Walter Rirsch

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Walter Rirsch
Personnel
birthday August 13, 1918
date of death May 4th 1982
position Striker / middle runner
Juniors
Years station
Donaufelder lawn player
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1936-1940 FK Austria Vienna 82 (58)
1940-1941 Donaufelder lawn player
1941 Kremser SC
1941-1946 FK Austria Vienna
1946-1947 Floridsdorfer SK
1947-1948 Floridsdorfer AC
1948-19 ?? SC Donaufeld
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1940s / 1950s SC Donaufeld
1964-1968 SC Donaufeld
1 Only league games are given.

Walter Rirsch (born August 13, 1918 , † April / May 1982 ) was an Austrian football player on the position of a striker and center runner .

Career

From the Donaufelder lawn players to Vienna Austria

Walter Rirsch was born on August 13, 1918; As an 18-year-old he made the leap into the men's team of FK Austria Wien , which he represented from the 1936/37 season . As early as 1935, a water polo player with the family name Rirsch appeared on the second Austria water polo team; possibly Walter Rirsch came to soccer via water polo. Before moving to Austria, he was already active for the Donaufelder lawn players . In the league played by the WFV , which at that time consisted exclusively of Viennese clubs, he reached second place in the table behind (but also tied with) the Viennese Admira in his first season as a professional . In the National League 1937/38 organized by the National League Committee , he started for FK Austria Wien and ended the season for SC Ostmark Wien, after the club was forcibly renamed after the annexation of Austria on April 12, 1938 at the behest of SA-Sturmbannführer Herbert Haldenwang has been. With Ostmark Vienna he finished in third place in the table behind the vice-champion Wiener Sport-Club and champion Rapid Wien . At the meeting on February 28, 1938, the control committee of the Vienna Football Association noted that Rirsch was severely reprimanded by his club; a reason for this is not mentioned in the newspaper article from Football Sunday March 6, 1938. In the trade office football discharged football Gauliga Ostmark 1938/39 the Austria reached the sixth place and a place in mid-table with only 18 league matches. With his strike partner Johann Safarik , Austria provided the second best goal scorer this season. In the Tschammerpokal 1938 , in which the team met in the quarter-finals in the elimination round Ostmark on the Grazer SC , Rirsch succeeded in the 2: 3 defeat of his team in the twelfth minute of the 1-0 lead. During this time, however, Rirsch also belonged to the reserve of Austria.

Goal-threatening center forward at Austria and brief return to Donaufeld

In the football sports division class Ostmark 1939/40 , which was played in 14 league games, Austria only took sixth place in the eight-team league. Also in 1939/40 Rirsch represented the Gauliga Ostmark in the Reichsbund Cup 1939/40 . After a 3-1 win over the Gauliga Sudetenland team in the round of 16 and a 6-1 victory over the Gauliga Schlesien team in the quarter-finals, the team met a selection from Gauliga Bayern in the semi-finals and lost this game 2-0. The attack series of the Ostmark in at least the last game was formed by Karl Zischek - Wilhelm Hahnemann - Ernst Reitermaier - Walter Rirsch - Josef Hronek . Also in the following season 1940/41 Austria was not one of the leading teams in the title race and finished fourth at the end of this season. Already during the current 1940/41 season, Rirsch announced the intention to change either to the Wacker sports club or to his home club, the Donaufelder lawn players . Shortly thereafter, Rirsch moved to his home club, where he played his first competitive game on December 1, 1940.

