Adolf Urban
Appearance
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 9 January 1914 | ||
Place of birth | Gelsenkirchen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire | ||
Date of death | 23 May 1943 | (aged 29)||
Place of death | Staraya Russa, RSFSR, Soviet Union | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Schalke 04 | |||
International career | |||
1935–1941 | Germany | 21 | (11) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Adolf Urban (9 January 1914 in Gelsenkirchen – 23 May 1943 in Staraya Russa) was a German footballer. Urban, a forward, played for Schalke 04, among others, and made 21 appearances for Germany between 1935 and 1941, scoring 11 goals. He died in 1943 in Staraya Russa, fighting in World War II.[1] He was the only member of the Breslau Eleven to die in combat.
References
- ^ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
External links
- Adolf Urban at National-Football-Teams.com
Categories:
- Use dmy dates from September 2012
- 1914 births
- 1943 deaths
- German footballers
- Germany international footballers
- Olympic footballers of Germany
- Footballers at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- Association football forwards
- FC Schalke 04 players
- German military personnel killed in World War II
- German football forward stubs