Otto Thanner

Otto Thanner (born June 24, 1922 ; † January 20, 1983 ) was a German soccer player who, as a striker for TSV 1860 Munich, played 146 games in the South Football League from 1946 to 1952 and scored 91 goals.

career

Otto Thanner, mostly called "Biwi", belonged to the generation of players with which the history of the South Football League began after the end of the Second World War. The first matchday of the Oberliga Süd was held on November 4, 1946. The VfB Stuttgart won with one point ahead of the 1. FC Nuremberg the first championship in the South, 1860 Munich was ranked the 9th in the 16-league. At the side of the teammates Georg Bayerer , Franz Hammerl , Alois Hornauer , Ludwig Janda and Georg Pledl , the athletic attacker, almost continuously in the center-forward position, scored 24 goals for the "blues" in the second season 1946/47 . 1860 Munich played their way up to fourth place with a goal difference of 67:50 goals in the 20-man league, behind champions 1. FC Nürnberg, SV Waldhof and Eintracht Frankfurt . Thanner had distinguished himself as a three-time goalscorer in the games against Viktoria Aschaffenburg and BC Augsburg . In the list of southern goalscorers he was fourth behind Hans Pöschl (38), Fritz Balogh (32), Max Morlock (25) and Georg Platzer with 25 goals as well.

In the list of goalscorers, the "Löwen" center forward 1947/48 repeated fourth place from the previous year. With 22 goals, he came fourth behind Robert Schlienz (31), Max Morlock (30) and Kurt Lauxmann with 26 goals. But with his team he won behind the superior champions 1. FC Nürnberg, just two points ahead of the Stuttgarter Kickers - the Kickers made the best offensive in the south with 113 goals - and the local rivals FC Bayern Munich , the runner-up. Within the club, Josef Lammers with 14 and Ludwig Janda with 13 goals were further guarantors of success. He was there in all four derby pairings against Bayern and FC Wacker Munich and also scored three goals. In the final round, the southern runner- up had no chance in the preliminary round match against the champions of the French occupied zone, 1. FC Kaiserslautern , on July 18, 1948 in Worms. "Biwi" Thanner succeeded in the interim 1: 1 equalizer in the 62nd minute, but the men around Fritz Walter decided the game with four more hits in the remaining minutes.

Coach Max Schäfer's team came fourth in 1948/49 . Thanner got the top scorer's crown with 19 goals together with Georg Herbold and Emil Maier . In the second half of the season he stood out as a three-time goalscorer in the games against BC Augsburg, FSV Frankfurt and Schwaben Augsburg. In the fifth year of the Oberliga Süd, 1949/50 , the “Löwen” only scored 46 goals and thus came in ninth. The only consolation was that FC Bayern even had to make do with 13th place. Thanner again led the internal goalscorer list in 1860 with twelve hits.

The preliminary round 1950/51 went well from the point of view of the goalscorer from the service: with 13 hits he had created a good starting position, the 20 mark should not be an insurmountable obstacle for the 16 remaining games. Thanner contributed two goals each to the 5: 1 and 3: 2 successes against BC Augsburg and the “Reds” from FC Bayern. With the surprisingly high 6-0 away win on matchday 16 against the league leaders 1. FC Nürnberg, he naturally also entered the scorers list. On the 17th matchday, the last matchday of the preliminary round, Thanner scored his 13th round goal in a 3-1 home win over Kickers Offenbach . The first second round match on December 31, 1950, played 1-1 at Schwaben Augsburg in 1860, then became the center forward's last round bet. With 18 games and 13 goals Otto Thanner is listed in the statistics for the 1950/51 round. The tragic reason was a serious injury to his left eye from a nail gun in January 1951 , which in the end even had to be removed from him. After several months in hospital, he celebrated his surprising comeback on August 26, 1951 in a 10-0 home win against VfL Neckarau . In the storm formation Ludwig Zausinger , Kurt Mondschein (so we now also know why “Morlock still hit the moonlight”), Kurt Lauxmann and Alois Hornauer, he even scored a goal. In the aftermath of the accident, he was no longer able to build on his old form and ended his career with SV Waldhof on April 6, 1952 with his sixth round.

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 .
• Raphael Keppel, Die deutsche Fußball-Oberliga 1946-1963, Sport- und Spielverlag Edgar Hitzel, 1989, ISBN 3-9802172-3-X
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .