Georg Köhl

Georg Köhl
Personal information
Date of birth (1910-11-19)19 November 1910
Place of birth Nuremberg, Germany
Date of death 15 January 1944(1944-01-15) (aged 33)
Place of death Kraków, Poland
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1. FC Nürnberg
International career
1937 Germany 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Georg Köhl (19 November 1910 – 15 January 1944) was a German footballer who played as a goalkeeper for 1. FC Nürnberg and the Germany national team.[1]

In 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht to serve in the Second World War, seeing active service on the Eastern Front in Russia. He died in January 1944 in hospital in Kraków, Poland, from wounds received in action, having refused an amputation of his arm.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ kicker Fußball-Almanach 2011: Mit aktuellem Bundesliga-Spieler-ABC. Stiebner Verlag GmbH. August 2010. pp. 115–. ISBN 978-3-7679-0914-4. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
  2. ^ [1] Georg Kohl profile, in German, from Nurnberg FC site.
  3. ^ this Tor! The Story of German Football by Ulrich Hesse (2008), p. 97; WSC Books, London.


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