Wilhelm Burgsmüller (18 January 1932 – 8 April 2025) was a German
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
er who played as a
defender for
Borussia Dortmund
Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e. V. Dortmund, often known simply as Borussia Dortmund () or by its initialism BVB (), or just Dortmund by International fans, is a German professional sports club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is ...
between 1952 and 1966. He appeared 19 times for the club in the
inaugural Bundesliga season. Burgsmüller died on 8 April 2025, at the age of 93.
Borussia Dortmund trauert um Wilhelm Burgsmüller
Honours
Borussia Dortmund
* German football championship
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: 1956
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, E ...
, 1957
Events January
* January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany.
* January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
* January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be Dismissal (cricke ...
, 1963
Events January
* January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove ...
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1932 births
2025 deaths
Sportspeople from the Province of Westphalia
German men's footballers
West German men's footballers
Footballers from Dortmund
Men's association football defenders
Borussia Dortmund players
Bundesliga players
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