Stanislaus Kobierski
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Full name | Stanislaus Kobierski | |||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 15 November 1910 | |||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Düsseldorf, Germany | |||||||||||||||
Date of death | 18 November 1972 | (aged 62)|||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Forward | |||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
1929–1930 | TuRu Düsseldorf | |||||||||||||||
1930–1941 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | |||||||||||||||
1941-1942 | ||||||||||||||||
National team | ||||||||||||||||
1931–1941 | Germany | 26 | (9) | |||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Stanislaus "Tau" Kobierski (15 November 1910 in Düsseldorf — 18 November 1972) was a German footballer.
Kobierski's parents were Poles who emigrated to Germany from Poznań.[1] Between 1931 and 1941, he played 26 times and scored 9 goals for the Germany national football team.[2] He participated in the 1934 FIFA World Cup, and scored Germany's first ever World Cup goal, in the first round 5-2 win over Belgium. His home team was Fortuna Düsseldorf.
In autumn 1941 he was delegated to the sports club of the SS and German police in occupied Warsaw.[3] At the end of the Second World War, he became a Soviet prisoner of war. He had to do forced labour in a mine in the Arctic Circle. He was released from captivity in 1949 and was able to return to West Germany.[4]
References[]
- ^ Szczepłek, Stefan: Z Niemcami warto grać at Rzeczpospolita, 13 May 2014.
- ^ Arnhold, Matthias (22 September 2016). "Stanislaus Kobierski - Goals in International Matches". RSSSF. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
- ^ Thomas Urban, Football ‘Only for Germans’, in the Underground and in Auschwitz: Championships in Occupied Poland, in European Football During the Second World War. Ed. M. Herzog/F. Brändle. Oxford 2018, p. 370.
- ^ Thomas Urban: Czarny orzeł biały orzeł. Piłkarze w trybach polityki. Katowice 2012, p. 152, ISBN 978-83-7164-727-7.
External links[]
- Stanislaus Kobierski at fussballdaten.de (in German)
- Stanislaus Kobierski at WorldFootball.net
- Stanislaus Kobierski at National-Football-Teams.com
- 1910 births
- 1972 deaths
- Sportspeople from Düsseldorf
- German footballers
- Germany international footballers
- Fortuna Düsseldorf players
- 1934 FIFA World Cup players
- German people of Polish descent
- Association football forwards
- Footballers from North Rhine-Westphalia
- German prisoners of war in World War II held by the Soviet Union
- German football forward stubs