Herbert Schmidt (soccer player)

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Herbert Schmidt (life dates unknown) was a German football player .

Career

The striker Herbert Schmidt initially played for the Union 02 Bielefeld club , which was active in workers' sports. Although the Unioners never reached the final round of the German championship of the Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association , Schmidt became the German national player. There he played with Alfons Beckenbauer , the uncle of Franz Beckenbauer , in the storm. In 1931 Herbert Schmidt was part of the German squad for the Workers' Olympiad in Vienna . Schmidt scored three goals in the 9-0 win over Hungary in the Prater Stadium , while center forward Erwin Seeler scored five goals. In the final, the German team lost 3-2 to hosts Austria .

In 1932 Schmidt was featured on the front page of the magazine Fußballstürmer on the occasion of his 25th international match . This was remarkable in that star cult was frowned upon in workers' sport. When the National Socialists came to power in 1933, the workers' sports movement was banned. Herbert Schmidt switched to the civil association TuRa Leipzig together with his brothers Willy and Gerhard . This works team was founded in 1932 by the entrepreneur Carl M. Schwarz and in 1936 reached the then first-class Gauliga Sachsen . In 1940 Schmidt completed an assignment for the Leipziger in the Tschammerpokal , the predecessor of the DFB-Pokal .

Herbert Schmidt was described as "the Fritz Walter of the German ATSB selection" because of his technical skills .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf Frommhagen: The European Workers' Football Championship. Arbeiterfussball.de, accessed on January 13, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Rolf Frommhagen: The soccer tournaments of the workers' Olympics. Arbeiterfussball.de, accessed on December 31, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Werner Skrentny: Workers' sports clubs in the Ruhr area "Goal and title completely indifferent". (No longer available online.) Arbeiterfussball.de, archived from the original on December 31, 2017 ; accessed on December 31, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arbeiterfussball.de
  4. ↑ Hardy Grune , Hansjürgen Jablonski, Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling , Matthias Thoma and Frank Willig: Football clubs and their sponsors . In: Zeitspiel, No. 8, page 37
  5. ↑ 800 facts about Bielefeld (part 14). Neue Westfälische , accessed on December 31, 2017 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century or 20th century
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century