Peter Kunter

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Peter Kunter (born April 28, 1941 in Berlin ) is a former German soccer goalkeeper and dentist. For the club Eintracht Frankfurt he played in 234 Bundesliga games from 1965 to 1976 and won the DFB Cup in 1974 . Between 1977 and 1979 he served as Vice President of Eintracht and from 2001 to 2005 as a member of the Board of Directors. Between 1961 and 1965 he played for the then second-class Freiburg FC . He belonged to the extended circle of the national team, which became European champion in 1972, but did not make an international match.

In 1969 Kunter received his doctorate as a dentist. As a result, he was often featured in Eintracht Frankfurt constellations as Dr. Kunter listed.

Life

As a player of the then Hessian amateur league club Eintracht Wetzlar , the 1.76 meter tall Peter Kunter was appointed to the goal of the youth national team at that time in 1958, for which he played a total of nine games. In the following years he played four times for the German amateur national team . From 1961 Kunter studied dentistry , sports and German studies in Freiburg im Breisgau and played in the regional league for Freiburg FC . For Freiburg he came to 69 games in two regional league seasons.

In 1965 he moved to Eintracht Frankfurt , for which he played a total of 234 times in the Bundesliga . He also played 17 times in the DFB-Pokal competition and in European club competitions. In the first year he replaced the long-serving 34-year-old Egon Loy in goal and made 25 appearances. Between 1967 and 1969, however, he mostly had to lag behind the 1966 vice world champion Hans Tilkowski , who came from Borussia Dortmund , among other things because he was out for several months after a serious traffic accident. In December 1969 he received his doctorate in dentistry.

The 'flying dentist' was considered to be quick to react and, thanks to ten saved penalties, was a penalty killer . In 1971 he made a major contribution to the fact that Eintracht did not decline; Especially in the decisive 2-0 win against Kickers Offenbach , the goalkeeper grew beyond himself. As a contact lens wearer, Kunter had to struggle with vision problems in the floodlight games that became more common in the 1970s.

In the goal of the national team , in which Sepp Maier , Norbert Nigbur , Wolfgang Kleff and Bernd Franke were used in those years , he did not get a train. At the final round of the European Football Championship in Belgium in 1972 , however, 'Doc' was part of the squad as the third goalkeeper who stayed at home on demand.

In August 1974, Kunter was part of the team trained by Dietrich Weise that brought the DFB Cup to Frankfurt for the first time . In the final in the Rheinstadion in Düsseldorf, Eintracht defeated Hamburger SV 3-1 after extra time. Other important players in that team were Bundesliga record players Charly Körbel , Jürgen Kalb , Bernd Nickel and captain Jürgen Grabowski and Bernd Hölzenbein , who had become world champions in Munich a few weeks earlier.

As early as the 1973/74 season, however, Kunter had to largely share the missions with Günter Wienhold , who was in goal in most of the Eintracht games over the next two seasons. So Kunter came to the successful cup defense in 1975 in this competition for only one use. In 1976 he ended his active career after he had to replace the seriously injured Wienhold in eight Bundesliga and three European Cup encounters towards the end of the 1975/76 season.

Between 1977 and 1979 he was Vice President of Eintracht Frankfurt and from 2001 to 2005 a member of the Board of Directors.

During and after his active playing career, Kunter ran a dental practice in Frankfurt. He later settled in the Rödermark district of Ober-Roden . He has been retired since 2005. Many fellow players and also younger Eintrachtlers were among his circle of patients. In 1973 the director Joachim Kreck shot the nine-minute short film No 1 with Kunter, in which the goalkeeping position was generally treated as such.

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literature

  • Dr. Peter Kunter . In: Rainer Franzke, Wolfgang Tobien: Die Eintracht. 80 years of football magic . Taunusstein [1979], pp. 77-78.
  • Dr. Peter Kunter - A doctor hangs on the Christmas tree . In: Ulrich Homann, Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Don Hennes and the love of the league . 2nd Edition. Essen 1994, ISBN 3-88474-018-0 , pp. 144-147
  • Dr. Kunter, Peter. In: BF Hoffmann : The large lexicon of the Bundesliga keepers. More than 300 biographies - from the beginning to the present. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89602-526-0 , pp. 237-238.
  • Ulrich Matheja: Schlappekicker and sky striker. The story of Eintracht Frankfurt . 3. Edition. Göttingen 2007, ISBN 3-89533-538-X
  • Frank Gotta, Othmar Hermann: In the heart of Europe ... Eintracht Frankfurt . Kassel 2007, ISBN 3-89784-286-6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DNB 482475633
  2. ↑ No 1 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Kunter, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin