Albert Wirsching

Albert Wirsching

Personal information
Date of birth	(1920-09-01)1 September 1920
Place of birth	Frankfurt, German Empire
Date of death	21 August 1997(1997-08-21) (aged 76)
Place of death	Bern, Switzerland
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
1930–1936	Eintracht Frankfurt
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1936–1948	Eintracht Frankfurt
1948–1950	Kickers Offenbach
1950–1952	FC Bern
1952	TSV 1860 Munich
1953–1955	FC Bern
1955–1956	BSC Young Boys
1956	FC Winterthur
1957–1960	FC Langenthal
Managerial career
1956	FC Winterthur (player-manager)
1957–1962	FC Langenthal (player-manager)
1962–1971	SC Sparta Bern
	SCI Esperia Napoli Berna
	BSC Young Boys
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Albert Wirsching (31 January 1920 – 21 August 1997) was a German footballer. He played club football with Eintracht Frankfurt, Kickers Offenbach, FC Bern, TSV 1860 Munich, BSC Young Boys and FC Winterthur.

Career

Wirsching was part of the Eintracht Frankfurt squad that played from 1936 to 1941 in der Gauliga Südwest and later from 1941 to 1945 in the Gauliga Hessen-Nassau, one of the first tier Gauligas in Nazi Germany. In the 1938 campaign he won with Eintracht Frankfurt the Gauliga Südwest, admitting the Eagles to the German football championship group stage. He appeared in all six group matches scoring 7 goals which meant a runners-up position next to Hamburger SV. In the 1935 founded cup competition Tschammerpokal he competed from 1937 in four seasons, amounting seven games and two goals. His debut came on 29 August 1937 in a first round loss to SpVgg Sülz 07 in the Tschammerpokal.

After the end of World War II he played for Eintracht from 1945 until 1948 in the Oberliga Süd, back then the first German tier.

He moved to rivals Kickers Offenbach for the 1948–49, winning Oberliga Süd in his first season. In the next season he and his team finished as third. For Kickers Offenbach he competed in 1948–49 and in 1949–50 four final round matches for the German championship. The third place play-off on 9 July 1949 at Stadion Oberwerth in Koblenz was lost 2–1 after extra time to 1. FC Kaiserslautern, just like the final match in the next season against VfB Stuttgart that was lost with the same result on 25 June 1950 at Olympiastadion in Berlin.

After this loss he went to Switzerland, playing two seasons for FC Bern, firstly in the second tier Nationalliga B and after an immediate promotion in the Nationalliga A securing the league stay as twelfth out of 14 teams.

After Wirsching's return to Germany he signed in the 1952–53 season for TSV 1860 Munich that eventually finished as second to last and were relegated to the 2. Oberliga Süd. Once again he went to Switzerland and played there for three clubs.

Firstly he played in the 1953–54 campaign for Nationalliga A club BSC Young Boys, from 1954 to 1956 for Nationalliga B club FC Winterthur where he contributed to FCW's promotion to Nationalliga A. Albert Wirsching's last club before retirement was FC Langenthal.

Honours

• Gauliga Südwest/Mainhessen
  • Champions: 1938
  • Runners-up: 1937
• Oberliga Süd
  • Champions: 1949
• German football championship
  • Runners-up: 1950

Sources

• Matheja, Ulrich (2011). Unsere Eintracht - Eintracht Frankfurt - Die Chronik. Die Werkstatt. ISBN 978-3-89533-750-5.

External links

• Albert Wirsching at eintracht-archiv.de