Walter Warning

Walter Warning (born April 23, 1917 in Rostock ; † January 7, 2002 ) was a German football goalkeeper . From 1935 to 1951 he guarded the gate at Hamburger SV for 16 years in the Gauliga Nordmark and the Football Oberliga Nord .

career

Before and during World War II, 1927 to 1945

Walter Warning's sporting career began at SpVg Polizei Hamburg . He was first successful in athletics and became Hamburg youth champion in the high jump. He was also a handball goal and joined Hamburger SV in 1933. Having just outgrown his youth, he developed into the regular keeper of the “Rothosen” in the 1935/36 round in the Gauliga Nordmark. When Hamburger SV celebrated its first championship in Gauliga Nordmark in 1936/37, the "baseline goalkeeper with great responsiveness" had guarded the goal of the championship team in 26 games. In the group matches for the German championship in 1937 , he and his teammates - Richard Dörfel , Erwin Reinhardt , Eugen Kahl , Friedo Dörfel , Hans Sikorski , Rudolf Noack , Gustav Carstens - won against Beuthen 09 with 12: 0 points and 27: 4 goals , SV Hindenburg Allenstein and BC Hartha . In the semifinals they lost on June 6, 1937 in Berlin with 2: 3 goals against 1. FC Nürnberg . In 1938 and 1939 he won two more Gaume Championships with HSV and also experienced two more failures in the semi-finals in the finals in 1938 (Hannover 96) and 1939 (SK Admira Vienna).

With the regional selection Nordmark he won in 1937/38 after successes against Pomerania, Niederrhein, in the semifinals with 3-0 against Baden - the three international Otto Siffling , Kurt Langenbein and Karl Striebinger played for Baden on the offensive - and in the final on March 6th 1938 in Erfurt with 3: 1 goals against the southwest - Wilhelm Sold , Jakob Eckert , Josef Fath - the competition of the Reichsbund Cup . The HSV player Warning, Richard Dörfel, Reinhardt, Werner Höffmann , Noack and Carstens were here by Otto Liidecke , Hans Rohde , Wilhelm Ahlers and Herbert Panse from Eimsbütteler TV and on the left outer rotor position from the still 1937/38 at SC Victoria Hamburg gambling Erwin Seeler supports.

Due to his stationing in Cologne, he was active as a "guest player" at VfL Cologne in 1899 in 1939/40 . In the further course of the Second World War he was stationed as a member of a telecommunications unit in Mariupol in the Ukraine and only played sporadically for his home club when he was in Hamburg on vacation.

City League Hamburg and Football Oberliga Nord, 1945 to 1951

After the end of the Second World War he belonged to the round 1945/46 - City League Hamburg - until 1949/50 - Football Oberliga Nord -, back to the regular cast of the "Rothosen". When winning the city ​​championship in 1946 with 22: 2 points and 75:11 goals, the constant goalkeeper had played in thirteen games. As runner-up, FC St. Pauli was only one point behind and represented the outstanding sporting competition of the Rothenbaum team in the next few years. In the three-way battle at the top, the Elf from Millerntor prevailed in 1947, just ahead of Concordia , HSV secured the Runner-up. Warning had played 24 games. The “miracle team” from Millerntor refrained from participating in the draw for the British zone championship and so the HSV team, which was finding better and better, played their way with successes over VfB Lübeck, FC Schalke 04 (two games; the replay was won by HSV in Schalke with 2 : 0 goals), in the semifinals against Rot-Weiß Oberhausen in the final on July 13, 1947 in Düsseldorf against Borussia Dortmund. As in the previous games, HSV's defensive team with goalkeeper Warning, defenders Richard Dörfel and Herbert Holdt , as well as the runners with Heinz Werner , Erwin Reinhardt and Erwin Seeler, guaranteed the 1-0 success of coach Hans Tauchert's team . On August 31, 1947, the HSV keeper guarded the goal of the Northwest Germany selection in the game in Hanover against Hanover Garrison XI.

In the two following rounds, 1947/48 and 1948/49, Hamburger SV and St. Pauli were tied at the top of the table. Warning and colleagues prevailed in the respective playoffs for the championship with 2: 1 (1948) and 5: 3 (1949) goals. After successes over SV Hamborn 07, TSV Braunschweig and in the final against permanent competitor St. Pauli, the British zone championship was won again in 1948. In the final round of the German football championship, however, the Warning team could not assert itself against TuS Neuendorf (1948) and VfR Mannheim (1949) and were eliminated in the first round. The reliable veteran in goal had played a total of 44 league games in both rounds. With the new coach Georg Knöpfle , HSV prevailed in the first year of the contract player statute, 1949/50, with 48:12 points against 39:21 of the runner-up St. Pauli and the 33-year-old had Warning again in 27 league games a significant part of it. On October 2, 1949, the performance of the HSV goalkeeper was recognized by his use in the NFV selection in the representative game in Munich against southern Germany. In the final round of the German championship, HSV failed with a 2-3 defeat at Kickers Offenbach . The game on June 4, 1950 in Düsseldorf against the OFC was the last of 28 final rounds by Walter Warning, which he completed from 1937 to 1950 for his club.

Warning, he had ended his active career in the summer of 1950, jumped through an injury to his successor Otto Globisch , in the 1950/51 round in two league games in April 1951 against Werder Bremen and VfB Oldenburg and then finally ended his with 68 league appearances Player career.

After his playing career, Walter Warning was still active as an amateur coach at Wacker Billstedt, VfL Oldesloe, Lüneburger SK and SuS Bergedorf. He retired in Rellingen near Pinneberg and died in January 2002.

literature

• Werner Skrentny, Jens Reimer Prüß : Hamburg sports club. Always first class. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-89533-220-8 .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• Hans Vinke: Football legends. The golden era of Hamburger SV. 1947 to 1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2008, ISBN 978-3-89784-338-7 .
• Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-463-1 .
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): The German League Football 1903–2010, Player Results Tables , Jade 2010.

Web links

Players A – Z (bung bottle) , visited on March 17, 2020