Karl Auer (footballer)
Karl Auer (* August 12, 1898, † February 21, 1945 in Russia ) was a German football player. He won with SpVgg Fürth in 1926, the German Cup and was used from 1924 to 1926 in three games in the German national soccer team.
Career
The regrown from the youth of the "Shamrock " Elf winger Karl Auer was from the 1920/21 season in the 1st team squad of the Spielvereinigung Fürth. The breakthrough came in the small, nimble winger - he was right and left to use - in the season 1922/23. Fürth won the South German Championship and failed in the final round of the German football championship until the semi-finals after a 1-2 defeat against Union Oberschoeneweide. With the selection of southern Germany winger was on February 25, 1923 in Frankfurt in the final of the Federation Cup against the representation of West Germany. The South won the Cup with a 2-1 victory and Auer stormed it on the left wing. Attack colleagues were of the Right Wing Georg Wunderlich of the Stuttgarter Kickers and his team mate Andreas Franz, Leonhard Seiderer and Willi Ascherl. On January 7, 1923, he was a member of the Fürth team, the reigning German champions Hamburg SV formally declassified in a friendly match with a 10-0 success in Ronhof.
On January 13, 1924 international match took place in Nuremberg against Austria. It has mobilized a purely Nuremberg / Fürth combination. The attack of the DFB - Elf appeared with the debutants Auer on Right Wing, his team mate Andreas Franz Leonhard and Seiderer and the two Nurembergers Louis Again and Hans Sutor. In the 24th minute Auer succeeded the 1-0 and Germany won the game 4-3 gates. Four weeks later, on 17 February 1924 he won with Southern Germany for the second time the final of the German Cup. Again, in Frankfurt, he sat down with his fellow players with 4:2 goals against Northern Germany by. Again, he succeeded the gate to a 1-0 lead. On 21 April of the same year he succeeded together with the German national team 's first victory over a Dutch selection; Auer scored in the 26th minute of the 1-0 winning goal. In his second international game he rushed to the side of " Resi" Franz, " Loni " Seiderer, the Nuremberg Heinrich inertia and the further Fürth attacker Willi Ascherl. Overall, he was active three times for the DFB.
In the season 1925/26, was with Auer Fürth in Southern runners and pulled so again in the final round of the German championship. With wins against FC Viktoria forestry, Breslauer SC 08 and in the semifinal against Holstein Kiel, the team from Ronhof earned the finals. On 13 June 1926, the match of association continued with a 4-1 victory against Hertha BSC through and brought the German championship after Fürth. Auer thereby succeeded the gate to a 2-1 lead. Seven days after the triumph in the final of the German Cup, he is completing his third international match. On June 20, 1926 received in Nuremberg, the German team Sweden. The match ended 3-3 draw and the attack had it in the cast with Auer, Andreas Franz, Otto Harder, Joseph Pöttinger and Ludwig Hofmann acts.
In the following round in 1926/27 won the Green-Whites who were cared for in this season from the English coach William Townley, again the runner-up in southern Germany and had it in the final of the German Championship with the Breslauer Sportfreunde (3:1) and Kickers 1900 Berlin ( 9:0 victory with four goals of Auer ) to be done before it went against the team of John Sobeck and Willi Kirsei in the semifinals. Hertha BSC succeeded revenge for the final defeat of the previous year, and sat down on 29 May 1927 in Leipzig in front of 25,000 spectators in the stadium VfB 2-1 in through and pulled instead of the defending champions in the final. As Fürth was again able to bring in the Ronhof on July 28, 1929 in Nuremberg by a 3-2 win against Hertha BSC the German Championship, although rushed again on Right Wing a player named Auer, but now it was the younger brother of Charles, Henry Auer.
Karl Auer, the small, nimble Right Wing moved to Round 1930/31 with the Würzburg FV and left it there end his career. He died during the Second World War in Russia.