Walter Danner

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Walter Danner (born January 9, 1922 in Mannheim ; † February 11, 1992 in Heidelberg ) was a German soccer player who was active as a striker at VfR Mannheim from 1939 to 1951 in the Gauliga Baden and in the soccer Oberliga Süd . In the 1942/43 round of war , the striker was led with 58 hits in 17 rounds when the Mannheim lawn players won the championship.

Athletic career

Gauliga Baden, 1939–1944

The football game in the club began for Danner in the student and youth teams of the Phönix Mannheim , before the goal-threatening attacker joined the VfR Mannheim. At the age of 17, the two-footed offensive player made his debut in the first team of blue-white-red lawn players. It was a friendly game against Sparta Prague in which the young hopefuls scored three goals in a 6: 3 success. Danner played his first game in the Gauliga on November 19, 1939 in a 2-1 win against Amicitia Viernheim, when the start of the round had been postponed due to the outbreak of World War II on September 1, 1939. On September 8, 1940, the 20-year-old attacker was on half right in the VfR formation, which lost 2-0 at Fortuna Düsseldorf in the Tschammer Cup . The young attacker from Mannheim experienced his first appointment to the district selection of Baden in a competitive game on March 9, 1941 in Dresden in the semi-finals of the Reichsbund Cup against the selection of Saxony. The host, with an outstanding team of players such as Willibald Kreß (goalkeeper), Karl Miller , Herbert Pohl , Walter Dzur , Helmut Schubert , Heinrich Schaffer , Fritz Machate , Herbert Weigel and Gustav Carstens prevailed 7-2. Danner and his VfR club colleagues Karl Vetter (goalkeeper), Werner Feth and Karl Striebinger could n't change that either.

The 1942/43 round then became the parade season for VfR and its outstanding attacker Walter Danner: The lawn players won the championship in the Gauliga Baden after 18 games with 137: 12 goals and 36: 0 points. Danner scored an incredible 58 goals in 17 appearances. In five games, he distinguished himself as a six-time goalscorer. At the beginning of February 1943, the 21-year-old striker took part in a national team training course in Frankfurt under Reich coach Sepp Herberger . Course colleagues for the attack were players like Max Morlock , Josef Gauchel , Erich Hänel , Karl Hetzel and August Klingler . In the 4-0 success of the course selection on February 14th against a selection from Hessen-Nassau, Danner stormed on the left wing in the second half. Since the national team had played the last international match against Slovakia on November 22, 1942 in Pressburg, the first international match after the end of World War II took place on November 22, 1950 and Danner had only returned from a Soviet captivity at the end of 1949, the young striker stayed out of the Gauliga Baden refused to play as a national player.

The Gaumeister from Baden started the final round of the German soccer championship on May 2, 1943 with a 3-1 away win against 1. FC Nürnberg. The "Club" had won the championship in the Gau Nordbayern with 125: 17 goals and 40: 0 points just as confidently as the VfR in Baden. The runner row with Willi Billmann , Clemens Wientjes and Robert Gebhardt as well as the two young attackers Max Morlock and Helmut Herbolsheimer were among the outstanding performers of the Franconia. Danner had scored the third goal in the Nuremberg stadium. In the second round game he was involved with two goals in the 8-1 home win on May 16 against Niederrheinmeister SV Westende Hamborn. In the second round, Danner and colleagues met the Gaumeister der Westmark, FV Saarbrücken, who had clearly beaten FV 93 Mülhausen (5: 1) and Cologne SV Victoria (5: 0) before. On May 30th, the game for a place in the semi-finals took place in front of 25,000 spectators in Saarbrücken in the Kieselhumes stadium. After two goals from Striebinger, Mannheim went into halftime with a 2-1 lead. In the second half of the game, however, the men around Wilhelm Sold , Johannes Herberger and Herbert Binkert prevailed with a 3-2 win and the final round was over for the Gaumeister from Baden. In the Tschammerpokal 1943 Danner scored four goals in the two successful games against FC Mülhausen (4: 1) and BC Augsburg (4: 2) and the 3: 5 away defeat against Dresdner SC on October 3.

