Ernst Kaltenbrunner (soccer player)

Ernst Kaltenbrunner (born June 5, 1937 - † July 11, 1967 ) was an Austrian national soccer player .

Career

Ernst Kaltenbrunner began his football career at the Zellerndorf Sports Association in northern Lower Austria, where he was a founding member of the fighting team in 1952. As early as 1955/56 he ran in the A-League for SK Admira Vienna as a center forward and knew how to convince with 15 league goals in his debut season. His most successful time was at the WAC , to which he moved in 1957 and where his younger brother Günter Kaltenbrunner later followed. In the three seasons between 1958 and 1961 alone, he scored 74 goals in the A-League, with Friedrich Cejka being at least as strong a strike partner.

The reward for the goals at the WAC were two third places in the championship and the associated participation in the International Football Cup . In 1959, he even won the ÖFB Cup , and here too Ernst Kaltenbrunner demonstrated his shooting power and scored the second goal in the final in a 2-0 win over Rapid . A personal highlight was the call-up to the Austrian national team under Karl Decker . In his only appearance on December 12, 1960 in Naples, he scored the winning goal in a 2-1 away win over Italy .

The Kaltenbrunner brothers were brought back to Admira by Hans Pesser in 1961, whereby Ernst Kaltenbrunner was hardly used and returned to the WAC in 1963, but with this club in 1965 had to accept relegation. Marked by his illness, he could no longer tackle the rise again with the black and red team, but became a youth coach at SV Schwechat and died just a few days after his 30th birthday in 1967.

successes

• 1 × Austrian Cup winner : 1959

• 1 international match and 1 goal for the Austrian national soccer team in 1960