Stanislaus Kobierski

Stanislaus Kobierski
Personal information
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
1929–1930	TuRu Düsseldorf
1930–1941	Fortuna Düsseldorf
1941-1942
National team
1931–1941	Germany
Honours
Men's football
Representing Germany
FIFA World Cup
	* 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

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[1] Szczepłek, Stefan: Z Niemcami warto grać at Rzeczpospolita, 13 May 2014.

[2] Arnhold, Matthias (22 September 2016). "Stanislaus Kobierski - Goals in International Matches". RSSSF. Retrieved 22 September 2016.

[3] 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.

[4] Thomas Urban: Czarny orzeł biały orzeł. Piłkarze w trybach polityki. Katowice 2012, p. 152, ISBN 978-83-7164-727-7.

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