# List of German football transfers winter 2008–09

This is a list of German football transfers in the winter transfer window 2008–09 by club. Only transfers of the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga are included.

## Bundesliga
### FC Bayern Munich

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 13 | FW | USA | Landon Donovan (on loan from Los Angeles Galaxy) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 2 | DF | FRA | Willy Sagnol (retired) |
| 39 | MF | GER | Toni Kroos (on loan to Bayer 04 Leverkusen) |

### SV Werder Bremen

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 16 | MF | GRE | Alexandros Tziolis (on loan from Panathinaikos FC) |
| 30 | FW | HUN | Marko Futács (from Nancy B) |
| N/A | FW | PER | Junior Ross (from Coronel Bolognesi) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 17 | MF | BIH | Said Husejinović (on loan to 1. FC Kaiserslautern) |
| 18 | FW | CIV | Boubacar Sanogo (on loan to 1899 Hoffenheim) |
| N/A | FW | PER | Junior Ross (on loan to FSV Frankfurt) |
| N/A | MF | BRA | Carlos Alberto (on loan to CR Vasco da Gama, previously on loan to Botafogo) |

### FC Schalke 04

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 26 | MF | GER | Danny Latza (from FC Schalke 04 II) |
| N/A | FW | GER | Marvin Pourie (from Liverpool F.C. Reserves and Academy) |
| N/A | FW | URU | Nicolás Mezquida (from C.A. Peñarol) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 6 | MF | GER | Albert Streit (on loan to Hamburger SV) |
| 7 | MF | URU | Gustavo Varela (released) |
| 8 | MF | GER | Fabian Ernst (to Beşiktaş J.K.) |
| 11 | FW | DEN | Peter Løvenkrands (to Newcastle United F.C.) |
| 15 | MF | BRA | Ze Roberto (on loan to Clube de Regatas do Flamengo) |
| 28 | MF | GER | Markus Heppke (to Rot-Weiß Oberhausen) |
| N/A | FW | URU | Nicolás Mezquida (on loan to C.A. Peñarol) |
| N/A | FW | GER | Marvin Pourie (on loan to TSV 1860 München) |

### Hamburger SV

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 8 | MF | GER | Albert Streit (on loan from FC Schalke 04) |
| 16 | DF | DEN | Michael Gravgaard (on loan from FC Nantes) |
| 24 | MF | CMR | Marcel Ndjeng (on loan from Borussia Mönchengladbach) |
| 25 | MF | VEN | Tomás Rincón (on loan from Deportivo Táchira) |
| 28 | MF | CPV | Mickaël Tavares (from Slavia Prague) |
| 33 | GK | MAR | Khalid Sinouh (free agent) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 6 | DF | BEL | Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe (to Club Brugge K.V.) |
| 8 | MF | NED | Nigel de Jong (to Manchester City) |
| 16 | MF | BLR | Anton Putsila (loan return to Dinamo Minsk) |
| 27 | MF | BRA | Thiago Neves (to Al-Hilal) |
| 32 | MF | GER | Änis Ben-Hatira (on loan to MSV Duisburg) |

### VfL Wolfsburg

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 8 | FW | JPN | Yoshito Okubo (from Vissel Kobe) |
| 19 | DF | SVK | Peter Pekarík (from MŠK Žilina) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 14 | MF | PAR | Jonathan Santana (on loan to San Lorenzo de Almagro) |
| 16 | FW | TUR | Mahir Sağlık (on loan to Karlsruher SC) |
| 18 | MF | POL | Jacek Krzynówek (to Hannover 96) |
| 19 | FW | ROU | Vlad Munteanu (on loan to Arminia Bielefeld) |
| 31 | DF | GER | Bernd Korzynietz (to MSV Duisburg, previously on loan from Arminia Bielefeld) |
| N/A | FW | SEN | Mame Niang (to Viking FK, previously on loan) |

