Adolf Jäger
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 31 March 1889 | ||
Place of birth | Altona/Elbe, Germany | ||
Date of death | 21 November 1944 | (aged 55)||
Place of death | Altona, Germany | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1907–27 | FC Altona 93 | ||
National team | |||
1908–24 | Germany | 16 | (11) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Adolf Jäger (31 March 1889 – 21 November 1944) was a German amateur football (soccer) player who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.[1]
Life[]
Jäger began his career with SC Union 03 Altona and played with Altona 93 from 1907 until 1927, where he would have scored over 2,000 goals in over 700 amateur matches. However, like many others there is no proof or evidence of this claim. He was a member of the German Olympic squad and played one match in the main tournament, scoring the only goal for Germany in the main tournament. He died during World War II, while working for bomb sweep in Hamburg, and is buried in Altona Main Cemetery.[2]
References[]
- ^ "Adolf Jäger". Olympedia. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
- ^ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
External links[]
- Adolf Jäger at National-Football-Teams.com
Categories:
- 1889 births
- 1944 deaths
- Footballers at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- German footballers
- Germany international footballers
- German civilians killed in World War II
- Olympic footballers of Germany
- Footballers from Hamburg
- Deaths by explosive device
- Association football forwards
- People from Altona, Hamburg
- Deaths by airstrike during World War II
- German football forward stubs