August Lenz (soccer player)

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August Lenz (born November 29, 1910 in Dortmund , † December 5, 1988 there ) was a German football player . He was a striker for Borussia Dortmund and the club's first German national player .

Life path

With his club he rose to the Gauliga in 1936 and was able to establish himself in the top German league during his active time with Borussia Dortmund. According to a legend, Ernst Kuzorra is said to have asked the chairman of FC Schalke 04 , Fritz Unkel , in 1938 to bring Lenz to Schalke, which the latter never really considered because of his association with the club; In any case, the interest of the most successful eleven of those years documents Lenz's footballing quality.

The Second World War interrupted, as with many other players the career of August Lenz. After the war he was able to build on his old successes, played in the early years of the Oberliga West as a regular for Borussia Dortmund and scored 32 goals.

In 1947 August Lenz and his club won the Westphalia championship against Schalke. In the seasons 1947/48 and 1948/49 he won the championship in the new Oberliga West. In this league in 1948 Lenz was top scorer with 22 goals. In 1949 he was with Borussia Dortmund in the final of the German championship against VfR Mannheim , which however was lost 3-2 (after extra time). Then August Lenz ended his career at the age of 38.

Between 1935 and 1938 he ran 14 times for the German national soccer team and scored 9 goals. After a 2-0 defeat against Norway at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, in which Adolf Hitler prematurely left the box of honor, he was no longer considered a selection player. In 1937 Lenz played in a propaganda game between the national team and a selection of the SA , on the part of the SA selection.

Stylized portrait of August Lenz - The-Unity - Stencil in Dortmund

After his active career, Lenz ran a pub on Borsigplatz in Dortmund for 33 years . Today, August Lenz's face is next to the city eagle with the BVB emblem and the logo of the Dortmund ultra fan group The Unity . The house on Strobelallee , which formerly served as Borussia Dortmund's office and now houses a restaurant, is named after him. Furthermore, The Unity's , now closed, local pub was named after him. It was called Lenz-sTUbe .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: August Lenz - Goals in International Matches . RSSSF . March 23, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2017.
  2. ^ Gilbert Bringmann: Football Almanac 1900–1943. , Kasseler Sportverlag, Kassel 1992, p. 145.
  3. ↑ ruhrnachrichten.de: Lenz-sTUbe: What is your experience? ( Memento of March 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) , accessed March 12, 2011.

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personal data
SURNAME Lenz, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 1988
Place of death Dortmund