Hermann Lux (soccer player)

Hermann Lux (born September 20, 1893 in Berlin ; † January 3, 1962 ) was a German football player .

Career

Lux was born in Berlin and made his first appearance in football at Union 08 Kiel, before he drew attention to himself in the 1922/23 season for Union Oberschöneweide in the Association of Brandenburg Ball Game Clubs . After the round-robin tournament of group A was able to complete, consisting of ten teams, after home and away with his crew first, he won with it the final of the Berlin championship with 4: 2 on the winner of Group 2 forward 90 Berlin after Return leg. He and his team qualified for the final round of the German Championship, in which he scored two goals in three games, but lost the final on June 10, 1923 in Berlin with 0: 3 against Hamburger SV .

From 1923 to 1932 he was then active for the Berlin tennis club Borussia . In the seasons 1927/28 , 1928/29 , 1929/30 he won the group with his team, but lost in the final to Hertha BSC ; so also in 1930/31 when group B in the Berlin-Brandenburg district was won. Only in his last season did he win the VBB finals . For the Berlin team, he also played five final rounds of the German championship, each in the round of 16 and once in the quarter-finals .

Lux played three international matches for the senior national team , making his debut on August 31, 1924 in the 1: 4 defeat in the Test against the national team of Sweden in Berlin . His nomination was due to the positive effect that the players of 1. FC Nürnberg and SpVgg Fürth did not want to stand together on the pitch and thus the regular line-up of the national team was missing. He had his last two appearances in the DFB jersey in 1925, on March 29 in Amsterdam in the 2-1 defeat against the national team of the Netherlands and on June 26 in Helsinki in the 5-3 victory over the national team of Finland .

Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .