Willi Völker

This article deals with the football player Willi Völker from Hertha BSC. For the soccer player from VfB Leipzig see Willy Völker .

Willi "Bubi" Völker (born October 13, 1906 in Berlin ; † August 16, 1945 ) was a German football player . As a defender, he won the German soccer championship twice with Hertha BSC in 1930 and 1931 .

career

As a teenager, the Neukölln native belonged to Viktoria 89 Berlin from 1915 to 1924 . In his first season with the Elf vom Stadion an der "Plumpe", as the Stadion am Gesundbrunnen was popularly known, he won the Berlin championship in 1924/25 and only failed in the final round of the German championship in the semifinals with a 0: 1- Defeat after extra time at FSV Frankfurt. In his first final game on May 3, 1925, in a 3-2 win after extra time at VfB Königsberg, he scored a goal as a center forward. In the semifinals against the team from Bornheim , he formed the legendary Hertha runner series with Otto Leuschner and Karl Tewes .

The technically adept, strong dribble and fast-paced outside runner or half-striker was distinguished by his team service and driving qualities and was part of the Hertha BSC team, which made it to the finals of the German championship six times in a row from 1926 to 1931 and won the title in 1930 and 1931. In the victorious finals, he formed the defenders pair with Rudolf Wilhelm . Only in 1927 did he not play in the final due to injury. Overall, the professionally active businessman from 1925 to 1935 in the statistics with 30 final round games with eight goals for the German championship.

The outside runner also played on October 20, 1929 in Hamburg-Altona in the international match of the German national team against Finland. The DFB-Elf made this game 4-0 victorious. In addition to Völker, the players Wilhelm Blunk , Hermann Flick , Karl Schulz , Fritz Szepan and August Sackenheim also made their debut . He was not granted any further appearances in the national team. With the association selection Brandenburg he had won the final of the federal cup against Northern Germany on April 28, 1929 with 4-1 goals. His Hertha team- mates Paul Gehlhaar , Ernst Müller , Hans Ruch , Johannes Sobeck and Bruno Lehmann were also in action for Brandenburg .

From 1935 to 1942 his career as a footballer at SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin ended . "Bubi" Völker died in 1945 in a hospital.

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 .
• Michael Jahn: “We're just not going home.” The story of Hertha BSC Berlin. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2006. ISBN 978-3-89533-535-8 .