Karl Braunsteiner

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Karl Braunsteiner (left), here with Seppl Brandstätter von Rapid , at the 1912 Olympic Games

Karl Braunsteiner (born October 27, 1891 in Vienna , † April 19, 1916 in Tashkent in the Russian Empire , today Uzbekistan ) was an Austrian football player . With the Wiener Sport-Club he won the Challenge Cup in 1911 and was runner-up with the club the following year. With the Austrian national team , for which he played a total of eight times, he took part in the 1912 Olympic Games . During the First World War he died in captivity.

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Karl Braunsteiner came from the 17th district of Hernals in Vienna . He is described as a young man 168 centimeters tall, with blue eyes, "light blond hair" and a small nose. Willy Schmieger , himself a national player, later a functionary, journalist and one of the great pioneers of football coverage on Austrian radio, is considered to be his footballer discoverer .

Braunsteiner, who is equally valuable in all positions and is often assessed as a "talent of the century", won the Challenge Cup with the Wiener Sport-Club in 1911 in the games against Ferencváros Budapest , alongside Schmiegers . In 1912 he became Austrian runner- up with the Dornbach club .

In the national team he made his debut at the age of twenty on May 5, 1912 in Vienna in a 1-1 draw against Hungary. In June and July of that year he took part with the national team at the Olympic Games in Stockholm . There he played all five games. Austria was eliminated in the quarter-finals against the Netherlands, but moved into the final in the "consolation round" held at the time, where they lost 3-0 to Hungary, which at that time was still part of the dual monarchy with Austria.

With the national team he won 3-1 against Italy in Genoa in 1912 and in May 1914 in Vienna on the WAC-Platz in front of 22,000 spectators with 2-0 against Hungary, which at one time was a new Austrian record.

At the outbreak of the First World War he was assigned to the fortress artillery regiment No. 1 , which was immediately assigned to the Galician fortress Przemyśl , where 120,000 Austrian soldiers were soon surrounded by Russian troops. In the freezing winter of 1915, relief failed. The fortress commander Hermann Kusmanek von Burgneustädten attempted a desperate escape attempt in March, which failed on the first day. 117,000 men were taken prisoner. Most of them did not survive the horrific POW camps. Braunsteiner died on April 19, 1916 in captivity in Tashkent on typhus .

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SURNAME Braunsteiner, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian national soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1916
Place of death Tashkent