Fritz Zahn

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Fritz Zahn (born October 29, 1919 , † 1947 ) was a German football player .

Career

Zahn belonged to 1. FC Nürnberg , for whom he played 32 point games as a striker from 1938 to 1941 in the Gauliga Bayern , in one of initially 16, later increased to 23 Gauligen at the time of National Socialism as the uniform top division in the German Reich . At the end of his second season he won the Gaume Championship with his team. It was also used twice in the competition for the Tschammerpokal , the cup for club teams, introduced in 1935 . He made his debut on November 19, 1939 in a 2-1 second-round victory over the Stuttgarter Kickers .

The 1941/42 season he played in the Gauliga Nordmark for Hamburger SV , with whom he finished the season as runner-up behind Eimsbütteler TV . Furthermore, he was only used on August 16, 1942 in the 2-0 second-round victory over SC Minerva Berlin in the Tschammerpokal.

He then joined the Luftwaffe Sports Club Hamburg , founded on December 8, 1942 , which was accepted into the Gauliga Hamburg without qualification for the 1943/44 season . After 18 completed point games in the division consisting of ten teams, his team emerged unbeaten as Gaumeister. The military team, which consisted of so-called “anti-aircraft fighters”, was able to play through the two years of its existence in an almost unchanged formation, which is why it was unpopular with the old clubs. This also explains why the team made it through to the finals when they took part in the final round of the German Championship. Zahn played all of the finals, including the replay of the round of 16 with SpVgg 05 Wilhelmshaven , and scored two goals. The one against Dresdner SC on June 18, 1944 in the Berlin Olympiastadion in front of 70,000 spectators was lost 4-0, as was the final of the Tschammer Cup on October 31, 1943 in Stuttgart 2: 3 after extra time against First Vienna FC , in which, however, he did not participate. He played the first round match against SpVgg 05 Wilhelmshaven, which he won 1-0 on August 29, the round of 16 against LSV Pütnitz , which he won 3-2 on September 19, and the quarter-final against Holstein Kiel , which he won 4-2 on October 3 , in which he scored his only goal with the 2-2 goal in the 49th minute.

The 1944/45 season - back in Hamburg - he played again for the Hamburger SV, this time in the Gauliga Hamburg , next to the Gauliga Schleswig-Holstein and the Gauliga Mecklenburg , one of three Gauligen of the Gauliga Nordmark, which was divided up due to the war; unbeaten and with nine points ahead of Altona 93 , he won the Gaume Championship with the Hamburg team.

After the end of the Second World War , Zahn continued to play club-related football at SpVgg Fürth in the Oberliga Süd , one of initially three and later five seasons as the highest German division. The season 1945/46 he finished with his team as 13th of 16, his last season as tenth place of 20 participating teams.

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Meyer, Volker Stahl, Uwe Wetzner: Football Lexicon Hamburg . Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-477-1 , p. 210-211 (396 pages).
personal data
SURNAME Zahn, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1919
DATE OF DEATH 1947