Walter Kitter

Walter Kitter (born January 13, 1943 - August 17, 2019 in Puchheim ) was a German football player . In the 1967/68 season he completed seven international matches for the national team of amateurs . In 1967 and 1969, the defender of FC Germania Forst and VfR Pforzheim won the competition for the amateur country cup in the ranks of the Baden Football Association's selection team .

Career

societies

Walter Kitter attended elementary school in his home town of Spöck , a village north of Karlsruhe in the immediate vicinity of the city of Bruchsal , opened his footballing activities as a club soccer player in 1955 on the local TV 1896 Spöck in the school team and completed an apprenticeship as a technical draftsman after finishing school . Kitter gained his first experience in the senior sector after his youth in the 1st team of TV 1896. In 1961/62 he won the championship with TV in the B class in Karlsruhe, season 4, and played one season in the A in 1962/63 -Class. He spent the round 1963/64 at VfB Bruchsal , for which he demonstrated his skills in the 2nd Amateur League Middle Baden, Season 1, and in which he was able to draw attention to himself for the first time beyond the district boundary. FC Germania Forst, located in the immediate vicinity, was able to persuade the 21-year-old defensive talent to switch to the 1st Amateur League North Baden for the 1964/65 season . Germania Forst was promoted to the amateur upper house in Baden in 1962/63 and was built around the local players Adolf Luft , the brother couple Heinz and Roland Firnkes, and Heinz Riffel. Local entrants such as Kitter, Bruno Schäffner (both VfB Bruchsal), Werner Knaus (SV Zeutern) and goalkeeper Manfred Sauter ( KSC amateurs ; previously SpVgg Oberhausen ) were hoped for selective sporting gains and an expansion of the squad.

After a round of merging, in 1964/65: 8th place, Forst won the championship in the first amateur league North Baden in the season 1965/66 with seven points ahead of runner-up Amicitia Viernheim and was thus qualified for the promotion round to the second-class Regionalliga Süd . As center runner and head of defense in the World Cup system at the time, Walter Kitter played a big part in the fact that the new champions from Forst, with only 24 goals conceded in 30 round games, laid the foundation for the surprising success with the outstanding defensive work. Personally, Kitter experienced visible evidence of his performance in the round by being called to the North Baden selection in the competition for the 1965/66 regional cup in September and October 1965 against the selection team of the Mittelrhein Football Association ( Karl Lambertin , Herbert Wimmer ).

The group games to determine the Baden-Wuerttemberg climber in the Regionalliga Süd were in May / June 1966 with FC 08 Villingen (champions Black Forest-Bodensee), 1. FC Normannia Gmünd (champions North Württemberg), SV Oberkirch (champions South Baden) and the North Baden champions FC Germania Forst equipped. Forst opened the series with a 3-1 away win on May 19 at SV Oberkirch. The first home game brought the second success three days later in front of 4,000 spectators with a 1-0 win against Gmünd. On May 29, Villingen took over the top of the table with a 4-1 home win against Forst but unbeaten. Immediately in the second leg on June 5, the revenge was achieved with a 2-0, before four days later, with a 1: 3 away defeat in Gmünd, the chance of promotion was wasted. The final success on June 12th 6: 2 against the bottom of the table SV Oberkirch was of no importance in the table, as Villingen played at the same time with a 2: 2 home draw against Gmünd in the Regionalliga Süd. Villingen rose 9: 3 points, Kitter and his teammates from Germania Forst finished one point behind (8: 4) in the ungrateful second place. In addition to winning the championship in the 1st Amateur League North Baden, the promotion round to the Regionalliga Süd is still high He was not able to defend his title in North Baden in 1966/67 , and Forst was fifth. With the Baden selection, Kitter won the national cup in 1967 under BFV trainer Herbert Widmayer .

For the 1967/68 season , the defender moved to the blue-whites from the Holzhofstadion , to VfR Pforzheim. With his new club, Kitter was unable to meet the lawn players' expectations of returning to the Regionalliga Süd in the following three rounds. Over the disappointing 8th place (1967/68), the 6th place in the second year 1968/69 , the VfR improved in 1969/70 to the 5th place, but the goal of the regional league promotion was not realized. Nevertheless, Kitter's greatest sporting successes fell during his time at VfR Pforzheim: In 1969, he had his second national cup success with Nordbaden and in 1967/68 he played seven international matches in the amateur national team under DFB coach Udo Lattek .

For the 1970/71 season Kitter returned to FC Germania Forst; but the Forster's best time was over, at the end of the round, FC Germania finished in 7th place. Since Kitter had to move to Munich for professional reasons, he had qualified as a state-certified machine technician, he joined the amateurs of FC Bayern Munich in the Landesliga Süd in 1971/72 . After only one round with the Bayern amateurs, Kitter withdrew from the competition at the age of 29 and only played football for professional compensation in the AH team from Waldeck Obermenzing for the next few years.

