Karl Burger (soccer player)

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Karl Burger (born December 26, 1883 in Stuttgart , † October 3, 1959 in Freudenstadt ) was a German football player .

Career

Karl Burger (left) with the
German national soccer team on July 1, 1912

Burger began his football career around 1896 with Sportfreunde Stuttgart . In 1904 he left Stuttgart and switched to TV 1847 Augsburg , for which he was on the field until 1907. He achieved his breakthrough when he switched to SpVgg Fürth in March 1908 . As a left wing runner, he earned a regular place with the Franks and was appointed to the German national team for the first time in 1909 . With the southern German team he won the Crown Prince's Cup in 1910 and 1912 , and between 1908 and 1918 he played a total of eleven times for the southern German team in this competition. From 1911 he had a regular place in the DFB-Elf and was part of the squad at the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912. In his eleventh and last international match, the 16-0 victory over Russia during the Olympic tournament, he scored his only goal in the national jersey.

In 1914, Burger became the South German champions for the first time with Fürth and then also German champions thanks to a 3-2 win over VfB Leipzig . After the First World War he returned to Sportfreunde Stuttgart in 1919. In 1921 he moved again to Augsburg, before he played on the SC Breslau 08 (1923-1924) for a year at Dresdner SC and in 1925 ended his active career. In his last seasons, Burger often took on more defensive tasks and mostly played as a defender. After his active career, he worked as a trainer in Castrop, Dresden and Breslau, among others. In the 1930/31 season he worked in this role at Meidericher SV and stood with the club from Duisburg in the round of 16 of the German championship finals. He then trained for a year with FC Stuttgarter Kickers and from 1932 worked again for his former club, Sportfreunde Stuttgart.

After his time as a footballer, Burger lived for a long time in Waibstadt in the Rhein-Neckar district . There he was acting mayor of the city from May 1945 to August 1945. Karl Burger and later his heirs ran a hotel and cinema in the city until 1965.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Burger - Kinowiki. Retrieved April 21, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Burger, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH 3rd October 1959
Place of death Freudenstadt