One year ban after assaulting fellow players

After that, Rirsch was only likely to have been active for the Donaufelder lawn players for a short time, because as early as March 15, 1941, the Kleine Volks-Zeitung reported that Rirsch, who at that time ranked second on the league-wide list of goalscorers behind Franz Binder from SK Rapid Wien, Austria will be unable to play the following games due to injury after suffering a knee injury in the game against Grazer SC. In a report in the Illustrierte Kronen-Zeitung on May 26, 1941, it was stated that Rirsch would soon return to the training of Wiener Austria after his ligament rupture. In August 1941 it suddenly became known that Rirsch would no longer be active in sports in the near future, but in Krems with the local Kremser SC . At the Kremsern he was noticed disciplinary when he issued a two-month suspension shortly after his move after assaulting a teammate. Around three months later, Austria, with Walter Rirsch on the lawn as the reigning autumn champion of a mostly youth team at SC Wacker Wien at Wacker-Platz, was clearly defeated 7-0 in the last game of the autumn round, a supplementary game in the third round. Rirsch was excluded after a gross foul play, as were his teammates Mock and Adamek for criticizing the referee. Another teammate, Leopold Stroh , physically attacked the referee after the match.

Rirsch was subsequently banned for a year, Stroh was banned for nine months and Adamek was banned for four months; Karl Andritz , who also showed unsportsmanlike conduct towards the referee, got off relatively lightly at four weeks and Hans Mock, who was previously considered to be innocent, got away with two weeks. While the majority of the other players apparently had their penalties significantly reduced, Rirsch had to sit out his one-year suspension. Whether he, like some of his colleagues, continued to do his military service during this time and possibly fought with his colleagues Mock and Jerusalem on the Eastern Front , cannot be said with certainty. The season 1941/42 , which was also the first season in the Gauliga Donau-Alpenland , Austria ended in his absence in 4th place. Before and possibly also after his suspension, he may have played a role under Reich trainer Sepp Herberger ; however, Rirsch was never considered for an official international match.

Return after suspension and another knee injury

It was not until December 1942 that Rirsch appeared again in an official Austrian championship game. In the next seasons of 1942/43 and 1943/44 , the center forward and center runner Rirsch, who was one of the top scorers of his team during this time, only came fifth with Austria in the final standings. During the 1943/44 season, Rirsch fell out for some time after injuring his knee again in a game on October 31, 1943. At the end of February 1944, the return of the middle runner from his injury break was announced in the Austrian media; In the encounters before his injury he had shown excellent performance as a so-called cover pilot, which is why he was promised higher tasks. In the following season 1944/45 , in which all divisions gradually broke off their game operations due to the course of the war , Rirsch was still used for Austria. According to media reports, after the end of the war in the summer of 1945, he and his Austria teammate Friedl Joksch moved to Jedlesee for Admira Vienna. At the same time it was also reported that Rirsch had already de-registered with Austria. At the end of August 1945 it was again said that the center forward wanted to return to his home club in Donaufeld, but also that serious negotiations had already taken place with SC Wacker Vienna , but that Rirsch had finally decided to stay with Austria .

Change to Floridsdorfer SK and end of career

In the 1945/46 season he was a strike partner of Ernst Stojaspal , whose great career was just beginning and who was top scorer with 34 goals in 22 games that season. With Austria he finished second in the final standings, one point behind Rapid; in the 1945/46 Cup he was defeated by the Violets in the quarterfinals against Floridsdorfer AC . In the winter break of 1946/47 , Rirsch put an end to his career at Austria and instead moved to the third division Floridsdorfer SK . A goal in the ninth round in a 4-1 home win over WAC on November 3, 1946 was Rirsch's last goal for Austria. After one and a half seasons in the third division, Rirsch forced a change to the Floridsdorfer AC, also from Floridsdorf , with play in Austria's highest football league at the beginning of the Austrian football championship in 1947/48 . Rirsch was entitled to play for the first time in the five-round game against SK Rapid Wien, which subsequently ended in a clear 5-0 defeat for the FAC. At the end of the season he barely missed relegation with Floridsdorfer AC. From a tour of France in the early summer of 1948, Rirsch, who mostly acted as a middle runner, returned with a concussion . Together with three team colleagues from the FAC, he joined his former training association from Donaufeld in the summer of 1948. Soon afterwards he also appeared as the coach of the Donaufelder footballers. He was once again the coach of the Donaufelder from 1964 to 1968.

