Franz Schütz
Franz Schütz ( born December 6, 1900 in Offenbach am Main, † March 22, 1955 ) was a German football player who graduated in 1929 to 1932 as Active Eintracht Frankfurt in the German national football team as a defender eleven internationals.
Career
A native of Offenbach played until 1920 for the BSC 99 and 1920 for the Kickers in his hometown football. In 1920 he moved to Cologne and joined there first BSC Cologne, before he went from 1920 to 1925 in the District Club Mülheim SV 06 football game after. With the Red and Whites from Ockenfels place at the Bergisch Gladbach road he carried out the round games in the Rheingau League Group South. Mülheim but was not included in the teams at the top, and so they marveled that the robust defender allowed to represent the colors of West Germany in the competition of the Federal Cup on 9 November 1924. The semi-final took place in Kiel Germany to the north, and the guys around Albert Beier, fissures Walter, Otto Harder, Eduard Franz Esser Wolpers and coated with a 3-2 victory over West Germany in the final one.
For the season 1925/26, Schütz returned to Hesse, he joined Eintracht Frankfurt. However, the Riederwald Elf strengthened also with Swiss international striker Walter Dietrich and the local talent Karl Döpfer. From the second year of contactor in Frankfurt, in 1926/27, belonged to the harmony of the table top in the district league Main Hesse. From 1928 to 1932 have won five league titles in series contactor and colleagues, 1927 and 1933, it was enough for the runner-up. As from the 1928/29 season the young coach Paul Oßwald took over, trainers and two more reinforcements came with Hugo coat and Hans Stubb to the team and the fight strong and shock-proof Franz Schütz its performance continued to expand and celebrated on February 10, 1929 in Mannheim the international against Switzerland his debut in the German national soccer team. He trained with the Kassel Heinrich Weber, the defense pair. In goal debuted Willibald Kreß of red and white and as a left outer rotor was Georg Knöpfle from FSV Frankfurt to the third, who drew attention to the quality of football in the Main metropolis. In this game the year he had participated in southern Germany in the Federal Cup in games against East Germany and in the semifinals on January 13, 1929 in Hanover against North Germany.
In the series 1929/30, contactor won with Eintracht Frankfurt - Rudolf Gramlich had returned, Bernhard power came to the start of the round of Kelsterbach and August Möbs in March from Friedberg to Riederwald Elf - think before SpVgg Fürth and Bayern Munich, the Süddeutsche championship. 1931 continued the Fürth one point ahead in southern Germany before the Eintracht through before 1932 again the eagle-bearer could win the championship and in the final round of the German Cup played in the final. On June 12, 1932 Eintracht Frankfurt lost the final 0-2 goals against Bayern Munich. Franz Schütz and Hans Stubb formed the defender pair of concord. In the Federal Cup 1931/32 competition contactor was won with 8:1 goals semifinal game on January 10, 1932 successfully accrued against Brandenburg for southern Germany. The modest and restrained footballer - he impressed particularly by its unobtrusiveness - completed for Eintracht Frankfurt from 1925 to 1934 in the League 130 games in which he scored three goals. These 78 inserts came with a goal in the games at the South German Championship, ten appearances in the final round of the German Cup and three matches at the Southern German Cup. Contactor formed several years with a top-notch defender Hans Stubb pair. He was appointed honorary captain.
In the National Team in particular his participation on 10 May 1930 in Berlin stands out in the match against England when the team of coach Otto Mink succeeded a remarkable 3-3 draw. In addition to the three -time German goal scorers Richard Hofmann Frankfurt element by goalkeeper Willibald Kress, the defender pair contactor was - Stubb and the left external rotor Hugo mantle represented. With his eleventh international match on December 4, 1932 in Dusseldorf against the Netherlands ended the international career of the defender.
The former warehouse manager later worked in Baden- Württemberg as a general agent for a sports shoe producers. He died in March 1955 of a heart attack when he tried to push his car on the way to Stuttgart.