Kurt Krüger (soccer player)

Kurt Krüger (born October 4, 1920 in Lintorf ; † January 19, 2003 ), also called "Kutti", was a German football player .

Career

societies

Emerging from the Alemannia 08 Düsseldorf team , Krüger came to Fortuna Düsseldorf for the 1939/40 season . In his first season at the Flinger Broich , he immediately won the championship in the Gauliga Niederrhein . In the final round of the German championship in 1940 he was the middle runner together with his teammates Willi Abromeit , Paul Janes , Felix Zwolanowski and Stanislaus Kobierski, the defensive strategist in the group matches against CSC 03 Kassel , theMülheimer SV 06 and FC Schalke 04 in action. Fortuna Düsseldorf played with him twice against the eventual German champions FC Schalke 04. In Tschammerpokal contest in 1940 he moved with Fortuna Dusseldorf after successes on the 1. FC Kaiserslautern , VfR Mannheim , Eintracht Frankfurt and Vienna SK in the against 1. FC Nürnberg with 0: 1 lost semi-final one. Due to the circumstances of the Second World War , he came to Kiel as a marine and played for Holstein Kiel . With the "Störchen" he moved into the semi-final of the cup as an active defense specialist , which was clearly lost on October 12, 1941, 6-0 against FC Schalke 04. In the Gauliga Schleswig-Holstein he won the championship in 1943 and 1944 and was thus also qualified for the final round of the German championship. In the final round in 1943 his team prevailed against TSG Rostock , BTuFC Britannia 1892 and FC Schalke 04. The semi-final against Dresdner SC was lost with 1: 3; the game for 3rd place was won 4-1 against First Vienna FC 1894 Vienna . With Alfred Boller , Ottmar Walter and Werner Baßler , he also had high-performing teammates by his side. After the end of the Second World War he stayed in Kiel until November 1948 and played a total of 30 point games in the Oberliga Nord , in which he scored three goals. From December 1948 to January 1952 he played again for Fortuna Dusseldorf, for which he played 53 point games in the Oberliga West . After a double fracture of the shin, which he sustained in the game against Bayer 04 Leverkusen on January 6, 1952 , his active football career ended abruptly.

National team

He played his only international match for the senior national team at the age of 19 on July 14, 1940 in Frankfurt am Main against the national team of Romania . Under captain Paul Janes, his club teammate, he made his debut alongside world-class outside runners Andreas Kupfer and Albin Kitzinger . In the 9: 3 success, Fritz Walter was another debutant. Due to the war, it was his only appearance as a national player .

Others

The trained lathe operator later found his professional livelihood in the administration of the Düsseldorf Rheinbahn and also worked as an amateur trainer (including TSV Eller 04 ).

Web links

• Kurt Krüger in the database of weltfussball.de
• Kurt Krüger on dfb .de
• Players A – Z (bung bottle) , visited on March 17, 2020

literature

• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
• Hardy Greens : From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 1 . AGON, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
• Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 6: German Cup history since 1935. Pictures, statistics, stories, constellations. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-146-0 .
• Hardy Grüne : Vereinlexikon (=  encyclopedia of German league football . Volume 7 ). 1st edition. AGON, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 (527 pages).
• Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .