Hans Wentorf
Hans Wentorf (* April 6, 1899; † January 1, 1970 ) was a German football player and two-time National Player of the Year 1928.
Career
The sporting career of the student Hans Wentorf began in 1906 in the gymnastics department of Eimsbütteler TV. Only later he opted for football and made his debut at age 17 in the season 1916/17 in the League Team of the ETV. His suppleness when pike, fists and jumping were attributed by many observers of the Hamburg sports scene its solid basic training in the gym department. In the season 1921/22, the Eimsbüttler goalkeeper was called into the dressing selection of Northern Germany in the competition of the Federal Cup. He made his debut on 9 October 1921 in Stettin against the selection of Balts. In addition to the ETV- keeper also his club team-mate Oscar Liidecke, Alfred Heynen and Walter Lorenz were in the 4-1 success in the NFV - representation in use. 3-0 semi-final success on 13 November of the same year in Hall against Central Germany were of the same players, the red and white colors of the ETV. On March 5, 1922 but sat the selection of superior southern Germany in Hamburg with 7-0 goals against Northern Germany by. Wentorf had to tolerate four goals from Andreas Franz and three goals from Henry inertia. In the same circle of ETV had occupied the first place in front of Altona 93 with 25:3 points and 57:16 goals. To round 1922/23, he joined together with the defender pair Liidecke and Waldemar Gilge the competition to Altona. On the side of the "Legend" Adolf Jäger, he moved to the AFC in 1924/25 as a North German vice-champion in the final round of the German football championship one. After 4-2 success in Szczecin against SC Titania but went on May 17 home game against the Duisburg SpV with 0:2 goals - scored twice was August Sackville - lost. Previously he had won with the NFV - selection on February 22, 1925 in Hamburg in front of 25,000 spectators with a 2-1 win over Southern Germany the Federal Cup. Also in 1926/27 was Wentorf again with North Germany in the final of the German Cup.
The Altona FC, the goalkeeper of the national team in 1893, made his debut in a 3-2 victory against Switzerland in Bern on 15 April 1928. He parried the last game before the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 26 minutes, a penalty of federal defender Rudolf Ramseyer. His fourth Final Match for Federal Cup brought him on April 29, his third loss. At the long-term goalkeeper Heiner Stuhlfauth, who was also at the Olympic football tournament in 1928 and in the goal where Wentorf and Paul Gehlhaar had to make do with the bench, and to Willibald Kreß but Hans Wentorf could not pass the national team. Wentorf therefore came only on September 16 - it was the first post-Olympic game - 2-1 against Denmark for use. The match took place precisely in chair Fauths hometown Nuremberg.
At the beginning of 1929, he adopted a surprisingly from football by finishing his playing career suddenly and abruptly. "I do not even know a well- motivated reasoning. I felt a certain need for rest and then I just did not started again," he replied, beginning of the 50s a reporter on the question of why.