Ernst Albrecht (soccer player)

Ernst Albrecht
6th from the left before the international match against Italy
Personnel
birthday	November 12, 1907
place of birth	Düsseldorf ,  German Empire
date of death	March 26, 1976
Juniors
Years	station
1914-1924	Fortuna Dusseldorf
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1924-1947	Fortuna Dusseldorf
1951-1952	Police Sports Association Düsseldorf
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1928-1934	Germany	17 (4)
1 Only league games are given.

Ernst Albrecht (born November 12, 1907 in Düsseldorf ; † March 26, 1976 ) was a German football player.

Career

societies

Albrecht, born and raised in the Düsseldorf district of Flingern , belonged to Fortuna Düsseldorf from 1923 to 1945 , for which he played point games in the championships held by the West German Game Association in the Gau Berg-Mark , from the 1925/26 season in the Berg-Mark district denied. As a fast and extremely reliable right winger, he made his debut in the Fortuna Düsseldorf league team in 1924. However, he could not claim a regular seat for himself for the time being; It was not until the 1927/28 season that he achieved his breakthrough.

From 1933 to 1945 he played in the Gauliga Niederrhein , in one of initially 16, later increased to 23 Gauligen at the time of National Socialism as the uniform top division in the German Reich .

During his club membership, he won five regional championship titles with his team, before he took part in the finals of the German championship due to the successes, and in 1933 was able to record his greatest success with the German championship. In the final, which was played on June 11, 1933 in Cologne against FC Schalke 04 , he was not available due to an injury suffered in the run-up to the final round. In the final , which was reached again on June 21, 1936 in Berlin, he stormed the right winger; however, 1. FC Nürnberg won 2-1 afterwards. Furthermore, he won the Lower Rhine Gaume Championship five times in a row. After the Second World War he was still active as a player - coach at the Düsseldorf SC Viktoria 02 , the police sports club Düsseldorf and the Holzheimer sports community .

Selection / national team

Albrecht played 17 international matches for the senior national team , for which he scored four goals. He crowned his debut on April 15, 1928 in Bern in a 3-2 victory over the Swiss national team with his first goal, the 3-0 goal in the 61st minute. He played his last game as a national player on March 11, 1934 in Luxembourg in a 9-1 victory over the national team of Luxembourg . Although he had always been a regular up until then, he was ousted by Ernst Lehner from Augsburg just before the 1934 World Cup in Italy . He was part of the World Cup squad , but was not used in the team that finished the tournament under Reich coach Otto Nerz in third place.

He also took part in the Olympic football tournament held in Amsterdam from May 27 to June 13, 1928, winning the 4-0 round of 16 over the Swiss national team on May 28 and the 1: 4 quarter-finals on June 3 -Defeat against the Uruguayan national team.

As a player in the Niederrhein district electoral team , he took part in the competition for the Reichsbund Cup in 1936/37 . After the semi-finals held in Berlin on February 7, 1937, were won 4: 3 against the regional selection team Berlin-Brandenburg , he and his team - including his club teammates Paul Janes as right defender and Jakob Bender as left wing runner - also won that on 27. february 1937 in Berlin against the Gauauswahlmannschaft Saxony discharged finals with 2: 1 and the cup.

successes

• Third in the 1934 World Cup (without use)
• Gaumeister Niederrhein 1936 , 1937 , 1938 , 1939 , 1940
• Reichsbund Cup winner 1937
• German champion 1933
• West German champion 1931
• District Master Berg-Mark 1927 , 1929 , 1931 , 1933

Others

From 1952, he devoted himself exclusively to his Lotto - Toto acceptance point in downtown Düsseldorf.

Web links

• Ernst Albrecht in the database of weltfussball.de
• Ernst Albrecht on dfb .de

literature

• Knieriem / Grüne: Spiellexikon 1890–1963. Agon-Verlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• Bolten / Langer: "Everything else is just football". The story of Fortuna Düsseldorf. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 978-3-89533-711-6 .
• Stephan Vogel: Fortuna Düsseldorf under National Socialism . tredition, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7439-1935-8 .