Wilhelm Koppa

Photo from 1938

Wilhelm Koppa (born February 23, 1911 in Gleiwitz ; † unknown) was a German football player .

Career

societies

Koppa belonged to Vorwärts-Rasensport Gleiwitz and played as a defender first in the 1932/33 season in the championship point games in the A-class Upper Silesia held by the Southeast German Football Association . As a champion emerged from this with one point ahead of the SuSV 09 by SuSV 09 , the champion from the previous year, he and his team took part in the final round of the Southeast German Championship . The season of the finals, which comprised six teams and was held in a round -robin tournament , finished second with two points behind SuSV 09 from Beuthen. Thus his team played against the winner of the season II consisting of six teams from the weaker districts; the two-legged playoff for the runner-up was won 7: 1 against STC Görlitz . With this success, his team was represented in the final round of the German championship . His first of a total of 36 final round matches until 1941 he played on May 7, 1933 in the Düsseldorf Rheinstadion in the 9-0 defeat by Fortuna Düsseldorf .

From 1934 to 1939 he played in the Gauliga Schlesien in one of 16 Gauligen in the time of National Socialism as a uniform top division in the German Reich . The first season was finished fourth, so in the following two seasons the respective Gaume Championships followed, as well as 1938 and 1939. The season 1939/40 he played in the group Upper Silesia , one of the two groups Gauliga Silesia, next to the Central and Lower Silesia Group . The Gaume championship final against the Breslauer FV 06 was won 14: 3 after the first and second leg. His last season, 1940/41 , he played again in the more competitive and not divided into groups Gauliga Schlesien.

As a six-time Gaumeister Silesia and the associated participation in the final round of the German championship, he played a total of 36 games, where he played all six group games in 1935 , 1938 and 1939 and in 1936, also the semi-finals and the game for third place . He scored his only two goals on May 19, 1935 in the penultimate game of Group A in a 2-2 draw against Yorck Boyen Insterburg with the goals for 1-0 and 2-0 in the 13th and 33rd minute.

In the competition for the Tschammerpokal , the cup competition for club teams, introduced in 1935, it was used a total of 12 times from 1935 to 1940, except in 1937, and scored three goals. His first two came when he made his debut on September 1, 1935 in a 9-1 first round win over FV 06 from Breslau.

Selection team

As a player in the district selection team for Silesia, he took part in the district selection competition for the Reichsbund Cup in 1938/39 . After victories over the district selection teams Nordmark , Ostmark , Württemberg he reached the final , which was won 2-1 on March 5, 1939 in Dresden against the district selection team Bavaria . With Richard Kubus , Günther Mettke , Robert Pischzek , Ernst Plener , Reinhard Schaletzki and Alfred Wydra , six other players from his club played in the final.

successes

• Fourth in the German championship in 1936
• Gaumeister Schlesien 1935 , 1936 , 1938 , 1939 , 1940 , 1941
• Second in the Southeast German Championship in 1933
• Upper Silesian Master 1933
• Reichsbund Cup winner 1939 (with the Gau selection of Silesia)

Web links

• Wilhelm Koppa in the database of weltfussball.de