Leonard Malik

Leonard Malik
Personal information
Date of birth	25 October 1908
Place of birth	Kattowitz, German Empire
Date of death	10 October 1945 (aged 36)
Place of death	Mysłowice, Poland
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team
1923–1929	Pogoń Katowice
1929–1933	Polonia Warsaw
1934–1938	Proch Pionki
International career
1930	Poland
Managerial career
1934–1938	Proch Pionki (player-manager)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Leonard Malik (25 October 1908 – 10 October 1945) was a Polish footballer who played as a forward.^[2] He earned one cap for the Poland national team in 1930.^[3]

Personal life

Malik's cousin Richard was also a footballer, who played for Germany.^[4]

Malik, who briefly served in the Polish Army in 1929, was an ethnic German of socialist views which caused him to be jailed at Bereza Kartuska Prison in 1938-39 as an opponent of the interwar Polish government. During the German occupation of Poland in the Second World War, Malik ran a casino for Wehrmacht personnel in Pionki.^[4] Accused of being a Gestapo informant, he was arrested by the Polish People's Republic and died in a forced labour camp on 10 October 1945.^[4]

^ "Leonard Malik". 90minut.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2 October 2024.
^ "Leonard Malik". EU Football. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
^ "Leonard Malik". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Piłkarze wyklęci – Leonard i Richard Malikowie". Śląski Związek Piłki Nożnej (in Polish). 28 September 2020. Retrieved 8 November 2021.

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