Edgar Blüher

Edgar Blüher (born November 13, 1881 ; † 1919 ) was a German football player who won the German championship with VfB Leipzig in 1903 and 1906 .

Career

societies

Blüher (7th from left) and teammate at VfB Leipzig
before the championship finals in 1906 in Nuremberg

Bliiher original club was the Leipziger BC 1893 , but he changed early on also in the district of Lindenau domestic VfB Leipzig . When the German Football Association hosted a nationwide championship finals for the first time in the 1902/03 season , VfB was qualified as the champions of the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs (VMBV). The "blue-whites" finally won the first championship title, Edgar Blüher was not involved in the final, however, because an injury forced him to sit out. The following year he moved to Dresdner SC , with whom he was also VMBV champion, but failed in the final round in 1904/05 at the later champions BTuFC Union 92 .

The tall striker then returned to VfB Leipzig. At the side of the later national players Camillo Ugi , Heinrich Riso , Adalbert Friedrich and Karl Uhle , he made a significant contribution to the fact that VfB 1905/06 was able to win both the Central German and the German championship title, as it did three years earlier. To 5: 0 in the playoff for a place in the final against Viktoria Magdeburg he three times carried in with the scorer, scored in the three finals games flowering seven goals, the most important of them in the final, when he against 1. FC Pforzheim an edge from right wing Karl Uhle converted to 1-0, Heinrich Riso later scored the 2-1 winning goal. In the two following years VfB failed early in the Central German championship, when the Leipzigers made the next entry into the final round in the 1909/10 round, Blüher was no longer there, he had meanwhile returned to his home club Leipziger BC .

Selection team

Edgar Blüher (5th from left)
and teammates who won the Crown Prince Cup in 1909.

But he was able to celebrate another title with the VBMV team: in the spring of 1909 he contributed three goals each in the semi-finals and in the final of the first ever Crown Prince Cup in the victories over northeast Germany (8-0) and Berlin (3-1). In 1909/10 he was, meanwhile back in the service of the LBC, again nominated for the games in the Crown Prince's Cup, in the 5-2 success in the quarter-final against Northern Germany, Blüher scored two more goals. In the semifinals against southern Germany, the storm series, which consisted exclusively of Leipzig players, was less successful, central Germany lost 2: 6. Despite his success in the regional association cup, Blüher was never appointed to the German national team.

After completing his active career as a footballer, Blüher became a referee and already headed two championship finals in 1911, the following year the final of the Crown Prince's Cup in 1912. He later became chairman of the Leipzig BC. On the occasion of the club's 20th anniversary in 1913, he was honored with a diamond ring by his home club.

Others

Blüher died in 1919 as a result of the wounds he had suffered in the First World War .

Web links

• Edgar Blüher in the database of weltfussball.de

Single references

1. ↑ Note in the Sport-Tagblatt . April 1, 1919, p. 3.

literature

• Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 , p. 27.