In the following season 1943/44, the Gauliga Baden was divided into three groups for traffic reasons: North, Central and South Baden. Defending champion VfR Mannheim prevailed in the northern group with 18: 2 points. After the 5-0 derby win in the first half of the season against SV Waldhof in November 1943, Danner was only used in the 1944 Baden finals against VfB Mühlburg and Freiburg FC, where he scored five goals in three games. On April 16, 1944, he was still on the spot in the 2: 1 success after extra time in the home game for the German soccer championship against FC Bayern Munich and at the end of the final round with the 2: 3 defeat on May 7, 1944 at 1. FC Nuremberg. In the 1944/45 association round, Danner set the all-time Gauliga record in Baden with nine goals at 14: 1 against VfTuR Feudenheim on November 19, 1944. A total of 101 hits are listed for Danner in the Gauliga Baden.

Oberliga Süd, 1949 to 1951

Walter Danner, who was taken prisoner of war by the Soviets shortly before the end of the Second World War, did not return to Mannheim until late 1949. When his club, VfR Mannheim, celebrated the biggest club success in the history of the blue-white-reds in Stuttgart on July 10, 1949 after extra time against Borussia Dortmund with the win of the German championship, the Gauliga era scorer was still in captivity. In the team of the reigning German champions Danner made his debut on November 20, 1949 in a 1-1 home draw against Kickers Offenbach in the Oberliga Süd. At 1: 1, the late war returnees stormed half right on the side of the attacking colleagues Fritz Bolleyer , Ernst Löttke , Franz Islacker and Rudolf de la Vigne . A second use followed on December 11, 1949 in a 2-0 away defeat against Munich 1860. Due to the privations of being a prisoner of war, the former striker was not physically in the condition that would have been necessary to play in the South German league top. In addition, Kurt Stiefvater and Ernst Langlotz were two other offensive players in the VfR squad .

With the start of the 1950/51 season, Danner played the first eleven games in a row and scored five goals, the final return of the Gauligatorjäger seemed to have succeeded. After the 2-1 home win on October 29, 1950, Danner had played on the right winger and VfR had finished fourth with 14: 8 points, but then there was a five-month break. Various illnesses and injuries prevented Danner from finally establishing himself in the Oberliga Süd. With the game on March 24, 1951, Mannheim lost 2-0 in Offenbach, the star striker of the Gauligära ended his career in the Oberliga Süd.

In the amateur field and as a trainer

For the round 1951/52 Danner SC joined Eintracht Plankstadt in the A-class south of the football district in Mannheim. There he experienced another sporting “high” and led Eintracht 1952/53 with 127: 20 goals and 47: 5 points as champions in the 2nd amateur league Rhein-Neckar. As a playmaker and goalscorer, he stayed with Eintracht until the 1955/56 round and then followed the first steps of his son Dietmar on the field. As a player-coach, Danner was still active at FV Oftersheim and SpVgg Oberhausen before finally saying goodbye to the lawn in 1958.

The father of two earned his living as a fitter at Mannheimer Motoren-Werke and died in 1992.

literature

  • Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933–1945. Publishing house regional culture. Ubstadt-Weiher 2016. ISBN 978-3-89735-879-9 . Pp. 306/307.
  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 55.
  • 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 .
  • 100 years of VfR Mannheim 1896–1996, festival book.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. P. 244
  2. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. P. 307
  3. ^ Raphael Keppel : Germany's international soccer games. Documentation from 1908–1989. Sport- und Spielverlag Hitzel, Hürth 1989, ISBN 3-9802172-4-8 , p. 173.
  4. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. P. 283
personal data
SURNAME Danner, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim , Grand Duchy of Baden , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1992
Place of death Heidelberg , Baden-Wuerttemberg , Germany