Walter Schleger

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Walter Schleger (born September 19, 1929 in Prague ; † December 3, 1999 ) was an Austrian football player and university professor for animal breeding, genetics and cynology at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna.

Soccer player

Walter Schleger's greatest success as a football player was his participation in the 1954 World Cup with the Austrian national team, and in 1955 he was called up for the European team. He was considered a tricky, very fast player in the position of a striker with good sprinting ability and fine technique.

Walter Schleger began playing football in the Prague Sparta youth team before coming to Vienna. The striker played his first games in the championship from 1949 for the Vienna Sports Club . He left Dornbacher quite soon and moved to Vienna Austria in 1951, where he stayed until the end of his career. As a freshly made Austrian, he also made his debut on September 23, 1951 for the Austrian national soccer team in the international match against Germany . After Walter Schleger won the championship with the violets for the first time in 1953, he took part in the 1954 soccer world championship in Switzerland with the national team.

Walter Schleger was used in the first game of the World Cup, in the 1-0 victory over Scotland, but had to make room for his club colleague Ernst Stojaspal and Turl Wagner in the storm in the following games together with Robert Dienst . The Austrian team reached the semi-finals, in which Walter Schleger was allowed to play. He did this as a defender, however, because the trained striker Helmut Rahn was supposed to stop. Austria lost to Germany, but beat the reigning world champion Uruguay in the small final for third place .

In 1958 Walter Schlegler took part again with the national team in a world championship . In Sweden, however, the Austrians failed in the group stage, with Brazil , England and the Soviet Union having drawn a particularly difficult lot. At the end of his football career, Walter Schleger won three championship titles with Austria en suite (1961, 1962, 1963) and was able to celebrate just as many successes in the cup.

Stations as a footballer
Sporting successes

see also: Austria at the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland

Veterinarians

After the end of his football career, the veterinarian, who received his doctorate in 1956, turned to animal breeding, genetics and cynology , completed his habilitation in 1973 and finally became one of the leading experts in these fields in 1976 as head of the Institute for Animal Breeding and Genetics at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna . In addition, from 1977 to 1996 he headed the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Immuno- and Cytogenetic Research, which he set up. From 1983 to 1985 he was rector of the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna. He retired as a university professor in 1991.

Main work

  • Investigations into the behavior of the phosphatase reaction in heated cream and in heated milk. Diss. Veterinary University of Applied Sciences Vienna, 1956.
  • Genetic polymorphism in serum and erythrocyte hemolysate in horses. Hab.-writing TiHo Vienna, 1972.
  • Dog Breeding In Theory and Practice: A Genetic Guide to Successful Purebred Dog Breeding. Vienna u. Munich: Jugend und Volk, 1st edition 1986:; 2nd edition with Irene Stur 1990.

Awards

  • 1987 Science Prize of the State of Lower Austria
  • Large gold medal for services to the Republic of Austria
  • Large gold medal of honor of the federal capital Vienna
  • 1987 full member of the natural science class of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Prize of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce
  • Cross of honor for science and culture, first class

literature

  • Gerber, Theophil: Personalities from agriculture and forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine - Biographisches Lexikon, NORA-Verlag Berlin, 4th exp. Ed., 2014, vol. 2, p. 680
  • Sturdy, Irene: In memoriam em. O. Univ.Prof. Walter Schleger. In: Wiener Tierärztliche Monatsschrift, 87, 2000, 57

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Veterinary Medicine in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
personal data
SURNAME Schleger, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player and cynologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1999