Kurt Meißner (soccer player)

Kurt Meißner (born December 11, 1897 in Halle an der Saale , † 1973 ) was a German football player .

Career

Meißner started playing football in his place of birth at the local Borussia and then wexhawltw to VfL Halle in 1896 . Via the Mannheim district club MFC 08 Lindenhof , he came to VfR Mannheim as a strong dribbling player , for whom he played from 1923 to 1926 in the Rhine regional league in the South German Football Association . At the end of the 1924/25 season he and his team emerged as the winner of the Rhine District League, and consequently took part in the final round of the South German Championship, in which he prevailed with the club alongside Sepp Herberger and Karl Höger against four other district champions. As a result, he and his team were also qualified for the final round of the German Championship, in which he played his only game on May 3, 1925 in Weidenpescher Park in Cologne in the 1: 4 defeat against TuRU Düsseldorf . The 1925/26 season was also completed as district champion Rhine, but he finished fourth with his team in the final round of the southern German championship .

He played his only international match for the senior national team on November 23, 1924 in the Duisburg Wedaustadion in the 0-1 defeat in the friendly against the Italian national team ; he injured himself in the second half, but had to play through because there were no substitutes at the time.

The 1926/27 season , his last, he played for VfB Leipzig in the North West Saxony region in the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs . The season as a Gaumeister completed the subsequent championship final was also completed as a master. As a result of this success, he played as a participant in the final round of the German Championship 1926/27 on May 8, 1927 3-0 won the round of 16 against Breslauer FV 06 and on May 22, 1927 lost 3-0 quarter-final against SV 1860 Munich .

successes

• Central German master 1927
• Gaumeister Northwest Saxony 1927
• South German champion 1925
• District master Rhine 1925 , 1926

Web links

• Kurt Meißner in the database of weltfussball.de
• Kurt Meißner on dfb .de

literature

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