Walter Günther

For the German aircraft designer, see Walter Günter.

Walter Günther (18 November 1915 – March 1989) was a German international footballer.^[1]

Walter Günther

Personal information
Date of birth	(1915-11-18)18 November 1915
Date of death	March 1989 (aged 73)
Position(s)	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
	TuS Duisburg 48/99
International career
1935–1937	Germany	4	(2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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.

Further reading

• Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne: Spielerlexikon 1890 – 1963, in: Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs, vol. 8, Kassel: AGON 2006 (ISBN 3-89784-148-7).
• Werner Raupp: Toni Turek – „Fußballgott“. Eine Biographie, Hildesheim: Arete Verlag 2019 (ISBN 978-3-96423-008-9), p. 24-25, 30-25, 47-50.