Georg Euler

Georg Euler (born December 23, 1905 , † July 14, 1998 in Cologne ), called "Schorsch", was a German football player . He was originally a striker , but later also took over the middle position.

Club career

Euler came to SpVgg Köln-Sülz 07 via the stations Viktoria Köln (1914–1920), SC Köln-Marienburg (1920–1922), Kölner BC (1922–1932) and BV 04 Düsseldorf (1932–1933), where he then left July 1933 to June 1939 and from July 1946 to June 1947 was active as an active. From 1939 to 1944 he played with Victoria 11 Köln and from 1944 to 1946 with Phönix Köln. Euler was considered one of the best technicians of his football generation. In the 1938/39 season he won the championship in the Gauliga Mittelrhein with Sülz . Fortuna Düsseldorf ( Paul Janes , Felix Zwolanowski , Jakob Bender , Ernst Albrecht , Stanislaus Kobierski ) relegated “Schorsch” Euler's team to second place in the group in the final round of the German soccer championship . In the middle of the Second World War he won the championship in the Gau Cologne-Aachen in the 1942/43 season in ranks of SV Victoria 1911 Cologne. In the final round you won against TuS Neuendorf, against FV Saarbrücken you had no chance. After the war the veteran was still active at the age of 41 in the 1946/47 round with the game association in the Rhine district in season 5, in the "Round of the Renegades" in the Middle Rhine. On February 13, 1948, the merger with BC from Cologne resulted in 1. FC Köln .

National team

Euler played on half-left on September 13, 1936 in Warsaw at 1-1 (1-0) with a friendly against Poland an international match for the German national football team . It was the German national team's first international match after the 1936 Olympic tournament in Berlin. As a further newcomer, Josef Rodzinski von Hamborn 07 made his debut in the national team. Franz Elbern from SV Beuel stormed as another player from the Middle Rhine on the right wing. Euler was the only national player to emerge from SpVgg Köln-Sülz. The fact that there was no further chance of probation had, in addition to his 31 years of age, also to do with the fact that he was mostly the spokesman for the teams in which he played and, when it came to expenses, also the spokesman for the officials. Georg Euler played representative for West Germany, was 97 times in the district selection and represented the colors of the Middle Rhine in the competitions for the Kampfspielpokal 1934, the Federal Cup 1934/35 and the Reichsbundpokal from 1935/36 to 1938/39.

Specialty

"Schorsch" Euler also made a name for himself as a strong road cyclist.

job

He earned his living from the city of Cologne.

literature

• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
• Hardy Greens : From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 1 . AGON, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .