Fritz Wetzel

Fritz Wetzel (* December 12, 1894, † 19 January 1982) was a German football player.

The subsequent national player began his footballing career as a top high school students at the 1st FC Pforzheim 1906 - the year in which " the Club", as the club is known in the city of gold, stood in the final of the German Cup. As a merchant, the Pforzheim lived 1912 to the beginning of the First World War in the Swiss town of La - Chaux jewelry -de-Fonds and joined there the FC La Chaux- de-Fonds ( Serie A Central) on. Maybe the contact by the ex - National player Pforzheimer Marius " Bubi " Hiller came, who had also played for the Swiss club, before international was in Argentina. After the war was used as a left runners and appointed in 1921 to Berlin for the first time in the Süddeutsche selection Fritz Wetzel by the then 1.FCP coach and former international player Max Breunig. 1922 Wetzel contributed, together with his team mate Viktor Weißenbacher the first German National team success against Austria before 85,000 spectators on the Hohenwarte of Vienna at ( 2-0). In 1923 he won with the Southern Federal Cup ( 2-1 against West Germany in Frankfurt / Main). Fritz Wetzel ended his career in the first team of 1.FC Pforzheim in 1926, but was still active in the AH and the private team.

His club was the producer ( partakers of the watch and metal goods factory Wetzel & Thistle in Pforzheim ) life together. From 1946 to 1949 he served as first chairman of the club. He was an honorary member of the first FCP and was awarded the Baden Football Association and the DFB with the gold badge of honor. In 1976 he helped found the FCP department " Old friends " with, he was the department " Sängerslust " of the club together and visited the home matches of his club. Since 1977, Fritz Wetzel lived in the August Kayser- pin in Pforzheim, where he died at the age of 87 years on 19 January 1982.

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  • Source: Knierim / Green, players Encyclopedia 1890-1963
  • Fussballdaten.de
  • Pforzheimer Zeitung, December 12, 1964 December 12, 1969, January 20, 1982
  • National football team ( Germany )
  • German
  • Born 1894
  • Died in 1982
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