Willi Großle

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Willi Großerle (born June 30, 1904 in Mannheim ; † December 20, 1976 ibid) was a German football player who was mostly active as a left wing runner at the Mannheim district club VfL Neckarau from 1933 to 1945 in the Gauliga Baden and for the team from the sports field has completed 95 league games at the Altriper ferry. In addition to three games in the southern German selection, the "outside runner with a horse lung" played eleven games in the Baden region from 1933 to 1936.

Athletic career

Sandhofen, until 1930

Willi Großerle, born in the north of Mannheim in the Sandhofen district, made his first attempts at kicking at SpVgg Sandhofen after the First World War and, at the age of 19, joined the first team, which was then playing in the second-class Odenwald district league. In the 1925/26 season, Großerle won the championship with Sandhofen in the district league in the Odenwald district before FV 09 Weinheim, but failed in the promotion round to the district league at FV Speyer, MFC Phoenix Mannheim and VfR Kaiserslautern. On the Association Day of the South German Football Association on 23./24. In July 1926 in Würzburg, however, it was decided to increase the district leagues to ten clubs and in the qualification that followed in August, Sandhofen prevailed against FK Pirmasens, VfR Kaiserslautern and MFC 08 Lindenhof and thus rose to the Rheinbezirksliga for the 1926/27 season . The strong running and fighting outside runner played four rounds with the black and whites from Sandhofen in the Rheinbezirksliga and achieved fourth place in 1928/29. During this time, Großerle's achievements had already led him to work in the Mannheim city selection. For the 1930/31 season he joined VfL Neckarau.

Neckarau, 1930 to 1945

In his first round with Neckarau, he finished third with the blue-whites in 1930/31 behind SV Waldhof and Phönix Ludwigshafen. He convinced VfL in the round matches and was therefore also in the Mannheim city selection on December 26, 1930, which played an international friendly match against Vienna Wien and lost 3: 6, where he played left wing runner alongside Kurt Langenbein and Oskar Rohr . He also belonged to the Baden selection on March 29, 1931 in the Mannheim stadium, which won a game against the selection of Alsace 6-1. The round ended with the Rheinbezirksbegegnung Gruppe Rhein against Gruppe Saar on June 28, 1931 in Pirmasens, where the Saar selection prevailed 3-2 and Großerle was again used as an outside runner for the Rhine selection. In his second season in Neckarau, 1931/32, Großerle and his comrades reached the runner-up, two points behind master SV Waldhof. After the preliminary round, Waldhof and Neckarau had topped the table with 15: 3 points each. When VfL beat VfR Mannheim 6: 3 on November 29, 1931, Großerle ran as usual as the left wing runner on the side of center runner Eugen Lauer in front of goalkeeper Otto Diringer. As the runner-up in the Rhine district, Großerle and Neckarau took part in the group games for the South German Championship in the Northwest Group and Neckarau came fourth after 14 games. During this season, the strong runner was again called up to several games of the Mannheim city team - for example on January 10, 1932 against Budapest (2: 3) and on May 15, 1932 against FC Birmingham as Otto Siffling in front of 12,000 spectators 2-1 success - but also to two games in the South German selection: On May 22nd, South Germany won 5-3 in Düsseldorf against West Germany, the second leg on May 28, 1932 in Karlsruhe, the South won 2-1. In the last year of the old league system, 1932/33, Neckarau landed in 3rd place with players like goalkeeper Diringer, Meister, Brose, Siegel, Möhler, Großesle, Zeilfelder, Hambsch, Lauer, Strichl and Schmitt. In addition, Großle took part in several selection games of the city selection of Mannheim, the selection of the Rhine-Saar district and the South German selection. When southern Germany defeated a B-Eleven from France 10-0 in Mannheim on December 4, 1932, Großle formed the runner-up with Rudolf Gramlich and Heinrich Hergert and Otto Siffling and Seppl Fath stormed in the attack .

