Werner Schulz (soccer player)

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Werner Schulz (born June 22, 1913 in Swakopmund , German South West Africa , today Namibia , † May 3, 1947 ) was a German football player and coach. With the “blues” from the green-white-green SV Arminia Hannover , he was runner-up in North Germany in 1933 and took part in the final round of the German soccer championship . As an outside runner and defender, he completed four international matches for the German national soccer team between 1935 and 1938 .

Football career

In the club

Born in what was then German South West Africa , Schulz came to Northern Germany and, according to Tauber, played there for Arminia Hannover from 1924 to 1947 . Later he was temporarily a war guest player at LSV Berlin . After the war he was back in Hanover and trained Arminia in the 1946/47 season. Under the English coach William Townley , Schulz, like his brother Robert , Willi Fricke and Eduard Wolpers, belonged to the team of the North German runner-up in 1932/33, which surprisingly came out 2-1 in the final round of the German championship on May 7th after extra time at Dresden SC with its top performers Georg Köhler , Rudolf Berthold , August Sackenheim and Richard Hofmann was able to prevail. In the quarter-finals, Schulz and colleagues lost 3-0 against eventual German champions Fortuna Düsseldorf in front of 20,000 spectators in the Hindenburg arena on May 21 .

In the Gauliga Lower Saxony Schulz reached the runner-up with Arminia in the rounds of 1933/34 and 1936/37 . The entry into the finals for the German football championship was no longer successful after 1933.

There are contradicting statements about his further life.

Selection teams and national team

As a left wing runner and right defender, he completed four international matches for the German national soccer team between 1935 and 1938 , but without being able to fight for a regular place. In mid-April 1934 Schulz first took part in a national team course in Duisburg-Wedau. During the international match against Denmark on October 7, 1934 in Copenhagen, he was a substitute on the bench. Under Reich coach Otto Nerz he made his debut on April 28, 1935 at the international match in Brussels against Belgium in the German national team. In the 6: 1 success he formed the runner row with Rudolf Gramlich and Ludwig Goldbrunner . With the man from Hanover, Andreas Munkert , August Lenz and Ludwig Damminger also made their debut in the DFB-Elf that day. Four months later, on August 18, his second appointment followed: Germany beat Finland 6-0 in Munich. Nerz had bet on the same runner row as in Brussels. Eight days later, Albin Kitzinger from Schweinfurt made his debut in the national team as the left wing runner and was to be the regular holder of his undisputed international class for years.

Schulz also played representative for northern Germany and Lower Saxony .

With the regional selection of Lower Saxony, Werner Schulz reached the final in the soccer tournament during the 1938 Gymnastics and Sports Festival in Breslau. He lost alongside players such as goalkeeper July 30, Heinz Flotho , Heinz Ditgens , Ludwig Pöhler and Matthias Heidemann against the selection of Gauliga Ostmark with their offensive Assen as Karl Zischek , Wilhelm Hahnemann , Josef Stroh , Leopold Neumer and Hans Pesser with 1: 4.

Trivia

Different sources say that Werner Schulz ended his playing career in 1950 and then worked as a coach. 1967 was also given as the year of death. The kicker had listed him in its birthday column in 1953. The player Schulz with an unknown first name, who played for Arminia in the Oberliga Nord between 1948 and 1950 (3 appearances), may alternatively have been the former Gauliga player Hans-Otto Schulz . Werner's brother, Robert Schulz , also an Arminia player, died in 1940.

The research by Tauber about the city archive and registry office Hanover as well as an article from the newspaper "Hannoversche Latest Nachrichten" from May 7th 1947 meanwhile clearly prove the date of death of May 3rd 1947 in Hanover.

literature

  • Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 355 f .
  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 442 f .
  • Fritz Tauber: German national soccer player. Player statistics from A to Z. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-397-4 . P. 116.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b life data according to Dr. Horatschek, For Germany on the ball ( Memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Photo in Football Week No. 4 of January 28, 1941, p. 6.
  3. ↑ Hannoversche Latest News , August 1946: “Football-Oberliga presents itself” (meaning the Oberliga Niedersachsen-Süd). Exact publication date unknown, the article was cut out and pasted into an album.
  4. ^ Klaus Querengässer: The German Football Championship, Part 1: 1903-1945. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 1997. ISBN 3-89609-106-9 . P. 109
  5. ↑ IFFHS: LIBERO Special German. No. D 17. Wiesbaden 1998. pp. 50-59
  6. ↑ Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Spiellexikon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 355 .
  7. ↑ Der Kicker , September 24, 1940, p. 13.
  8. ^ Fritz Tauber: German national soccer players. Player statistics from A to Z. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-397-4 . P. 116
personal data
SURNAME Schulz, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Swakopmund , German South West Africa (today: Namibia )
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1947