Karl Miller (soccer player)

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Karl Miller (born October 2, 1913 in Hamburg ; † April 18, 1967 ) was a German soccer player who played 12 appearances for the German national soccer team in 1941 and 1942 .

Career

FC St. Pauli, 1930-1950

The son of a butcher from the north of Hamburg's Neustadt district celebrated the outstanding sporting successes in his career not with his club FC St. Pauli , but as a "guest player" in the rounds of the Second World War at Dresdner SC and LSV Hamburg . Karl Miller made his debut in the 1932/33 round at FC St. Pauli and was called up in 1936 for his first representative game for the Nordmark selection against North Holland. In the years before the Second World War in the Gauliga Nordmark and from 1941 in the Gauliga Hamburg , St. Pauli did not play the role of the main rival of Hamburger SV . The Eimsbüttel TV played on a par with HSV. Behind them mostly Altona 93 and SC Victoria Hamburg fought for places. It was only after the Second World War that the weighting in Hamburg football shifted - thanks to Karl Miller's essential commitment as an active player and contact person for new players.

Guest player at Dresdner SC and LSV Hamburg

Karl Miller was posted to Dresden as a soldier in 1940. There he got to know players at Dresdner SC who knew how to play football of the more technically demanding kind. The DSC had built a top team around the outstanding players Richard Hofmann and Helmut Schön and made it to the finals of the Tschammer Cup in 1940 and 1941 . As a strong defender, Karl Miller contributed to the stability of the defensive and thus had a share in the cup wins against 1. FC Nürnberg and Schalke 04 . After the semi-final defeat against Rapid Vienna in the finals in 1941, Karl Miller and his team-mates from DSC reached third place. In the ranks of the LSV (Luftwaffensportverein) Hamburg he lost his third cup final in 1943 against Vienna Wien with 2: 3 goals after extra time. He played the last final during the war years for the German soccer championship in Berlin on June 18, 1944 with LSV Hamburg against his former comrades from Dresdner SC. With a clear 4-0 victory, the Saxons decided the final for themselves.

National team, 1941–1942

Karl Miller was invited by Reich trainer Sepp Herberger to the DFB course from March 24th to 29th, 1941. After completing the course, he and his colleagues in defense Paul Janes and Jakob Streitle were called up for the international match against Hungary on April 6, 1941 in Cologne. The original Paulian Karl Miller played his first game in the German national football team in a 7-0 win against Hungary alongside Paul Janes. In 1941 there were four more missions in the national team. On November 22, 1942, he completed his twelfth international match in a 5-2 win in Pressburg against Slovakia. The Second World War caused the national soccer team to be suspended until November 22, 1950. In Karl Miller's twelve national games, the DFB-Elf had eight wins, two draws and two defeats.

City League Hamburg and Oberliga Nord, 1945–1950

Immediately after the end of World War II , the championship was played in a Hamburg city league. In 1946 St. Pauli became vice and in 1947 champion. The first round of the Oberliga Nord in 1947/48 ended with Hamburger SV and St. Pauli tied with 37: 7 points at the top of the table. The men from Millerntor moved in a row in the years 1948–51 in the final round of the German football championship. The reason for this sporting success is said to have been a butcher shop in Wexstrasse 39 in Hamburg's Neustadt district. The slaughterhouse operated by Karl Miller senior plays an almost mythical role in the history of FC St. Pauli. The father's business was the core of the argument of Karl Miller junior, who succeeded in luring numerous top German players to the Millerntor after the fall of the Third Reich. Not only the battle cry of Karl Miller senior in the stadium ("Radau, Radau, Radau") became a legend, but also the many years of catering for almost the entire St. Pauli team in his sausage kitchen. Thanks to his contacts in the gaming scene and his talent for organizing, Karl Miller junior brought the players of the “wonder team” with the Dresden residents and other newcomers from the east to Hamburg (including Helmut Schön , Hans Appel and Willi Thiele). In the two finals in 1948 and 1949 he was still on the field as an active player for St. Pauli. After the 1949/50 season, Karl Miller resigned as a player in May at the age of 37. In the spring he had played the international friendlies against Newell Old Boys Rosario and Rapid Vienna with Ernst Happel and Max Merkel in defense.

Others

  • Miller acted in the role of a football player in the 1941 Robert Adolf Stemmle produced and 1942 published sports film "The Big Game" with.
  • After his playing days, Karl Miller remained connected to FC St. Pauli through his work in the league committee.
  • Miller was elected to the team of the century at FC St. Pauli in 2010.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Karl Miller - International Appearances . RSSSF.com . July 23, 2020. Accessed July 23, 2020.
  2. ↑ The big game on imdb .com
  3. ↑ The FC St. Pauli century eleven has been determined
personal data
SURNAME Miller, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1967