Walter Günther (soccer player)

Walter Günther (born November 18, 1915 - March 1989 ) was a German soccer player .

Career

societies

Günther belonged from 1932 to 1938 to the Duisburg TSV 1899 , due to the merger from the 1938/39 season to the TuS Duisburg 48/99 , for which he initially played in the district championship held by the West German Game Association in Group A of the Niederrhein district .

From 1933 to 1945 he was in the Gauliga Niederrhein , in one of initially 16, later increased to 23 Gauligen at the time of National Socialism as a uniform top division in the German Reich - with the exception of the 1935/36 season , when he and his club, due to relegation , played in the second-rate district league. From the 1943/44 season he emerged as a champion with the war game community formed from the Duisburger SpV and the TuS Duisburg 48/99 , as in the following season . Due to the two successes, the war syndicate took part in the final round of the German championship, where he only won the second round, won 2-1 against FC Schalke 04 on May 7, 1944, and the quarter-final, lost 3-0 on May 21, 1944 denied against LSV Hamburg . His only game for the Tschammerpokal , the cup competition for club teams introduced since 1935, he played on July 13, 1941 in the 0-1 defeat in the first round match against Black and White Essen .

After the end of World War II , he played the 1947/48 and 1948/49 seasons in the second-rate Lower Rhine regional league and at the end of his second season contributed to promotion to the Oberliga West of Duisburg SpV .

Selection / national team

Günther played four international matches for the senior national team between 1935 and 1937 , making his debut in Luxembourg on August 18, 1935 for the second team - the first played at the same time in Munich against the national team of Finland . With his goal scored in the 43rd minute, the youth team under Sepp Herberger won 1-0 over the Luxembourg national team . It was the time when Reich trainer Otto Nerz tested 60 candidates for the 1936 Olympic football tournament in Berlin in a two-week course at the Duisburg-Wedau sports school in August 1935 . It was followed by three more international matches against the national teams of Poland , again Luxembourg and the Netherlands , in which he was used.

As a player in the Niederrhein region selection team , he was used in the 1936/37 season in the Reichsbund Cup games, which he won after winning over the Nordmark , Mitte and Berlin-Brandenburg region selection teams - in the 4-3 victory he contributed two goals - won on February 27, 1937 with the 2-1 victory over the Gauwahlmannschaft Saxony. In the following seasons he came to other missions in this competition.

successes

• Gaumeister Niederrhein 1944
• Reichsbund Cup winner 1937

Web links

• Walter Günther in the database of weltfussball.de
• Walter Günther on dfb .de

literature

• 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 .
• Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .