Ernst Plener

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Ernst Plener (born February 21, 1919 in Katowice ; † March 16, 2007 in Schweinfurt ) was a German football player from Vorwärts-Lawn Sport Gliwice . In 1940 he came to two missions in the senior national team under coach Sepp Herberger .

Career

societies

With forward lawn sport Gleiwitz he was represented in the finals for the German championship from 1938 to 1941 and played 20 final round games in which he scored nine goals during this period. As second in the group , he and his team from Gleiwitz in Upper Silesia in 1939 seriously attacked the future German champions FC Schalke 04 . The sure combination footballer impressed on the right wing with his soulful flanks. For the club he played in three consecutive years from 1938 a total of eight games in the competition for the 1935 newly introduced competition for the Tschammer Cup and scored three goals. He made his debut on August 28, 1938 in a 3-2 first-round victory at the Police SV Berlin , his first goal in this competition was the 1-0 winner against Brandenburger SC 05 on October 9 in the round of 16 .

During his guest appearances for the Breslauer SpVgg 02 he played together with his teammates from Gleiwitz, Reinhard Schaletzki and August Klingler . He was also successful with the Heeressportverein Groß Born , but failed on June 4, 1944 - together with Edmund Conen and Wilhelm Sold - in the semifinals of the German championship with 2: 3 at the Luftwaffe-Sportverein Hamburg . For the club he also played the first round game for the Tschammer Cup, which he won 5: 3 against TuS Lipine on August 22, 1943, and the last sixteen against First Vienna FC, which he lost 5: 6 on September 19, 1943 .

National team

Plener made his debut - together with Fritz Walter - on July 14, 1940 in Frankfurt am Main in the international match of the senior national team , which won the friendly against the Romanian national team 9-3. His second game as a national player on September 1, 1940 in Leipzig also ended with a high score ; the national team of Finland was defeated 13: 0 and is - with the result achieved on September 6, 2006 against the national team of San Marinos - the second-highest victory of a DFB- Elf to date.

Others

On September 3, 1944, Plener was seriously wounded , so that his leg had to be amputated. After the end of the Second World War he lived in Schweinfurt and worked in the local employment office. He was involved in disabled sports in his adopted home and was an avid soccer player. Parts of his estate are in the archives of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History .

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Individual evidence

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