Georg Köhl (19 November 1910 – 15 January 1944) was a German
footballer
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...
who played as a
goalkeeper for
1. FC Nürnberg
1. Fußball-Club Nürnberg Verein für Leibesübungen e. V., often called 1. FC Nürnberg (, en, 1. Football Club Nuremberg) or simply Nürnberg, is a German association football club in Nuremberg, Bavaria, who currently compete in the 2. Bund ...
and the
Germany national team.
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.
Georg Kohl profile, in German, from Nurnberg FC site.
''Tor! The Story of German Football'' by Ulrich Hesse (2008), p. 97; WSC Books, London.
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1910 births
1944 deaths
Men's association football goalkeepers
German men's footballers
Germany men's international footballers
1. FC Nürnberg players
German Army soldiers of World War II
German Army personnel killed in World War II
Footballers from Nuremberg
Sportspeople from the Kingdom of Bavaria
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