Little is known about his later life. In April or May 1982 Rirsch, who worked as an employee after his football career , died at the age of 64 and was buried on May 4, 1982 at the Stammersdorfer Zentralfriedhof (group M, row 9, number 12) in the Stammersdorf district of Floridsdorf .

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Footnotes & individual references

  1. ↑ according to the list of players of FK Austria Wien ; possibly including assignments in the competitions during the war; presumably combined operations from 1936 to 1946
  2. ↑ Article  in:  Sport-Tagblatt , October 14, 1935, p. 7 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wst
  3. ↑ a b Leaving Rirsch Austria ?. In:  Kleine Volks-Zeitung , November 12, 1940, p. 14 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / kvz
  4. ^ Notices from the Austrian Football Association and its sub-associations - Vienna Football Association. In:  Fußball-Sonntag , March 6, 1938, p. 14 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / fus
  5. ↑ Bernhard Hachleitner : A soccer club from Vienna: The FK Austria in National Socialism 1938-1945 . Böhlau Verlag , Vienna , Cologne , Weimar 2018, ISBN 978-3-205-20781-8 , pp. 117 .
  6. ↑ Small sports news. In:  Illustrierte Kronen-Zeitung , December 3, 1940, p. 10 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / short
  7. ↑ Alt-Turm became a master. In:  Kleine Volks-Zeitung , March 15, 1941, p. 8 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / kvz
  8. ↑ Small sports news. In:  Kleine Volks-Zeitung , May 26, 1941, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / short
  9. ↑ Small sports news. In:  Illustrierte Kronen-Zeitung , August 11, 1941, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / short
  10. ^ Ordinance sheet . NS-Reichsbund for physical exercises, sports area 17, Ostmark. Volume 4, episode 12-6 . 1941, p. 55 .
  11. ↑ a b c d e Bernhard Hachleitner : A soccer club from Vienna: The FK Austria in National Socialism 1938-1945 . Böhlau Verlag , Vienna , Cologne , Weimar 2018, ISBN 978-3-205-20781-8 , pp. 140 .
  12. ↑ Sport in a nutshell - criminal court over Austria. In:  Neues Wiener Tagblatt , December 3, 1941, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwg
  13. ↑ Bernhard Hachleitner : A soccer club from Vienna: The FK Austria in National Socialism 1938-1945 . Böhlau Verlag , Vienna , Cologne , Weimar 2018, ISBN 978-3-205-20781-8 , pp. 141 .
  14. ↑ Bernhard Hachleitner : A soccer club from Vienna: The FK Austria in National Socialism 1938-1945 . Böhlau Verlag , Vienna , Cologne , Weimar 2018, ISBN 978-3-205-20781-8 , pp. 184 .
  15. ↑ Small sports news. In:  Das kleine Volksblatt , November 5, 1943, p. 6 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dkv
  16. ↑ Rirsch is back. In:  Kleine Volks-Zeitung , February 24, 1944, p. 6 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / kvz
  17. ↑ Sport mirror of the Upper Austrian News - Players crossings in Vienna. In:  Oberösterreichische Nachrichten , August 7, 1945, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / oon
  18. ↑ Small sports news. In:  Das kleine Volksblatt , August 14, 1945, p. 7 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dkv
  19. ↑ Sports news. In:  Neues Österreich , August 26, 1945, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nos
  20. ↑ FAC won in Baden. In:  Welt am Abend , September 24, 1947, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / waa
  21. ↑ Sport-Weltpresse - Successful France trip of the FAC .. In:  Weltpresse , June 18, 1948, p. 10 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dwp
  22. ↑ Sports world press - Donaufeld reorganized. In:  Weltpresse , August 26, 1948, p. 13 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dwp
  23. ↑ a b Excerpts from the history of the SR Donaufeld on a fan page , accessed on October 27, 2019
  24. ↑ Walter Rirsch's grave on the official website of the Vienna Cemeteries , accessed on October 27, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Rirsch, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1918
DATE OF DEATH May 4th 1982