Walter Berg

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Walter Berg (born April 21, 1916 - May 12, 1949 ) was a German football player . As an active member of FC Schalke 04 , he won the final of the German championship twice in 1937 and 1939 and was also a member of the Schalke team that on January 9, 1938 in Cologne-Müngersdorf with 2-1 goals against the Tschammer Cup 1937 Fortuna Düsseldorf was able to decide for itself.

career

The midfielder came from the Essen club SV Kray 04 . The trained chauffeur was small, but a talented movement, fast and technically strong, and equipped with a big fighter's heart. FC Schalke 04 soon became aware of him. For the 1935/36 round he switched to "Royal Blue", which had won the first German championship in 1934 . He came in 1936 in the final round of the German championship under coach Hans Schmidt for the first time in the group game on May 3 in Bochum against Hindenburg Allenstein (7-0) on half right and scored two goals.

He was able to celebrate great successes with the team around Fritz Szepan and Ernst Kuzorra . In 1937 he won with Schalke 04 in the final of the German championship 2-0 against 1. FC Nürnberg . In 1939 SK Admira Wien was even defeated 9-0.

In between, namely in 1938, was his only international match against the team from Luxembourg. He replaced the Mannheim runner Müller, who had a sore throat, at short notice. Critics attested to him that he tried to bring variations into the German build-up game, but it stayed with this one mission. In the same year he had already won the Tschammer Cup (that was the name of the DFB Cup in the Third Reich ) with Schalke 04 against Fortuna Düsseldorf 2-1 . In the final round of the German championship, Berg played 29 games with five goals. The last missions date from April 16 and May 7, 1944 when he won with Schalke with 5: 0 goals against TuS Neuendorf and then in May had to be eliminated from the competition with 1: 2 goals against KSG Duisburg. Berg was also active for Schalke in the final of the Tschammerpokal 1942, which was lost with 0-2 goals on November 15 against 1860 Munich.

Soon, however, the fatherland called for military service, which even Berg could not escape. In the 1939/40 round he was temporarily with his Schalke teammate Otto Schweisfurth war guest player at Hamburger SV and scored four goals in seven missions in the Nordmark regional league, he was finally captured at the end of the war. Walter Berg was then killed in an attempt to break out of a Czech prisoner-of-war camp. His older brother Willi also played for Schalke.

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 .
  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
  • Georg Röwekamp: The myth is alive. The history of FC Schalke 04. Verlag Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2003. ISBN 3-89533-332-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Goals, points, players: the complete HSV statistics . compiled by Jens Reimer Prüß and Hartmut Irle. Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-586-0 , p. 66 (352 pages).
personal data
SURNAME Berg, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1916
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1949