Alexander Martinek

Alexander Martinek (born April 25, 1919 in Krems an der Donau , † July 8, 1944 ) was an Austrian football player .

Career

societies

Martinek, described as a giant, was considered one of the most talented and popular goalkeepers of his time in Austria. He played the 1938/39 season initially for the Kremser SC in the second-class district class East , before he was committed to the 1939/40 season by SC Wacker Vienna . For this he played point games in the Gauliga Ostmark until the end of the season 1940/41 and in the 1941/42 season in Gauliga Donau-Alpenland, in one of 17, later increased to 23 Gauligen at the time of National Socialism as the uniform top division in the German Empire . With SC Wacker Vienna he reached the semifinals of the Tschammer Cup against SV Waldhof Mannheim on March 31, 1940 , which did not find a winner with 1: 1 afterwards . The replay on April 7, 1940 in Vienna ended 2: 2 a.s. and required a third game, which in Mannheim after the goalless draw - also after extra time - was drawn by lot to the disadvantage of his team; He played a total of eight cup games from 1939 to 1941.

From July to December 1943 he was a guest player for the Hamburger SV , then - stationed as a Wehrmacht soldier in the Pomeranian Groß Born - until June 1944 for the military sports club Heeressportverein Groß Born . For this he played point games in the 1943/44 season and thus contributed to the Gaume Championship. Through the cooperation of several well-known football players, who were also stationed as soldiers on site, he advanced with the club to the semi-finals of the German championship , after he had previously completed three rounds. The game was lost on June 4, 1944 in Hanover 2: 3 against another military team, the Air Force Sports Club Hamburg . The team did not play for 3rd place on June 17, 1944 against 1. FC Nürnberg due to the war; for Martinek, the semifinals were his last game as a football player, as he fell a month later on the Eastern Front .

National team

After he had played several times as a player for the Ostmark team , he played his only international match for Germany's senior national team on July 14, 1940. The friendly in Frankfurt am Main against the Romanian national team was won 9: 3.

successes

• Gaumeister Pomerania 1944

Web links

• Alexander Martinek in the database of weltfussball.de
• Alexander Martinek in the database of the German Football Association