Teodor Peterek

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Teodor Peterek

Teodor Peterek (born November 7, 1910 in Schwientochlowitz , † January 12, 1969 in Słupiec ) was a Polish football player .

Career

Interwar period

Peterek was born as a citizen of Prussia in the German Empire . His first name was initially written in the German spelling "Theodor". With the annexation of East Upper Silesia to Poland in 1922, he received Polish citizenship , his first name was Polonized . As a teenager he joined the football department of the club Śląsk Świętochłowice . In 1927 he moved to Ruch Wielkie Hajduki's juniors and secured the position of center forward in the first team the following year as an 18-year-old . He held this position for eleven years, until the beginning of World War II .

In 1932 he was given at the request of the leadership of the military club Legia Warsaw , the convocation for military service in the capital. He should strengthen Legia's first team there. But the leadership of the military district of Silesia in Katowice managed to block Peterek's departure. He could continue to play in the colors of Ruch, in which he won the championship title for the first time in 1933 .

On the new Polish champions' first international tour, he scored the only goal of the game in a 1-0 win at Bayern Munich in 1934 . Formally, he worked as an auxiliary machinist in the coking plant of the Batory hut, which Ruch sponsored. With Ernst Willimowski and Gerard Wodarz he formed the most successful storm in the history of the Polish top division . It was mainly thanks to these "three Silesian kings" that Ruch was Polish champion five times between 1933 and 1938. All these years, according to press reports, Willimowski and Peterek saw each other as competitors. In 1938 Willimowski gave the club management an ultimatum: “Peterek or me!” But in the end the two got along again and again.

The 1.82 meter tall and extremely strong headed Peterek was the top scorer in 1936 (together with Willimowski) with 18 goals and 1938 with 21 goals . With a total of 154 goals in 189 competitive games, he was the most successful goalscorer of the interwar period, by a large margin ahead of the runner-up, Friedrich Scherfke from Warta Posen , who scored 131 goals.

He was repeatedly sent off and disciplined by the PZPN football association . An incident in a league game against local rivals AKS Chorzów received a lot of coverage in the sports press : When the AKS goalkeeper saved a penalty, Peterek threw a handful of earth in his face.

Between 1931 and 1938 he was called up to the national team nine times . With her he reached the semifinals at the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936 . He scored six goals in the national team's jersey, including the 4-1 defeat by Germany in Chemnitz in 1938.

In World War II

In the last week of August 1939 he was drafted into the Polish armed forces as part of the general mobilization . After the fighting ended, he was able to return to his hometown. With the re-annexation of East Upper Silesia to the German Reich in October 1939, the Polish club management von Ruch was arrested and replaced by Germans, the club got its old German name Bismarckhütter SV (BSV) again. The first name Peterek, who like almost all of his clubmates signed the German people's list , was written "Theodor" again by the German authorities and newspapers.

With other former Polish national players, including the goalkeeper Erich Tatusch (Polish: Eryk Tatuś) and the striker Gerhard Wodarz , he played at BSV and in the national team of the Gauliga Oberschlesien . In June 1940 he took part in Katowice in the first selection course of the Reich trainer Josef Herberger for players from Upper Silesia.

In July 1942 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . But he was first used close to home, so that he could regularly take part in the BSV points games until November 1944. At the end of 1944 he was transferred to the Western Front . As a corporal , he was taken prisoner of war by the Americans near Hameln in Lower Saxony in early April 1945 .

post war period

As a former citizen of Poland, he was transferred to the Polish armed forces in the West , which were under Allied High Command . He came to a unit stationed in southern France, where the pro-Western leadership of the Polish associations there initially waited for further political developments at home. There he played for the soccer team of his regiment , he completed a total of 88 games.

In 1946 he returned to Poland and played again for Ruch Chorzów. Like other Upper Silesian top players, he had to justify himself to the communist-controlled security office UB for his appearances in German clubs. In his defense, he was able to argue that the German occupiers during the war initially entered him on the third people's list , so there were doubts about his “Germanness”. He got away with it.

