Georg Schumann (soccer player)

Georg Schumann (born August 17, 1898 in Berlin ; † November 30, 1959 ), also known as “tiller”, was a German football player and coach .

Career

societies

Schumann belonged to Vorwärts 90 Berlin from 1918 to 1925 and came to the Berlin championship held by the Association of Brandenburgischer Ballspielvereine in a group with initially 18 teams, then decreasing and from the 1920/21 season divided into two groups, in a round-robin tournament with a round trip for use.

As the winner of Group B , he and his team also won the two-legged final against the winner of Group A, BFC Preussen , with an overall result of 4: 1. He and his team qualified as a participant in the final round of the German championship and lost to 1. FC Nuremberg in the final on June 12, 1921 in Berlin with 1: 5 . At the end of the 1922/23 season , he and the team again emerged victorious in Group B , but this time lost the final against the winner of Group A, SC Union Oberschöneweide, after a two-way leg with 2: 4.

The season 1925/26 and 1926/27 he was for 1. FC Kattowitz , one of two German clubs that were approved by the PZPN , the Polish Football Association, for the top regional league, the Silesian A-Class.

Moved to the Berlin tennis club Borussia for the 1927/28 season, he won Group B , but lost to the winner of Group A, Hertha BSC , the two final games in total with 4: 8 - including the necessary play-off. The final pairing was repeated in 1928/29 , in which Hertha BSC remained successful 7: 4 after the two-way leg and defended the title of the Berlin champions.

Despite both defeats in the final, he and his team qualified for the final round of the German championship. In 1927/28 and 1928/29 - Schumann played two games each - the Berlin tennis club Borussia was eliminated from the competition in the quarter-finals.

National team

He played his only international match for the senior national team on August 31, 1924 against the Swedish national team , which was lost 4-1 in Berlin .

successes

• Finalist German Championship 1921

Others

After the end of the Second World War he trained in the Berlin City League , as one of the five highest German leagues at the time , the SG Köpenick ( 1947/48 ), the SG Charlottenburg ( 1948/49 ) and the new league VfB Britz ( 1949/50 ), with which he could keep the class.

Web links

• Georg Schumann in the database of weltfussball.de
• Georg Schumann on dfb .de

literature

• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .