Toni Turek

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Toni Turek
Personnel
Surname Anton Turek
birthday January 18, 1919
place of birth Duisburg ,  German Empire
date of death May 11, 1984
Place of death Neuss ,  Germany
size 181 cm
position goalkeeper
Juniors
Years station
1926-1936 Duisburg SC 1900
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1936-1946 TuS Duisburg 48/99
1941-1943 → TSG Ulm 1846 (guest player)
1946-1947 Eintracht Frankfurt 22 (0)
1947-1950 TSG Ulm 1846 65 (0)
1950-1956 Fortuna Dusseldorf 133 (0)
1956-1957 Borussia Monchengladbach 4 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1950-1954 Germany 20 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Anton "Toni" Turek (born January 18, 1919 in Duisburg , † May 11, 1984 in Neuss ) was a German football player and world champion from 1954.

Life

Anton Turek's father was employed as a worker in the Krupp company in Duisburg. At the age of 10 he played football as a child from 1929 to 1936 at Duisburger SC 1900 . He was briefly used in 1934 in the city team of Duisburg. Sepp Herberger already noticed him at a youth game during this time . After graduating from school, he took up an apprenticeship as a baker, which he also successfully completed. In 1936 he moved to TuS Duisburg 48/99 . At the age of 18 he was drafted into the labor service and in 1939, as a soldier in the German Wehrmacht, was used as a motorcyclist during the attack on Poland. During his war effort at the front, a shrapnel broke through his steel helmet and remained stuck in the back of his head for life. This made itself felt painfully again and again later. From 1941 to 1943 Toni, as he was called, played temporarily as a war guest player with TSG Ulm 1846 , but also with TuS Duisburg, to which he returned permanently in 1943. In the decisive game for the Gaume Championship in 1942 Toni Turek was in the goal when his TuS Duisburg 0-5 against Hamborn 07. Due to the defeat, the black and white missed participation in the German championship.

In 1943 he married Wilhelmine, called "Miezi". His marriage resulted in two children; his daughter Ute was born in 1946 and his son Hans-Jürgen in 1950.

Shortly before the end of the Second World War he was taken prisoner , from which he was released very quickly because of his job as a baker, which was needed. After serving in the war, he played for Eintracht Frankfurt from 1946 to 1947 . From then on he was a goalkeeper u. a. Used for the southern upper division and TSG Ulm 1846 (from 1947). During this time in Ulm, he also worked as a sports teacher in a youth prison. In 1950 he moved to Fortuna Düsseldorf . Only when he was 31 did he get a regular place in the national team . For the first time he stood in the goal of the national team at the first international match after World War II on November 22, 1950. This made him the oldest national goalkeeper at the debut. He kept this record for well over twenty years after his death - it was not until November 19, 2013 that he was replaced by Roman Weidenfeller, who was 33 at the time . Between 1950 and 1954 he played 20 international matches for Germany. Turek was known for his good eye and sometimes wouldn't move even with balls that just barely missed the goal. National coach Sepp Herberger thought he was a brilliant athlete with occasional reckless moves.

For his participation in the soccer world championship in 1954 Toni Turek had to get 4 weeks special leave from his employer, the Rheinische Bahngesellschaft - today's Rheinbahn AG Düsseldorf. He only got this special leave because the DFB was willing to take on his loss of wages for this time in the amount of 537.79 marks. As a result, his daily wage was 18.49 marks. In the final of the 1954 FIFA World Cup was Turek as the oldest player of the tournament in the German goal and was with the team through the 3: 2 victory July 4, 1954 against the overwhelming favorites, the national team of Hungary , world champion . In the first half, Turek owed a goal for the Hungarians due to his recklessness. Then he collected himself. In the second half in particular, his saves made him a goalkeeper legend. In Herbert Zimmermann's radio report , which football fans described as unforgettable , the words “Turek, you are a devil! Turek, you are a football god ! Sorry for the enthusiasm, the football laymen will declare us crazy ... “More than 100,000 people were on the streets when Turek was honored with a triumphal march on July 8, 1954 in Düsseldorf. He received 1,000 marks as a prize.

His last international match in October 1954 was Germany's 3-1 defeat against the French national football team . He ended his football career in 1956 with Borussia Mönchengladbach .

During his season as a goalkeeper, Turek worked as an employee at the Düsseldorfer Rheinbahn AG .

In September 1973, he fell ill overnight with a mysterious paralysis of the legs, from the waist down. Several complications occurred during her time in the hospital . The spleen and part of the stomach were removed. Turek suffered four pulmonary embolisms , required blood transfusions, and spent two months in intensive care . His body weight dropped from 90 to 45 kg. It took three years before he was able to walk on a stick again, halfway recovered. Turek later suffered from cardiovascular disease and had to undergo heart surgery. There was also an operation on the gallbladder . In the last years of his life he could only move around using crutches and a wheelchair. He then retired on April 30, 1977.

