Karl Braunsteiner

Karl Braunsteiner

Karl Braunsteiner and Josef Brandstätter
Personal information
Date of birth	(1891-10-27)27 October 1891
Date of death	19 April 1916(1916-04-19) (aged 24)
Place of death	Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s)	defender
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
	Wiener SC
International career
	Austria	8	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Karl Braunsteiner (27 October 1891 – 19 April 1916) was an Austrian football (soccer) player.[1]

Club career

Regarded as one of the biggest talents of his era, the small defender played for Wiener Sportclub.

During World War I he came to Poland as a gunner. He was captured and died in Tashkent due to typhoid fever as a prisoner of war.[2]

International career

Braunsteiner was a member of the Austrian Olympic squad at the 1912 Summer Olympics and played two matches in the main tournament as well as three matches in the consolation tournament.[3][4]

For the Austria national football team he played 8 games.

See also

• List of Olympians killed in World War I

References

1. "Karl Braunsteiner". Olympedia. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
2. "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
3. Record at FIFA Tournaments - FIFA
4. "Karl Braunsteiner". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2015.

External links

• WSC profile (in German)