Walter Claus-Oehler

Walter Claus-Oehler (born May 7, 1897 in Gera ; † November 8, 1941 in Paris ) was a German football player . For the German national soccer team , he played two international matches in 1923. He made his debut on May 10, 1923 in the game against the Netherlands in Hamburg . In his second and last mission on August 12, 1923 against Finland in Dresden , he scored a goal.

career

Claus-Oehler played for Arminia Bielefeld from July 1918 to June 1935 . He was Arminia Bielefeld and Westphalia's first national player. He was a game designer and a dangerous left half-forward rolled into one. With the blue-black-whites from the Alm Stadium , he won the Westphalia Championship in series from 1921 to 1927, and the West German Championship as the highlight in 1922 and 1923. With Arminia he took part in the finals for the German soccer championship in 1922 and 1923 . On May 21, 1922 the West German champions lost the game against the South German champions FC Wacker Munich with 0: 5 goals in Karlsruhe on the square of the Karlsruher FV . The star of the Wacker team was the former Hungarian national player Alfréd Schaffer . In May 1923 there were two encounters against the master of Brandenburg, against Union Oberschöneweide . The first game ended on May 6 in Bochum in front of 30,000 spectators 0-0 after extra time. The performance of Claus-Oehler had so convinced the responsible gentlemen of the DFB game committee that he made his debut in Hamburg on May 10 in the international match against the Netherlands in the dress of the German national football team. The replay in Berlin ended on May 20 with a 2-1 defeat, again in extra time. In the 80th minute, Arminia center forward Willi Pohl had brought the team of the new national player 1-0 lead, but in the 90th minute the Brandenburgers equalized and decided the game with 2-1 in the 125th minute. Winning goal. For years, Claus-Oehler formed a dreaded left wing with left winger Walter Röhe and the ex-Karlsruhe Wilhelm Noë directed the Arminen defense.

In his second international match on August 12, 1923, in the Dresden Illgen-Kampfbahn, the left winger from 1. FC Nuremberg, Hans Sutor , stormed at his side . In the Federal Cup he came to West Germany from 1920 to 1925 to several missions. On February 25, 1923 he was in the final with West Germany in Frankfurt against South Germany. The south - ahead of "Club" goalkeeper Heinrich Stuhlfauth , the SpVgg Fürth players dominated with Hans Hagen , Hans Lang , Josef Müller , Andreas Franz , Leonhard Seiderer , Willi Ascherl and Karl Auer - after goals from Franz and Ascherl with 2: 1 goals through. Claus-Oehler scored the next goal in the 51st minute. But with his teammates Karl Zörner , Walter Risse and Erich Pohl , the Bielefeld playmaker no longer managed to equalize.

Walter Claus-Oehler was killed as an officer in the Wehrmacht in Paris during the Second World War . In 2005, he was an Internet vote in the Jahrhundertelf elected by Arminia Bielefeld.

literature

• Jens Kirschneck, Klaus Linnenbrüger: Arminia Bielefeld. A club wants to go up. The workshop, Göttingen 1997, ISBN 3-89533-182-1 .
• Klaus Querengässer: The German football championship. Part 1: 1903-1945 (= Agon-Sportverlag statistics. Vol. 28). Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-106-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information on the DFB website