August Schmierer

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August Schmierer
Player information
birthday April 28, 1870
place of birth ,
date of death 20th century
society
society Career ended
position Half of the crowd
Clubs as active
Years society Games (points)
SC Frankfurt 1880 ()
Cannstatter football and tennis club ()

August Schmierer (born April 28, 1870 ) was a German rugby player and chairman of the Cannstatter football and tennis club for more than 30 years .

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

August Schmierer left Cannstatt around 1889 . He became active as a rugby player at the Frankfurt Football Club and remained in its first team until 1897. Shortly after he returned to his hometown in 1899, he was elected chairman of the Cannstatter football club . In a report that he had Philipp Heineken publish in 1930 , Schmierer described how he tried to revive football and rugby in the CFC, which developed into a pure tennis club. Because he wanted to set a good example, Schmierer played rugby again in a South German national team. He also played in the rugby competition at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 for the German team, which, apart from the Stuttgart player Hugo Betting, consisted almost exclusively of players from his ex-club from Frankfurt. August Schmierer went down in sports history as an Olympic silver medalist because the IOC officially assigned the competition to the program of the 1900 Summer Olympics . Nevertheless, in his position as the first chairman of the Cannstatter football club, he was no longer able to put together a rugby team. Therefore, under the chairmanship of Schmierer, the CFC was renamed the Cannstatter Football and Tennis Club in 1901 and was finally given the name Cannstatter Tennis Club in 1909 after hopes of a revival of rugby were finally given up.

literature

  • Philipp Heineken : Memories of the Cannstatter Football Club. Verlag Hermann Meister, Heidelberg 1930. P. 86 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Schmierer, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rugby player and sports official
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1870
DATE OF DEATH 20th century