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Heinrich Altvater (born August 27, 1902 in Transylvania , Austria-Hungary , † February 25, 1994 ) was a German football player .

Career

societies

Altvater belonged from 1920 bis 1940 the FC Wacker Munich as a left winger and contributed to the heyday of the club. In the championships organized by the South German Football Association , he played first in the District League South Bavaria , from the 1923/24 season in the not divided into district leagues , from the 1927/28 season in the South Bavaria group , in a District League Bavaria divided into two groups , his point games. The high point of his career were the successes he achieved with his team in 1922. As Südbayrischer master, after 8: won three playoff against the SV 1860 München emerged, he also won - with his teammates, the Hungarian national team Alfréd "Spezi" Schaffer , 1918 and 1919 European scorer and generally considered the first footballer of the continent viewed who belonged to the club from 1921 to 1922 as well as the national players Albert Eschenlohr and Eugen Kling - the final against Borussia Neunkirchen on May 14, 1922 in Frankfurt am Main with 2: 1 afterwards , after VfR Mannheim with 4: 1 was defeated in the semi-finals. In order to qualify as a participant in the final round of the German Championship , he and his team advanced to the semi-finals , which were lost 4-0 to Hamburger SV on June 4, 1922 in Frankfurt am Main . Previously, FC Wacker Munich won the quarter-final game played on May 21, 1922 in Karlsruhe 5-0 against TG Arminia Bielefeld , in which it was not used.

From 1933 to 1938 he was in the Gauliga Bayern , in one of initially 16, later increased to 23 Gauligen at the time of National Socialism as a uniform top division in the German Reich , then - due to relegation - in the second-rate district league .

Selection / national team

As a player in the selection team of the South German Football Association , he played six games for the national cup , the competition for the selection teams of the regional associations, and the fighting game cup from 1921 to 1925 . When his selection team with the seven players of SpVgg Fürth ( Theodor Lohrmann , Georg Wellhöfer , Hans Hagen , Hans Lang , Andreas Franz , Leonhard Seiderer ) won 4-1 over the selection team of the West German Game Association on June 23, 1922 , he formed and his teammate, the half-left Fritz Nebauer , the left wing. The final reached on February 22, 1925 in Hamburg against the national team of the North German Football Association , in which he was involved, was lost 2-1. The storm of the South Germans consisted of Karl Höger , Kurt Meißner , Sepp Herberger (all three from VfR Mannheim ), him and the other "Blaustern", Nebauer.

For the senior national team , he only played the international match held on March 26, 1922 in Frankfurt am Main against the Swiss national team , which ended 2-2 after 90 minutes despite a 2-0 lead. The result was possibly due to the fact that his team had to end the test match with ten players from the 62nd minute, as goalkeeper Theodor Lohrmann had to be replaced by Leonhard Seiderer - who came without a substitute .

successes

Others

The municipal employee who worked in Munich was later made an honorary member of FC Wacker Munich.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alan Brown: European Topscorers before 1967/68 , Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , September 10, 2005.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Grandfather, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Transylvania , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1994