Gustav Hensel (soccer player)

Gustav Hensel
with the German national soccer team on April 5, 1908 (4th from left)
Personnel
birthday	October 23, 1884
place of birth	Kassel ,  German Empire
date of death	August 29, 1933
Place of death	Bremen ,  Germany
position	Storm
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1903-1909	Casseler FV
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1908	Germany	1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Gustav Hensel (born October 23, 1884 in Kassel , † August 29, 1933 in Bremen ) was a German football player .

Career

societies

Hensel, a strong, fast right winger , belonged to the Casseler FV 95 from 1903 to 1909 , for which he played in 1st class in the Casseler Ballspielvereine , and from the 1906/07 season in the Rheinisch-Westfälischer Spiel-Verband . As the first first-class champion, he was qualified with the team as a participant in the final round of the 1904 German Championship . But the end for him and his team came on May 8, 1904 in the opening game in the 3: 5 defeat against Duisburg SpV . As district champion of Hesse , he advanced to the final of the West German Championship in the subsequent final round , which was clearly lost on March 24, 1907 against Düsseldorf FC 99 7-0.

National team

In 1904 he would have been able to take part in the Olympic soccer tournament in St. Louis , North America, with the German selection , if the DFB had not waived the sending of a team for cost reasons. Four years later, on April 5, 1908, the first official international match of a German national team to which Hensel belonged took place. In the 3: 5 defeat against the Swiss national team in Basel , he initiated the first German international goal with a cross, the 1-0 goal by Fritz Becker .

successes

• Second in the West German Championship in 1907
• District Master Hesse 1907 , 1909
• Master of the Casseler Ballspielvereine 1904

Others

Gustav Hensel, who came from Kassel , retired from active football in 1909 to concentrate on his profession as a wine merchant. He last lived in Bremen, where he died in 1933 at the age of only 48.

Web links

• Gustav Hensel in the database of weltfussball.de
• Gustav Hensel 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 , p. 141.
• Horst Biese, Herbert Peiler: Crosses, goals and parades. 100 years of football in Kassel. Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 1993, ISBN 3-928562-37-1 , p. 21 f.