Karl Zilgas

Karl Zilgas (born March 2, 1892 in Hamburg , † June 17, 1917 ) was a German football player .

Career

societies

Zilgas belonged to SC Victoria Hamburg from 1910 to 1915 , for which he played point games in the Hamburg-Altona district under the umbrella organization of the North German Football Association . He won the Hamburg city championship at the end of the 1912/13 season and subsequently reached the final of the North German championship. On May 25, 1913, he lost the final against FC Eintracht from 1895 with the “Lemon Yellows” in the Hoheluft Stadium . V. from Braunschweig with 2: 3. Outstanding team-mates on the left winger , described as an “agile and accomplished technician”, included Hermann Garrn , Adolf Gehrts , Adolf Werner , Hans Weymar , Hermann Wiggers , Otto Eikhof , Ernst Eikhof , Walter Krause , Henry Müller and Charly Pohl .

The 1913/14 season he played in the - at the request of Holstein Kiel proposed - Association League Northern Germany , in which the ten strongest clubs in the league system played against each other. Because of the First World War , the following season was not held; Zilgas was drafted into military service together with club player Ernst Eikhof in 1915 - and fell on June 17, 1917.

Selection / national team

Zilgas came into play in the city comparison with Berlin on April 28, 1911 in Hamburg as a center forward and scored a goal in the 2-1 victory. He was also a member of the North German Football Association's selection team, which regularly took part in the competition for the Crown Prince's Cup. In Ernst Möller from Holstein Kiel and Richard Queck from FC Eintracht from 1895 e. V., however, he had strong competitors, as well as in the national team.

Therefore, he only played a single international match for the senior national team . The test match on October 26, 1913 in Hamburg against the Belgian national team ended with a 2-6 defeat. The German attack had accumulated in the occupation with Karl Wegele , Adolf Jäger , Gottfried Fuchs , Julius Hirsch and himself.

Web links

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

literature

• Andreas Meyer, Volker Stahl, Uwe Wetzner: Football Lexicon Hamburg . Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-477-1 , p. 340-341 (396 pages).
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 562 .
• Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 434 .