August Schmierer

August Schmierer ( born April 28, 1870) was a German rugby player and more than 30 years, first Chairman of the Cannstatt football and tennis clubs.

Around the year 1889, left August Schmierer Cannstatt. He was active as a rugby player at the football club Frankfurt and stayed until 1897 in the first team. Shortly after he returned to his hometown in 1899, he was elected first chairman of the Cannstatt football clubs. In a report he had published in 1930 by Philipp Heineken, described greasers, as he tried to revive the football and rugby sports in the CFC, which evolved to pure tennis club. Because he wanted to lead by example, greasers played himself again in a southern German national team rugby. He also played in the rugby competition in the world exhibition Paris in 1900 for the German selection that was otherwise apart from the Stuttgart player Hugo Betting almost entirely of players of his former club from Frankfurt. August Schmierer took it as an Olympic silver medalist in the sports history, because the competition was officially assigned by the IOC to the program of the Olympic Summer Games 1900. Nevertheless, he succeeded in his office as first President of the Cannstatt football clubs no longer put together a rugby team. Therefore, it was renamed chaired by scribbler of CFC in 1901 to Cannstatt football and tennis club and received after the hopes of a revival of rugby were finally abandoned in 1909, finally, the name Cannstatt Tennis Club.