Rudolf "Rudi" Noack (30 March 1913 – c. 30 June 1947) was a German
football
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player. He played in the
1934 FIFA World Cup
The 1934 FIFA World Cup was the second edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football championship for senior men's national teams. It took place in Italy from 27 May to 10 June 1934.
The 1934 World Cup was the first in w ...
, scoring one goal in the tournament against
Czechoslovakia in the semi-finals.
World War II
During
World War II Noack was called up and served as a corporal in the German Army with anti-aircraft units stationed mainly in
Hamburg,
Vienna and in
Bohemia
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(
Czechoslovakia) where at the end of the war he was captured by Soviet forces. He died in a prisoner of war camp at Rakitianka near
Orsk, Russia, on 30 June 1947.
"Footballers in captivity: Ernst Seikowski and Rudolf Noack" (2016 article) (in German).
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1913 births
1947 deaths
German footballers
Germany international footballers
1934 FIFA World Cup players
Hamburger SV players
First Vienna FC players
German people who died in Soviet detention
Association football forwards
German Army soldiers of World War II
German prisoners of war in World War II held by the Soviet Union
Footballers from Hamburg
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