Wilhelm Blunk

Wilhelm Friedrich "Fiete" Blunk (* December 12, 1902 , † October 25, 1975 ) was a German football goalkeeper . With the Hamburger SV he won in 1928 the German Cup , with North Germany in 1930 the Federal Cup . In the national soccer team he came to an international match in 1929.

career

Blunk started his career at Gut-Heil Neumünster at the age of six . He was very talented in sport, initially doing gymnastics and athletics before he finally became a footballer. At VfR Neumünster , the goalkeeper was discovered in 1925 by Hamburger SV in the Schleswig-Holstein district league and then he was built up as the successor to the "goalkeeper legend" Hans Martens . In his first season, 1925/26, he celebrated successes with HSV. First he won the Hamburg championship in the playoff against Altona 93 , as runner-up in northern Germany he and his teammates reached the final round of the German championship. In the semi-finals, HSV lost the game against Hertha BSC with 2: 4 goals. His strengths were clearly in the control of the penalty area.

The trained fitter was considered a calm, matter-of-fact goalkeeper. His great Hamburg goalkeeper rival was Hans Wentorf von Altona 93 in the 1920s. In the national team, Heiner Stuhlfauth from 1. FC Nürnberg , Willibald Kreß (RW Frankfurt) and Hans Jakob von Jahn Regensburg were outstanding competitors. He won his first championship in northern Germany with HSV in the 1927/28 season, the fifth championship title in the 1932/33 round.

After the first Northern title in 1928, Blunk and his teammates sat in the final round in July of the German championship over Schalke 04 (4: 2), VfB Königsberg (4: 0), in the semifinals in Duisburg with an 8: 2 win against the FC Bayern Munich - Emil Kutterer , Ludwig Goldbrunner , Sigmund Haringer , Josef Pöttinger and Ludwig Hofmann ran through for Bayern - and were in the final against Hertha BSC on July 29 in Altona. In front of 60,000 spectators, Hamburger SV won the German championship with 5-2 goals. The defensive with Blunk, Albert Beier , Walter Risse , Hans Lang , Asbjørn Halvorsen and Otto Carlsson asserted itself against the Hertha attackers around Johannes Sobek , Hans Ruch and Willi Kirsei .

On October 20, 1929 Blunk came to an international match in the game in Altona against Finland. In the 4-0 victory of coach Otto Nerz's team, Schalke's Fritz Szepan also made his debut in the German team. His club mates Albert Beier and Franz Horn were also on duty. In 1931 he was called up again for an international match against France, but was not used. With Northern Germany, the HSV goalkeeper was in the final of the German Cup for the first time in 1929, but lost the final in Berlin with 1: 4 goals against Brandenburg. A year later, on March 9, 1930, they took revenge against the previous year's winner in Altona with a 2-0 victory. In addition to Blunk, Beier, Risse, Otto Sommer , Horn and Hans Rave from HSV were in the victorious northern team.

In the 1932/33 season, the man from Neumünster won the fifth northern championship with the Rothosen, but was eliminated in the final round of the German championship in the round of 16 with a 1: 4 home defeat against Eintracht Frankfurt from the competition. From 1926 to 1933 he had played 16 games in the German finals with Hamburger SV. Between August 16, 1925 and November 16, 1932 he played twelve representative games for Hamburg and between 1926 and 1932 he was in the goal of the North German Association nine times in the games for the national and fighting game cup. From 1925 to 1933 Blank guarded the HSV gate 175 times.

In 1933 the goalkeeper was also “caught” in the radical rejuvenation of HSV. In addition to Blunk, the defenders Albert Beier and Walter Risse and player-coach Asbjorn Halvorsen (coached until September 1933) also hit. Blunk went back to Neumünster and became a coach at his parent club Gut Heil.

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 .
• Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Goals, points, players: the complete HSV statistics . compiled by Jens Reimer Prüß and Hartmut Irle. Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-586-0 (352 pages).
• Andreas Meyer, Volker Stahl, Uwe Wetzner: Football Lexicon Hamburg . Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-477-1 (396 pages).