Paul flour

Paul flour
in his Düsseldorf restaurant
Personnel
birthday	April 21, 1912
place of birth	Düsseldorf ,  German Empire
date of death	May 6, 1972
Place of death	Dusseldorf ,  Germany
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1931-1932	TuRU Düsseldorf
1932-1949	Fortuna Dusseldorf
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1932-1942	Germany	2 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Paul Mehl (born April 21, 1912 in Düsseldorf ; † May 6, 1972 ibid) was a German football player . The all-rounder, who can be used in all parts of the team, won the German soccer championship with Fortuna Düsseldorf in 1933 and played two international matches for the senior national team .

career

His football club was the TuRU Düsseldorf , before he moved to the red-whites of Fortuna Düsseldorf for the 1932/33 season and at the end of the season became German champions with the team from the Flingern district .

Since national player Ernst Albrecht was injured at the beginning of 1933 and had an operation in Vienna in March 1933 , the sprint-fast flour was used on the right wing in the final round of the German soccer championship 1932/33 . He scored two goals in the 9: 0 against VR Gleiwitz , stormed the 3: 0 against Arminia Hannover on the right Fortunen wing and in the semifinals on May 28, in the 4: 0 against Eintracht Frankfurt, was again a double scorer. In the final on June 11 in a 3-0 win against FC Schalke 04 , he took the 2-0 lead in the 70th minute.

In the era of the Gauliga Niederrhein he won the championship with Fortuna 1935/36 and moved into the final of the German championship again after a 3-1 win against Gleiwitz in the semifinals . Now he ran as the right wing runner, but 1. FC Nürnberg prevailed with a 2-1 after extra time against Düsseldorf. After that, in the years 1937 to 1940, he won the championship four times in the Gauliga Niederrhein, but the entry into the final of the German championship was no longer successful. In contrast, Mehl reached the final with Fortuna in the Tschammerpokal in 1937 after successes against Karlsruher FV, Holstein Kiel, BC Hartha, in the semifinals against Dresdner SC (5: 2). Against FC Schalke 04 Düsseldorf lost on January 9, 1938 in Cologne 1: 2; Mehl was the right wing runner in the World Cup system at the time. Overall, the later Düsseldorf innkeeper and hotelier is led with 22 games and six goals in the finals of the German football championship (1933-1939).

Paul Mehl
with his mother and sister
in his Düsseldorf restaurant

Paul Mehl played two international games for the German national team in 1936 and took part in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin . Before his debut in the national team, he was used by national coach Otto Nerz in May 1936 in two test matches against the English professional team of FC Everton . On August 4th, the Dusseldorf player made his debut in the 9-0 win in Berlin against Luxembourg as part of the Olympic tournament in the national team. He formed the German runner series with Ludwig Goldbrunner and Robert Bernard . In the first international game after the Olympics, on September 13th, he came in Warsaw for the international match against Poland (1: 1) for his second appearance in the national dress.

Mehl also represented the colors of the Lower Rhine, especially in the Reichsbund Cup in 1936/37 . In the first round, the Lower Rhine team won 3-2 against Nordmark on November 22, 1936, in the quarterfinals it was 3-1 in Erfurt against Central Germany on December 20, 1936 and in the semifinals on February 7, 1937 in Berlin Against Brandenburg, Mehl and colleagues qualified with a 4: 3 against the hosts for the final 14 days later again in Berlin against Saxony. In the semifinals, the attack by the Lower Rhine with Ernst Albrecht, Mehl, Karl Hohmann , Heini Stoffels and Walter Günther came together . In the final, won 2: 1, Walter Graf and Anton Stermsek replaced Mehl and Hohmann in the attack.

After the Second World War, Mehl played with Fortuna Düsseldorf in the league up to and including the 1948/49 season; in the rounds of 1947/48 and 1948/49 he came to 32 missions in the football league West before he ended his career in the summer of 1949.

Until his death, he ran the “Mehl” sports restaurant near Düsseldorf Central Station .

literature

• Michael Bolten, Marco Langer: "Everything else is just football". The story of Fortuna Düsseldorf. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 978-3-89533-711-6 .
• 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. 253 .
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 310 .
• Stephan Vogel: Fortuna Düsseldorf under National Socialism . tredition, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7439-1935-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Paul Mehl in the database of the DFB player statistics of the German Football Association
2. ↑ f95.de: 80 years ago today: Fortuna Düsseldorf becomes German champion! (June 11, 2013) , accessed September 9, 2018