Karl Zolper

Karl Zolper (born April 30, 1901 in Siegburg , † October 1, 1990 in Viersen ) was a German football player . He was one of the strongest goalkeepers in West Germany in the mid-1920s.

Career

societies

Zolper began 15-year-old in Siegburg SV 04 playing football and joined the season 1923/24 to Cologne CfR , which he held until the end of season 1928/29 belonged. In the West German game association , he played in the regional top division, in the southern district of the Rheingau , from the 1925/26 season in the Rhine district . As the winner of Südkreis 2 in 1927 , he and his team qualified for the final round of the Rhenish District Championship, which he won with her and thus also took part in the final round of the West German Championship ; However, he finished this in seventh place out of eight participants. In the following season he emerged as the winner of Group I of the district championships with the Cologne team , but finished last in the final round .

For the 1929/30 season he switched to the league competitor Alemannia Aachen , with whom the following season emerged as the winner of Group 2 and won the final 3-2 against the winner of Group 1, the Rheydter Spielverein , the final round of the West German Championship as Finished last.

In 1931/32 he came out with his team as the winner of Group I , but took second place in the final round of the Rhenish District Championship . As the winner of Group 2 in 1932/33 , he lost the final against the winner of Group 1, SpVgg Sülz 07 , with 2: 3 after extra time .

In the Gauliga Mittelrhein , as one of 16 Gauligen in the time of National Socialism as the top division in the German Reich , he was represented with Alemannia Aachen only after a successful promotion round in the 1937/38 season . With the descent at the end of the 1939/40 season , he played his last two seasons in the second-rate district league.

Selection / national team

As early as November 9, 1924, he had made his debut in the national cup competition in the game of the West German against the North German national team. The semi-final match in Kiel with his teammates Franz Schütz , Walter Claus-Oehler and Leo Fiederer , however, was lost 3-2.

Zolper played his only international match for the senior national team in Amsterdam in the 1: 2 defeat against the national team of the Netherlands . He was supported by the defenders Albert Beier , Josef Müller , Hans Lang and Hans Hagen and the inner storm with Johannes Sobek , Otto Harder and Sepp Herberger . He was not granted any further appearances in the national jersey, especially since Heiner Stuhlfauth was an outstanding German goalkeeper at the time. In the two Nordland drives in June 1925 (0: 1 against Sweden; 5: 3 against Finland) and in September 1928 (2: 0 against Norway; 0: 2 against Sweden) he was the substitute keeper alongside Georg Ertl and Paul Gehlhaar .

Others

During his time in Aachen, he ran a shoe shop, a tobacco shop and the Pörzchen pub - by trade as a commercial clerk .

After the end of the Second World War , he trained the SC Viktoria 04 Rheydt from the city of the same name (since 1975 part of Mönchengladbach ) and the FC 03 Süchteln , a Viersener district club .

After his death, he found his final resting place in the Viersen cemetery in Süchteln, in the part of the city where he also ran a restaurant.

Web links

• Karl Zolper in the database of weltfussball.de
• Karl Zolper on dfb .de
• Karl Zolper on ochehoppaz.de

literature

• Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 214 f .