August Schmierer Explained

August Schmierer
Full Name:August Friedrich Christian Schmierer
Birth Date:28 April 1870
Birth Place:Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg
Death Date:unknown
Ru Position:Scrum-half
Ru Amateurclubs: FC 1880 Frankfurt
Cannstatter FC

August Friedrich Christian Schmierer (born 28 April 1870, date of death unknown) was a German rugby union player who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.[1]

He was a member of the German rugby union team, which won the silver medal. Germany was represented at the tournament mainly by the FC 1880 Frankfurt rather than an official national team.[2] Schmierer had left Frankfurt in 1897 and was in 1900 already chairman of the Cannstatter Fußball-Club. But he was invited to the olympic tournament by his former club.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: August Schmierer . Olympedia . 28 December 2020.
  2. http://www.rugby-verband.de/cms/index.php?id=75 Die Gründerjahre des deutschen Rugbysports
  3. Book: Heineken, Philipp . Erinnerungen an den Cannstatter Fussball-Club . German . Memories of the Cannstatter Fussball-Club . 1930 . Verlag Hermann Meister . Heidelberg . 86–88.