Josip Šolc (30 January 1898 – 24 September 1945)
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. He competed for the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes at the

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. He was sometimes referred to as Josip Scholz which is the Germanized spelling.

Football career

Born in Zagreb, he played football as midfielder with

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and was known for his good technical skills.Josip Scholz
at Reprezentacija.rs He made his debut for Yugoslavia in a September 1920 friendly match against Egypt and earned a total of 2 caps, scoring no goals. His second and final international was an October 1923 friendly against Czechoslovakia. Besides football he also practiced fencing and was part of the

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team at Bucharest in 1938.

Military career

He finished the Military Academy and was official in the Yugoslav Royal Army between 1919 and 1940. He was a member of the Nazi-backed Croatian Home Guard. Šolc was commander of the Zagreb Garrison Command.Order of battle of Croatian Home Defense Army
/ref> In August 1942 he was awarded the Military Order of the Iron Trefoil 4th Class Cross with Oak Wreath. He was promoted to the rank of infantry general on 22 December 1944. He was captured by the Yugoslav Partisans in May 1945 and in June was incarcerated in the military prison in

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where he was sentenced to death and executed on 19 September 1945.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Solc, Josip 1898 births 1945 deaths Footballers from Zagreb People from the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia Croatian people of German descent Men's association football midfielders Yugoslav men's footballers Yugoslavia men's international footballers Olympic footballers for Yugoslavia Footballers at the 1920 Summer Olympics HŠK Concordia players Yugoslav male fencers Croatian male fencers Royal Yugoslav Army personnel Croatian military personnel of World War II Recipients of the Military Order of the Iron Trefoil Executed Croatian collaborators with Nazi Germany