Heinz Croy

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Heinz Croy (born January 28, 1913 in Saxony , † (before June 14, 1944 in the Balkans ) was a German football goalkeeper and a payroll clerk. He played u. a. for TuRa Leipzig , the Zwickauer SC and the Planitzer SC .

In the 1940s, he was next to Willibald Kreß as the best goalkeeper in Saxony and was also Saxony's number 1 goalkeeper at times . Croy played several times for the Central German selection.

On April 21, 1935 he was in goal when TuRa Leipzig defeated German champions Schalke 04 2-1 in front of 30,000 spectators on the Leipzig sports field .

Between 1939 and 1941 he played with the Planitzer SC in the DFB Cup . With the Planitzer SC he was in 1942 Gaumeister of the 1st league of Saxony ( Gauliga Sachsen ), so Saxon football champion.

Croy was Jürgen Croy's great-uncle .

He fell as a corporal in World War II . On June 14, 1944, it was announced that Croy had died of a wound in a hospital in the Balkans .

literature

  • Ernst-Günther Poch: warn the fate of athletes . Zittau 1991.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Free Press : Mourning the Goalkeeper , published August 19, 2015 (local sport), online , accessed on October 7, 2016
  2. ^ Ernst-Günther Poch: Sportlerschicksale mahnen, Zittau 1991, p. 87.
  3. ↑ Player profile Heinz Croy on www.weltfussball.de , accessed on October 7, 2016
  4. ^ Norbert Peschke , Dieter Völkel, Frank Kruczynski (photos): The history of FSV Zwickau . of wasp stings and heaps of heaps. Ed .: Fußball-Sport-Verein Zwickau eV Zschiesche, Wilkau-Haßlau 2012, ISBN 978-3-9815145-0-6 , p. 97 : "... (related to the later national goalkeeper Jürgen Croy) ..."
  5. ↑ Ernst-Günther Poch: Sportlerschicksale mahnen , Zittau 1991, p. 88.
personal data
SURNAME Croy, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Saxony
DATE OF DEATH before June 14, 1944
Place of death Balkans