Walter Dongmann

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Walter Dongmann (* 26. July 1921 ; † 20th February 2008 ) was a German football player who at hamborn 07 in the Oberliga West 1950-1958 in 88 league games as the "stopper with the horses lungs" Hamborner "lion “Was known and appreciated.

career

The 29-year-old Walter Dongmann joined Hamborn 07 in the Oberliga West in the 1950/51 season as the successor to the former "Löwen" defense chief Ernst Rupieta , who had switched to DSV. He had previously matured at the venue at the "Dicken Stein", with the blue-whites from SpVgg Sterkrade 06/07 , where he started when he was eight years old. At the side of attacker Karl Klug he had taken 2nd place in the 1949/50 season with the game association in the Landesliga Niederrhein, Group 1, and his years of good performance were not hidden in Hamborn. Under coach Paul ZielinskiThe former amateur soccer player immediately completed all 30 league games in the Oberliga West and finished in 7th place with the Sportfreunde. The local derbies against the inner-city Duisburger SV each ended 2: 1; Hamborn won the home game in October 1950 in front of 18,000 spectators, and DSV prevailed in the second leg. Dongmann and Rupieta had both served as chiefs of defense in the derbies. Defense has always been the heart of the "lions". Dongmann was her boss, praised week after week by the trade press, which, in contrast to today's sports newspapers, did not immediately use every successful short pass as an opportunity for an exclusive success story. The praise was given to someone who convinced Sunday after Sunday at Leder, never gave up, whose nickname also expressed great admiration. Nevertheless, the mere memory of fitness and workload falls short. Dongmann was one of those rare mixes who stayed hard on the man, could grab hold of it unmoved, and yet did not forget the actual game, handling the ball.

In the first round of 1951/52, on October 14, 1951, his excellent performances led the Hamborn stopper to the West selection, which competed in Kiel against the representation of northern Germany. In a 2-2 draw, he formed the West's leading row of runners with the two Dortmund outside runners Max Michallek and Erich Schanko . But at the end of the round he could not prevent Hamborn's relegation to the 2nd League West. After that, Dongmann had to spend three years in the second division in the west, before the league return succeeded in 1954/55 with the runner-up under coach Elek Schwartz . In the three rounds in the 2nd League West, Dongmann had played 84 league games and scored five goals. Before their return to the league, the “lions” had done a good job in the 1952/53 DFB Cup, which was played for the first time after the Second World War . After the Sportfreunde in the West German Cup had qualified for the 1st main round in the DFB Cup, the men around Dongmann prevailed on August 16, 1952 with a 4-1 after extra time against Göttingen 05 and met in the 2nd main round the FC St. Pauli. In Hamborn the game ended 1: 1 after 120 minutes on November 9th, so the sports fans had to play a repeat game on Christmas Day in Hamburg. With goalkeeper Werner Kisker and three-time goalscorer Helmut Sadlowski , the Dongmann squad prevailed 4-3 and made it to the quarter-finals. The jubilation at Millerntor, the winners' stroll over the Reeperbahn, it was all wonderful, but that evening the most beautiful present flickered over a not yet widespread, square box. It was the first time that excerpts from a football game were broadcast on television, the so-called "home cinema".

With the relegation it did not work in 1955/56; as the bottom, it immediately went back to the 2nd League West. Dongmann had played 22 other league games and the young up-and-coming striker Horst Jesih scored ten goals in 16 league games. The black and yellow celebrated in 1957 in front of RW Oberhausen and VfB Bottrop immediately the championship in the 2nd division and thus completed the return to the Oberliga West. Dongmann had led the "lions" in the championship success in 28 league games.

In the 1957/58 season Hamborn started without the standard middle runner; he ran for the first time on October 6, 1957, in a 1: 3 defeat at Westfalia Herne in this round for his club. With the catch-up game on April 20, 1958 at Viktoria Köln (1: 1), the 36-year-old high performer said goodbye to the league. With goalkeeper Heinz Wankum, defender couple Rudolf Lichtenberger and Rolf Schafstall , as well as outside runners Friedhelm Zach and Günther Pracz, he had once again led the black and yellow defensive. With only 29 goals in 30 games, the sports fans could not realize relegation and were relegated to the second division in 16th place with 18:42 points.

The fight against relegation with talented but inexperienced youngsters was once again unsuccessful.

literature

  • Harald Landefeld, Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Helmut, tell me dat Tor ... New stories and portraits from the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-043-1 . Pp. 72-77.
  • 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. 62.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ waz.trauer.de: Walter Dongmann - Obituaries - WESTDEUTSCHE ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG (February 20, 2008) , accessed on July 25, 2020
  2. ↑ Harald Landefeld, Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): "Helmut, tell me that goal ..." New stories and portraits from the Oberliga West 1947–1963. P. 72
  3. ↑ Landefeld, Nöllenheidt (ed.): "Helmut, tell me about the gate ...". P. 72
  4. ^ Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Green: German Cup History since 1935. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2000. ISBN 3-89784-146-0 . Pp. 117-120
  5. ↑ Landefeld, Nöllenheidt (ed.): "Helmut, tell me about the gate ...". P. 76
personal data
SURNAME Dongmann, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1921
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 2008