Rudolf Gellesch

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Rudolf Gellesch (born May 1, 1914 in Gelsenkirchen , † August 20, 1990 in Kassel ) was a German football player .

Career

societies

His home club was FC Schalke 04 , which he joined in 1926. At the age of 17, Rudi Gellesch was discovered by trainer Kurt Otto for the first team, with which he became German champion six times and once won the Cup of the German Empire ( Tschammerpokal ) in the following decade . With Ernst Kuzorra , Fritz Szepan and Adolf Urban , he had a decisive influence on the Schalke Kreisel . By 1944 Gellesch had played more than 180 competitive games for the Knappen .

After the Second World War , Gellesch moved to Hannoversche SC in 1946 and then to Lübbecke in Westphalia , where he worked as a player-coach at FC Lübbecke for the following years . In 1950 he was hired for two years in the Oberliga Südwest at Eintracht Trier before he moved to Northern Hesse. He led KSV Hessen Kassel in the 1952/53 season in the Oberliga Süd .

National team

Rudi Gellesch played a total of 20 games for the German national team between 1935 and 1941 and scored one goal.

He was one of the eleven players who defeated Denmark with the German national team in Breslau in 1937 and entered the (sports) history books as the Breslau-Elf . In 1938 he took part with the national team at the World Cup in France .

Others

In the late summer of 1941 he worked as a supporting actor during the shooting of the film by director Robert Adolf Stemmle, “The Big Game”, which premiered on July 10, 1942 in the Berlin cinemas Capitol am Zoo .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. During that time he also played representative for Lower Saxony, cf. Lower Saxony Sport from September 19, 1949, page 8
  2. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Rudolf Gellesch - International Appearances . RSSSF . December 8, 2016. Retrieved December 15, 2016.
  3. The big game on imdb .com