Werner Janik

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Werner Janik
Personnel
Surname Werner Richard Janik
birthday April 15, 1920
place of birth Hindenburg O / S ,  Germany
date of death August 7, 2003
Place of death Worms, Germany
size 180 cm
position goal
Juniors
Years station
AKS Królewska Huta / Königshütte
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1934 AKS Królewska Huta / Königshütte
1934-1939 AKS Chorzów / Königshütte
1939-1945 F. V Germania Koenigshütte
1946 AKS Chorzów / Königshütte
1947-1948 Pogoń Katowice
1949-1955 Budowlani (AKS) Chorzów
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1947-1948 Poland 7th
1 Only league games are given.

Werner Richard Janik (born April 15, 1920 in Hindenburg O / S ; † August 7, 2003 in Worms ) was an Upper Silesian football player in the position of goalkeeper . With F. V Germania Königshütte he was three times champion of the Gauliga Oberschlesien , participant in the German soccer championship and the Tschammerpokal , Polish vice-champion, seven-time national player and player of the Silesian selection . After his active career he was a football coach .

biography

He was born as the third son in a German-Upper Silesian family. The father was an official of the miners' union . He had three brothers.

After the division of Upper Silesia, he lived first in Myslowitz and from 1928 in Königshütte , where he attended high school and then learned the profession of dental technician . During this time he started playing football for the local club.

In 1941 he volunteered for the Navy , in which he served until the end of the war . His locations were in Kiel -Wik, Vienna , Sofia , Greece ( Leros ) and Yugoslavia . Meanwhile he continued to play for Germania Königshütte, for whose championship and cup games he was given special leave.

After the end of the war in 1945 he was taken prisoner in northern Germany, from which he returned to Upper Silesia as the only son in early 1946 to help his mother, who was left alone after the invasion of the Red Army after the father was imprisoned for alleged SA membership had been locked up.

After returning home, he continued to play in the same club that had now been Polonized; however, in the following year he changed the club colors. In order to be appointed to the national team, he moved to Pogoń Kattowitz , as the then national coach regularly visited the games of this club and "discovered" him there. In fact, he overlooked neither his talent nor his abilities and called him on August 31, 1947 for his first international match against Czechoslovakia in Prague . Despite the defeat (3: 6), he was chosen as a game hero, as he prevented a much higher defeat. One of his successful international matches was against Czechoslovakia on April 18, 1948 (3-1). After the game, he was carried off the pitch on the shoulders of the audience. During this time he was the only selection player who did not play in the first division.

In December 1948 he married the employee of the Silesian Football Association, Elisabeth b. Kania. Before his wedding, he was forced by the communist authorities to change his first name to Antoni (us), under threat that the marriage would not otherwise be approved.

From 1949 until the end of his active career, he played again for his home club. He then graduated from the Sport University in Krakow the coaching license and trained until his expulsion in addition to his job different Upper Silesian football teams.

In 1955 and 1957 his two sons were born. After the death of his parents, he and his family began to move to the Federal Republic of Germany , where his brothers had lived since the end of the war. From then on, the discrimination he and his family were subjected to by the communist authorities increased. After several years of efforts, the Polish Ministry of the Interior allowed him and his family to leave the country.

On March 27, 1977, he and his family left their Upper Silesian homeland forever and after a short stay in Kaiserslautern, settled in Worms am Rhein. Immediately afterwards he began to work at the University of Mainz in his learned profession as a dental technician. He stayed there until his retirement in 1985.

After a short and serious illness, he died at the age of 83. He was buried in the main cemetery in Worms.

International matches

  • August 31, 1947 Prague Czechoslovakia - Poland 6: 3 (1: 0)
  • September 14, 1947 Stockholm Sweden 5-4 Poland (3-2)
  • September 17, 1947 Helsinki Finland - Poland 1: 4 (1: 1)
  • April 4, 1948 Sofia Bulgaria - Poland 1: 1 (1: 1)
  • April 18, 1948 Warsaw Poland - Czechoslovakia 3: 1 (2: 0)
  • August 25, 1948 Warsaw Poland - Yugoslavia 0: 1 (0: 0)
  • September 19, 1948 Warsaw Poland 2: 6 (1: 3) Hungary

literature

  • Football chronicle, football in Silesia 1900 / 01-1932 / 33, results and tables from the highest leagues of the Southeast German Football Association and the individual associations in the region. wyd. DSfFS e. V.
  • Paul Rother: Chronicle of the city of Königshütte Oberschlesien. Laumann Verlag Dülmen, ( ISBN 3-87466-193-8 )
  • Thomas Urban: Czarny orzeł, biały orzeł: Piłkarze w trybach polityki , 2012, ISBN 978-83-7164-727-7 (Polish)

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personal data
SURNAME Janik, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Janik, Antoni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Polish soccer goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Hindenburg O / S
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 2003
Place of death Worms