Albert Amrhein

Albert Amrhein

Player information
Full name	Franz Albert Amrhein
birthday	December 29, 1870
place of birth	Frankfurt am Main , German Empire
date of death	May 20, 1945
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main, Germany
society
society	Career ended
position	Number eight
Clubs as active
Years	society	Games (points)
	SC Frankfurt 1880	()

Franz Albert Amrhein (born December 29, 1870 in Frankfurt am Main , † May 20, 1945 in Frankfurt am Main) was a German rugby player .

The German team at the 1900 Olympic Games from
left to right: Beiler (replacement), Poppe, R. Ludwig, Hofmeister, Latscha, Müller, Wenderoth, Stockhausen, Kreuzer
in the middle: E. Ludwig, Reitz, Amrhein, Landvoigt, Herrmann
below: Betting, unknown , greaser

The businessman was chairman of the Frankfurt soccer club . At the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris, this club provided a rugby team expanded by two from Stuttgart, which played a game against the French selection on October 14, 1900 and lost 27:17. Because the IOC officially added the competition to the program of the 1900 Summer Olympics , the members of the rugby team are ranked second in the Olympic Games . Amrhein acted in this team as captain and winger.

On November 4, 1900, Amrhein played in the first selection game north against south on the Kassel Carls-Aue in the south selection, the north selection won 11: 3. On January 12, 1906, Amrhein was made an honorary member of the Frankfurt Football Club.

literature

• Karl Lennartz , Walter Teutenberg: II. Olympic Games 1900 in Paris. Presentation and sources. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1995, ISBN 3-928562-20-7 .
• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published via Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft p. 24

Web links

• Albert Amrhein in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

supporting documents

1. ^ Registry office Frankfurt am Main IV: death register . No. 906/1945.