Rudolf Gramlich
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| Full name | Rudolf Gramlich | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 6 June 1908 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Offenbach am Main, Germany | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 14 March 1988 (aged 79) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main, West Germany | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
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| 1923–1926 | Borussia Frankfurt | ||||||||||||||||
| 1926–1929 | Sportfreunde Freiberg/Sachsen | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1929–1939 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 200 | (16) | ||||||||||||||
| 1942–1943 | SS Totenkopfstandarte Krakau | ||||||||||||||||
| 1943–1944 | Eintracht Frankfurt | ||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1931–1936 | Germany | 22 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1951–1952 | SV Darmstadt 98 | ||||||||||||||||
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Rudolf "Rudi" Gramlich (6 June 1908 – 14 March 1988) was a German football player and chairman.
As an active player he performed for Eintracht Frankfurt. Gramlich made 22 international appearances for Germany between 1931 and 1936,[1] achieving third place at the 1934 World Cup in Italy. He was the captain of the German team at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.
From 1939 to 1942 was the chairman of Eintracht Frankfurt. In 1942 he was stationed as an SS officer in occupied Krakow, where he also headed the football section of the SS Death's Heads Unit. In 1945 he was arrested and held by the American forces in Frankfurt in 1947, because he was suspected of having been involved in war crimes. Finally, the case against him was closed because former SS comrades had exonerated him.[2]
Between 1955 and 1970 he was again the chairman of Eintracht Frankfurt. In 1959 Eintracht won its only German championship and reached the European Cup final in the following year.
In 2020, he was stripped of the title of honorary president of Eintracht Frankfurt when it was discovered he had actively participated in the Nazi Party and the SS. [3]
References
- ^ Arnhold, Matthias (25 August 2016). "Rudolf 'Rudi' Gramlich - International Appearances". RSSSF. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
- ^ Thomas Urban, “Football ‘Only for Germans’, in the Underground and in Auschwitz: Championships in Occupied Poland“, in European Football During the Second World War. Ed. M. Herzog/F. Brändle. Oxford 2018, pp. 371, 376.
- ^ "Rudolf Gramlich: Frankfurt find former Germany captain was a Nazi". The Independent. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
Sources
- Aigner, Maximilian (2020). Vereinsführer: Vier Funktionäre von Eintracht Frankfurt im Nationalsozialismus. Wallstein Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8353-3844-9.
External links
- Rudolf Gramlich at National-Football-Teams.com
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- 1908 births
- 1988 deaths
- Sportspeople from Hesse
- German footballers
- 1934 FIFA World Cup players
- Footballers at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- Olympic footballers of Germany
- Germany international footballers
- Eintracht Frankfurt players
- Eintracht Frankfurt presidents
- Association football midfielders
- Footballers from Hesse
- Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Waffen-SS personnel
- Nazi Party members