Kurt Baluses

{{Short description|German footballer and manager}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Kurt Baluses

| fullname = Kurt Baluses

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1914|6|30}}

| birth_place = Allenstein, Germany

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1972|3|28|1914|6|30}}

| death_place = Ludwigsburg, West Germany

| height = {{Height|m=}}

| position = Midfielder

| years1 = {{0|0000}}–1936

| clubs1 = SV Allenstein

| caps1 =

| goals1 =

| years2 = 1936–1945

| clubs2 = VfB Königsberg

| caps2 =

| goals2 =

| years3 = 1945

| clubs3 = Holstein Kiel

| caps3 =

| goals3 =

| years4 = 1945–1947

| clubs4 = Eckernförder SV

| caps4 =

| goals4 =

| years5 = 1947–1948

| clubs5 = Rot-Weiß Niebüll

| caps5 =

| goals5 =

| years6 = 1948–1954

| clubs6 = Itzehoer SV

| caps6 =

| goals6 =

| manageryears1 = 1945–1947

| managerclubs1 = Eckernförder SV (player manager)

| manageryears2 = 1948–1954

| managerclubs2 = Itzehoer SV (player manager)

| manageryears3 = 1954–1955

| managerclubs3 = 1. FC Köln

| manageryears4 = 1956–1960

| managerclubs4 = Eintracht Braunschweig

| manageryears5 = 1960–1965

| managerclubs5 = VfB Stuttgart

| manageryears6 = 1965–1968

| managerclubs6 = Kickers Offenbach

| manageryears7 = 1968–1971

| managerclubs7 = Karlsruher SC

| manageryears8 = 1971–1972

| managerclubs8 = SpVgg Ludwigsburg

| totalcaps =

| totalgoals =

| club-update =

}}

Kurt Baluses (30 June 1914 – 28 March 1972) was a German football player and manager.{{cite web | url =http://www.weltfussball.de/spieler_profil/kurt-baluses/| title = Kurt Baluses | language = de | publisher = weltfussball.de | access-date = 21 January 2013}} He was the first manager of VfB Stuttgart in the then newly founded Bundesliga and also had the biggest success of his managing career with the club, leading Stuttgart to a 5th-place finish in 1963–64.