Günter Thorhauer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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East German footballer
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Place of Birth: Germany
About Günter Thorhauer
- Günter Thorhauer (8 November 1931 – 27 April 2007) was a football player who played in the first international match of East Germany. Thorhauer's playing career was short.
- He began playing in the youth teams of BSG Stahl Magdeburg, a club that was to become 1.
- FC Magdeburg later.
- When he was called up to the senior team, the club had been renamed Motor Mitte Magdeburg and played in the second-tier DDR-Liga.
- In the 1951-52 season Thorhauer was the club's leading goalscorer with 12 goals.At the beginning of the following season Thorhauer joined East Germany vice champions and FDGB-Pokal winners Sportgemeinschaft Volkspolizei Dresden.
- Before playing a single match for his new club, he was called up to the national team and played in their first international, a 0-3 defeat against Poland on 21 September 1952.
- He played as outside forward on the right side and was the second-youngest player in the squad, after Günter Imhof who was 18 at the time.
- It remained Thorhauer's only full international. Thorhauer played in 15 matches for Dresden in the 1952-53 season, scoring three goals and winning the championship with his club.
- After just one season in the DDR-Oberliga, however, Thorhauer had to end his career due to an injury.
- Aside from his full international, Thorhauer also played in one match for the youth national team.
- Thorhauer is the East German international with the least number of Oberliga matches.
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