Werner Günther (soccer player, 1919)

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Werner Günther (born December 7, 1919 - † November 2, 2008 ) was a German soccer player . The offensive player, who came from his own youth department, was built into the 1st team of Rot-Weiß Oberhausen in the Gauliga Niederrhein by the Austrian ex-national player and soccer coach Ferdinand Swatosch at the age of 16 . After the end of the Second World War, he and the team from the Niederrhein Stadium were champions of the Niederrhein region in 1946 and 1947, and from 1947 to 1951 he played 93 league games and scored 43 goals in what was then the first-class football Oberliga West . After relegation to the 2nd division West in 1951, the thinker and leader in the red and white offensive in the II. Division had 107 second division appearances with 35 goals for the "clover eleven" before he started his 20-year playing career in the 1st team of RWO finished. He was only called up as a substitute in the national team once - on September 27, 1936 in Krefeld during the international match against Luxembourg - but Günther played over 50 times for the national team of the West German Football Association .

Career

Gauliga Niederrhein

Even in his youth, the above-average offensive talent of the young Werner Günther at Rot-Weiß Oberhausen stood out. The fast and enduring attacker developed under coach Swatosch into one of the greatest individualists who ever played in the cloverleaf storm. After the end of the Gauligarunde 1935/36, Oberhausen finished behind Fortuna Düsseldor and VfL Benrath am Niederrhein with a 0-2 away defeat on the last round match day, April 5, 1936, at TuRu Düsseldorf in the ungrateful 3rd place, the youth player came in the second leg in the "round of the second" (runner-up Benrath had renounced to participate) in the game against 1. FC Pforzheim for his first appearance in the Oberhausen league. In his first regular Gauligarunde, 1936/37, the 3rd place was achieved again. However, the talent experienced the fall of RWO in the district class in the 1937/38 season. Under coach Theodor Lohrmann , the return to the Gauliga Niederrhein succeeded in 1938/39 with players such as Willy Jürissen , Heinz Böhmfeldt, Josef Gipka, Robert Schröder , Willi Overkamp and Hermann Rütter. When the Gauliga returnees in 1939/40 achieved a secure class affiliation with a 5th place and debuted a hopeful winger talent with Werner Stahl , Günther had already become one of the best German inner strikers.

Major players at Werner Günther's side during the Second World War were goalkeepers Willy Jürissen, Willi Ickeltrath , Franz Pyta , Robert Schröder, Paul Scholz , August Groß , Willi Overkamp, ​​Karl Bäcker, Hermann Bäcker, Peter Maaßen , Heinz Otten and Werner Steel.

From March 17 to 21, 1941 in Berlin and from February 8 to 14, 1943 in Frankfurt am Main, he took part in DFB courses under Reich trainer Sepp Herberger and also played in the famous Parisian soldiers' team during the World War . Explicitly in the game on December 6, 1942 in the Paris Prinzenparkstadion in the "Wehrmachtself France" against the local team in Munich, where he was at the side of teammates such as captain Hans Bornemann , goalkeeper Eduard Schaffer , Willi Billmann , Fritz Walter , Albert Sing and Hans Uebelein , Julius Uebelein and club colleague Paul Scholz ran up.

After World War II, 1945 to 1956

The first game after the end of World War II took place on August 19, 1945 in Oberhausen against a combination of Duisburg by DSV and 48/99. In the 4-2 win, Günther stormed again in the attack of the clovers. In the season 1945/46 Oberhausen first won the city championship of Oberhausen in the Gr. 2, then on May 12, 1946 with a 2-0 win against Sterkrade 06/07 the Oberhausen city championship. In front of 22,000 spectators, Günther scored a hit on half-left. In the district championship, Red-White prevailed with 8-0 points ahead of Meidericher SV, VfB Speldorf, VfB Lohberg and VfB Rheingold Emmerich. In the last group game against VfB Lohberg, Günther scored five goals in an 8-0 win, the other three were due to Werner Stahl. Günther won with RWO on September 1, 1946 2-0 against VfL Benrath - with their aces Karl Hohmann , Josef Rasselnberg , Paul Mebus - the final of the Lower Rhine Championship. Fortuna Düsseldorf, Rheydter Spielverein, Sportfreunde Katernberg and SC Rot-Weiß Oberhausen met in May in the final round of the Niederrhein Championship in 1947. The group games ended Düsseldorf and Oberhausen with 5: 1 points each and therefore carried out a playoff for the championship on June 7, 1947 in Hamborn. Günther formed the right wing with steel and scored a hit. In front of 38,000 spectators, the title was defended with a 3: 1 and thus the admission to the new Oberliga West from the season 1947/48 and the entry into the zone championship . There succeeded in the first round (June 22nd in Hamburg) a 3-2 after extra time against Eintracht Braunschweig; Günther scored the winning goal in the 113th minute. In the semifinals he failed with RWO on July 6th in front of 35,000 spectators in Duisburg after a 1: 3 defeat at Hamburger SV, which also won the championship with a 1: 0 against Borussia Dortmund.

