Anton Kress

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Anton Kreß (born June 8, 1899 - † January 3, 1957 ) was a German national football player . The striker of 1. FC Pforzheim came on June 5, 1921 in the international match in Budapest against Hungary for an international match.

career

society

The winger played for 1. FC Pforzheim . After the First World War, he played a considerable role in the south-west district with the blue-whites from Goldstadt. In the 1920/21 season he and his teammates won the championship in the Südwestkreis, took first place in the southern group for the southern German championship ahead of FC Wacker Munich and Stuttgarter Kickers , before losing 1-0 to Phoenix Ludwigshafen in the semifinals failed. Two years later, in 1922/23, they won the second championship in the Southwest district and in the district final they beat the Stuttgarter Kickers 3-0/1: 1. In the final round of the South German Championship , however, you had to be content with fourth place behind SpVgg Fürth, Phönix Ludwigshafen and Borussia Neunkirchen. On June 22, 1924 he lost the semi-final game of the South German Cup with 1: 5 against 1. FC Nürnberg.

During this era, 1. FC Pforzheim had other national players with Viktor Weißenbacher , Fritz Wetzel , Paul Forell and Gustav Roller and a selection player from southern Germany in their ranks, stopper and later FCP coach Max Müller († July 5, 1968) .

Kreß worked as a clerk in the town of goldsmiths and was able to hold all forward positions. From the beginning of the 1920s he was one of the big names in 1. FC Pforzheim.

Selection player

In 1921 he was invited to the international match on June 5 in Budapest against Hungary. The date collided with the final round of the German soccer championship . Only goalkeeper Heinrich Stuhlfauth from the superior champions 1. FC Nürnberg (5-0 against Berliner FC Vorwärts) took part in the international match in Budapest from the circle of players in the final. Six players made their debut, including winger Anton Kreß from Pforzheim. The team captain was center forward Adolf Jäger , he was surrounded by the newcomers Karl Höger , Fritz Schnürle , Emil Gröner and Kreß. After the 0: 3 bankruptcy against the hosts led by Béla Guttmann and Imre Schlosser , Kreß was no longer included in further international matches.

Kress came on October 9, 1921 in Mönchengladbach in the competition of the Federal Cup in the selection of Southern Germany in the 6-0 win against West Germany on the left wing. He scored one hit and the half right Josef Herberger from Mannheim three. In the final on March 5, 1922, which South Germany won 7-0 in Hamburg against hosts North Germany, a combination of SpVgg Fürth and 1. FC Nürnberg played for the South . On the left wing of southern Germany, experts like Heinrich Altvater and Ludwig Hofmann were rivals of the man from the Brötzinger Valley. Kreß has played eight representative games for southern Germany.

literature

  • Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 210-211 .
  • Gernot Otto: dreams, titles and trophies. 100 years of 1. FC Pforzheim. Bath pressure. Karlsruhe 1996.
  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 261 .
  • Fritz Tauber: German national football team: Player statistics from A to Z . 3. Edition. AGNON, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-397-4 , p. 69 (176 pages).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gernot Otto: dreams, titles and trophies. 100 years of 1. FC Pforzheim. P. 110
  2. ^ Jürgen Bitter: Germany's national soccer player. P. 261
personal data
SURNAME Kress, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1899
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1957