Lothar Richter (soccer player, 1912)

Lothar Richter (born June 9, 1912 in Zwönitz , † November 20, 2001 in Aalen ) was a German football player.

Career

societies

Richter began in Zwönitz at local VfL Zwönitz playing football before he for the season 1934/35 to Chemnitzer BC changed. From then on he played in the second-rate district class of Chemnitz until the end of the 1937/38 season. As district champion, he took part in the promotion round to the Gauliga Sachsen , in which he rose as a runner-up. This was followed by five seasons in the Gauliga Sachsen, in one of initially 16, later increased to 23 Gauligen at the time of National Socialism as the uniform top division in the German Empire . As third place in the 1941/42 season, he achieved the best result with his club.

After the end of the Second World War he completed the 1946/47 season for SG Chemnitz-Gablenz in the Chemnitz district. His last club was VfR Aalen , for which he played point games from 1947 to 1950 in the second-rate state league Württemberg .

Selection / national team

As a player in the Saxony regional team , he took part in the competition for the Reichsbund Cup in the 1940/41 season. About the first round victory with 2: 0 on the Gauauswahlmannschaft Westphalia , the second round victory with 6: 1 over the Gauauswahlmannschaft Pomerania and 5: 3 victory over the Gauauswahlmannschaft Silesia in playoff game his team reached the semi-finals . With the clear 7-2 victory on March 9, 1941 in the home stadium at the Ostragehege against the regional selection team Baden , the final was finally reached. On September 7, 1941, in the stadium on Planitzstrasse , the encounter with the Bavarian regional selection team , in which he was a member, was won 2-0 by goals from Heinrich Schaffer and Ernst Willimowski .

In the same game year he was invited to an international match - and also used. With his debut for the senior national team on October 5, 1941 in Helsinki , in the 6-0 victory over the national team of Finland , he played his only game as a national player . The result came from the players Hermann Eppenhoff and Ernst Willimowski, who each scored three goals.

successes

• Reichsbund Cup winner 1941

Web links

• Lothar Richter in the weltfussball.de database
• Lothar Richter in the database of the German Football Association

literature

• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• Fritz Tauber: German national soccer player. Player statistics from A to Z. Updated and advanced Edition. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-89784-366-0 , p. 162.