Adolf Urban Explained

Birth Date:9 January 1914
Birth Place:Gelsenkirchen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Death Place:Staraya Russa, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Position:Forward
Clubs1:Schalke 04
Nationalyears1:1935–1941
Nationalteam1:Germany
Nationalcaps1:21
Nationalgoals1:11

Adolf Urban (9 January 1914  - 23 May 1943) was a German footballer. Urban played as a forward for the football club Schalke 04, among others. He has made 21 appearances for Germany between 1935 and 1941, scoring 11 goals. He was also part of Germany's squad at the 1936 Summer Olympics.[1]

In the Second World War Urban was mobilised with the Wehrmacht in which he served in the 422nd Infantry Regiment on the Eastern Front in Russia, fighting at the battle of Demyansk.[2] He later died in 1943 in Staraya Russa, from wounds received in further fighting.[3] He was the only member of the Breslau Eleven to die in combat.

His body was buried in the Karpovo Military Cemetery but was later repatriated and reburied in November 2013 in Schalke cemetery in Gelsenkirchen.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Adolf Urban . Olympedia . 22 September 2021.
  2. Web site: Nazizm, wojna i klub Polaczków – historia Adolfa Urbana. Historia.org.pl. 1 April 2021. pl.
  3. Web site: Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 . dead . 17 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 10 April 2020.