Ludwig gardener

Ludwig Gärtner (born April 19, 1919 in Lorsch , South Hesse , † June 6, 1995 ) was a German football player . The left winger of SC Olympia Lorsch , who was playing in the second division at the time, was appointed to the German national team for the first time in 1939 , and two more missions followed in 1940 and 1941. Gärtner ended his career as a footballer at the age of 39 in 1958 with his home club SC Olympia .

career

At his hometown club SC Olympia Lorsch , the fast left winger with secure ball control and the straightness of his game developed into one of the best wingers before and during the Second World War . With the blue-whites he failed in 1937/38 in the promotion round to Gauliga Südwest . Gärtner played three international matches between 1939 and 1941: the first on August 27, 1939, when he played 0-2 in Slovakia, where he represented the German colors with nine players from Vienna as well as goalkeeper Jürissen and defender Immig. His second came on October 20, 1940 at 7-3 over Bulgaria, where he scored a special goal with the 1-0 opening goal: the 500th goal in DFB international match history. The third game in the national team he completed on October 5, 1941 at 2: 4 in Sweden on the side of Helmut Schön, who ended his international career. At that time he was already a guest player at Borussia Fulda . With the Red-Blacks he celebrated winning the Gaume Championship in Hesse in 1941 , where he contributed five hits in the second leg against the northern season winner BC Sport Kassel on March 16, 1941 in an 8-3 victory. He played three games with Fulda in the final round of the German championship in 1941 against FC Schalke 04 and Hannover 96 and scored the winning goal on April 27 in a 4-3 home win against Hannover. In defense, Hermann Gramlich acted as a guest player .

The man from Lorsch experienced another high point on July 13, 1941 in the Tschammer Cup , when he again scored five goals in a 9: 6 home win against Kickers Offenbach after a 5-0 deficit in Johannisau. In the Reichsbund Cup of 1941/42 he stormed in the team of Kurhessen in the games against Saxony and the Lower Rhine. In 1942 he won the second Gau title with Fulda and was active on May 10, 1942 in the final against SV Dessau 05 . His fifth and last appearance for the German championship he experienced on May 7, 1944 against the reigning German champion Dresdner SC . Helmut Schön scored seven goals in the Saxons 9-2 win.

During World War II he also wore the jersey of 1. SV Jena and HSV Groß Born for a while .

Ludwig Gärtner did not return from Soviet captivity until 1949 and then became active again at Olympia Lorsch. In 1955 he was a member of the team that rose to the first amateur league Hessen under coach Heinz Baas . In 1958 he ended his playing career.

Next to the square

As a trained businessman, the "Olympic legend" ran a sports and shoe shop not far from the Lorsch town hall.

literature

• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 136 .
• Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• Hardy Greens: Legendary football clubs. Hesse. Between FC Alsbach, Eintracht Frankfurt and Tuspo Ziegenhain. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-244-0 , p. 203 f.

Web links

• Picture and obituary on the SCOlympia Lorsch website