Adolf Zimmer

Adolf Zimmer
Personnel
Surname	Adolf Alfred Zimmer
birthday	February 28, 1908
place of birth	Lviv ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death	May 1940
Place of death	Kharkov ,  Soviet Union
size	167 cm
position	Storm
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1921-1939	Pogoń Lwów
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1934	Poland	1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Adolf Alfred Zimmer (born February 28, 1908 in Lemberg , † May 1940 in Charkow ) was a Polish football player .

life and career

Zimmer was born in 1908 in Lemberg , then a predominantly Polish city that belonged to Austria-Hungary until 1918 . In his hometown he began playing football in 1921, at Pogoń Lwów , then one of the leading Polish teams. In 1929 he finally graduated from the humanistic grammar school and from then on ran regularly for Pogoń Lwów. In the meantime he was in the military parallel to his work as a football player, then he worked at the tax office and studied at the University of Lviv . In October 1934 he completed his only international match for Poland, in a friendly match in Lviv against Romania, which ended 3: 3, he was substituted for Józef Ciszewski .

The German - Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 marked the end of his football career. His hometown was occupied by the Soviet Union, Zimmer was deported to Kharkov and murdered there in May 1940 by the Soviet NKVD .

Web links

• Adolf Zimmer in the database of weltfussball.de

swell

• Thomas Urban : Black Eagles, White Eagles. German and Polish footballers at the heart of politics. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89533-775-8 , p. 88.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Księga Cmentarna Polskiego Cmentarza Wojennego. Łódź: Oficyna Wydawnicza RYTM, 2003, p. 636. ISBN 83-916663-5-2 .
2. ↑ Football Match: October 14, 1934 Poland v Romania eu-football.info
3. ↑ When falcons play football (PDF; 458 kB) martin-brand.de