Josef Adelbrecht

Austrian footballer

Josef Adelbrecht (8 January 1910 – 15 September 1941) was an Austrian football player at the position of a striker.

Josef Adelbrecht
Personal information
Date of birth (1910-01-10)10 January 1910
Date of death 1 October 1941(1941-10-01) (aged 31)
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1928–1934 First Vienna
1934–1935 RCF Paris
1935 Grasshopper Club Zürich
1936–1937 Austria Wien
1937–1938 Rapid Wien 5 (3)
1938 SC Austro Fiat Wien
1939 SC Red Star Wien
1941 Floridsdorfer AC
National team
1930–1933 Austria 3 (1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

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Josef Adelbrecht began his professional career at Vienna in 1928. The striker won the Austrian Cup (1929, 1930) and the championship (1931, 1933) twice with Döblinger. His greatest success was winning the Mitropacup, the forerunner of today's European Cup, in 1931. In the final Josef Adelbrecht scored a goal to win 2:3 in the first leg in Zurich against Wiener AC . Vienna also won the second leg on the Viennese Hohe Warte. In 1934 Josef Adelbrecht decided to go to France. There he was rarely used at Racing Club de Paris. He left the club in 1935. He then worked in Switzerland at the Grasshopper Club Zurich.

After a year and a half abroad, Josef Adelbrecht returned to Vienna in January 1936 . Then he played for FK Austria Wien for a season and a half. In 1937 he moved to SK Rapid Wien. This season he was able to become Austrian champion for the third time with Rapid. In the years that followed, the striker played a few more games for Austro Fiat, Red Star Vienna and Floridsdorfer AC .

In March 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht. On 15 September 1941 he was killed during the invasion of Russia at Ivashkovo, about a hundred kilometers northwest of Moscow. [1]

Honours

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References

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  1. Bernhard Hachleitner, Matthias Marschik, Rudolf Müllner, Johann Skocek: Ein Fußballverein aus Wien. Der FK Austria im Nationalsozialismus 1938–1945, Böhlau Verlag, Wien-Köln-Weimar 2019, S. 278–279.

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