When Toni Turek died eleven days after a stroke in the Johanna Etienne Hospital in Neuss in 1984 at the age of 65 , he left behind his wife Wilhelmine, who had cared for him the entire time, and his two children. Toni Turek was buried in an urn grave at the Lindenheide cemetery in Mettmann, Lower Berg . Wilhelmine Turek died in January 2012 at the age of 90 and found her final resting place next to her husband's grave of honor .

Honors

Bronze statue by Toni Turek next to the Merkur Spiel-Arena in Düsseldorf-Stockum
  • In honor of Toni Turek, the goalkeeper was given the name "Toni" during a Tipp-Kick game in the 1950s.
  • On June 24, 2004, the then Mayor of Düsseldorf, Joachim Erwin , inaugurated a street named after Turek. However, the small access road was not built, after which a square was named in 2006.
  • On September 30, 2004, the football stadium in Erkrath was renamed the Toni Turek Stadium in honor of the former resident .
  • On May 11, 2009, on the 25th anniversary of his death, a wreath was laid at Turek's grave in Mettmann by the Rheinbahn and the city of Mettmann. Turek's grandson and a representative from Fortuna Düsseldorf were also present at the resignation.
  • A bus stop near Toni-Turek-Allee in Mettmann, which was built in 2004, has been renamed Toni-Turek-Allee / Naturfreibad .
  • In 2009, the Rheinbahn designed one of their type B light rail cars (car number 4253) in honor of Toni Turek: inside with game scenes, photographs and documentations from Turek's life and outside with quotations from Herbert Zimmermann's legendary report on the final of the 1954 World Cup in Bern (“ Toni, you are a football god! "And" Toni, you are a devil! ").
  • In January 2012, the Fortuna Düsseldorf office at Flinger Broich was named Toni-Turek-Haus .
  • On July 4th, 2014 - exactly 60 years after the legendary German World Cup victory in Bern - a life-size bronze monument by Turek was erected next to the ESPRIT arena in Düsseldorf-Stockum.
  • In North Rhine-Westphalia Nottuln was Toni-Turek road named after him.
  • On January 27, 2019, Fortuna Düsseldorf's Bundesliga team wore a special jersey on the occasion of Turek's 100th birthday.

literature

  • Toni Turek Archive ( Werner Raupp private archive , Hohenstein / Swabian Alb).
  • Erich Fuchs, Werner Raupp: Turek, Anton (Toni) . In: Neue Deutsche Biographie , Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-428-11207-4 , pp. 505–506 ( Reinhard Breymayer contributed to the documentation ).
  • Werner Raupp: Toni Turek - "football god". A biography . Arete Verlag , Hildesheim 2019, ISBN 978-3-96423-008-9 (with appendix: 1st family tree; 2nd selection of Turek's games; 3rd honors).

Movie

In the feature film Das Wunder von Bern , Turek is portrayed by Jo Stock .

Web links

Commons : Das Wunder von Bern  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Dross: Toni Turek. Footballer (1919-1984). In: Portal Rhenish History. Landschaftsverband Rheinland, September 30, 2010, accessed on January 19, 2019 .
  2. ^ Anton "Toni" Turek. History and personalities. (No longer available online.) In: Das Internet-Stadtportal duisburg.de. City of Duisburg, archived from the original on February 17, 2012 ; accessed on January 19, 2019 .
  3. ^ Chronicle and biography Helden von Bern, Anton Turek, in: [1]
  4. ↑ For a list of the games, see: Werner Raupp : Toni Turek - "Fußballgott", 2019 (lit.), p. 182 f.
  5. ↑ Colja Schliewa Personal files discovered in: Express Düsseldorf https://express.de/duesseldorf/personalakte-entdeck-toni-turek-vverdiente-18-49-mark-am-tag-2935804
  6. ↑ Theo Mai: When Düsseldorf hugged his "football god". In: DerWesten.de. July 3, 2014, accessed January 19, 2019 .
  7. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Anton 'Toni' Turek - International Appearances. RSSSF , July 28, 2016, accessed January 19, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Toni Turek - Beaten by fate. In: New Osnabrück Newspaper . July 5, 2004, accessed January 19, 2019 (page last updated July 7, 2010).
  9. ^ The grave of Toni Turek , accessed January 19, 2019.
  10. ^ Arno Gehring: Place next to honor grave: widow of Fortuna legend Turek died at 90. In: express.de. January 3, 2012, accessed January 19, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Changes to the existence of the Düsseldorfer Strasse since 2006. Surveying and Cadastre Office Düsseldorf, archived from the original on June 10, 2008 ; accessed on January 19, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Rheinbahn Düsseldorf: 28 meters “Teufelskerl” and “Fußballgott” roll through the city. Archived from the original on June 9, 2009 ; accessed on January 19, 2019 .
  13. ^ Stephan Wappner: A monument to the football god. In: DerWesten.de. March 28, 2014, accessed January 19, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Fortuna presents Toni Turek special jersey. November 26, 2018, accessed January 19, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Das Wunder von Bern in the German IMDb , accessed on January 19, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Turek, Toni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Turek, Anton (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1984
Place of death Neuss , Germany