Otto Baitinger

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Otto Baitinger (born October 27, 1926 ) is a former German soccer player .

career

Oberliga Süd, 1949 to 1955

At the age of 22, the offensive player Otto Baitinger from SpVgg Feuerbach from the Württemberg regional league came as a new contract player to VfB Stuttgart in the southern football league . The son from a butcher's shop mastered the sporting challenge of the southern German league straight away. Coach Georg Wurzer used the powerful and powerful striker three rounds in a row in all 94 league games. Only in his fourth and fifth round at VfB, in 1952/53 and 1953/54, was the versatile striker missing once in the round. In five rounds he completed 152 league games and scored 70 goals for the Swabian squad around Robert Schlienz . He celebrated his debut in the league on September 4, 1949 in a 2-1 away win at Jahn Regensburg in the position of the left half-striker and won the runner-up with VfB in this round. In the three rounds 1951/52 to 1953/54, Baitinger and his teammates won the South German title twice - in 1952 and 1954 - and in 1953 again brought the runner-up to Stuttgart. In 1953 and 1954 he scored 21 goals this season and was in second place twice in the southern goalscorer list. 1953 behind Horst Schade (22 goals) and 1954 behind Helmut Preisendörfer and again Horst Schade with 22 goals each. In its sixth league round, 1954/55, VfB fell to 13th place. Baitinger made 22 appearances and scored eight more goals. He played his last league game on February 20, 1955 in the 0-1 defeat at Eintracht Frankfurt . Overall, the Feuerbacher came from 1949 to 1955 to 174 league games and scored 78 goals. In three league games - 1952/53 against Waldhof Mannheim and Eintracht Frankfurt and 1953/54 against BC Augsburg - he scored four goals each.

Finals games, 1950 to 1954

Baitinger won German championships with VfB Stuttgart in 1950 and 1952 . In his second championship title, he scored the 2-1 and 3-2 final for VfB in the final against 1. FC Saarbrücken on June 22, 1952. In 1953 he was in the final for the third time, but the Walter team from 1. FC Kaiserslautern prevailed with 4-1 goals. Baitinger scored a total of 15 goals in 20 finals.

DFB Cup and selection appointments, 1950 to 1954

He won the DFB Cup with VfB in 1954 . Baitinger played nine cup games from 1952 to 1955 and scored six goals. Immediately - on November 11th - before the first post-war international match on November 22nd, 1950 in Stuttgart against Switzerland, he was in the representative game in the southern German selection, which reached a 2-2 draw against the Southwest Elf in Ludwigshafen in front of 60,000 spectators. The southern attack consisted of Erwin Läpple , Fritz Balogh , Ernst Langlotz , Baitinger and Rudolf de la Vigne . National coach Sepp Herberger used the left wing of VfB Stuttgart in the second international B match in DFB history, on September 22, 1951 in Augsburg against Austria. Together with Rolf Blessing , Baitinger formed the left attacking side in the 1-1 draw. During a DFB screening course he was used again on November 23, 1952 in Homburg when a DFB selection was played against a Saar selection.

Otto Baitinger was awarded the silver bay leaf on the occasion of winning the German soccer championship (VfB Stuttgart) in 1950.

literature

  • Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .
  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sports report of the federal government of September 29, 1973 to the Bundestag - printed matter 7/1040 - p. 57.
personal data
SURNAME Baitinger, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1926