{{short description|German footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox football biography |name = August Klingler |image = |caption = |fullname = |birth_date = {{birth date|1918|2|24|df=y}} |birth_place = |death_date = {{Death date and age|1944|11|23|1918|2|24|df=y}} |death_place = |height = |position = Forward |youthyears1 = |youthclubs1 = |years1 = |clubs1 = FV Daxlanden |caps1 = |goals1 = |totalcaps = |totalgoals = |nationalyears1 = 1942 |nationalteam1 = Germany |nationalcaps1 = 5 |nationalgoals1 = 6 |manageryears1 = |managerclubs1 = }}
'''August Klingler''' (24 February 1918 – 23 November 1944) was a German international footballer.<ref name="Kicker Fußball-Almanach 2011: Mit aktuellem Bundesliga-Spieler-ABC">{{cite book|title=Kicker Fußball-Almanach 2011: Mit aktuellem Bundesliga-Spieler-ABC|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1SVkEbeNdGMC&pg=PA115|accessdate=8 December 2012|date=August 2010|publisher=Stiebner Verlag GmbH|isbn=978-3-7679-0914-4|pages=115–}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eu-football.info/_player.php?id=10741|title=August Klingler - national football team player|website=eu-football.info|access-date=2016-05-27}}</ref>
He scored six goals in only five matches<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://rsssf.com/miscellaneous/aklingler-intl.html | title = August Klingler - Goals in International Matches | first = Matthias | last = Arnhold | date = 9 March 2017 | accessdate = 27 March 2017 | publisher = RSSSF}}</ref> for the Germany national team in the midst of the Second World War. He scored three goals in Germany's final international during World War II in November 1942, but was killed on the Eastern Front in 1944.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.weltfussball.de/news/_n2980265_/damals-das-letzte-spiel-unterm-hakenkreuz/|title=Damals: Das letzte Spiel unterm Hakenkreuz|date=22 November 2017|accessdate=29 November 2017|publisher=www.weltfussball.de}}</ref>
==See also== * List of footballers killed during World War II
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Fussballdaten|august-klingler}} * {{WorldFootball.net|august-klingler}} * {{NFT player|17353}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Klingler, August}} Category:1918 births Category:1944 deaths Category:Men's association football forwards Category:German men's footballers Category:Germany men's international footballers Category:German Army personnel killed in World War II Category:20th-century German sportsmen
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