Kurt Welsch

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Kurt Welsch (born June 21, 1917 in Neunkirchen , † October 14, 1981 ) was a German football player .

Career

societies

Welsch belonged to Borussia Neunkirchen from 1935 to 1938 and was a defender - together with his brothers - in the Gauliga Südwest .

The 1938/39 season he played for the MSV Hindenburg Allenstein location, which had become a military club, in the East Prussian Gauliga , which ended up as a champion. This qualified him and his club as a participant in the final round of the 1939 German Football Championship. In Group 1 , he played five of six group games and retired with his team in third place behind Hamburger SV and VfL Osnabrück from the finals.

During the Second World War he played - due to his stationing - as a guest player for SG Düren 99 .

After the end of the Second World War , he returned to his home in Saarland and completed five seasons - this time as a midfielder - for his former club, which had to be called VfB Neunkirchen temporarily . In one of five newly created top German leagues, the Oberliga Südwest , he played his point games.

The following season he played in the Saarland Honorary League , which he completed with his team as champion, the 1949/50 season as second and the 1950/51 season as ninth. Returned from the independent Saarland game operation in the Oberliga Südwest , he finished seventh with his team.

National team

He made his debut in the national jersey in the senior national team , which won 3-1 against the national team of Latvia on June 25, 1937 in Riga .

Web links

literature

  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
  • Kicker Edition, 100 Years of German International Games, 2008.
  • Tobias Fuchs: On the letter of Kurt Welsch to Sepp Herberger of March 9, 1942. In: Borussia Neunkirchen (ed.): Myth Ellenfeld. 100 years Borussia Neunkirchen , Neunkirchen 2005, p. 225.