Willy Völker

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Willy Völker (born December 20, 1889 in Kahla , † 1972 in Jena ) was a German football player.

Career

societies

Völker was born as the son of a master watchmaker in Kahla, attended secondary school in Gera and later the grammar school in Leipzig . He was an extremely talented gymnast in his youth and only started playing football at the age of 16 at the Gera Ball Game Club . To avoid imminent sanctions for playing football, he joined FC Apelles Plauen from 1908 to 1910 . When he began his philosophy studies in Leipzig, he continued his career in 1910 with one of the top teams in German football at the time, VfB Leipzig . The technically elegant player was immediately a reinforcement for the blue-whites . He had first played as a half- forward before being retrained as a defender after a broken foot .

In the Central German Association ballgame clubs discharged championships he competed in Gau North West Saxons , from the season 1919/20 in the district of North West Saxons point games.

During his association with the team he won eight regional championships, including three Central German championships. Accordingly, he also took part in the respective finals for the German championship. In season 1910/11 he reached for the first time - with previous victories over the Askania Forst (3: 2) and the Karlsruher FV (2: 0) - with Fritz Tscherter , Fritz conveyor , Gottfried Fuchs , Julius Hirsch - the final , the but on June 4, 1911 in Dresden with 1: 3 against BTuFC Viktoria 89 - with players like Curt Hesse and Camillo Ugi - was lost. The reached on May 11, 1913 final was in Munich with 3: 1 against Duisburg SpV won, which reached on May 31, 1914 again in Magdeburg, however, with 2: 3 aet. Against SpVgg Fürth lost. With the injury-related retirement of Paul Michel in the 42nd minute, the Völker team did well and compensated for the opening goal of Fürth Karl Franz in the 17th minute through the goal of Eduard Pendorf in the 87th minute. The subsequent extension only came to an end and a winner when Franz scored 3-2 in the 154th minute.

Selection / national team

As a player of a national team of the Association of Central German ballgame clubs he took 1913/14 competition of regional associations around the Crown Prince Cup part and reached the final after previously selecting teams in the Southeast German Football Association with. 2: 1 aet and the South German football Association also with 2: 1 on November 9, 1913 in the Nuremberg semifinals - despite the occupation with Karl Wegele , Fritz Förderer , Gottfried Fuchs , Julius Hirsch and Paul Forell - could be defeated. The final on February 22, 1914 in Berlin was lost 2-1 against the team of the North German Football Association . With Ernst Rokosch , he formed the defender couple in front of VfB goalkeeper Johannes Schneider .

He played his only international match for the senior national team on April 5, 1914 in Amsterdam, which ended in a 4: 4 draw against the national team of the Netherlands ; It was the last international match played by the DFB for the next six years - due to the four-year First World War .

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Others

Völker received his doctorate as Dr. phil. and lived from 1919 in Jena, where he worked as a teacher, although he played for the Leipzig club until 1924. From 1931 to 1942 he was chairman of the Association for Movement Games Jena (VfB, now USV Jena ). In 1942 he took on a teaching position for mathematics at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena , which he lost in 1945 when he was dismissed from school due to the Nazi party membership in the course of denazification . In the 1950s he was a math lecturer at an engineering school. He died in Jena in 1972.

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SURNAME Folks, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Kahla , Germany
DATE OF DEATH 1972
Place of death Jena , Germany