Willi Pennig

Willi Pennig (born December 28, 1908 in Mannheim , † after 1948 ) was a German football player .

Player career

Pennig belonged to SV Waldhof Mannheim from 1927 to 1943, for which he initially played point games in the championships held by the South German Football Association in the regional top division, the Rhein / Saar district league . As the winner of the Rhein group, he and his team took part in the final round of the southern German championship , which they finished seventh out of eight participating teams. His team was able to repeat this success at the end of the season 1929/30 , 1930/31 , 1931/32 and 1932/33 , the best placement in the respective participations in the finals for the South German Championship was fourth place in 1930/31 .

From 1933 to 1945 he played in the Gauliga Baden , in one of 16, later to 23 Gauligen at the time of National Socialism as the uniform top division in the German Reich , point games, the seasons 1939/40 and 1941/42 in the North Baden group .

During his club membership he won the North Baden Gaume Championship twice and the Baden Gaume Championship five times. Due to the success he took with his team in the respective finals of the German championship . In 1935/36 the championship was held in four groups of four teams each, of which the group winners played the two semi-finals. He played all six games in Group D and made his debut on April 5, 1936 in a 2-0 victory over Cologne CfR in the first group game. In third place, he and his team were eliminated from the competition. This constellation also arose in 1936/37 with the difference that he scored a goal in the six group games; In the 1: 4 defeat on April 4, 1937 against 1. FC Nürnberg in the first group game, he scored the only one of his team with the goal to 1: 3 in the 56th minute. He played his last final round game on May 12, 1940 in the 0-1 defeat by the Stuttgarter Kickers in the first group game. SV Waldhof Mannheim moved into the semi-finals as group winners, which were lost 3-1 at FC Schalke 04 on July 14, 1940 , as well as the replay for 3rd place with 2-5 against SK Rapid Wien on July 28th, after the first encounter a week earlier with 4: 4 after extra time did not produce a winner.

In the 1935 newly created cup competition for club teams for the Tschammerpokal , he was used from 1935 to 1939 in uninterrupted succession in a total of 22 games in which he scored three goals. He played his last three cup games with the first and second round and the round of 16 in 1941 .

He crowned his debut on September 1, 1935 in a 6-1 first-round victory over Eintracht Bad Kreuznach with his first two goals to 2-1 in the 22nd and 4-1 in the 52nd minute. He played three more games before he and his team overtook him and his team in the semi-finals in the 0-1 defeat against eventual cup winners 1. FC Nürnberg . In 1936 , after four games he played, he was eliminated in the quarter-finals , in 1937 in the semi-finals , and in 1938 in the quarter-finals . In 1939 he played six of eight games, including one of two necessary replay games in the semi-finals and the final. The final held on April 28, 1940 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium ended with a 2-0 defeat against 1. FC Nürnberg.

successes

• Tschammer Cup finalist 1939
• Gaumeister Baden 1934 , 1936 , 1937 , 1940 , 1942
• Gaumeister Nordbaden 1940 , 1942

Coaching career

After the end of the Second World War , he coached SV Waldhof Mannheim from February to May 1948 in the Oberliga Süd , one of first three, later to five seasons of the highest German division.

Web links

• Willi Pennig in the database of weltfussball.de