Walter Günther | |
Birth Date: | 18 November 1915 |
Death Date: | March 1989 (aged 73) |
Position: | Forward |
Clubs1: | TuS Duisburg 48/99 |
Nationalyears1: | 1935–1937 |
Nationalteam1: | Germany |
Nationalcaps1: | 4 |
Nationalgoals1: | 2 |
Walter Günther (18 November 1915 – March 1989) was a German international footballer.[1]
He first played for the Duisburger TSV 1899 (1932-1938), then after a merger for the TuS Duisburg 48/99 (1938-1948) and finally for the Duisburger SpV (1948-1949). From 1933 to 1945 he kicked mainly in the Gauliga Niederrhein (Lower Rhine), one of 16 top-flight divisions formed in the 1933 re-organization of German football under the Third Reich. Willy Busch, Hans Biallas, Friedel Holz and Toni Turek, the 1954 world champion, were among his teammates.[2]
In 1937 he won the Reichsbundpokal with the Niederrhein, in 1944 he was awarded Gaumeister Niederrhein with the Kriegsspielgemeinschaft (War Games Community) TuS 48/99 and the Duisburg SpV.