Udo Steinberg

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Udo Steinberg (born June 13, 1877 in Berlin , † December 25, 1919 in Madrid ) was a German engineer , athlete and sports official . In 1902 he scored the first two goals against Real Madrid as a player for FC Barcelona - making him the first goalscorer in the long-term football match known as El Clásico . Steinberg operated a. a. in the sports of soccer , athletics , cricket , tennis , cycling , boxing and alpine disciplines , he also worked as a sports editor.

education and profession

Udo Steinberg was the second son of a total of six children by Eugen Oscar Steinberg and his wife Pauline Elise Cäcilie, b. Werle was born on June 13, 1877 in Berlin. His family moved to Chemnitz in 1882. Udo Steinberg attended elementary school there from 1883 to 1886 and the royal high school in Chemnitz from 1886 to 1888. The family moved to Berlin. His father died in Italy in 1889. Udo Steinberg now attended the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin up to the lower secondary school with the completion of the one-year volunteer service, completed an apprenticeship in the mechanical workshop of Ferdinand Ernecke in Berlin and studied electrical engineering and mechanical engineering at the Technikum Mittweida from 1895 to 1900 . He completed this degree as an electrical and mechanical engineer. From October 1897 to April 1899 he interrupted his studies to do practical work in Berlin.

Between 1900 and 1901 he did the one-year volunteer service and moved to Barcelona. From 1902 Udo Steinberg was a representative of German electrical engineering and mechanical engineering companies in Spain and Portugal. In 1904 he founded an engineering office in Barcelona, ​​from 1910 he worked here on tram construction and in the surrounding area. His mother died in Berlin in February 1913. In 1916, Steinberg and Paul Schröder founded a limited partnership for the construction and sale of machines of all kinds, later called “La Maquinista Hispania”.

He owned several patents in Spain. Udo Alfred Steinberg died of pneumonia on December 25, 1919 at the age of 42 and found his final resting place in the “Cementerio Civil del Este” cemetery in Madrid.

Sports

In 1893 he was a founding member of the Brandenburg Football Club in Berlin, in 1896 a founding member of the Mittweidaer Ballspiel Club at the Technikum Mittweida and in 1899 co-founder of the Chemnitz Sports Club Britannia Chemnitz , from which the CFC later emerged. Udo Steinberg was a delegate of this club and the Mittweidaer Ballspielclub for the founding meeting of the German Football Association in the restaurant "Zum Mariengarten" in Leipzig on January 28, 1900.

Udo Steinberg as a player in the MBC

After moving to Spain, he mainly found athletes from Germany, England and Switzerland who lived in Barcelona and who a. organized in the Barcelona Sports Club. You were active in various fields such as tennis and soccer. Steinberg's involvement in the founding of clubs, such as the Barcelona sports club and in the construction of sports facilities, should be emphasized. From 1901 to 1910 Udo Steinberg was an active football player at FC Barcelona.

U. Steinberg in Barcelona in 1902

In 1902 he founded the club's football school, the forerunner of La Masia, and headed it until 1916. He is thus the first coach of FC Barcelona. From 1906 he wrote as an editor for the sports newspaper "El Mundo Deportivo". In the same year he took over the presidency of the Association of Football Clubs of Barcelona, ​​which later became the Catalan Football Association. In addition to his passion for football, he was also enthusiastic about athletics, cricket, tennis, bicycle polo (gymkhana) and hockey and acted as a referee and referee.

Soccer player

Udo Steinberg has played football actively since 1888, initially in Berlin in the Hevellia student association, from April 1893 in the Brandenburg football club and, after its merger, in the Britannia goal and football club, today Berliner SV 1892 . During his time in Mittweida, Steinberg played in the Mittweidaer Ballspielclub and in FC Germania, today SV Germania.

On May 13, 1902, FC Barcelona met Real Madrid in the Copa de la Coronación , a tournament on the occasion of the coronation of the Spanish King Alfonso XIII . This competition was held for the first time in Spain and would go down in history as the first Copa del Rey. Steinberg scored the first two goals for the Catalans, who won 3-1. He thus became the first goalscorer in the long-term football match known as El Clásico between these two football clubs. Thanks to the victory, FC Barcelona moved into the final, in which they were defeated by Vizcaya de Bilbao 2-1.

After this tournament, FC Barcelona won the Copa Macaya competition. At that time, Steinberg was considered the most accurate striker of FC Barcelona with more than 60 goals. In 1910 he ended his active career as a regular player for FC for professional reasons.

Working as an engineer

Steinberg began his professional activity as an engineer at the end of November 1901 in Barcelona as a representative for German electrical and mechanical engineering companies in Spain. Together with the engineer Badia, he ran a technical office until 1906. The two engineers offered the complete set-up of factories, gas and electricity plants, as well as studies and budget statements. From 1906 Steinberg also had a technical office in Palma de Mallorca. He earned a special merit for the use of ball bearings in wheels for vehicles, for which he applied for a patent. He owned further patents for presses and mills as well as for electrolysis and electrical connections. With his technical office he was involved in the construction of trams in and around Barcelona, ​​in 1911 the inauguration of the 7.8 km long line from Barcelona to Rabassada, built with his help. With his company “Udo Steinberg S. en. C. “he dedicated himself to the construction and sale of machines of all kinds.

Web links

literature

  • Jan-Peter Domschke, Sabine Dorn, Hansgeorg Hofmann, Rosemarie Poch, Marion Stascheit: Mittweida's engineers all over the world. Hochschule Mittweida (ed.): Mittweida 2014, p. 108f. [1]
  • Marion Stascheit, Karoline Pernt, Sabine Blechschmidt-Vogel, Eva Martínez Gámes: On the life and work of Udo Steinberg - Biographical documentation of the Mittweida University Archive. University Archive Mittweida (Ed.), Mittweida 2016 [2]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hardy Grüne: Hundert Jahre Deutschemeisterschaft, Verlag Die Werkstatt, 2003, ISBN 3-8953-3410-3 , page 42/44 (limited preview in the Google book search)
  2. ↑ El Mundo Deportivo of November 29, 1989, p. 29
personal data
SURNAME Steinberg, Udo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player, coach and functionary
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1919
Place of death Madrid