Gustav Hensel

With the German national football team on April 5, 1908 ( 4th from left )

Gustav Hensel ( born October 23, 1884 in Kassel, † August 29 1933 in Bremen ) was a German football player.

Hensel was a strong, fast right winger and reached with his team, the Casseler FV 95 on the first championship of the Association Casseler ball game clubs, the German championship final in 1904., He would be in the same year probably traveled with the German selection for the Olympic Games in St. Louis if you had not waived the DFB for cost reasons to participate. It should take four more years before the DFB fought out an international match. Gustav Hensel was the elf in the German national football team, which lost the first official international match on April 5, 1908 in Basel, Switzerland, with 3:5. Hensel had as a right-winger with an edge, the first German international goal in football history: started ( scorer Fritz Becker).

A native of Kassel Gustav Hensel retired already in the following year from active football sports back to focus on his career as a wine merchant. He finally lived up to his untimely death in 1933 in Bremen.