From the 1933/34 season, the new league structure started with the Gauliga as the top and then the district classes, 1st and 2nd district class in DFB football. The Gauliga Baden started with 10 clubs; For the first time, the best clubs from all over Baden played in a common division. SV Waldhof, VfR Mannheim and VfL Neckarau came from the Rhein / Saar district league, Rhein group, 1. FC Pforzheim, FC Germania Brötzingen, the Karlsruhe clubs FC Phönix-Alemannia, VfB Mühlburg and Karlsruher FV as well as the two Freiburgers Clubs FC and SC had previously belonged to the Württemberg / Baden regional league, Baden group. On September 10, 1933, Großesle was a member of the VfL Neckarau team with which the blue-whites opened the Gauliga Baden chapter. He lost with Neckarau at the side of players like Otto Diringer, Karl Gönner, Hubert Schmitt, Eugen Lauer, Jakob Zeilfelder , Gottfried Wenzelburger and Siegfried Hessenauer with 1: 2 at Karlsruhe FV. The two goals for hosts KFV scored their center forward Fritz Müller . After the first half of the season, after two wins and four draws, VfL finished in 7th place with eight points, which it also held at the end of the round with 17:19 points. Großle appeared in all 18 association games, as did Otto Diringer and Eugen Lauer. Hessenauer and Schmitt were each missing in just one game and VfL legend Jakob Zeilfelder ended his impressive career with 14 Gauliga appearances and six goals.

In the second Gauliga season, 1934/35, Neckarau improved with 23:13 points to 3rd place and top performers Großerle had again completed all 18 league games. The fact that Gottfried Wenzelburger was able to score 17 goals contributed significantly to the good round success. In the last round of the association before World War II, 1938/39, the 34-year-old Großerle was an indispensable regular player for VfL for the last time.

In the next few years he only helped out sporadically. In the second round of the war, 1940/41, VfL Neckarau celebrated with goalkeeper Otto Diringer and field players such as Karl Gönner , Georg Lutz, Hermann Klostermann, Theo Wahl, Richard Wahl, Gottfried Sälzler , Hermann Veitengruber, Richard Mannale, Kurt Gärtner, Oskar Benner, Gottfried Wenzelburger, Oskar Wilhelm and goalscorer Willi Preschle won the championship ahead of VfB Mühlburg, SV Waldhof and the teams VfR Mannheim and Freiburg FC with equal points. Großerle had not played in any league games in the association round, but in the final round of the German football championship he faced again in three group games against the Stuttgarter Kickers (0: 2), Munich 1860 (2: 1, 1 goal) and Rapid Vienna (1: 8) available to his club. After a two-year break in the association's league game, the 40-year-old senior finally ended his playing career on December 17, 1944, a 3-0 home defeat against VfR Mannheim.

Private

Willi Großerle, who had learned the locksmith's trade and after the war was the owner of a tobacco shop in Neckarau on Angelstrasse, as a retiree devoted himself intensively to gardening around his house in Sandhofen-Scharhof, which he and his wife and two children up to his death on December 20, 1976.

literature

  • Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933–1945. Publishing house regional culture. Ubstadt-Weiher 2016. ISBN 978-3-89735-879-9 . Pp. 388/389.
  • Gerhard Zeilinger: The football stronghold Mannheim from 1920 to 1945. Odenwälder printing works. Buchen-Walldürn 1994. ISBN 3-929295-05-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. CD-ROM supplement in: Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933–1945. Publishing house regional culture. Ubstadt-Weiher 2016. ISBN 978-3-89735-879-9 .
  2. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. P. 330
  3. ↑ Gerhard Zeilinger: The football stronghold Mannheim 1920 to 1945. P. 66/67
  4. ^ Gerhard Zeilinger: The football stronghold Mannheim 1920 to 1945. P. 71/72
  5. ^ Gerhard Zeilinger: The football stronghold Mannheim 1920 to 1945. S. 115
  6. ^ Gerhard Zeilinger: The football stronghold Mannheim 1920 to 1945. S. 117/118
  7. ^ Gerhard Zeilinger: The football stronghold Mannheim 1920 to 1945. P. 122/123
  8. ↑ Gerhard Zeilinger: The football stronghold Mannheim 1920 to 1945. P. 124
  9. ↑ Gerhard Zeilinger: The football stronghold Mannheim 1920 to 1945. P. 131
personal data
SURNAME Big, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH 20th December 1976
Place of death Mannheim , Baden-Wuerttemberg , Germany