Karl Hanssen

This article deals with the soccer player Karl Hanssen. For other people see Karl Hansen .

Karl Hanssen (born July 5, 1887 in Porto Alegre , † September 13, 1916 ) was a German football player . In 1910 and 1911 he also ran three times for the German national soccer team .

Career

societies

Nothing is known about the circumstances that brought him to the Lower Elbe from Brazil . The right winger played at Altonaer FC from 1893 from 1903 , although the Altona school supervisory board had expressly forbidden this activity to all students, and scored three goals in his first game against Hamburger FC 88. In the 1908/09 season he was with the black-white-reds after three second places Hamburg-Altonaer and then for the first time North German champion; in the final against defending champion Eintracht Braunschweig , Hanssen contributed two goals to make it 6-2. Hanssen also scored a goal in the final round of the German championship to beat the Brandenburg representative FC Tasmania Rixdorf 4-2 , but - like his storm colleagues, including the storm tank Adolf Jäger , who has now joined Altona - went empty in the semifinals against Viktoria 89 Berlin out.

He was able to defend the Hamburg-Altonaer (occasionally also "Großhamburger") title with his club in 1910, 1911 and 1912. After he had just recovered from a groin operation in 1913 and lost four teeth in a collision with an opposing player during a game of his AFC against Borussia Harburg , he stopped playing football and only played tennis . So he was no longer used in the North German Association League introduced for the 1913/14 season, in which his Altonaers won the title in front of Holstein Kiel and Hannover 96 .

National team

He made his debut as the second Altona player after Jäger, to whom he served numerous assists at the club, on October 16, 1910 in Kleve in a 2-1 draw against the Netherlands in the national team. On April 14, 1911, he was again part of the German team, which for the first time did not lose to England's amateur team, but instead wrested a 2-2 draw in Berlin - and Hanssen prepared one of the two German goals with a custom-made template from Ernst Möller from Kiel in front. After his call to the away game against Belgium on April 23 of the same year, however, he was no longer considered in the national team.

Others

Hanssen, called up for military service, died at the age of 29 as a soldier in the First World War .

Web links

• Karl Hanssen in the database of weltfussball.de
• Karl Hanssen on dfb .de

literature

• Norbert Carsten: Altona 93. 111 league years in ups and downs. The workshop, Göttingen 2003 ISBN 3-89533-437-5 .
• Andreas Meyer, Volker Stahl, Uwe Wetzner: Football Lexicon Hamburg . Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-477-1 (396 pages).