{{Short description|Polish footballer (1908–1940)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2024}} {{Infobox football biography |name = Adolf Zimmer |image = Alfred Zimmer.jpg |caption = |fullname = |birth_date = {{birth date|1908|2|28|df=yes}} |birth_place = Lwów, Austria-Hungary |death_date = {{Death date and age|1940|28 February 1908}} |death_place = Kharkiv, Soviet Union |height = 1.67 m<ref>{{cite web |title=Adolf Zimmer |url=http://www.90minut.pl/kariera.php?id=41277 |website=90minut.pl |access-date=27 November 2024 |language=pl}}</ref> |position = Forward |years1 = {{0|0000}}–1939 | clubs1 = Pogoń Lwów | caps1 = | goals1 = |nationalyears1 = 1934 |nationalteam1 = Poland |nationalcaps1 = 1 |nationalgoals1 = 0 }}
'''Adolf Alfred Jan Zimmer''' (28 February 1908 – spring 1940) was a Polish footballer who played as a forward,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://eu-football.info/_player.php?id=23466 |title=Adolf Zimmer |work=EU Football |access-date=3 October 2021}}</ref> victim of the Katyn massacre.
He made one appearance for the Poland national team in 1934.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldfootball.net/person/pe124188/adolf-zimmer/ |title=Adolf Zimmer |work=worldfootball.net |access-date=3 October 2021}}</ref> His club was Pogoń Lwów.<ref name=DS>{{Cite web |last=Zichlarz |first=Michał |date=1 September 2019 |title=Z karabinem w dłoni |url=https://sportdziennik.com/z-karabinem-w-dloni/ |access-date=31 October 2021 |website=Dziennik Sport |language=Polish}}</ref>
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.<ref name=DS/>
==Honours== '''Pogoń Lwów''' * Polish Football Championship: 1922, 1923, 1925, 1926<ref>{{cite web |title=[TEGO DNIA] 28 lutego, czyli wysoka wygrana ze Szwajcarią |url=https://www2.laczynaspilka.pl/aktualnosci/tego-dnia-28-lutego-czyli-wysoka-wygrana-ze-szwajcaria1 |website=laczynaspilka.pl |access-date=27 November 2024 |language=pl |date=28 February 2021}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Zimmer, Adolf}} Category:1908 births Category:1940 deaths Category:Footballers from Lviv Category:Men's association football forwards Category:Polish men's footballers Category:Poland men's international footballers Category:Pogoń Lwów players Category:Ekstraklasa players Category:Polish military personnel killed in World War II Category:Victims of the Katyn massacre Category:20th-century Polish sportsmen
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