Karl Auer (soccer player)

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Karl Auer (born August 12, 1898 - February 21, 1945 in the Soviet Union ) was a German football player . He won the German championship with SpVgg Fürth in 1926 and was used in three games for the senior national team from 1924 to 1926 .

Career

Karl Auer, who grew up from the youth of the “Kleeblatt” eleven, was a member of the first team of the Fürth game association from the 1920/21 season. The small, nimble winger made his breakthrough - he could be used on the right or left - in the 1922/23 season. Fürth won the South German Championship and failed in the final round of the German Championship only in the semifinals after a 1: 2 defeat against Union Oberschöneweide. With the selection team of the South German Football Association , he stood as a winger on February 25, 1923 in Frankfurt in the final of the national cup against the selection team of the West German Game Association . The south won the cup with a 2-1 victory and Auer stormed on the left wing. The strikers were right winger Georg Wunderlich from the Stuttgarter Kickers and his teammates Andreas Franz , Leonhard Seiderer and Willi Ascherl . On January 7, 1923, he was a member of the Fürth team that outclassed the reigning German champions Hamburger SV in a friendly match at the Ronhof with a 10-0 win.

On January 13, 1924, the international match against the national team of Austria took place in Nuremberg . A combination of only Fürth and Nuremberg players was called up. The attack of the DFB-Elf came with him as a debutant on right winger, his club teammates Andreas Franz and Leonhard Seiderer and the two Nürnbergers Ludwig Wieder and Hans Sutor . In the 4: 3 victory, Auer gave the senior national team a 1: 0 lead in the 24th minute. Four weeks later, on 17 February 1924 he won with the national team of South German Football Association for the second time the final of the German Cup . Again in Frankfurt he prevailed with his teammates with 4-2 goals against the national team of the North German Football Association . Here, too, he succeeded in gaining a 1-0 lead. On April 21 of the same year he succeeded together with the senior team, the first victory over a national team of the Netherlands ; Auer scored the 1-0 winner in the 26th minute. In his second international match, he stormed alongside Andreas Franz, Leonhard Seiderer, Nuremberg's Heinrich Träger and the other Fürth attacker Willi Ascherl. A third international match against Sweden followed on June 20, 1926 .

In the 1925/26 season Auer was second with Fürth in the South German Championship and thus moved back into the final round of the German Championship. With successes over FC Viktoria Forst , Breslauer SC 08 and in the semi-finals against Holstein Kiel , the Ronhof team made it to the finals. On June 13, 1926, the game association prevailed 4-1 against Hertha BSC and won the German championship for the second time in the club's history. Auer managed to score the 2-1 lead. Seven days after the triumph, he made his third international match. On June 20, 1926, the German team received the Swedish national team in Nuremberg . The game ended 3: 3 draw and the attack had acted in the line-up with Auer, Andreas Franz, Otto Harder , Josef Pöttinger and Ludwig Hofmann .

The following season closed the green-whites , who were coached this season by the English coach William Townley , as runner-up and were still qualified for the finals. In the final round of the German championship, she had to do with the Breslauer Sportfreunde (3: 1) and Kickers 1900 Berlin (9: 0 victory with four goals from Auer), before it was in the semifinals against the team of Johannes Sobeck and Willi Kirsei went. Hertha BSC managed to take revenge for the final defeat of the previous year and prevailed on May 29, 1927 in Leipzig in front of 25,000 spectators in the VfB Stadium with 2-1 goals and instead of the defending champion in the final. When Fürth was able to bring the championship back to the Ronhof on July 28, 1929 in Nuremberg by beating Hertha BSC 3-2, a player named Auer stormed the right wing again, but now it was Karl's younger brother, Heinrich Auer .

Karl Auer, the small, nimble right winger, moved to Würzburger FV for the 1930/31 season and let his career end there. He died as a soldier in the Soviet Union during World War II .

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SURNAME Auer, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1898
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1945
Place of death Soviet Union