From 1947 to 1951 he played in the Oberliga West , founded in 1947 , a total of 93 league games in which he scored 43 goals for his home club RW Oberhausen. Günther takes second place with his 43 goals behind RWO top scorer Karl-Otto Marquardt with 56 goals in the Oberliga West. He made his debut on September 14, 1947 (1st matchday) in a 5-2 win in the away game against STV Horst-Emscher in the Oberliga West. In the attack, RWO took on Stahl, Günther, Groß, Werner Cornelissen and Otten in the Fürstenberg Stadium. In the 13th season, Oberhausen took 5th place and the playmaker had scored eleven goals in 21 league appearances. In the second year Günther and colleagues were able to repeat the 5th place in the table with again eleven goals from the offensive driver, but fell back to 11th place in the third league year, now in a 16-man season. Only on the last round match day, May 7, 1950, could the final league be secured with a 5-3 home win against champions Borussia Dortmund. Günther had scored ten goals in 25 league appearances. The following year, 1950/51, Günther again scored ten goals in 23 league games, but RWO was relegated to the 2nd West League. On August 20, 1950, Günther and RWO in Krefeld won the regional West German Cup with a 3-0 win against Preussen Krefeld in front of 10,000 spectators. He had brought his team 1-0 lead on half left in the 52nd minute.

His personal class is also underlined by his appearances in the selection of West Germany in 1946 and 1948: On June 30, 1946 in Cologne in front of 64,000 spectators lost 3: 4 against South Germany and scored one goal. On April 4, 1948 he formed together with Heinz Dokter , August Gottschalk , Siegfried Rachuba and Paul Winkler in a 3-0 win again in Cologne against northern Germany, on half-right the attack of West Germany.

After relegation to the 2nd League West, the thinker and leader of the RWO offensive was still active until 1956. He scored 35 goals in 107 second division appearances. But it was not until the year after his departure, 1956/57, that Rot-Weiß Oberhausen managed to return to the league under his long-time attacking partner Werner Stahl as player-coach. With the deployment on May 13, 1956, a 1: 1 at TSV Marl-Hüls, Günther said goodbye to the first team of his home club after 20 years. He had given a converted penalty for the 1-0 lead.

Professionally, the RWO idol had been the owner of a sporting goods store in Oberhausen.

successes

  • Niederrheinmeister 1946, 1947
  • West German cup winner 1950

literature

  • Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne: Spiellexikon 1890-1963. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2006. ISBN 978-3-89784-148-2 . P. 121.
  • Peter Seiwert, Manuela Rettweiler: The long way to the Bundesliga. Rot-Weiss Oberhausen Chronicle 1902–1969. Publishing house Karl Maria Laufen. Oberhausen 1999. ISBN 3-87468-161-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Knieriem, Grüner: Spiellexikon 1890–1963. P. 121
  2. ^ German Sports Club for Football Statistics (DSFS): West Chronicle. Football in West Germany 1952 to 1958. KGT new media. Berlin 2012. pp. 21, 63, 107, 149; P. 226 in the volume 1945 to 1952
  3. ↑ Peter Seiwert, Manuela Rettweiler: Rot-Weiss Oberhausen. The long way to the Bundesliga. P. 78
  4. ↑ Peter Seiwert, Manuela Rettweiler: Rot-Weiss Oberhausen. The long way to the Bundesliga. P. 78
  5. ↑ Peter Seiwert, Manuela Rettweiler: Rot-Weiss Oberhausen. The long way to the Bundesliga. P. 80
  6. ↑ Peter Seiwert, Manuela Rettweiler: Rot-Weiss Oberhausen. The long way to the Bundesliga. P. 90
  7. ↑ Markwart Herzog (ed.): Football at the time of National Socialism. W. Kohlhammer. Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-17-020103-3 . P. 108
  8. ^ German Sports Club for Football Statistics (DSFS): West Chronicle. Football in West Germany 1945–1952. KGT new media. Berlin 2011. p. 26
  9. ^ German Sports Club for Football Statistics (DSFS): West Chronicle. Football in West Germany 1945–1952. KGT new media. Berlin 2011. p. 18
  10. ↑ Seiwert, Rettweiler: The long way to the Bundesliga. Pp. 107/108
  11. ^ German Sports Club for Football Statistics (DSFS): West Chronicle. Football in West Germany 1945–1952. KGT new media. Berlin 2011. p. 166
  12. ↑ Seiwert, Rettweiler: The long way to the Bundesliga. P. 129
personal data
SURNAME Günther, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1919
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 2008