Wilhelm Langer

Wilhelm Langer (born January 23, 1880 in Schloßau , † February 15, 1970 in Karlsruhe ) was a German football player .

Career

societies

Wilhelm Langer (standing, 2nd from left) and teammate of the Karlsruher FV in a photo from 1899

With a height of 190 cm, Langer was predestined as a goalkeeper and made his debut in 1896 in a 5-1 victory over Baden-Badener FC in the first team of the Karlsruhe FV , to which he belonged until 1908. With the team he first reached the four finals for the South German Championship, which were won on April 6, 1902 in Hanau and on December 7, 1902 in Darmstadt against the 1st Hanau Football Club 1893 with 4-0 and 5-2 , as well as the 5-0 win against FC Germania Frankfurt on March 27, 1904 . The final game scheduled on March 26, 1905 against the 1. Hanau Football Club 1893 was canceled; Since the Hanau team only played with two players, the referee declared Karlsruhe FV 5-0 the winner. With his team he also reached the quarter-finals of the final round of the German championship at BTuFC Britannia 1892 , which were lost on April 24, 1904 with 1: 6 , as well as the final of the German championship in Weidenpescher Park on June 11, 1905 in Cologne - as a field player , because Willem Christiaan Schierbeek guarded the gate. But against the BTuFC Union 92 , the master of the Association of Berliner Ballspielvereine , his club lost 2-0.

Selection team

Langer also played two of the seven "great international matches" in 1899 . He belonged to the selection that lost on November 24th on the athletic sports field in Charlottenburg with 2:10 and on November 28th on the Karlsruhe parade ground with 0: 7 each against an English team.

successes

• Second in the German championship in 1905
• South German master 1902 , 1903 , 1904 , 1905

Award

In 1921 he was made an honorary member of the KFV and also received the DFB's letter of honor .

Others

As a goalkeeper, running out and defending his feet were his strengths; But it was not only versatile on the field. In 1905 he played a key role in the expansion of the sports field at the (later) telegraph barracks . As a rower, he received one of the first German sports badges in gold in 1913 and was also active in tennis , skiing and athletics . He was seriously wounded in World War I and carried a Russian infantry bullet in his body. At the age of 54 he married in Karlsruhe and from 1936 to 1945 he was a qualified engineer on the board of the Reichsbahnsportverein Karlsruhe and professionally known as Reichsbahnrat.

Web links

• Wilhelm Langer in the database of weltfussball.de
• Wilhelm Langer on the homepage of the Karlsruher Fußballverein e. V., accessed on August 4, 2019

literature

• Karlsruher Fußballverein eV (Ed., 2016), A Piece of German Football History - 125 Years of the Karlsruher Fußballverein eV, Karlsruhe, 2016.