Gustav Carstens

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Gustav Carstens (born August 16, 1913 , † October 9, 1973 in Kiel ), nicknamed "Guschi", was a German football player .

Career

He appeared as a left winger at Hamburger SV and as a guest player at Dresdner SC , then at LSV Berlin . Carstens was with the HSV between 1937 and 1939 three times in a row together with Erwin Seeler and Richard Dörfel in the semifinals of the German soccer championships. In 1938 Carstens was in the North German team and was also part of the successful Nordmark team on March 6th in Erfurt, which won the final against Südwest with 3-1 goals. The attack by the Reichsbund Cup winner consisted of Wilhelm Ahlers, Herbert Panse , Werner Höffmann , Rudolf Noack and Gustav Carstens.

During the Second World War he played alongside the later national coach Helmut Schön , Richard Hofmann and Willibald Kreß in Dresden and celebrated his greatest successes there. In 1940 he won the Tschammer Cup with the DSC , and a year later he repeated the success with the same team. In the 2-1 win over FC Schalke 04 , he scored the winning goal with the goal in the 88th minute. On September 7, 1941, he won the Reichsbund Cup for the second time. Now with Saxony with a 2-0 win against Bayern. Heiner Kugler , Heiner Schaffer , Ernst Willimowski , Helmut Schön and Carstens formed the attack.

He played a total of 115 games (69 goals) at Hamburger SV from 1936 to 1942, including 29 appearances in the finals of the German championship, where he scored 19 goals for the "Rothosen".

After the end of the Second World War, in which a war injury forced him to retire, Carstens made his way to Kiel via Hamburg and Rendsburg. There he coached VfB Kiel , VfB Bordesholm , NDTSV Holsatia Kiel and FC Kilia Kiel, among others . Occasionally he still played in the reserve and traditional team of HSV.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Goals, points, players: the complete HSV statistics . compiled by Jens Reimer Prüß and Hartmut Irle. Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-586-0 , p. 334 (352 pages).

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personal data
SURNAME Carstens, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carstens, Guschi (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1913
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1973
Place of death Kiel , Germany