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Adolf Zimmer

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Adolf Zimmer
Personal information
Date of birth (1908-02-28)28 February 1908
Place of birth Lwów, Austria-Hungary
Date of death May 1940(1940-05-00) (aged 32)
Place of death Kharkiv, Soviet Union
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)[1]
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
0000–1939 Pogoń Lwów
International career
1934 Poland 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Adolf Zimmer (28 February 1908 – May 1940) was a Polish footballer who played as a forward.[2]

He made one appearance for the Poland national team in 1934.[3] His club was Pogoń Lwów.[4]

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.[4]

Honours

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Pogoń Lwów

References

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  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. ^ a b 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.
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