In 1948 he ended his active career. He made his coaching diploma with the then national coach Wacław Kuchar . But he himself had little success as a coach of third and fourth division clubs, especially in Upper Silesia. He returned to Ruch one more time to take over the juniors.

In the Polish “thaw” of 1956, a journalist wrote his memoirs on the basis of his stories and published them as a series in the local newspapers Życie Chorzowa and Goniec Górnośląski in Chorzów. His missions for German teams and his military service in the Wehrmacht were left out. Copies of the newspaper series were bound in book form. The only copy available to the public is in the Silesian Library in Katowice. The memoirs remained largely unknown in Poland until the turn of 1989/90 . a., because he was extremely positive about his former rival Willimowski, who was officially considered a traitor.

literature

  • Teodor Peterek: Z butami piłkarskimi na boiskach Europy. Opracował Alojzy Hole. Chorzów 1957. 17 p. ( With the football boots on the sports fields of Europe . Prepared by Alojzy Loch).

Web links

  • Photos in the National Digital Archive (NAC) Warsaw

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Teodor Peterek: Z butami piłkarskimi na boiskach Europy. Opracował Alojzy Hole. Chorzów 1957, p. 4.
  2. ↑ Przegląd Sportowy, January 2, 1935, p. 5. http://buwcd.buw.uw.edu.pl/e_zbiory/ckcp/p_sportowy/1935/numer001/imagepages/image5.htm
  3. ↑ Przegląd Sportowy, December 8, 1934, p. 4. http://buwcd.buw.uw.edu.pl/e_zbiory/ckcp/p_sportowy/1934/numer098/imagepages/image4.htm
  4. ↑ Teodor Peterek: Z butami piłkarskimi na boiskach Europy. Opracował Alojzy Hole. Chorzów 1957, p. 17; Mecz, October 31, 1990, p. 21.
  5. ↑ Andrzej Gowarzewski : League polska. O tytuł mistrza Polski 1920-2000 . Katowice 2000, p. 174.
  6. ↑ Mariusz Gudebski: Z Orlem na piersi. 90 lat biało-czerwonych. Kluki 2012, p. 54.
  7. ↑ Kattowitzer Zeitung, July 13, 1939, p. 9; A. Gowarzewski: 90 lat Śląski ZPN Katowice. Katowice 2011, p. 39
  8. ↑ Andrzej Gowarzewski / Joachim Waloszek: Ruch Chorzów. Katowice 1995, p. 32.
  9. ↑ photo of Petereks goal for temporarily 1: 1 in: The kicker, September 20, 1938 p. 2
  10. ↑ Teodor Peterek: Z butami piłkarskimi na boiskach Europy. Opracował Alojzy Hole. Chorzów 1957, p. 11.
  11. ↑ Kattowitzer Zeitung, November 20, 1939, p. 3.
  12. ↑ Krakauer Zeitung, October 7, 1941, p. 9.
  13. ↑ Kattowitzer Zeitung, June 25, 1940, p. 6.
  14. ↑ a b Deutsche Dienststelle , II C 2-111014 / 209, p. 3.
  15. ↑ Oberschlesischer Kurier, November 4, 1944, p. 6.
  16. ↑ Teodor Peterek: Z butami piłkarskimi na boiskach Europy. Opracował Alojzy Hole. Chorzów 1957, p. 12.
  17. ↑ Górnoślązacy w polskiej i niemieckiej reprezentacji narodowej w piłce nożnej - wczoraj i dziś. Ed. Dom Współpracy Polsko-Niemieckiej. Gliwice-Opole 2006, p. 102.
  18. ↑ Teodor Peterek: Z butami piłkarskimi na boiskach Europy. Opracował Alojzy Hole. Chorzów 1957, p. 14.
  19. ↑ Teodor Peterek: Z butami piłkarskimi na boiskach Europy. Opracował Alojzy Hole. Chorzów 1957, p. 17.
  20. ↑ Thomas Urban : Black eagles, white eagles. German and Polish footballers at the heart of politics. Göttingen 2011, p. 44.
personal data
SURNAME Peterek, Teodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwientochlowitz , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1969
Place of death Słupiec , Poland