Otto Völker (soccer player)

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Otto Völker (born March 2, 1893 in Berlin ; † August 6, 1945 ) was a German football player . On March 21, 1913 he played his only international match for the senior national team , which lost 3-0 in his hometown to the amateur national team of England .

Career

society

According to Tauber, Völker played for BFC Preussen from 1905 to 1922 , and from the 1911/12 season for the first time under the Association of Brandenburg Ball Game Clubs (VBB), which united all the clubs that had previously played in various Berlin associations. This meant that only one Berlin championship was held, which he promptly won with BFC Preussen. He and his team qualified as a participant in the final round of the 1912 German Championship . But the opening game on May 5, 1912 in Hamburg was lost 2-1 against the eventual German champions Holstein Kiel . The 19-year-old Völker ran against Kiel alongside teammates like Walter Sorkale , Rudolf Droz and Otto Thiel as the right runner

In the following season , the Prussians could only just hold the league before the Neukölln SC Tasmania . In 1914 he received the draft notice. In the first season after the 1st World War, 1918/19 , Völker took 3rd place with the BFC. The versatile defensive all-rounder could not repeat the title win from the 1911/12 series with his Prussians.

Selection teams

Völke experienced his first appointment in the selection of Brandenburg on October 13, 1912 in Breslau in the Crown Prince's Cup against Southeast Germany. In the 5-0 win, he ran as the left runner. He and his comrades won the semifinals on November 10, 1912 in Berlin 5-1 against northern Germany.

On March 21, 1913 he played his only international match for the senior national team , which lost 3-0 in his hometown to the amateur national team of England . The complete runner series with Völker, Eduard Pendorf and Otto Jungtow consisted of debutants. The team led by captain Adolf Jäger had no chance against the English attackers led by Vivian Woodward .

The final for the Crown Prince's Cup also took place in Berlin on June 8, 1913, but West Germany prevailed 5-3 against Brandenburg with left wing runner Otto Völker. Also in the 1913/14 competition he was in the semi-finals, now in Hanover against northern Germany, and lost 3-2. In the middle of World War I, he lost his third semi-final game for the Crown Prince's Cup on November 12, 1916 in Berlin against Northern Germany 4-0; He proved his versatility as a center forward. On May 19, 1918, he finally won the title. Brandenburg defeated the eternal competitor North Germany 3-1 in the final after extra time. Völker formed the winner's runner row together with Karl Tewes and Arthur Marohn .

successes

literature

  • Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 401 .
  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 511 .
  • Fritz Tauber: German national soccer player. Player statistics from A to Z. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-397-4 . P. 130.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hohensee, Huber, Matheja: Kicker-Almanach 2013. Copress-Verlag. Munich 2012. ISBN 978-3-7679-0920-5 . P. 142
  2. ^ Fritz Tauber: German national soccer players. P. 130

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personal data
SURNAME Peoples, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1945