Stanislaus Kobierski

Stanislaus " Tau" Kobierski ( born November 13, 1910 in Dusseldorf, † November 18, 1972 ) was a German football player. His parents were Catholic Poles who had emigrated from the then Prussian Posen only to Gelsenkirchen and from there to Dusseldorf.

He played as a left winger, inter alia, for SC black and white 06 Dusseldorf and Dusseldorf Fortuna. With Fortuna, he became German champion in 1933. Between 1931 and 1941 he ran 26 times for the German national team and scored nine goals, including in 1934 the very first German matches at a World Cup.

The first international match against Poland on December 3, 1933 in Berlin Poststadion he led the German team as team captain. The game was a result of the policy of rapprochement between Berlin and Warsaw, which later led to the German - Polish Non-Aggression Pact few weeks. In the 1-0 victory for the Germans sat for the same reason also Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels in the official gallery.

1934 Kobierski was with the German national team third at the World Cup in Italy. Germany defeated Austria in 3rd place match 3-2.

In 1939 he was appointed to the kingdom of the National Self Socialist Motor Corps ( NSKK ). In the autumn of 1940 he played for several weeks for the set up by the German occupiers Police Sports Club Warsaw, before he was seconded to the PSV Berlin. In several games he was 1941 team captain of the Berlin city selection.

At the end of the war he fell into Soviet captivity. Only in 1949 he returned to the Rhineland. Already 39 years old, he stepped back to the first team of Fortuna. But after only four games a injury forced him to end his career.

In 1953 he took over from his former team mate Paul Janes as coach of the national league clubs SV 09 Baesweiler. He reached with him the title of Vice Champion in the district of the Middle Rhine.

Then he led in Dusseldorf a lottery and pools collection point. When his apprenticeship he was " police constable " to.

On November 18, 1972 - five days after his 62nd birthday - died Stanislaus Kobierski in Dusseldorf.