Karl Rainer

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Karl Rainer (born July 1, 1901 in Vienna ; † June 9, 1987 there ) was an Austrian national soccer player . He was the right back of the legendary miracle team and won with his original club Vienna next two championships and the 1931 Mitropa Cup .

Career

Karl Rainer started his football career at FC Sturm 07 . Josef Blum brought him from Favoriten to the first division club First Vienna FC 1894 in Döbling , where the two soon emerged as the best Austrian baking couple alongside Beer - Teufel . Karl Rainer impressed with his positional play and was a regular player in the blue-yellow between 1921 and 1938; together with Willibald Schmaus after Blum left in 1933 . He played a total of 882 matches for Vienna before he found a successor in Otto Kaller .

With his club, Karl Rainer was able to become Austrian champion at his wedding in 1931 and 1933 , win the ÖFB Cup in 1929 and 1930 and, to top it off, win the Mitropa Cup in 1931 . With the Austrian national team he became known as a miracle team during this time and was able to perfect the European Cup victory in 1932 . Alternating with Rapidler Roman Schramseis , who also came from Favoriten, he was used by Hugo Meisl as the right back.

Karl Rainer came, among others, the pleasure of the 5: 0 against Germany at the opening of the Prater Stadium , the 8: 1 away win against Switzerland and the "match of the century" against England the subsequent 6 in Wembley and 1 on the way home to Belgium to attend .

In the early 1940s, Rainer was the coach of SC Wacker Vienna , but in 1942 he stepped into the Vienna team at short notice due to a lack of players. After the end of the war he worked as a trainer at the Vienna AC , Vienna and SC Justice . His grave is in the Grinzinger Friedhof in Vienna (group 21, row 9, number 2).

Others

In October 1940 Karl Rainer joined the NSDAP . According to Eva Menasse, in October 1938 he “Aryanized” the apartment of her grandparents Richard and Adolphine Menasse on Döblinger Hauptstrasse 13, where Hans Menasse , 1947-1957 player of First Vienna FC 1894 , also lived. A little later, in December 1938, Hans Menasse had to flee to England from the Nazi regime on a Kindertransport . According to an act of the Vienna City and State Archives (asset deprivation registration regulation), Rainer also took over the leather goods shop of the Jewish owner Jakob Weigel on Döblinger Hauptstrasse 21 on October 4, 1938. Weigel was murdered in 1944 in the Auschwitz extermination camp. Rainer continued to run the business after the end of the Second World War.

successes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NSDAP membership card ("Austria"): Departmental Library of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. Retrieved May 30, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Sandra Lumetsberger: "There was hardly any awareness of injustice and shame". Retrieved May 30, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Rainer, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1987
Place of death Vienna