Hans Appel

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Hans Appel
Personnel
birthday June 8, 1911
place of birth Berlin ,  German Empire
date of death July 27, 1973
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
1922-1924 Wilmersdorfer SC
1924-1930 Hertha BSC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1930-1931 Hertha BSC
1931-1946 Berliner SV 1892
1946-1952 FC St. Pauli
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1933-1938 Germany 5 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1952 FC St. Pauli
1955-1958 VfR Neumünster
1 Only league games are given.

Hans Appel (born June 8, 1911 in Berlin ; † July 27, 1973 ), also known as "Hänschen", was a German football player who won the German championship in 1931 as an active member of Hertha BSC and from 1933 to 1938 in the A -National team completed five international matches.

Player career

societies

Appel began playing football as a student at Wilmersdorfer SC . Mainly used as a defender , he initially played as a senior for Hertha BSC point games, with which he won the German championship title in 1931 . With the Berliner SV 92 he won the championship in the Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg in 1936, 1938 and 1943 and then took part in the final round of the German championship.

During the Second World War , he joined the Air Force for LSV Adler Tarnowitz in 1942/43 , the surprise team in the Upper Silesian Gauliga .

After the war he played in the “wonder team” of FC St. Pauli , who u. a. and Helmut Schön , Karl Miller , Walter Dzur and Harald Stender belonged. The veteran took part in the final round of the German championship four times in a row with FC St. Pauli from 1948 to 1951. No other player has ever played in games in this competition for an extended period of time - 21 seasons or 20 calendar years.

Selection / national team

At the age of 18, Appel played in the selection team of the Association of Brandenburg Ball Game Clubs and then wore the jersey with the Berlin Bear a total of 106 times up to 1940, in the last few years always as the team captain of this very important representative team.

From 1933 to 1938 he played a total of five international matches for the senior national team . He made his debut under Reich coach Otto Nerz on December 3, 1933 in his hometown in a 1-0 victory over the national team of Poland , in which Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels sat in the official gallery together with the Polish ambassador Józef Lipski . Appel formed the runner row together with the two players Paul Janes and Jakob Bender from Fortuna Düsseldorf . With his fifth game as a national player on September 25, 1938 in Bucharest against the national team of Romania , now under Sepp Herberger , he said goodbye to the national team.

Coaching career

After his active career, Appel was also successful as a trainer . So he led u. a. the VfR Neumünster 1955 from the district league to the Oberliga Nord . Here his team became a favorite scare in the first season. Only Hannover 96 could boast of having won in Neumünster. In 1952 he was also available for a short time as a trainer for “his” FC St. Pauli.

Others

Appel acted in the role of a soccer player in the sports film Das Großes Spiel, produced by Robert Adolf Stemmle and published in 1942 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Tauber: German national soccer players. Player statistics from A to Z. Updated and advanced Edition. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-89784-366-0 , p. 12.
  2. ↑ Jens R.Prüss: http://www.pruess.de , as well as the FC St.Pauli Vereinsenzyklopädie Verlag Die Werkstatt ISBN 978-3-89533-613-3 .
  3. ^ Oberschlesischer Kurier, September 8, 1942, p. 4.
  4. ↑ Der Kicker, December 5, 1933, p. 2.
  5. ↑ Hans Appel on imdb.com
personal data
SURNAME Appel, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1973