Heinz Wittig (soccer player)

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Heinz Wittig (born December 19, 1921 in Halle (Saale) ; † August 15, 2012 in Leipzig ) was a German soccer player who was part of the 1952 DFB squad for the soccer tournament at the Olympic Games in Helsinki .

career

With his club VfL Neustadt / Coburg , Wittig, who played mostly outside runners, was promoted to the 1st Bavarian Amateur League in 1950 . The climber was in the 1950/51 round before 1. FC Bayreuth champion, but failed in the promotion round to the II. Division in the playoff against the North Baden representative ASV Feudenheim from Mannheim . In the following round, the blue-whites lost the decisive game for the championship against FV 04 Würzburg with 0: 1 goals in front of over 2,000 spectators in their home stadium and had to leave the championship to FC Amberg .

Personally, however, the year 1952 brought sporting highlights for Heinz Wittig: On May 18, he made his debut in the newly formed German national soccer team of amateurs at the international match against Great Britain in Nuremberg . National coach Sepp Herberger trusted the runner series Kurt Sommerlatt , Herbert Jäger and Heinz Wittig. The second international match in the history of the DFB amateur national team was won with 2-0 goals. Through the performance shown in the club, the Bavarian federation selection - Wittig was in the victorious Bavarian representation that won the country cup of 1952 in Wuppertal with 4-0 goals against the Niederrhein -, the DFB preparatory courses and the international match, the outside runner of VfL had Neustadt bei Coburg played in the squad for the Helsinki Olympic Games . When he made his way from Neustadt train station to Malente in July to the Schleswig-Holstein sports school in order to fly from Hamburg to Helsinki three days later by plane, he was welcomed by numerous VfL supporters and members of the Farewell to the VfL board. In Helsinki he was not used during the tournament. Nevertheless, the experience of the 1952 Olympic Games is one of the absolute highlights of his footballing career.

After the seventh place in 1953, the Upper Franconia won the championship in Bavaria in the 1953/54 round and thus rose to the 2nd League South. On April 29, 1953 Wittig had played his second amateur international game in Linz in a 3-1 win against Austria. He formed the runner row together with Herbert Schäfer and Fritz Semmelmann . With the Bavarian association selection he also celebrated the triumphs in the country cup in 1953 and 1954. In the first year in the 2nd League South, 1954/55 - TSV 1860 Munich celebrated the championship and promotion to the Oberliga Süd - came Wittig with his VfL in ninth place in the table.

literature

  • Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
  • KICKER, Football Almanac 1993, Copress-Verlag, 1992, ISBN 3-7679-0398-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sports-reference.com: Heinz Wittig , accessed on May 3, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Wittig, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 2012
Place of death Leipzig