Franz Jelinek

This article describes the Austrian soccer player of the 1940s; for the Austrian football player who completed an international match in 1928 and was active at SC Wacker Vienna , see Franz Jellinek .

Franz Jelinek (born July 19, 1922 in Vienna , † May 20, 1944 in Pastena ) was an Austrian football player .

Career

societies

From 1939 to 1944, Jelinek belonged to the Vienna Sport Club as a promising striker , for whom he was in the Gauliga Ostmark from 1940 to 1942 , 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 including the annexed areas, played point games. In his first season in the senior division, he scored the most of his club when he was 19 with 17 goals. In the following season, his last for the Wiener Sport-Club, he was top scorer with 20 goals - together with Ernst Reitermaier . With his team he took part in the competition for the Tschammerpokal and played the second round game, won 9-1 against NSTG Vitkovice on September 8, 1940, in which he scored three goals. On September 29, 1940, he prevailed in the city ​​derby against SC Wacker Wien 6: 5 afterwards , with two goals, including the winning goal in the 99th minute. With the 1: 2 quarterfinal defeat on October 20, 1940 against Fortuna Düsseldorf , he was eliminated from the competition with the Viennese.

Selection / national team

The achievements he had shown up to then - and also those of Ludwig Durek , who was a year older than him and played on the left wing - did not go unnoticed by Reich coach Sepp Herberger . Both made their debut on September 15, 1940 in the senior national team , which won the friendly against the national team of Slovakia 1-0 in Bratislava with a goal scored by Durek in the 81st minute . His achievements led to the fact that he lost on October 6, 1940 in Frankfurt am Main in the district selection team Ostmark the preliminary round game in the district selection competition for the Reichsbundpokal with 2: 5 against the district selection team Southwest . Although he had been invited to another course in March 1941, he did not come to internationals, while Durek completed five more internationals and scored another goal.

successes

• Austrian top scorer in 1942 (with 20 goals; together with Ernst Reitermaier )

Others

Jelinek, called up for service in the Wehrmacht , fell as a soldier on May 20, 1944 after the battle of Monte Cassino .

Web links

• Franz Jelinek in the database of weltfussball.de
• Franz Jelinek on dfb .de
• Franz Jelinek on footballdatabase.eu

Individual evidence

1. ↑ index of the loss and grave messages fallen German soldiers 1939-1945 (-1948), Federal Archives B 563-2, No. 932/1112 GA. see. also Franz Jelinek in the database of weltfussball.de.