Paul Forell

Paul Forell (* January 14, 1892; † August 2, 1959 ) was a German football player.

Forell began at Victoria Pforzheim and changed in 1909, according to other sources 1903 1 FC Pforzheim, where he played from 1910 in the first team; only exception was the season 1916/17 during the war, when he worked at Phoenix Mannheim. After the First World War, the Left Wing trained at the 1st FC Pforzheim from 1919 to 1921 under former national player Max Breunig. The Pforzheimer Club was in the time of Paul Forell, who until 1925 ( other indication: 1926) was active, one of the best teams in southern Germany, so 1920/21 champions in the district West and the South German Championship semifinalist and 1922/23, Master of Württemberg / Baden and finals participants in the south.

In the first home game of the German national team after the First World War, the Pforzheimer Left Wing was established on October 24, 1920 in a 1-0 against Hungary in the Berlin Grunewald stadium before 55,000 spectators. Several times Forell played in the Süddeutsche selection, so in 1920 the stadium Brötzinger valley in Pforzheim against Central Hungary ( 0-1) in front of " 15,000 to 20,000 spectators ," to this day attendance record for this venue. In 1921 he was a member of the South- selection against Austria in Vienna.

After the end of the active career was responsible for the Paul Forell " propaganda games" the private club of the 1st FC Pforzheim. After the Second World War, he served on the game board of the club and was supervisor of the reserve. The honorary member of the association received the 1952 Golden Badge of Honour of the Baden Football Association.

Professionally, the later national team in 1906 began an apprenticeship in Pforzheim insurance companies, was a clerk and in 1923 until retirement in 1956 general agent of the company.

Paul Forell died in 1959 at the age of 67 years in Pforzheim.