Ludwig Durek

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Ludwig Durek
Personnel
birthday January 27, 1921
place of birth Vienna ,  Austria
date of death April 14, 2000
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
1933-1938 SC Nicholson / FC Vienna
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1938-1946 FC Vienna
1943 → LSV Eiche-Potsdam (guest)
1946-1956 SK Sturm Graz
1956-1952 WSV Donawitz
1962 SV Feldkirch
1962-1963 SC Wacker Graz
1963 FC Graz
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1940-1942 Germany 6 (2)
1940-1942 Austria 2 (0)
1951 Austria B 1 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
SK Sturm Graz
WSV Donawitz
Klagenfurt AC
1 Only league games are given.

Ludwig Durek (born January 27, 1921 in Vienna ; † April 14, 2000 ) was an Austrian football player and two-time national player . With the annexation of Austria he was also used for the German national team.

Player career

societies

Durek began playing soccer at SC Nicholson at the age of twelve and remained loyal to his home club, which was very successful as FC Wien from February 1933, until 1946. The season 1938/39 he joined the Favoritner traditional club as a master of Bezirksklasse Vienna A and climbed undefeated and unchallenged first the promotion round (against Linzer ASK , WSV BU Neunkirchen and WSV Donawitz) in which at that time top flight, the Gauliga Ostmark on .

His greatest success at club level was winning the runner-up title with FC Wien in the 1941/42 season behind First Vienna FC . In 1943 he worked as a war guest player for a few months at the Air Force Sports Club in Berlin and during this time was also used in the Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg . In 1946 he moved to Graz to SK Sturm, with whom he won the Styrian state championship twice and the state cup three times until 1956. At the age of 35 he moved to Upper Styria and played for the reigning national champion WSV Donawitz. After several club changes, he ended his active football career at FC Graz in 1963.

Selection / national team

Durek took part in the competition for the Reichsbund Cup 1941/42 as a player in the Donau-Alpenland district selection team and was defeated by the Niederrhein district selection team on December 7, 1942 in the Vienna Prater Stadium through the goal of Josef Arens from Essen with 0: 1.

Durek played six international matches for the German national team , for which he made his debut on September 15, 1940 in Bratislava in a 1-0 victory over the Slovak national team and scored his first of a total of two goals with the winning goal in the 81st minute. He played his last game as a national player on May 3, 1942 in Budapest in a 5-3 victory over the national team of Hungary , after being 3-1 behind at the break.

For the Austrian national team he came to his only international matches on two consecutive days and at the same place against the national team of Hungary . The comparison that took place in Budapest on August 19, 1945 was lost 2-0, but the day after it was lost 5-2.

After the two defeats there was a change of coach. Under the subsequent team boss Edi Bauer , Ludwig Durek was no longer considered, which meant that his international career was already over. After a three-year hiatus, he was called up in 1948 as a player in SK Sturm Graz by team boss Edi Frühwirth as the only representative of a " provincial club " in the team for the Olympic football tournament in London, but was not used as a substitute.

For the Austrian B national team, he also denied the 2: 3 lost comparison with the Saarland national team in Saarbrücken on May 21, 1951 .

successes

Coaching career

After his active career as a soccer player, he switched to coaching and looked after the teams of SK Sturm Graz, WSV Donawitz and Klagenfurt AC .

Others

  • Durek was one of 21 players who had played international matches for both Germany and Austria.
  • From 1960 to 1981 he was chairman of the old international of Styria.
  • In 1996 he received the gold medal for sports from the Styrian administration.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Durek's international matches for Austria on austriasoccer.at
  2. ↑ Durek's B international match for Austria on dfb .de
  3. ↑ Sports officials - Honorary badges 1959 - 2019 (PDF) steiermark.at. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Durek, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 2000