Ludwig Walter

Ludwig Walter (born November 2, 1922 in Kaiserslautern , † July 26, 1993 ) was a German football player . He was the brother of the 1954 world champions and long-time players of 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Fritz and Ottmar Walter .

In August 1931, at the age of eight, Ludwig Walter began playing football in the youth team of 1. FC Kaiserslautern . After attending the Barbarossaschule (elementary school) in Kaiserslautern until March 1937, he began, like his brother Fritz, a commercial apprenticeship in a bank agency. In December 1939 he began to work at the city treasury of the Kaiserslautern city administration.

In January 1940 he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service , for which he worked until October 1942. This was followed by military service and finally imprisonment. He met his brother Fritz in a Romanian assembly camp near Mármaros-Sziget . The German national player Fritz Walter was soon recognized at soccer games in the assembly camp. The Russian camp commandant therefore initially prevented the imminent transport of the Walter brothers to Russia and later released them from captivity on their own initiative. The brothers first came to Vienna and then back to Kaiserslautern on October 28, 1945.

From December 1946, Ludwig Walter continued his work there at the city treasury. He held this position for a total of forty years. After returning to his hometown he soon rejoined the FCK, but due to a war injury he was only able to play a few games - Oberliga Südwest , Gruppe Nord, 1948/49: 2 games.

Ludwig Walter died on July 26, 1993.

literature

• Markwart Herzog : The "Betze" under the swastika: 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the time of National Socialism. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-89533-541-X , p. 118.

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Fritz Walter - Captain for Germany", p. 30
2. ↑ Werner Skrentny (Ed.): Teufelsangst vorm Erbsenberg. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963. Klartext, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 , p. 185.