Karl Hanssen

Karl Hanssen ( born July 5, 1887 in Porto Alegre, † September 13, 1916 ) was a German football player. In the years 1910 and 1911 he was also three times for the German national football team.

Club career

About the circumstances that made him come to the Lower Elbe from Brazil, nothing is known. The right winger played in 1903 at Altona FC from 1893, although the Altona school inspection this operation had expressly forbidden to all students, and scored in his first game against Hamburg FC 88 three hits. In the 1908/09 season he was with the black and white red after three second places, Hamburg- Altona, and then also the first time the North German masters; in the final against defending champions Eintracht Braunschweig Hanssen contributed two goals in the 6-2. Also in the final round of the German Cup Hanssen scored a goal for a 4-2 victory over the Brandenburger 's FC Tasmania Rixdorf, but was - as his strike partner, including the now bumped to Altona storm tank Adolf Jäger - the semi-final against Viktoria 89 Berlin empty from.

The Hamburg- Altona (sometimes " Great Hamburger " ) title he defended with his club in 1910, 1911 and 1912. After 1913, just recovered from a groin operation during a game against Borussia his AFC Harburg in a collision with an opposing player lost four teeth, he stopped playing football and was active sporty only in tennis. He also did not come in the introduced for season 1913/14, the North German League Association for use in which its Altona at the end before Holstein Kiel and Hannover 96 won the title.

National players

He made his debut as a second Altona Players by hunters, whom he served numerous Assists in the club, on 16 October 1910 in Kleve at 1:2 against the Netherlands in the national team. On April 14, 1911, he was again to the German team that did not lose the first time against the selection of England, but her wrested a 2-2 draw in Berlin - and Hanssen prepared with a Maßvorlage one of the two German hit by the Kiel Ernst Möller before. However, after his appointment to the away game against Belgium on 23 April of the same year he took no further consideration in the national team more.

Hanssen is 29 -year-old killed in the First World War.