Willi Kund

Willi Kund (born March 11, 1908 , † August 30, 1967 ) was a German national soccer player . The left winger made two international matches for the national soccer team in 1930 and 1931 and scored one goal. With the selection of southern Germany Kund won the federal cup in 1931 and the Reichsbund cup with the Elf von Sachsen in 1936 , before he won the Tschammer cup with the club in 1939 after returning to 1. FC Nürnberg .

career

Kund played for over 10 years for two top clubs of the time, 1. FC Nürnberg and Dresdner SC . He started his career at 1. FC Nürnberg, with whom he won the southern German championship for the first time in the 1928/29 season and only failed in the semi-finals at Hertha BSC (repeat, 2: 3) in the final round of the German soccer championship . After the success in the Gauliga Bayern in 1934 , Kund and Nuremberg prevailed in the final round of the German championship in the group stage against Dresdner SC, Borussia Fulda and Wacker Halle, mastered the hurdle of BFC Viktoria 89 Berlin and 2-1 in the semifinals just failed in the final of the German soccer championship (1: 2 against Schalke 04 ). With Karl Gußner , Max Eiberger , Georg Friedel and Seppl Schmitt , he formed the "Club" attack.

His two international matches for the German national team also fell during this period : in 1930 in Copenhagen he made his debut, like Reinhold Munzenberg and Karl Hohmann, in a 3: 6 defeat against Denmark and scored the 2: 3 goal in the 37th minute. On September 13, 1931, he formed the German attack in Vienna against the “ wonder team ” from Austria with Leonhard Weiss , Josef Hornauer , Ernst Kuzorra and Richard Hofmann . In the 0: 5 defeat Otto Nerz's team had no chance against Hugo Meisl's team .

From 1934 to 1938 he lived in Dresden for professional reasons and played for the local Dresdner SC. With the DSC he won the runner-up in the Gauliga Sachsen in 1934/35 and 1935/36 . In the Tschammer Cup he failed with Dresden in the 1937 semifinals at Fortuna Düsseldorf. As an attacker of the Dresdner SC, Kund won the Reichsbund Cup with Saxony in 1936 . The first final game on March 1, 1936 against the selection of Southwest Germany ended 2-2 after extra time, but the replay on May 24 in Leipzig brought Kund and his attacking colleagues Erwin Helmchen , Erich Hänel and Willi Munkelt a 9-0 success. As defending champion, Saxony also made it into the final in 1937, but in Berlin the representation from the Lower Rhine won 2-1. Munkelt and Kund had again formed the left wing of Saxony.

After his return to Nuremberg in 1938, he won the German Cup with the club in 1939 and again won the championship in the Gauliga Bayern in 1939/40. In his last final round of the German championship, Kund played all six group matches against SV Waldhof Mannheim, Stuttgarter Kickers and Kickers Offenbach in 1940 and finished second with his teammates Karl Gußner, Alfred Pfänder, Seppl Schmitt and Georg Hagen with 6: 6 points . Kund has played a total of 408 games for 1. FC Nürnberg, including 21 games with two goals in the final round of the championship (1929 to 1940).

After the end of the Second World War, he played with 1. FC Nuremberg in 1945/46 in the first season of the soccer Oberliga Süd . In the players' lexicon he is noted with seven games and two goals. In 1946 his career came to an end and he ran a wine bar in downtown Nuremberg. In later years Kund ran a Toto Lotto acceptance point together with Georg Kennemann .

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 .
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
• Christoph Bausenwein , Bernd Siegler, Harald Kaiser: The legend of the club. The history of 1. FC Nürnberg. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2012. ISBN 978-3-89533-907-3 .