Adolf Urban

{{short description|German footballer}}

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| birth_date = 9 January 1914

| birth_place = Gelsenkirchen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1943|5|23|1914|1|9}}

| death_place = Staraya Russa, RSFSR, Soviet Union

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| position = Forward

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| clubs1 = Schalke 04

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| nationalyears1 = 1935–1941

| nationalteam1 = Germany

| nationalcaps1 = 21

| nationalgoals1 = 11

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Adolf Urban (9 January 1914 – 23 May 1943) was a German footballer. Urban played as a forward for the football club Schalke 04, among others. He has made 21 appearances for Germany between 1935 and 1941, scoring 11 goals. He was also part of Germany's squad at the 1936 Summer Olympics.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/25486 |title=Adolf Urban |work=Olympedia |access-date=22 September 2021}}

In the Second World War Urban was mobilised with the Wehrmacht in which he served in the 422nd Infantry Regiment on the Eastern Front in Russia, fighting at the battle of Demyansk.{{cite web|url=https://historia.org.pl/2015/08/06/nazizm-wojna-i-klub-polaczkow-historia-adolfa-urbana/|title=Nazizm, wojna i klub Polaczków – historia Adolfa Urbana|website=Historia.org.pl|accessdate=1 April 2021|language=pl}} He later died in 1943 in Staraya Russa, from wounds received in further fighting.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War |work=Sports Reference |accessdate=10 April 2020}} He was the only member of the Breslau Eleven to die in combat.

His body was buried in the Karpovo Military Cemetery but was later repatriated and reburied in November 2013 in Schalke cemetery in Gelsenkirchen.