Adolf Urban
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 9 January 1914 | ||
Place of birth | Gelsenkirchen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire | ||
Date of death | 23 May 1943 | (aged 29)||
Place of death | Staraya Russa, RSFSR, Soviet Union | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Schalke 04 | |||
National team | |||
1935–1941 | Germany | 21 | (11) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Adolf Urban (9 January 1914 – 23 May 1943) was a German footballer. Urban, a forward, played for Schalke 04, among others, and made 21 appearances for Germany between 1935 and 1941, scoring 11 goals.
Urban was the son of Polish immigrants (see Ruhrpolen), who came to the Ruhr area from Olsztyn, which was located within the Prussian Partition of Poland since the First Partition of Poland.[1]
In the Second World War Urban was mobilised with the Wehrmacht in which he served in the 422nd Infantry Regiment on the Eastern Front in Russia, fighting at the battle of Demyansk.[1] He later died in 1943 in Staraya Russa, from wounds received in further fighting.[2] He was the only member of the Breslau Eleven to die in combat.
His body was buried in the Karpovo Military Cemetery but was later repatriated and reburied in November 2013 in Schalke cemetery in Gelsenkirchen.[1]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Nazizm, wojna i klub Polaczków – historia Adolfa Urbana". Historia.org.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 1 April 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 10 April 2020.
External links[]
- Adolf Urban at National-Football-Teams.com
- 1914 births
- 1943 deaths
- German footballers
- Germany international footballers
- German people of Polish descent
- Olympic footballers of Germany
- Footballers at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- Association football forwards
- FC Schalke 04 players
- German military personnel killed in World War II
- German Army personnel of World War II
- German football forward stubs