Wilhelm Gros
Wilhelm Emanuel Gros (born July 6, 1892 in Karlsruhe , † August 22, 1917 near Vlissegem, Belgium ) was a German football player .
Career
societies
Gros played from 1910 for the Karlsruher FV , with whom he became German runner-up in 1912, and won the South German championship in 1911 and 1912 . Gros came straight from the youth in the 1910/11 season, the round after winning the German championship in 1910 , as an outside runner successor to Hans Ruzek . The first game in the final round of the German soccer championship was played by the "destroyer of the opposing game flow and ball collector" on May 7, 1911 in Fürth in the game against TuFC Tasmania Rixdorf . The reigning German champions won the game 4-0, Gros played alongside Max Breunig and Hermann Bosch right runner and Fritz Förderer scored three goals. In the semifinals he and his teammates were eliminated with 0-2 goals against VfB Leipzig, without the outstanding Breunig. In the final round in 1912 he was active in the two victorious games against Cologne-based BC (8: 1) and SpVgg Leipzig (3: 1), but lost with the KFV the final on May 26th in Hamburg with 0: 1 against Holstein Kiel . Overall, he is led in the statistics with five finals.
Selection / national team
The young talent of the KFV was already on May 25, 1911 with the selection of southern Germany in the Crown Prince Cup in Berlin in the final against the selection of northern Germany. On the side of club colleagues Ernst Hollstein and Hermann Bosch , the final was lost with 2: 4 goals after extra time. On February 18, 1912, the young Karlsruhe was a member of the South German Cup winning team, which again prevailed in Berlin with 6: 5 goals against Brandenburg. Together with Karl Burger and Max Breunig, he formed the runner-up in southern Germany.
On March 24, 1912 played his only international match for the senior national team , which found no winner in Zwolle against the national team of the Netherlands with a score of 5: 5. The DFB team competed against the “Oranje” team with eight players from Karlsruhe. Two from FC Phönix - the two wingers Karl Wegele and Emil Oberle - as well as the six KFV players Hollstein, Breunig, Gros, Fritz Förderer , Gottfried Fuchs and Julius Hirsch .
Others
- During the First World War , he died as an aviation officer in August 1917 on an observation flight over the province of West Flanders .
- In the book “90 Years of Karlsruher FV 1891–1981” , he was no longer listed in the KFV team in the two game years 1912/13 and 1913/14.
Web links
- Wilhelm Gros in the database of weltfussball.de
- Wilhelm Gros on dfb .de
- Wilhelm Gros on karlsruher-fv1891.de (under runner-up in 1912 ; last article)
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 .
- Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karlsruhe death register, 1917, entry No. 1887
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gros, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gros, Wilhelm Emanuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 6, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe , German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 22, 1917 |
| Place of death | Vlissegem, Belgium |