### VfB Stuttgart

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 6 | DF | GER | Georg Niedermeier (on loan from FC Bayern Munich II) |
| 13 | MF | GER | Timo Gebhart (from TSV 1860 München) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 13 | MF | MEX | Pável Pardo (to Club América) |
| 23 | FW | GER | Manuel Fischer (on loan to TuS Koblenz) |
| 38 | FW | SRB | Danijel Ljuboja (to VfB Stuttgart II) |

### Bayer 04 Leverkusen

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 19 | MF | POL | Tomasz Zdebel (from VfL Bochum) |
| 21 | GK | HUN | Gábor Király (on loan from Burnley F.C.) |
| 24 | DF | CZE | Michal Kadlec (from Sparta Prague, previously on loan) |
| 29 | FW | GRE | Angelos Charisteas (on loan from 1. FC Nürnberg) |
| 39 | MF | GER | Toni Kroos (on loan from FC Bayern Munich) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 10 | FW | GRE | Theofanis Gekas (on loan to Portsmouth F. C.) |
| 19 | MF | GER | Marcel Risse (on loan to 1. FC Nürnberg) |
| 33 | MF | GER | Stefan Reinartz (on loan to 1. FC Nürnberg) |
| 37 | MF | BUL | Atanas Kurdov (on loan to FC Winterthur) |
| 45 | DF | GER | Jens Hegeler (on loan to FC Augsburg) |

### Hannover 96

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 16 | DF | DEN | Leon Andreasen (from Fulham F.C.) |
| 20 | MF | POL | Jacek Krzynówek (from VfL Wolfsburg) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 11 | MF | HUN | Szabolcs Huszti (to FC Zenit St. Petersburg) |

### Eintracht Frankfurt

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 3 | DF | SRB | Nikola Petkovic (from FK Crvena zvezda) |
| 9 | FW | CMR | Leonard Kweuke (on loan from DAC Dunajská Streda) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 3 | DF | MEX | Aarón Galindo (to Club Deportivo Guadalajara) |

### Hertha BSC Berlin

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 6 | DF | CRO | Marko Babić (from Real Betis) |
| 22 | DF | ARG | Leandro Cufré (on loan from AS Monaco) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |

### Karlsruher SC

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 11 | DF | CRO | Dino Drpic (on loan from Dynamo Zagreb) |
| 22 | MF | GER | Marco Engelhardt (from 1. FC Nürnberg) |
| 23 | FW | TUR | Mahir Sağlık (on loan from VfL Wolfsburg) |
| 26 | MF | ITA | Giovanni Federico (on loan from Borussia Dortmund) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |

### VfL Bochum

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 14 | FW | ARG | Diego Klimowicz (from Borussia Dortmund) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 8 | MF | POL | Tomasz Zdebel (to Bayer 04 Leverkusen) |
| 13 | MF | GER | Danny Fuchs (on loan to 1. FC Kaiserslautern) |
| N/A | FW | AUT | Marc Sand (to SK Austria Kärnten, previously on loan to FK Austria Wien) |

### Borussia Dortmund

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 22 | MF | GER | Kevin-Prince Boateng (on loan from Tottenham Hotspur F.C.) |
| 32 | DF | GER | Uwe Hünemeier (from Borussia Dortmund II) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 8 | MF | ITA | Giovanni Federico (on loan to Karlsruher SC) |
| 11 | MF | RSA | Delron Buckley (to FSV Mainz) |
| 14 | DF | SRB | Antonio Rukavina (on loan to TSV 1860 München) |
| 19 | FW | ARG | Diego Klimowicz (to VfL Bochum) |
| 21 | DF | CRO | Robert Kovač (to NK Dinamo Zagreb) |
| 22 | MF | GER | Marc-André Kruska (to Club Brugge K.V.) |
| 31 | GK | GER | Lukas Kruse (to FC Augsburg) |

### FC Energie Cottbus

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 25 | DF | CZE | Jan Rajnoch (on loan from FK Mladá Boleslav) |
| 26 | FW | GER | Nils Petersen (from Carl Zeiss Jena) |
| 27 | DF | ROU | Ovidiu Burcă (loan return from Beijing Guoan) |
| 32 | FW | BRA | Adi (from SK Austria Kärnten) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 22 | FW | GER | Danny Galm (to Stuttgarter Kickers) |
| 24 | MF | MKD | Igor Mitreski (on loan to Germinal Beerschot) |

