Stanislaus "Tau" Kobierski (15 November 1910 in Düsseldorf — 18 November 1972) was a German footballer.
Kobierski's parents were Poles who emigrated to Germany from Poznań.[1] Between 1931 and 1941, he played 26 times and scored 9 goals for the Germany national football team.[2] He participated in the 1934 FIFA World Cup, and scored Germany's first ever World Cup goal, in the first round 5–2 win over Belgium. His home team was Fortuna Düsseldorf.
In autumn 1941 he was delegated to the sports club of the SS and German police in occupied Warsaw.[3] At the end of the Second World War, he became a Soviet prisoner of war. He had to do forced labour in a mine in the Arctic Circle. He was released from captivity in 1949 and was able to return to West Germany.[4]
References
- ^ Szczepłek, Stefan: Z Niemcami warto grać at Rzeczpospolita, 13 May 2014.
- ^ Arnhold, Matthias (22 September 2016). "Stanislaus Kobierski - Goals in International Matches". RSSSF. Retrieved 22 September 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, p. 370.
- ^ Thomas Urban: Czarny orzeł biały orzeł. Piłkarze w trybach polityki. Katowice 2012, p. 152, ISBN 978-83-7164-727-7.
External links
- Stanislaus Kobierski at fussballdaten.de (in German)
- Stanislaus Kobierski at WorldFootball.net
- Stanislaus Kobierski at National-Football-Teams.com
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