Otto Leuschner

Otto Leuschner
Personnel
birthday	October 26, 1901
date of death	1945
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1923-1932	Hertha BSC	98 (1)
1 Only league games are given.

Otto Leuschner (born October 26, 1901 , † 1945 ) was a German football player .

Player career

After he had not played at Hertha BSC in his first season in 1923/24 , Otto Leuschner was a right runner in the Berlin team in the following years , which helped shape German football in the 1920s. The first time he took part in a final round of the German championship after the Berlin championship title in 1925 . In the last sixteen against VfB Königsberg he equalized shortly before the end and thus secured the extension, in which Willi Kirsei scored the decisive 3-2. Leuschner could not prevent the later end in the semifinals against FSV Frankfurt after extra time. In the following season , the Herthaners, trained by the Austrian Alexander Popovich , made it to the final for the first time in the club's history. Despite an early lead by Hans Ruch , the old lady lost 1: 4, with Leuschner scoring the 1: 3 for the Franks with an own goal. In the following three years, the Herthaners were in the final of the German championship, but they could not win against 1. FC Nuremberg ( 1927 ), Hamburger SV ( 1928 ) and again Fürth ( 1929 ). It was not until 1930 that after a hard-fought game in the Düsseldorf Rheinstadion Holstein Kiel managed to beat Holstein Kiel 5: 4 and enter the championship list. With the successful title defense in 1931 Leuschner then completed no more game in the finals.

In total, he played 25 games in the finals for the German championship, scoring one goal.

In 1931/32 Leuschner was still part of the Hertha squad, but did not play a game in the VBB-Oberliga either. Then Leuschner withdrew from the higher-class football stage.

death

Otto Leuschner was accidentally shot by a Hitler Youth during the last days of the Second World War .

successes

• German champion : 1930 , 1931
• Berlin-Brandenburg Master : 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933
• Berlin Cup winners : 1924, 1928, 1929, 1932

Web links

• Otto Leuschner in the database of weltfussball.de

swell

• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• Hardy Grüne: 100 Years of the German Championship , Werkstatt GmbH, 2003, ISBN 3-89533-410-3 .
• Harald Tragmann, Harald Voß: The Hertha Compendium. 2., revised. and exp. Edition. Harald Voß, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-935759-05-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hardy Green, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .