Ludwig Damminger

Ludwig Damminger (born October 29, 1912 in Wörth am Rhein , † February 4, 1981 in Jockgrim ) was a German football player .

Career

societies

Damminger joined the first team of FC Bavaria Wörth at the age of 17 and played for them from 1930 to 1934. In the course of his club membership he quickly became the best center forward in the southern Palatinate , not least because he was by far the top scorer list. Since his talent did not go undiscovered, he was signed by the Karlsruher FV for the 1934/35 season , for which he played in the Gauliga Baden - one of initially 16, later increased to 23 Gauligen at the time of National Socialism as the uniform highest division in the German Reich - point games denied. He made his debut in October 1934 in a 2-0 win against VfR Mannheim ; at the end of the 1936/37 season he rose with his team in the district league . The 1938/39 season - due to promotion - he played again in the Gauliga Baden, from the following season in the Mittelbaden group , before relegated to the district league at the end of the 1940/41 season . The 1943/44 season he played after renewed promotion now in the middle of the Gauliga Baden season.

Used for military service, he served as a soldier in World War II , so that his career was over for the time being. Returning to his homeland with serious wounds (through bullets through the kidneys and thighs) and after a long Soviet captivity , he played in 1948 at the age of 36 for TSG Jockgrim in the national league . He later proved himself as a player-coach in Wörth (1955–1957), Hagenbach, Neuburg, Rheinzabern and Neupotz.

National team

When the Stuttgarter Kickers played their championship game against the Karlsruher FV in the thirties , there was no stopping Damminger and so Reich trainer Otto Nerz , who had been among the spectators , asked him to talk and immediately invited him to a course.

On April 28, 1935, he played his first international match for the DFB in Brussels , in the 6-1 victory of the senior national team over the Belgian national team , and scored 4-1 in the 72nd and 6-1 in the 85th minute his first two goals. On May 8 and September 15 of the same year he came in the 3-1 victory over the national team of Ireland in Dortmund , in which he scored two more goals, and in the 5-0 victory over the national team of Estonia in Szczecin , in which he scored the goal to the final score in the 81st minute, to use. The headline in the sports press was: “There is no real answer to the left knuckle of Damminger!”

Others

Damminger, a trained mechanic and the only national player of FC Bavaria Wörth , is probably the best player who has ever worn the blue and white Bavaria jersey; he died in 1981 at the age of 68 - completely unexpectedly for his numerous friends - in his adopted home Jockgrim, where he also found his final resting place.

Web links

• Ludwig Damminger in the database of weltfussball.de
• Ludwig Damminger on dfb .de
• Ludwig Damminger on fcb-woerth.de