Alfred Denkewitz

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Alfred Denkewitz (born September 10, 1897 ; † after 1936) was a German soccer player who spent his entire playing career at Wacker Leipzig and who won the federal cup with Central Germany in 1921 .

Career

Denkewitz began his career at Wacker Leipzig as a teenager and moved up to the club's first team at the age of 16 in July 1914. There Denkewitz first played in the striker row before moving to the position of right defender in the course of his career. Between October 1916 and November 1918, Denkewitz had to interrupt his football activities because he was drafted into military service. Immediately after his return he played again for Wacker and did so until 1922 when he suffered a knee damage in a representative game against a Czechoslovak selection. This injury made it impossible for him to continue his playing career.

Denkewitz was not only a support in his club, he was also in demand in the regional representative teams. Between 1919 and 1921 he played eleven games for the Gau selection of North West Saxony and for the selection of the VMBV he was even able to record thirteen appearances between 1916 and 1922. In the VMBV selection, Denkewitz played with German national players such as Fritz Förderer , Eduard Pendorf , Paul Pömpner and Camillo Ugi . Denkewitz 'greatest sporting success was winning the national cup, which he was able to celebrate together with the Central German selection in 1921. In the final in Leipzig they defeated the selection of West Germany in front of 15,000 spectators with a clear 4-0.

After his active career, Denkewitz worked as a referee and was chairman of the referee committee in the Leipzig Football Association in 1937.

literature

  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 57.
  • Kurt Pauckert: 30 years Gau Northwest Saxony in the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs. 1897-1927th anniversary foundation of the Leipziger Neuesten Nachrichten, Leipzig 1927

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personal archive - Leipziger Fußballverband e. V. at leipziger-fussballverband.de, accessed on July 19, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Denkewitz, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1897
DATE OF DEATH after 1936