Karl Kanhäuser
Personal information
Date of birth 18 July 1900[1]
Place of birth Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Date of death (declared) 31 December 1945[1]
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1919–1925 Wiener Sport-Club
1925–1937 DFC Prag
International career
1921–1924 Austria 5 (3)
1931 Czechoslovakia 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Karl Kanhäuser, also known as Karel Kannhauser (18 July 1900 – 31 December 1945 (declared)[1]) was a footballer who played international football for both Austria and Czechoslovakia.[2] Kanhäuser played as a striker for Wiener Sport-Club and DFC Prag.[3] His brother was fellow player Eduard Kanhäuser.[2]

Personal life and death

Kanhauser renounced Austrian for Czechoslovakian citizenship in 1931.[4] Kanhauser continued to live in Prague with his family through the Second World War until in 1944 he was drafted in the Wehrmacht and deployed to Yugoslavia where he went missing in action. He was declared by the Vienna Regional Court to have died on 31 December 1945,[1] five months on from his 45th birthday and seven months after the end of war in Europe.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 https://data.matricula-online.eu/de/oesterreich/wien/17-dornbach/01-11/?pg=66 Baptismal record with the declaration endorsed in later hand. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  2. 1 2 "Karl Kanhäuser - International Appearances". RSSSF. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  3. "Karl Kanhäuser". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  4. Wiener Sporttagblatt vom 01. April 1931, S. 7 Retrieved 29 August 2022.


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