Alfred Au

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Alfred Au
Personnel
birthday December 14, 1898
place of birth Mannheim ,  German Empire
date of death October 27, 1986
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1917-1930 VfR Mannheim
1933-1934 SV Waldhof Mannheim
1935-1937 VfR Mannheim
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1921 Germany 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Alfred Au (born December 14, 1898 in Mannheim ; † October 27, 1986 ) was a German football player .

Career

societies

Au belonged to the VfR Mannheim from 1917 to 1930 , for which he worked alongside the later Reich coach Otto Nerz and three years later in his position as a left wing runner .

From the 1919/20 season he played in the South German Football Association in the Odenwald district league , from the 1923/24 season in the Rhine district league , from the 1927/28 season in the Rhine / Saar district league in the regional highest division.

During this time he won the Rhine regional championship three times and the South German championship once. Due to the latter success, he took part with the team in the final round of the German championship and played his only final game on May 3, 1925 in Weidenpescher Park in Cologne in front of 12,000 spectators, the last 16 game, which was lost 4-1 at TuRU Düsseldorf . The round of 16 for the Tschammer Cup on November 3, 1935 in Mannheim against VfL Benrath was his only game in the first-ever competition for the national club cup.

The 1933/34 season he played for SV Waldhof Mannheim in the Gauliga Baden , in one of initially 16, later increased to 23 Gauligen at the time of National Socialism as a uniform top division in the German Empire ; at the end of the season he won the Gaume Championship with the team.

From 1935 to 1937 he played in this division again for VfR Mannheim before ending his football career.

Selection / national team

With appointments in the Mannheim city selection and in the selection team of the Odenwaldkreis, he recommended himself for the selection team of the South German Football Association. For this he played for the first time on April 10, 1921 in the competition for the federal cup, the game against the selection team of the North German Football Association . He, athletic and tall, reached the semi-finals in the national cup competition three times with the selection team. First on November 13, 1921 in Fürth against the selection team of the Association of Brandenburg Ball Game Clubs, where he formed the runner-up line with Hans Kalb and Carl Riegel from 1. FC Nürnberg in the 3-0 victory .

He played the second semi-final on November 12, 1922 in Chemnitz in a 4-1 victory over the selection team of the Baltic Lawn and Winter Sports Association . In the two victorious finals in 1922 and 1923 , he was not used for the South German Football Association. After the third semi-final success on November 9, 1924 in Mannheim against the selection team of the Association of Brandenburg Ball Game Clubs , he was also in the final on February 22, 1925 in Hamburg against the selection team of the North German Football Association; however, the comparison was lost 1: 2.

His only international match for the senior national team he played on September 18, 1921 in Helsinki in a 3-3 draw against the national team of Finland . Together with Karl Tewes and Walter Krause , he formed the runner row; the half right Sepp Herberger and the used as a center forward Hans Kalb scored the German goals.

successes

Others

Alfred Au worked as an architect in the Electoral Palatinate region for decades. Before the 1948/49 season he was in charge of a site commission, which was able to make the destroyed site at the breweries available again for VfR Mannheim in a six-month construction period.

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personal data
SURNAME Au, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1986