### Arminia Bielefeld

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 3 | DF | SRB | Filip Krstić (from AS Livorno) |
| 29 | MF | ROU | Vlad Munteanu (on loan from VfL Wolfsburg) |
| 33 | MF | SCO | Kevin Kerr (from Arminia Bielefeld II) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 25 | MF | RSA | Siyabonga Nkosi (to Maccabi Netanya) |
| 29 | MF | GER | Stefan Aigner (to 1860 Munich) |
| 30 | DF | GER | Nils Fischer (on loan to Wuppertaler SV Borussia) |
| N/A | DF | GER | Bernd Korzynietz (to MSV Duisburg, previously on loan at VfL Wolfsburg) |

### Borussia Mönchengladbach

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 8 | MF | CZE | Tomáš Galásek (from Banik Ostrava) |
| 30 | GK | BEL | Logan Bailly (from K.R.C. Genk) |
| 31 | DF | BRA | Dante (from Standard Liège) |
| 32 | DF | GER | Christian Dorda (from Borussia M'gladbach II) |
| 37 | MF | GER | Tony Jantschke (from Borussia M'gladbach II) |
| 45 | DF | CAN | Paul Stalteri (from Tottenham Hotspur F.C.) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 8 | MF | DEN | Sebastian Svärd (on loan to FC Hansa Rostock) |
| 10 | MF | GER | Sascha Rösler (to TSV 1860 München) |
| 13 | DF | GER | Alexander Voigt (to SpVgg Greuther Fürth) |
| 23 | MF | CMR | Marcel Ndjeng (on loan to Hamburger SV) |

### TSG 1899 Hoffenheim

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 6 | DF | BRA | Fabricio (on loan from Flamengo) |
| 16 | FW | GER | Kai Herdling (from Waldhof Mannheim) |
| 18 | FW | CIV | Boubacar Sanogo (on loan from SV Werder Bremen) |
| 28 | GK | GER | Timo Hildebrand (from Valencia CF) |
| 36 | FW | GER | Marco Terrazzino (from 1899 Hoffenheim Youth) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 11 | MF | GER | Jochen Seitz (to Alemannia Aachen) |
| 13 | DF | HUN | Zsolt Lőw (to FSV Mainz 05) |
| 22 | FW | ESP | Francisco Copado (to SpVgg Unterhaching) |
| 30 | GK | GER | Thorsten Kirschbaum (to FC Vaduz) |

### 1. FC Köln

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 16 | MF | BRA | André (loan return from Nautico) |
| 26 | MF | GHA | Derek Boateng (from Beitar Jerusalem) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 15 | DF | GER | Tobias Nickenig (to FC Vaduz) |
| 25 | DF | GER | Kevin Schöneberg (to Hansa Rostock) |
| 27 | DF | GER | Michael Parensen (to 1. FC Union Berlin) |

## 2. Bundesliga
### 1. FC Nürnberg

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 2 | DF | GER | Dennis Diekmeier (from Werder Bremen II) |
| 3 | DF | GER | Stefan Reinartz (on loan from Bayer Leverkusen) |
| 10 | FW | SUI | Albert Bunjaku (from FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt) |
| 12 | MF | GER | Marcel Risse (on loan from Bayer Leverkusen) |
| 32 | DF | SVN | Dominic Maroh (from 1. FC Nürnberg II) |
| TBA | MF | TUR | İlkay Gündoğan (from VfL Bochum II) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 9 | FW | GRE | Angelos Charisteas (on loan to Bayer 04 Leverkusen) |
| 10 | MF | GER | Ioannis Masmanidis (to Apollon Limassol) |
| 22 | MF | GER | Marco Engelhardt (to Karlsruher SC) |
| 35 | FW | GER | Chhunly Pagenburg (to FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt) |
| 37 | MF | SVK | Mario Breska (on loan to Enosis Neon Paralimni) |

