# Richard Hanke

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**Richard** (real name: **Walter**) **Hanke** (18 March 1910 – 2 September 1980) was a German international [footballer](/source/Association_football).[1] He left Germany and went professional in 1931 which was most unusual at the time, spending eight seasons in [Austria](/source/Austria), [Czechoslovakia](/source/Czechoslovakia) and [France](/source/France).

Soon after joining [Wiener AC](/source/Wiener_AC) he was in the team that finished runners-up in the 1931 [Mitropa Cup](/source/Mitropa_Cup). He scored in both finals but asked for a transfer only a few weeks later.[2] Hanke subsequently joined [DSV Saaz](/source/DSV_Saaz) during that same season. He also played for DSV Saaz for several years in a league organized by the German Football Association for Bohemia [Deutscher Fußball-Verband für Böhmen](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutscher_Fu%C3%9Fball-Verband_f%C3%BCr_B%C3%B6hmen), which was a football league primarily for German clubs in the Sudetenland. In the 1932/33 season, he even became the second top scorer in the league. Unfortunately, the number of goals is not recorded—only the ranking of the scorers. In later years, he was with [SK Prostějov](/source/1._SK_Prost%C4%9Bjov) for a while[3] and then, during the second half of the 1930s, found success in France.

Hanke has signed autograph pictures as *Walter* Hanke. For unknown reasons, he was mistakenly referred to as *Richard* in later years.[4]

Some sources[5] have confused Walter and *Josef* Hanke, an Austrian player who was with a couple of (different) French clubs at the same time.

## References

1. [*Kicker Fußball-Almanach 2011: Mit aktuellem Bundesliga-Spieler-ABC*](https://books.google.com/books?id=1SVkEbeNdGMC&pg=PA115). Stiebner Verlag GmbH. August 2010. pp. 115–. ISBN 978-3-7679-0914-4. Retrieved 24 October 2012.

1. *Prager Tageblatt*, Dec 23, 1931, p. 5

1. *Wiener Sport-Tagblatt*, June 5, 1935, p. 4

1. Lorenz Knieriem & Hardy Grüne: *Spielerlexikon 1890-1963*, Kassel, p. 130

1. e.g. Marc Barreaud: *Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du Championat Professionell Francais (1932-1997)*, Paris 1998, p. 22 and p. 26... and David Forster et alii: *Die Legionäre. Österreichische Fußballer in aller Welt*, Vienna 2013, p. 268

## External links

- [Profile](http://www.fcmetz.com/joueur/fiche/walter-hanke.html) - FC Metz

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