Wolfgang Strobel (17 October 1896 – 19 April 1945) was a German
football forward who played for
1. FC Nürnberg.
Strobel joined Nürnberg in 1917, and went on to win four
German football championship
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s with the club. He was also capped four times by the
German national team between 1922 and 1924.
During the
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...
, Strobel worked as an auxiliary policeman. He was fatally shot by American soldiers in April 1945.
Honours
* German football championship:
1920,
1921,
1924
Events
January
* January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
* January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China holds ...
,
1925
Events January
* January 1
** The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria.
* January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Itali ...
References
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1896 births
1945 deaths
Men's association football forwards
German men's footballers
Germany men's international footballers
1. FC Nürnberg players
German civilians killed in World War II
Deaths by firearm in Germany
Footballers from Nuremberg
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