Hans Wentorf

Hans Wentorf ( April 6, 1899 - January 1, 1970 ) was a German football player and two-time national player in 1928.

career

The sporting career of the student Hans Wentorf began in 1906 in the gymnastics department of Eimsbütteler TV . It was only later that he decided to play football and made his debut in the ETV league team at the age of 17 in the 1916/17 season. Many observers of the Hamburg sports scene attributed his suppleness to pike, punch and jump to his solid basic training in the gymnastics department. In the 1921/22 season, the Eimsbüttel goalkeeper was appointed to the association selection of Northern Germany in the competition of the Federal Cup. He made his debut on October 9, 1921 in Stettin against the selection of Balten. In addition to the ETV goalkeeper, his teammates Oscar Lüdecke, Alfred Heynen and Walter Lorenz were also involved in the 4-1 success in the NFV representation. In the 3-0 semi-final win on November 13th of the same year in Halle against Central Germany, the same players represented the red and white colors of ETV. On March 5, 1922, however, the selection of southern Germany prevailed in Hamburg with 7-0 goals against northern Germany. Wentorf had to accept four goals from Andreas Franz and three goals from Heinrich Träger . In the Elbe district, ETV took first place ahead of Altona 93 with 25: 3 points and 57:16 goals. For the 1922/23 round he moved to Altona together with the defenders Lüdecke and Waldemar Gilge to compete. At the side of the "legend" Adolf Jäger he moved into the finals of the German soccer championship with the AFC 1924/25 as North German runner-up . After the 4-2 victory in Stettin against SC Titania, the home game against Duisburger SpV was lost on May 17th with 0-2 goals - August Sackenheim scored twice . Before that, however, he had won the national cup with the NFV selection on February 22, 1925 in Hamburg in front of 25,000 spectators with a 2-1 win against southern Germany. Also in 1926/27 Wentorf was again with Northern Germany in the final of the Federal Cup.

The goalkeeper of Altona 93 made his debut in the national team in the 3-2 win against Switzerland in Bern on April 15, 1928. In the last game before the Olympic Games in Amsterdam, he saved a penalty from Swiss defender Rudolf Ramseyer in the 26th minute of the game . His fourth final game for the national cup brought him his third defeat on April 29th. Hans Wentorf could not get past long-time goalkeeper Heiner Stuhlfauth , who was also in goal at the 1928 Olympic football tournament and where Wentorf and Paul Gehlhaar had to make do with the substitute bench, and Willibald Kreß , however, in the national team. Wentorf was therefore only used on September 16 - it was the first post-Olympic game - in a 2-1 win against Denmark . The game took place in Stuhlfauth's hometown of Nuremberg , of all places .

At the beginning of 1929 he surprisingly said goodbye to football by suddenly and suddenly ending his playing career. "I couldn't even come up with a well-motivated explanation. I felt a certain need for rest and then just didn't start again," he answered a reporter in the early 1950s when asked why.

literature

• Folke Havekost: ETV Hamburg. 100 years of football in Eimsbüttel. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2006. ISBN 978-3-89533-529-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Andreas Meyer, Volker Stahl, Uwe Wetzner: Football Lexicon Hamburg . Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-477-1 , p. 325 (396 pages).