Selection team

Walter Kitter completed a total of 26 games in the Baden amateur selection. He had his first appearance in the regional cup competition on September 26, 1965 in Düren against the selection team of the Mittelrhein Football Association. With a 3-0 win against North Württemberg, North Baden reached the semi-finals in Pforzheim on February 19, 1966. On May 19, 1966 in Hanover against the selection team of the Lower Saxony Football Association (1: 6 defeat), Kitter and his teammates from Germania Forst - Luft, Riffel and the Firnkes brothers - could not play for North Baden because of the promotion games to the Regionalliga Süd. In its second regional cup competition, 1966/67, North Baden, which was supervised by association trainer Herbert Widmayer, started with successes against the select teams of the Württemberg Football Association ( Horst Blankenburg , Walter Birkhold , Rainer Eisenhardt ), Bremen Football Association and in the semi-finals on April 9, 1967 against the selection team of the Football and Athletics Association Westphalia ( Erhard Ahmann , Dieter Mietz , Friedhelm Schulte , Dieter Zorc ) to a successful run that led the Baden selection to the final. That took place on May 15, 1967 in Viernheim against the selection team of the Hessian Football Association in front of 6,000 spectators. The future 74 World Champion Bernd Hölzenbein was at the beginning of his great career with Hessen . In the 77th minute, Walter Kitter decided the final for North Baden with a converted free kick to make it 2-1. With the two outside runners Rudi Dielmann (FV Weinheim) and Horst Kunzmann (FC Birkenfeld) he formed the row of runners carrying the game.

Kitter and Maaß (1967)

After his club change to VfR Pforzheim in the 1967/68 round, he was accepted into the amateur national team after a sighting course in Frankfurt - where Forster captain Adolf Luft was also there. On September 20, 1967, Kitter made his debut in Regensburg in a 0-0 win against Austria in the DFB amateur team. Klaus Schmidt from SV Alsenborn came on for Kitter in the second half . The game in Regensburg served DFB coach Udo Lattek as the final test before the two Olympic qualifying games on October 25 in Augsburg (0: 2), and on November 8 in Hendon (1: 0) against Great Britain. In both qualifying games, the Pforzheim club teammate Günther Maaß was used in contrast to Kitter. Despite the lost Olympic dream in Mexico in 1968, the DFB carried out a three-week trip to Asia with the amateur national team at the end of 1967 and the beginning of 1968. Kitter came in the internationals against Burma (0-0), Thailand (1-0), Malaysia (3-1), Philippines (4-0) and on January 17 in Tokyo against Japan (1-0) in the final International match of the Asia trip to further international appointments. With his seventh DFB appearance on May 1, 1968 in Belluno against Italy (0-0), his career in the amateur national team ended.

In the ranks of the North Baden amateur selection, however, he continued to represent an indispensable size. After successes over the selection teams of the soccer associations Rhineland , Middle Rhine ( Helmut Bergfelder , Paul Alger , Werner Thelen ) and in the semifinals with a 4-1 in Pforzheim over the Saarland with their former Bundesliga players Walter Gawletta and Erich Leist , he was on June 29, 1969 in Hamburg-Harburg for the second time with North Baden in a final for the regional cup. Host Hamburg was led by players like Rolf Höfert , Bernd Lorenz and Horst Wohlers . The Widmayer team prevailed with two goals from the KSC amateur center forward Hans Ripp in the opening minutes and won the national cup for the second time in the showcase of the Schöneck sports school with a 2-1 win . Kitter had formed the almost impermeable defense together with goalkeeper Wilfried Tepe , the defenders Luft and Rückert and the outside runners Dielmann and Rosner. The career of the later FC Bayern attacker Edgar Schneider began in the storm, who earned his first spurs at VfR Pforzheim alongside Walter Kitter and was to make his debut in the amateur national team in September 1969.

Herbert Widmayer, the coach of the North Baden team, led the team on a long leash and built a personal relationship with each player, thereby ensuring that all players on the pitch gave their all.

Kitter just failed to win the third title in 1969/70 with Nordbaden in the regional cup. After successes against Saarland, Rhineland and in the semifinals in June 1970 against Bremen (5: 0, 2: 2), the final did not take place until October 6, 1970 against the national team of the Bavarian Football Association in Karlsruhe for scheduling reasons . With players like Heiner Schuhmann , Walter Sohnle , Horst Pohl , Manfred Großesler , Günter Helgert , Herbert Horn and Roland Stegmayer, the guests prevailed 2-0 in the Wildpark Stadium and prevented the North Baden cup from being defended. Even the new Kitter players like Peter Diringer , Günter Sebert , Herbert Layh and Gerd Störzer could not prevent the host's defeat.

With the 1: 2 defeat on December 6, 1970 in Mannheim against the Saarland, the missions of Kitter in the regional cup with North Baden ended.

literature

• German Football Association (Ed.): Football Yearbook 1980 . Limpert Verlag, Bad Homburg vdH 1980, ISBN 3-7853-1304-7 .
• Karl-Heinz Heimann, Karl-Heinz Jens: Kicker-Almanach 1989 . Copress-Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7679-0245-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl-Heinz Heimann, Karl-Heinz Jens: Kicker Almanach 1989. P. 120/121.
2. ^ Karl-Heinz Heimann, Karl-Heinz Jens: Kicker Almanach 1989. P. 219.
3. ↑ Karl-Heinz Huba (Ed.): Jahrbuch des Fußballs 1966/67. Copress publishing house. Munich 1967. p. 311
4. ^ Gerhard Zeilinger (football archive Mannheim): Mannheim, the somewhat different Bundesliga city, 1970 to 1997. Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung Heidelberg 1997. ISBN 3-929295-29-6 . P. 18