Josef Hornauer

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Josef Hornauer (born January 14, 1908 in Munich ; † December 12, 1985 there ) was a German football player .

Career

societies

Hornauer, technically gifted and equipped with a good shot, belonged from 1925 bis 1928 the SV 1860 München that he for in the South German Football Federation discharged Championships in the District League Bayern denied in his time regional top division, point games. From 1928 to 1934 he played for 1. FC Nürnberg , his last season in the Gauliga Bayern , one of initially 16, later increased to 23 Gauligen at the time of National Socialism as the uniform top division in the German Empire . During his club membership he won the North Bavarian and once the South German championship, as well as the Bavarian Gaume Championship. Due to the successes he took part in the final round of the German championship four times with the Nuremberg team and played ten final round matches in which he scored as many goals. On July 21, 1929 , June 15, 1930 and May 29, 1932 , he and his team were eliminated with 2: 3 (in the replay), 3: 6 each against Hertha BSC and 0: 2 against FC Bayern Munich in the semi-finals out of the competition.

National team

Hornauer (5th from right) and teammates
before the international match against Italy

Hornauer played five international matches for the senior national team , for which he made his debut on April 15, 1928 in Bern in a 3-2 victory over the Swiss national team. His second international match on April 28, 1929 in Turin in a 2-1 victory over the Italian national team, he immediately crowned it with his first international goal, the 1-1 goal in the twelfth minute. In the hell of Turin , however, it was mainly thanks to Heinrich Stuhlfauth who outgrew himself on that day and thwarted all Italian opportunities. With this victory, however, German football gained final recognition and attention. His last appearance as a national player he had on September 13, 1931 in Vienna in the 0: 5 defeat against the wonder team from Austria under the leadership of Matthias Sindelar , who scored three goals.

He also took part with the national team in the Olympic football tournament held in Amsterdam from May 27th to June 13th, 1928 and played the round of 16, won 4-0 over the Swiss national team on May 28th, and against the eventual Olympic champion 1: 4 , the Uruguayan national team lost quarter-finals . The defeat went with the unfortunate appearance and the accompanying circumstances - field expulsion for Hans Kalb and Richard Hofmann as well as the injuries of Josef Pöttinger , Heinrich Weber and Heinrich Stuhlfauth - owed as the shame of Amsterdam in the annals.

successes

Others

Hornauer's career ended spectacularly: at the age of less than 26, he broke up from one day to the next; According to rumors, he couldn't get over the fact that the player Max Eiberger was once preferred to him.

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