Karl Zolper

Karl Zolper ( born April 30, 1901 in Siegburg, † October 1990 in Viersen, final resting place in the forest cemetery in Süchteln ) was a German football player. On March 29, 1925, he stood in the 1-2 defeat in Amsterdam against the Dutch selection in goal for the German national football team.

He played from 1918 to 1929 for the CfR Cologne, 1929-1939 Alemannia Aachen. The club for lawn games to Cologne he had come from Siegburger SV 04. The goalkeeper joined the sports field at the Amsterdam street over from August Göbler. The Green-Whites from CfR he took part in the season 1926/27 on the final round of the West German championship. Already on November 9, 1924, the goalkeeper had made ​​its debut at the Federal Cup at play in Kiel northern Germany in goal against West Germany. With the appearance Franz Schütz, Walter Claus -Oehler and Leo Fiederer but he lost the semi-final with 2:3 goals. During his international duty for the DFB in March 1925, he was supported by the defenders Albert Beier, Josef Müller, Hans Lang and Hans Hagen, as well as the inner storm with John Sobek, Otto Harder and Sepp Herberger. Other games in the dress of the DFB were not granted to him, especially since it was with Heiner Stuhlfauth at that time a prominent German goalkeeper. In the two North -country trips in June 1925 or in September 1928, four international matches against Sweden (two games), Finland and Norway, he was next to Georg Ertl and Paul Gehlhaar the replacement keeper. From the mid- 1920s Zolper counted in the west of Germany the strongest goalkeepers. With Alemannia Aachen, he qualified in 1930/31 again for the final round of matches in the West German championship.

The commercial employee resulted in Aachen a shoe shop, a tobacco shop and a beer hall. After the Second World War, he served as coach, among other Viktoria Reydt 04, lived in Süchteln and later operated a restaurant.