Franz Burger (soccer player)

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Franz Burger (* 1893 - November 1940 ) was a German football player .

Career

Karlsruhe FV

Franz Burger was born in 1893. He belonged to the Karlsruhe FV , for which he played point games as a goalkeeper in the championships held by the Association of South German Soccer Clubs in the southern district from 1909 to 1912 .

During his (first) club membership he and the team won six regional championships and once the German championship, but without being used in the final round in 1910, as Adolf Dell was first choice.

It was not used until the following season and made its debut on May 7, 1911 in Fürth in a 4-0 victory in the quarter-finals over Rixdorf's FC Tasmania 1900 . 14 days later he played in Frankfurt am Main against VfB Leipzig , against which the comparison was lost with 0: 2. After the South German Championship was won for the third time in a row in 1912, he and his team again took part in the final round of the German Championship.

He was used on May 12, 1912 in the 8-1 victory in the quarter-finals over the Cölner BC 01 in Munich-Gladbach , as well as a week later in Frankfurt am Main in the 3-1 victory over SpVgg 1899 Leipzig . He played his last final game on May 26, 1912 in the Hamburg final against the finalist, who had been defeated 1-0 in 1910; but this time Holstein Kiel won 1-0 with the penalty that Ernst Möller converted in the 52nd minute .

VfR Mannheim

From January to June 1913 he played for VfR Mannheim in the Westkreis , from which his club emerged as the winner, thus qualifying for participation in the final round of the South German Championship , which finished fourth.

Karlsruhe FV

Returned to Karlsruhe for the 1913/14 season , he played again for the Karlsruher FV until the end of the 1917/18 season ; however with moderate success, due to relegation his club was only second class from July 1914.

BFC Prussia

He then joined the BFC Preussen for the 1918/19 season in Berlin, played his point games in the championship held by the Association of Brandenburg Ball Game Clubs in a group of 18 teams in a round-robin tournament with a round trip and finished his "Berlin time" in third place .

Karlsruhe FV

Returning to Karlsruhe again, he played a third time for the Karlsruher FV from 1919 to 1926 ; the first season in the district league Baden , then in the district league Southwest , and again in the district league Baden , from which the relegation to the second division resulted. It was not until his last season, 1925/26 , when he was promoted in the more competitive Württemberg / Baden district league, that he crowned it with the district championship. In the subsequent final round of the South German Championship , he and his team took the last place of six qualified teams.

After he went blind early as a result of an eye injury, he died in November 1940.

successes

Karlsruhe FV

VfR Mannheim

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