Willi Kraus
Willi Kraus ( * May 1, 1943, † 19 October 2008) was a German football player.
The striker came from the youth of FC Schalke 04, where he played with Stan Libuda together. Since he did not make it into the first team, in contrast to this the jump, Kraus played 1963/64, for a year at the Dutch club Go Ahead Eagles Deventer. He then moved to Tennis Borussia Berlin, with whom he was 1965 champion of the Regional Berlin, in the promotion round of the Bundesliga but just failed. In 1966, Kraus to Gelsenkirchen his parent club Schalke 04 back. There he became an important player in the Bundesliga seasons 1966/67 and 1967/68. With the progress made by him in 36 Bundesliga games, 16 goals, he was a guarantor of the class receipt. After he had lost his license because of thefts player, he played in the 1968/69 season for Eintracht Gelsenkirchen in the Regionalliga West.
Nationally known Kraus was primarily from the fact that he had to quit his football career after he was sentenced as a bank robber to a long prison, the more prison sentences followed later.