Walter Bühler

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Walter Bühler (born June 29, 1926 - † February 9, 2012 ) was a German football player .

career

Walter Bühler, who came from VfL Winterbach from the Remstal, made his debut on the first match day of the 1949/50 round in the 2-1 away win of VfB Stuttgart at SSV Jahn Regensburg as a right defender in the South Football League . In front of goalkeeper Otto Schmid , he and Richard Steimle formed the defender couple. Coach Georg Wurzer led VfB to the runner-up in the south and thus to the final round of the German soccer championship in 1950. The agile and fast Bühler, who was able to hold his own in the tightest of spaces in the storm center, played 20 games in the top division and scored four goals. In the final round, he was in all four games against Osnabrück, Kaiserslautern, Fürth and Kickers Offenbach. In the semifinals, he distinguished himself as a two-time goalscorer in a 4-1 win against the southern champions Fürth. In the final on June 25, 1950 in Berlin, he scored the 2-0 lead against Offenbach in the 27th minute and celebrated winning his first German championship with the 2-1 victory . The VfB attack consisted of Erwin Läpple , Robert Schlienz , Walter Bühler, Otto Baitinger and Rolf Blessing in the final .

After the successful debut round, Bühler was no longer part of the regular formation in the seasons 1950/51 to 1952/53. With Leo Kronenbitter , Roland Wehrle and Erwin Waldner , more experts had joined the team. In the 1952 finals, when VfB won the championship again on June 22nd in Ludwigshafen with a 3-2 win over 1. FC Saarbrücken, Walter Bühler only played one role in the group games. In the final, he did not wear the jersey with the red chest ring.

When VfB Stuttgart again succeeded in winning the championship in the Oberliga Süd in the 1954 world championship year, they were back in VfB's regular team with 29 appearances and five goals. In the shortened finals , he appeared in May in the two games against Berliner SV 92 and Hannover 96 as a defender. Before that, on April 17, 1954 in Ludwigshafen, he and his comrades had already won the DFB Cup with a 1-0 win after extra time against 1. FC Köln .

Walter Bühler played his last league game on May 12, 1957 in the 4-0 defeat at Eintracht Frankfurt. He played a total of 109 games for VfB Stuttgart from 1949 to 1957 in the Oberliga Süd, scoring 20 goals. In the finals, nine more games with four goals were added. He was a player in winning two titles and three runners-up in the southern league. In the summer of 1957, the trained electrician ended his high-class playing career and then worked as a coach in the Swabian amateur area.

On November 24, 2008, Bühler was honored by VfB Stuttgart for his 60-year membership at VfB.

In addition, like the entire VfB Stuttgart team, he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf for winning the German soccer championship on June 3, 1950.

literature

  • Raphael Keppel: The German Football League 1946–1963. Sports and games publisher Edgar Hitzel, Hürth 1989, ISBN 3-9802172-3-X .
  • 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 .
  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sports report of the Federal Government of September 29, 1973 to the Bundestag - printed matter 7/1040 - p. 57.
personal data
SURNAME Bühler, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1926
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 2012