### FC Hansa Rostock

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 8 | MF | HUN | Krisztián Lisztes (from REAC) |
| 14 | MF | DEN | Sebastian Svärd (on loan from Borussia Mönchengladbach) |
| 15 | FW | FIN | Henri Myntti (from Tampere United) |
| 35 | DF | GER | Kevin Schöneberg (from 1. FC Köln) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 2 | DF | GER | Dexter Langen (to Hansa Rostock II) |
| 8 | MF | MNE | Đorđije Ćetković (to VfL Osnabrück) |
| 11 | DF | GER | Robert Lechleiter (to VfR Aalen) |
| 15 | DF | GER | Christian Rahn (to SpVgg Greuther Fürth) |
| 26 | FW | COD | Addy-Waku Menga (to SV Werder Bremen II) |

### MSV Duisburg

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 2 | DF | GER | Bernd Korzynietz (from Arminia Bielefeld, previously on loan at VfL Wolfsburg) |
| 23 | MF | GER | Änis Ben-Hatira (on loan from Hamburger SV) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 2 | DF | ARG | Fernando Ávalos (to Belenenses) |
| 5 | DF | GER | Mounir Chaftar (to Offenbacher Kickers) |
| 14 | DF | CMR | Serge Branco (released) |
| -- | MF | GER | Silvio Schröter (to FC Carl Zeiss Jena) |
| 17 | MF | GER | Mirko Boland (to Eintracht Braunschweig) |
| 23 | FW | GER | Simon Terodde (on loan to Fortuna Düsseldorf) |
| 25 | FW | GHA | Salou Ibrahim (to Vejle BK) |
| 27 | FW | GHA | Valentine Atem (to PFC Neftchi Baku) |

### 1. FSV Mainz 05

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 11 | DF | RSA | Delron Buckley (from Borussia Dortmund) |
| 24 | DF | HUN | Zsolt Lőw (from TSG 1899 Hoffenheim) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 11 | FW | CZE | Petr Ruman (to VfR Aalen) |

### SC Freiburg

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 9 | FW | BLR | Vitali Rodionov (on loan from BATE Borisov) |
| 25 | DF | ITA | Sandro Sirigu (from SSV Ulm) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 10 | FW | TUR | Suat Türker (to Kickers Offenbach) |
| 29 | MF | GER | Manuel Konrad (on loan to SpVgg Unterhaching) |

### SpVgg Greuther Fürth

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 14 | DF | GER | Alexander Voigt (from Borussia Mönchengladbach) |
| 16 | DF | GER | Christian Rahn (from Hansa Rostock) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 14 | DF | GER | Tom Bertram (to SC Paderborn) |
| 21 | MF | GER | Daniel Brückner (to SC Paderborn) |
| 25 | FW | GER | Nicolai Müller (on loan to SV Sandhausen) |

### Alemannia Aachen

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 23 | FW | BFA | Hervé Oussalé (from Etoile Filante Ouagadougou) |
| 29 | MF | GER | Jochen Seitz (from TSG 1899 Hoffenheim) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |

### SV Wehen Wiesbaden

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 2 | MF | GER | Fabian Schönheim (on loan from 1. FC Kaiserslautern) |
| 15 | MF | GEO | Levan Tskitishvili (from FC Lokomotivi Tbilisi) |
| 38 | FW | GER | Marcel Ziemer (on loan from 1. FC Kaiserslautern) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 15 | MF | MAR | Abdelaziz Ahanfouf (released) |
| 30 | MF | GER | Patrick Bick (to SV Wehen II) |
| 33 | FW | CHN | Xie Hui (loan return to Shanghai Shenhua) |

### FC St. Pauli

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 29 | FW | MKD | Ermir Zekiri (from FC St. Pauli II) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 29 | MF | TUR | Serhat Yapici (to Hacettepe S.K.) |

### TuS Koblenz

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 16 | FW | ALB | Renaldo Rama (from KS Gramozi Ersekë) |
| 17 | MF | HUN | Zoltán Stieber (from Aston Villa Reserves) |
| 20 | FW | GER | Manuel Fischer (on loan from VfB Stuttgart) |
| 23 | MF | BIH | Darko Maletić (from FK Partizan) |
| 32 | MF | GER | Michael Stahl (to VfR Aalen) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 16 | MF | FRA | Fabrice Begeorgi (loan return to Olympique de Marseille) |
| 17 | DF | TUR | Mustafa Parmak (to Stuttgarter Kickers) |
| 20 | MF | ARG | Gabriel Fernández (to CSD Macará) |
| 23 | DF | GER | Matthias Franz (released) |

### TSV 1860 München

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 2 | DF | SRB | Antonio Rukavina (on loan from Borussia Dortmund) |
| 10 | MF | GER | Sascha Rösler (from Borussia Mönchengladbach) |
| 15 | MF | GER | Stefan Aigner (from Arminia Bielefeld) |
| 18 | FW | GER | Marvin Pourie (on loan from FC Schalke 04) |
| 24 | DF | SRB | Nikola Gulan (on loan from ACF Fiorentina) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 18 | MF | GER | Timo Gebhart (to VfB Stuttgart) |
| 24 | FW | GER | Mustafa Kučuković (to Grenoble Foot 38) |
| 28 | DF | GER | Alexander Eberlein (to SV Sandhausen) |

### VfL Osnabrück

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 10 | MF | MNE | Đorđije Ćetković (from FC Hansa Rostock) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 18 | MF | GER | Lars Fuchs (to FC Carl Zeiss Jena) |

### 1. FC Kaiserslautern

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 3 | MF | BIH | Dario Damjanović (from FC Luch-Energiya Vladivostok) |
| 11 | FW | GER | Danny Fuchs (on loan from VfL Bochum) |
| 19 | MF | CZE | Jiří Bílek (from FC Slovan Liberec) |
| 25 | MF | BIH | Said Husejinović (on loan from SV Werder Bremen) |
| 30 | DF | GER | Fabian Müller (from FC Erzgebirge Aue) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 4 | DF | GER | Christopher Lamprecht (to 1. FC Kaiserslautern II) |
| 11 | FW | GER | Marcel Ziemer (on loan to SV Wehen Wiesbaden) |
| 23 | DF | GER | Sven Müller (to FC Erzgebirge Aue) |
| 34 | MF | GER | Fabian Schönheim (on loan to SV Wehen Wiesbaden) |

### FC Augsburg

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | GER | Lukas Kruse (from Borussia Dortmund) |
| 2 | DF | GER | Jens Hegeler (on loan from Bayer 04 Leverkusen) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 32 | FW | UKR | Anton Makarenko (on loan to SSV Reutlingen) |

### Rot Weiss Ahlen

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 15 | DF | AUS | Dino Djulbic (from Perth Glory) |
| 24 | FW | GER | Deniz Naki (on loan from Bayer Leverkusen II) |
| 29 | DF | GER | Sebastian Pelzer (from Dynamo Dresden) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 3 | DF | GER | Sven Schaffrath (to FC Erzgebirge Aue) |

### Rot-Weiß Oberhausen

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 11 | FW | TRI | Jamal Gay (from Joe Public FC) |
| 19 | MF | GER | Markus Heppke (from FC Schalke 04) |
| 31 | DF | BEL | Olivier De Cock (from Fortuna Düsseldorf) |
| 40 | GK | GER | Jonas Deumeland (from VfL Wolfsburg II) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 13 | MF | GER | David Müller (to VfR Aalen) |
| 11 | FW | GER | Tuncay Aksoy (to SSVg Velbert) |

### FC Ingolstadt 04

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 24 | FW | GER | Steffen Schneider (on loan to VfR Aalen) |
| 31 | GK | GER | Nils Schmadtke (released) |

### FSV Frankfurt

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 27 | FW | BLR | Gennadi Bliznyuk (from BATE Borisov) |
| 32 | DF | ESP | Kirian (from SE Eivissa-Ibiza) |
| 37 | FW | PER | Junior Ross (loan from SV Werder Bremen) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 19 | FW | GER | Aziz Bouhaddouz (loan to FC Erzgebirge Aue) |