Günther Wirth

Günther Wirth ( born January 9, 1933, Dresden) ( called Wibbel Wirth) is a former football player and national team of East Germany.

Two years before the end of the Second World War, the ten-year Günther Wirth announced in 1943 the football team by Guts courage Dresden. After the war he played for six years in the SG Johann city of Dresden, after which he joined after brief episodes of BSG VVB tobacco Dresden and the HSG science Karl Horst in the fall of 1951 the BSG Motor Oberschoeneweide, whose football team in the highest DDR game class, the Serie A, was represented.

There Wirth had quickly conquered a tribe position as left winger and striker who with his strike partner Horst Assmy and Lothar Meyer to the service providers of the team. Although Oberschoeneweide 1953 was relegated to the second-rate DDR -Liga, all three strikers were first used on May 8, 1954 in a game of the GDR national team, but played all too innocuous, so that the meeting in Berlin lost 0-1 against Romania was. While the engine team in the season 1953/54, despite their parade storm the resurgence missed, another team from Berlin had risen, that 's focus on the three Oberschöneweider Weider striker with the army team Zask Vorwärts Berlin.

Despite strong protests from the public Wirth moved in December 1954 to join the army team, later followed also Assmy and Meyer. In Vorwärts Berlin, the now 21 -year-old Wirth became one of the best football players in the GDR of that period. On September 18, 1955, he was given a second chance in the national team, competing against Romania in Bucharest this time. With 3:2 DDR players could successfully take revenge, and Left Wing Wirth contributed a goal for the first victory of the GDR - Eleven in its 7th game at. From this point on, Wirth had won a regular place in the national team, in which he was summoned to 1962 28 times, scoring 11 goals. His last international match on 14 October 1962, he again played against Romania - and again he contributed a goal in the 3-2 win at.

With his home team Vorwärts Berlin Wirth celebrated in 1958, 1960, 1962 and 1965, four championships. He appeared in a total of 210 point games and came up with 45 goals. Together with his Oberschöneweider Weider time he came on 256 league games and 65 goals. His active career was Wirth in the 1965/66 season in the reserve team of FC Vorwärts Berlin restructured in the course of the season club bar.