Wilhelm Fitz

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Willy Fitz
Personnel
Surname Wilhelm Fitz
birthday March 12, 1918
place of birth Vienna ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death September 25, 1993
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1939-1947 Rapid Vienna
1947-1948 First Vienna
1948-1954 Floridsdorfer AC
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1942 Germany 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Wilhelm "Willy" Fitz (born March 12, 1918 in Vienna ; † September 25, 1993 ) was an Austrian football player . The winger from Rapid Vienna played his only international match for the German national football team on February 1, 1942 in a 1: 2 (0: 0) against Switzerland . The previous season, 1940/41 , he had won the German football championship with Rapid .

career

societies

With the green-whites, Fitz held his regular place on the right wing due to his eminent speed. From 1938 to 1947 he played 93 league games in which he scored 28 goals. He celebrated his first success in the 1939/40 season when he was able to celebrate the championship with Rapid in the Ostmark football sports division . In the games for the German football championship in 1940 , the right winger was used in all nine games and scored two goals. In the semifinals he and his teammates failed with 1: 2 n. V. against Dresdner SC. In the game for 3rd place he prevailed with Rapid in the replay on July 28th with 5: 2 against SV Waldhof. In the games for the Tschammer Cup, too, the competition in the semi-finals was over for Fitz and colleagues after a 3-1 away defeat at Dresdner SC. With the strong defense of Willibald Kress , Karl Miller , Heinz Hempel , Herbert Pohl , Walter Dzur and Helmut Schubert, the later cup winner had the usually dangerous rapid attack by Fitz, Georg Schors , Franz Binder , Hermann Dworacek and Johann Pesser under control.

The final of the German championship 1940/41 between the "Ostmarkmeister" Rapid Wien, one of the most popular clubs in the "Ostmark", and Schalke 04 advanced to become a highlight in German football history. It all worked out: Both teams were known as “workers' clubs”, but were nevertheless known for their technically sophisticated game. There was also a political component: Both teams guaranteed a new edition of the duel "Altreich" against Austria. The approximately 95,000 spectators in the Berlin Olympic Stadium were to see a game on June 22, 1941 that went down in the annals of the history of the final.

At the beginning of the final, Rapid's defense was extremely unsorted, and Schalke was able to take a reassuring 2-0 lead into the break thanks to hits from left winger Heinz Hinz (6th minute) and center forward Hermann Eppenhoff (7th minute). When Hinz even scored the 3-0 in the 57th minute, the game seemed over. After the almost immediate goal from Schors, the defending champion wavered and from then on only one team played: Rapid. Binder scored the equalizer with two goals, Schalke's old warriors ran out of air and nerves were bare. But Rapid's cyclone was not over yet. After a rapid attack by Wilhelm Fitz, the Rapid right winger was brought down by Schalke center runner Otto Tibulski and center forward Binder again converted the penalty to a 4-3 lead. Within minutes, Rapid Vienna had turned a 0-3 deficit into a 4-3 lead. The game was over and Rapid became German champions in 1941.

After the end of World War II, Fitz won his third championship title with Rapid. At the side of fellow players like goalkeeper Walter Zeman , Engelbert Smutny , Ernst Happel , Georg Schors, Robert Körner , Lukas Aurednik and Franz Binder he won the Austrian football championship in 1945/46 . Fitz had scored six goals in 15 championship games for Rapid. Fitz and colleagues celebrated the double because they also won the cup this season .

Via First Vienna FC (1947/48), Fitz then continued his sporting path to Floridsdorfer AC , where he was still on the ball from 1948/49 to 1953/54.

National team

When the German national soccer team played their 190th international match in Vienna on February 1, 1942, Fitz replaced Franz Riegler of Austria Vienna on the right wing. Reich coach Sepp Herberger bet on a Viennese block with Karl Sesta , Willibald Schmaus , Franz Wagner , Johann Mock , Franz Hanreiter , Fitz, Karl Decker and Ludwig Durek , supplemented by the three players Helmut Jahn , Hermann Eppenhoff and Fritz Walter from the "Altreich ". The challenge was to crack the Swiss bolt . The German team was clearly superior, but after 45 minutes it went 0-0 into the dressing room. In the 71st minute, Decker brought the DFB-Elf 1-0 lead after a splendid combination over Mock, Walter, Decker, Eppenhoff and Fitz, but one minute later the Swiss equalized and in the 88th minute the men succeeded goalkeeper Erwin Ballabio , Severino Minelli , Sirio Vernati , Alfred Bickel and Lauro Amadò even scored the 2-1 winner. The course of the game was turned upside down. Despite their vast superiority, the German team lost 1: 2.

Previously, the Rapid winger had already played in the city game on September 14, 1941 in the selection of Vienna against Berlin (5-2). With Karl Decker (Vienna), Franz Binder (Rapid), Georg Schors (Rapid) and Leopold Neumer (Austria), he formed the attack of the victorious Viennese team. Well-known players such as Helmut Jahn , Hans Appel , Wilhelm Sold , Ernst Lehner , Erich Ballendat , Gerhard Graf , Fritz Wilde and Stanislaus Kobierski were in the Berlin selection .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hardy Greens: 100 Years of the German Championship. The history of football in Germany. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2003. ISBN 3-89533-410-3 . P. 250
  2. ↑ Hardy Greens: 100 Years of the German Championship. The history of football in Germany. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2003. ISBN 3-89533-410-3 . Pp. 250/251
  3. ^ Karl-Heinz Heimann, Karl-Heinz Jens: Kicker-Almanach 1989. Copress-Verlag. Munich 1988. ISBN 3-7679-0245-1 . P. 53
  4. ^ Gilbert Bringmann (ed.): Football Almanach 1900–1943. Kassel sports publisher. Kassel 1992. ISBN 3-928562-13-4 . Pp. 64/65

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personal data
SURNAME Fitz, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fitz, Willy (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1993