Henryk Alszer

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| name = Henryk Alszer

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1918|05|07|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Chorzów, Poland

| death_date = {{death date and age|1959|12|31|1918|05|07|df=yes}}

| death_place = Ruda Śląska, Poland

| height = 1.76 m

| position = Forward

| years1 = | clubs1 = RKS Hajduki | caps1 = | goals1 =

| years2 = | clubs2 = Hajduczanka Hajduki | caps2 = | goals2 =

| years3 = | clubs3 = Azoty Chorzów | caps3 = | goals3 =

| years4 = | clubs4 = 06 Kleofas Katowice | caps4 = | goals4 =

| years5 = 1939–1941 | clubs5 = Bergknappen Königshütte | caps5 = | goals6 =

| years6 = 1945 | clubs6 = Lens | caps6 = | goals7 =

| years7 = 1946–1947 | clubs7 = Forres Mechanics | caps7 =

| years8 = 1947–1957 | clubs8 = Ruch Chorzów | caps8 = 176 | goals8 = 51

| years9 = 1958 | clubs9 = Górnik Katowice | caps9 = | goals9 =

| years10 = 1959 | clubs10 = Pogoń Nowy Bytom | caps10 = | goals10 =

| nationalyears1 = 1948–1955 | nationalteam1 = Poland | nationalcaps1 = 13 | nationalgoals1 = 2

| manageryears1 = 1958 | managerclubs1 = Górnik Katowice (player-manager)

| manageryears2 = 1959 | managerclubs2 = Pogoń Nowy Bytom (player-manager)

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Henryk Alszer (7 May 1918 – 31 December 1959) was a Polish footballer. He was part of the Poland national team who were at the 1952 Summer Olympics.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/26910 |title=Henryk Alszer |work=Olympedia |access-date=7 November 2021}}

Before the war he participated in several sports for the sports and athletic club of RKS Hajduki, but due to the war he, like several others, found himself unable to play football. After the war he went to France to play for RC Lens and to Scotland to play for Forres Mechanics. He returned home in 1947 to play for Ruch Chorzów and aided them to a championship titles in 1951, 1952 and 1953. When he departed from the team in 1958 he had scored 51 goals in 176 matches, and though he moved to Górnik Katowice, he took on more of a coaching role than a playing one.

Alszer played in fourteen international matches, the first of which was against Yugoslavia in 1948.

He died on New Year's Eve in 1959 after being hit by a car.{{cite web |title=Wspomnienie Henryka Alszera |url=https://www.ksruch.com/w/63-rocznica-smierci-henryka-alszera |publisher=Ruch Chorzów |access-date=7 May 2024 |language=pl |date=31 December 2022}}