Otto Thiel (soccer player)

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Otto Thiel (born November 23, 1891 in Berlin ; † July 10, 1913 there ) was a German football player .

Career

societies

The fast and dangerous left winger won the Berlin championship twice with his home club BFC Preussen in 1910 and 1912 . 1910 with six points ahead of Viktoria 89 and 1912, after the merger of the associations, in two championship finals (2: 1, 2: 1) against the German champions of 1911, FC Viktoria 89, with their national players Helmut Röpnack , Willi Knesebeck , Paul Hunder , Otto Dumke and Willi Worpitzky . In the final round of the German soccer championship , Thiel and his club were eliminated by Holstein Kiel : in 1910 after a 1: 4 and in 1912 with a 1: 2 defeat. With the Berlin and Brandenburg selection, the attacker moved into the finals in the competition for the Crown Prince's Cup in 1910 and 1912 . In both years, southern Germany prevailed in the final with 6: 5 goals. Thiel was also a top performer in the Berlin city selection on the offensive .

Otto Thiel (4th from left) with the
German national soccer team on July 1, 1912

National team

The winger of the BFC Preussen completed a total of two international matches for the DFB in 1911 and 1912 . He made his debut in the national team on December 17, 1911 in Munich in a 1: 4 defeat against Hungary. The German attack formed itself with Karl Wegele , Fritz Förderer , Willi Worpitzky, Julius Hirsch and Thiel. His second and last game in the national jersey was the 16-0 victory against Russia at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm , which is still the highest victory of a German national team in a competitive game. The Karlsruhe striker Gottfried Fuchs scored ten goals.

Others

Thiel died a year later at the age of 21.

In Fritz Tauber's statistics book (p. 125), in the game dictionary (p. 390) and also by Bitter (p. 492), his death is dated July 10, 1915.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary and obituary in Der Rasensport No. 29 of July 16, 1913, p. 543

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 , p. 390 .
  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 492 f .
  • Fritz Tauber: German national football team: Player statistics from A to Z . 3. Edition. AGNON, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-397-4 , p. 125 (176 pages).
personal data
SURNAME Thiel, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1913
Place of death Berlin , German Empire