I'm specifically curious as to whether any members of the West German National Football Team that defeated the Hungarian 'Magical Magyars' in the 1954 World Cup final had been involved militarily in World War 2.
I imagine that the majority of able-bodied men would have been conscripted, but I guess my question begs another: were Germany's top athletes excluded from conscription during the war?
The number of athletes who had been conscripted one way or another (the Volkssturm conscripted men between 16 and 60) would indeed have been high, some of them would get out of the way of fighting for some time (see below).
An example of a pre-war prominent athlete we could look at the boxer Max Schmeling who was a paratrooper and took part in the battle of Crete.
Let's look at two examples from the 1954 men's football team:
The Goalkeeper Toni Turek was a soldier, was wounded (the grenade splinter never removed from his head) and a pow of the Americans (http://web.ard.de/special/helden1954/pages/2445.php?ch=3.
Team captain Fritz Walter was part of the „Rote Jäger“ (red hunters) a military team trained by later national team trainer Herberger, which kept him and the other players from the front for some time. He described the game of his life occurred when he was a Russian pow allegedly keeping him from being sent to Siberia (http://www.fritz-walter-stiftung.de/zur-person/90-jahre-fritz-walter/lotto-kunstpreis/zweiter.html)
And for the olympics let's stay with the German's favourite sport, football: Kurt Ehrmann was a part of the 1952 FDR's squad (Germany wasn't invited in 1948, the GDR did not participate until a united team was sent in 1956; the second German team in 1952 was sent by Saar) in Helsinki after having been a pow of the Russions http://www.ksta.de/sport/fussball/fussballveteran-der-kellerkicker-vom-karlsruher-fv-5744130).