Walter Dzur

Walter Dzur (born November 18, 1919 - October 19, 1999 in Hamburg ) was a German football player . In 1940 and 1941 he made three appearances in the German senior national team and won the German championship twice with the Dresdner SC in 1943 and 1944 .

Career

societies

Dresdner SC

At the age of 19, Walter Dzur came from FV Eger to Dresdner SC in Saxony in 1938. His talent for the middle runner position was recognized and promoted by coach Georg Köhler , who himself had made five international appearances in this position from 1925 to 1928. The men around Richard Hofmann and Helmut Schön won the championship in the Gauliga Sachsen five times from 1938/39 to 1943/44. The Planitzer SC only interrupted this series in the 1941/42 round. In the finals for the German football championship from 1939 to 1944, Walter Dzur played consistently as a middle runner in the DSC team. The big hit did not succeed in the first three rounds. As early as 1940 and 1941 Dzur, who ran 100 m in 11.2 seconds, celebrated winning the Tschammer Cup . In the years 1943 and 1944 the German championship was won. It was not until the intermediate round in 1944 that Dzur came back to DSC from LSV Markersdorf an der Pielach in Lower Austria. Dzur was able to successfully help stabilize the defense in the successes against Vienna and 1. FC Nürnberg as well as in the final against LSV Hamburg . Due to the destruction in World War II - the air raid on 13/14 In February 1945, the old town of "Florence on the Elbe" had largely fallen victim - many who had escaped with their lives were forced to leave the city and look for a new beginning abroad. So it was good that the former "guest player" from FC St. Pauli from Hamburg, Karl Miller , had made contact with Dresden and paved the way to the Alster.

FC St. Pauli

In the post-war period, FC St. Pauli came closest to Hamburger SV in terms of sport. The FC had gathered a star ensemble at Millerntor. “All the strength came from Miller's sausage kettle,” chronicler Jan Feddersen noted. Indeed, FC St. Pauli owed its attractiveness for Dresden players to the Miller's slaughterhouse in Wexstrasse in Neustadt. There was little to eat in Dresden, no prospects, no regular games. At the Miller family's slaughterhouse, they were all fed. In particular, it was the Dresden Dzur, Hempel, Köpping, Machate, Schaffer and the Berlin Appel and Lehmann. The original Paulian Karl Miller junior, twelve times national player, had brought them all to Hamburg. Two players from the Dresden SC team, which was so successful in the late 30s to early 40s, became key figures at Millerntor: defender Heinz Hempel and center runner Walter Dzur. As one of the few Hamburg residents in the “Wunderelf”, Harald Stender stood next to Dzur in the runner row - and that for the next eight years. For half a year the St. Paulians only played friendly matches. 1945/46 and 1946/47 were played in the Hamburg city league, from 1947/48 the Oberliga Nord was in operation. Walter Dzur moved with St. Pauli in the years 1948 to 1951 in the final round of the German soccer championship. Overall, he came with the clubs Dresdner SC and FC St. Pauli from 1939 to 1951 to 46 games in the finals. From 1947 to 1953 Dzur was in the Oberliga Nord in 135 games with four goals for St. Pauli. The stopper of the “Wunderelf” played his last point game for the Millerntor team on April 12, 1953 in a 4-0 win against FC Altona 93 . Previously, on Friday, December 26, 1952, he had seen the first live football match on German television as an active player in the second main round of the cup replay against Hamborn 07 , in the 3: 4 home defeat. Because of his loud commands on the field, Dzur was often called the "Sergeant" by journalists. Dzur remembered the center forward from Rapid Vienna , Franz Binder , as the strongest opponent . Among the hamburgers he was most impressed by Kurt Manja (ETV) and the Concorde Kurt, known as “Malek” Hinsch.

Selection / national team

On September 1, 1940, the still 20-year-old played his first game in the senior national team. In the 13-0 success against the national team of Finland , he was in his usual position of center runner in Leipzig. The two outside runners from Schweinfurt, Andreas Kupfer and Albin Kitzinger , played by his side. A fortnight later he was again the head of the German defense at the game in Pressburg against Slovakia. The game was won 1-0 goals. He made his third appearance in the national team under Reich coach Sepp Herberger on the double match day on October 5, 1941. Fritz Walter and Helmut Schön lost in Stockholm against Sweden 2: 4 goals. Dzur won 6-0 goals against Finland in Helsinki in his third international match. The runners in Helsinki were Pohl, Dzur and Schubert - the three players from Dresdner SC. Hans Rohde , called "Der Eiserne" from Eimsbütteler TV , was number one in the middle runner position in the war era. Walter Dzur's successes with Dresdner SC couldn't change that either. As a player from St. Pauli, he got five appointments from 1948 to 1951 - each as a middle runner - in representative games for the north.

Others

From 1957, four years after the end of his active career, Walter Dzur ran the “Zum Sportler” pub on Davidstrasse in the Kiez . Before he opened it, he had run a cigarette shop in the same room. Dzur lived in an adjoining apartment for 20 years. From 1970 Dzur lived in the new town until his death in 1999.

Web links

• Walter Dzur in the database of weltfussball.de
• Players A – Z (bung bottle) , visited on March 17, 2020

literature

• There are always miracles, The history of FC St. Pauli, The workshop, 2002, ISBN 3-89533-375-1 .
• Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-463-1 .
• Hardy Greens : From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 1 . AGON, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .