Wilhelm "Willy" Simetsreiter (16 March 1915 – 17 July 2001), popularly known as ''Schimmy'', was a German

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

. A native of

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...

, Simetsreiter played his career along the left wing for his club

Bayern Munich Fußball-Club Bayern München e. V. (FCB, ), also known as FC Bayern (), Bayern Munich, or simply Bayern, is a German professional sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional men's football team, which pla ...

. He is usually considered the fastest-ever player at this position in the club's history. He scored three goals against Luxembourg on 4 August at the

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp ...

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.He was also part of Germany's squad at the

. At the time, the 21-year-old was one of the youngest players in the national side to score a hat-trick. During the 1930s, Simetsreiter was capped a total of eight times by the

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