite violent protests from the public, Wirth switched to the army team in December 1954, and Assmy and Meyer followed later. At Vorwärts Berlin, the now 21-year-old Wirth developed into one of the best football players in the GDR at that time. On September 18, 1955, he received a second chance in the national team, which this time played in Bucharest against Romania. With 3: 2 the GDR players were able to successfully take revenge, and left wing Wirth contributed a goal to the first victory of the GDR team in their 7th game. From this point on, Wirth had fought for a regular place in the national team, in which he was called up 28 times by 1962 and scored 11 goals. He also played his last international match against Romania on October 14, 1962 - and again he contributed a goal in the 3-2 win.

Wirth celebrated four championship titles with his home team Vorwärts Berlin in 1958, 1960, 1962 and 1965. He played a total of 209 point games and scored 44 goals. Together with his time in Oberschöneweider, he made 255 league games with 64 goals. Wirth ended his active career in the 1965/66 season in the reserve team of the club that was restructured in FC Vorwärts Berlin during the season .

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 527.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 297, 315.

Web links

Commons : Günther Wirth  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Günther Wirth in the database of the German Football Association
• Günther Wirth game statistics at rsssf.com