Walter Vollweiler
Walter "Full" Vollweiler , in France and Walter wool Weiler , (* 12. April 1912 in Ulm , Germany ; † 22. January 1991 in New York , United States of America ) was a German football player who due to the assumption of power by the National Socialists spent most of his career in France and the United States.
Life
Vollweiler was born as the son of a Jewish cattle dealer in Ulm and began his career at the Ulm FV in 1894 , with whom he won the district championship in 1929 and thus rose to the district league. In the promotion season, the 17-year-old center forward scored an astonishing 75 goals. Although Ulm could not assert itself in the district league group Südbayern against competition such as FC Bayern Munich or TSV Schwaben Augsburg and were relegated from bottom of the table, but in 1932 they were promoted again. Vollweiler was the top performer of the team that did much better in the district league in the second attempt. The Ulmer Tagblatt described him as “a player with all the talents, who reminds me of agile and imaginative international players in handling the ball” and whose game is “extremely powerful and powerful”.
These talents did not go unnoticed by the southern German football association , and so Vollweiler was appointed to the southern German team for the first time in October 1932, where he ran up against central Germany in the center of the storm in the federal cup in Leipzig and scored two goals in a 4-2 victory. At the beginning of 1933 the next assignment took place in the association selection, this time against Northern Italy. In the spring of 1933 Vollweiler was invited by the Reich trainer Otto Nerz to the DFB course in Frankfurt . Years later, Vollweiler said that Mink had advised him to flee Germany. In April 1933 Vollweiler - like all the other Jewish members of the association - received a letter from the association in which he was informed of his exclusion.
Vollweiler emigrated to France, where the first season of the newly founded professional league was running, and initially played for the southern French FC Sète , with whom he played the second half of the season. At the end of the season he moved to the Stade Rennais Université Club , where another German player, Walter Kaiser , was active. Vollweiler was able to convince right away and, with 25 hits, was instrumental in ensuring that the Bretons were able to occupy sixth place. For him, this also meant second place on the list of goalscorers , the highlight was a hat trick against Racing Club de Paris with Rudolf Hiden in goal. The following two seasons were not nearly as successful for him, the club ended up in the middle of the table and although the cup final was reached in 1935 , Vollweiler was not in the team that finally lost 3-0 to Olympique Marseille . He played a total of 43 point games for Rennes, in which he scored 39 goals. He was also used several times in the western French national team .
In 1936 he moved to the second division OFC Charleville , who had recently also been in the cup final. In the Ardennes Vollweiler played together with the later world-class coach Helenio Herrera and the future goalkeeper of the French national team , Julien Darui , in a team. After a sixth place was achieved in the first season, they could only secure relegation in 1938 in the relegation round. The 1938/39 season could be ended on a secured midfield place, then Vollweiler left the club.
After his family had emigrated to the United States in 1938, Walter Vollweiler now also emigrated. There he continued his career in the Eastern District Soccer League , an amateur league in New York. His club was the Jewish Prospect Unity Soccer Club , where his brother Kurt was also active as a goalkeeper. In the 1941/42 season, the PUC won the championship, and Vollweiler was the superior top scorer with 39 goals.
However, there was no continuation of his football career because he enlisted in the US Army in 1942. After the Second World War , Vollweiler ran an optical workshop and a specialist glasses store in Miami .
literature
- Walter Vollweiler - a football idol from Ulm in the 1930s (three PDF files, about 1.5 MB) [1] (PDF; 478 kB) [2] (PDF; 526 kB) [3] (PDF; 426 kB)
- Helmut Kuhn: Football in the USA , Edition Temmen, Bremen 1994, ISBN 3-86108-231-4 , pages 82-83
Remarks
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vollweiler, Walter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vollweiler, Volle; Wollweiler, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ulm |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1991 |
| Place of death | New York City |