Adolf Zimmer

Adolf Zimmer
Personal information
Date of birth (1908-02-28)28 February 1908
Place of birth Lwów, Austria-Hungary
Date of death 1940(1940-00-00) (aged 31–32)
Place of death Kharkiv, Soviet Union
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
–1939 Pogoń Lwów
International career
1934 Poland 1 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Adolf Alfred Jan Zimmer (28 February 1908 – spring 1940) was a Polish footballer who played as a forward, victim of the Katyn massacre.

He made one appearance for the Poland national team in 1934. His club was Pogoń Lwów.

A lieutenant in the Polish Army, he was imprisoned by the NKVD following the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 and killed in the Katyn Massacre in May 1940, aged 32.

Honours

Pogoń Lwów

References

  1. ↑ "Adolf Zimmer". 90minut.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 27 November 2024.
  2. ↑ "Adolf Zimmer". EU Football. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  3. ↑ "Adolf Zimmer". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  4. 1 2 Zichlarz, Michał (1 September 2019). "Z karabinem w dłoni". Dziennik Sport (in Polish). Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  5. ↑ "[TEGO DNIA] 28 lutego, czyli wysoka wygrana ze Szwajcarią". laczynaspilka.pl (in Polish). 28 February 2021. Retrieved 27 November 2024.