Willy Baumgärtner

With the German national football team on April 5, 1908 ( 2nd from left)

Willy Baumgartner ( born December 23, 1890 in Berlin, † November 16, 1953 in São Paulo ) was a German football player.

Willy Baumgartner played as a left winger and began his career in 1905 at the BFC Germania, 1888. Baumgartner 1907 moved to Düsseldorf SV 04, for whom he played until his retirement in late 1923.

There he experienced his greatest success when he moved in four international matches without interruption for the senior team. It was with these four international matches from 16 March 1909 until April 24, 1910, the first most-capped player of the DFB; previously there were several players with the same number of games. So he stood in 1908 at the international matches against Switzerland ( 3:5, first international match of the DFB history ), England (1:5) and Austria ( 2:3 ), and again in 1909 against England ( 0:9 ) on the court. During his last international match he had lived in England, so you could save the cost of arrival of the eleventh player. However this game ended with his international career, as he later never played a game for Germany. Again and again he hoped to find in the national account. His international career ended already at the age of 18 years.

Willy Baumgartner is still the youngest national player who has ever been run in the DFB Dress. In his international début he was just 17 years, 3 months and 13 days old.

1932 Baumgartner left Germany and moved to Brazil, where he was a co-founder of the BSC São Paulo and the team trained for ten years. Willy Baumgartner died in 1953 in his South American new home. The World Cup triumph of the German team of 1954, he could no longer experience.

• National football team ( Germany )
• German
• Born in 1890
• Died in 1953
• Man