Edmund Pulheim

Edmund Pulheim is a former German soccer player and the first president of Borussia Mönchengladbach in the post-war period .

life and work

The office of president has been occupied at Borussia since 1948. The first president was the former player Edmund Pulheim, who headed the club for the first time from 1948 to 1953 and after a year of presidency by Theo Grams, again from 1954 to 1957. During his tenure, the club joined the community of contract players' clubs on July 24, 1949, which paved the way for professional football. The coaches Paul Pohl and Heinz Ditgens were hired during his presidency . Pohl was one of the key players in winning the West German championship in 1920, while Ditgens was Borussia's first national player. In the 1949/50 season, Borussia rose under Pulheim in what was then the first-class football league West . After the relegation of the promoted team, Borussia returned to the league immediately after winning the group in the second division in 1952.

The former active player is described as a "long-runner and final fighter who was something like a Herbert Wimmer in his twenties". He belonged to the championship team of the 1928/29 season, which prevailed in the Rhine district class, group 2 and then also won the playoff against group champions SVg Köln-Sülz 07 and was thus able to participate in the final round of the West German championship. But then he and his teammates had to experience the superiority of FC Schalke 04, Meidericher SV and Fortuna Düsseldorf.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The time after the World War at Borussia.de
2. ^ Werner Jakobs: 100 years of Borussia Mönchengladbach. The eleven from the Lower Rhine. In: RHEIN SPORT. 1999, ISBN 3-934702-00-7 , p. 29.
3. ↑ Mark Fiesseler: 100 years football in North Rhine-Westphalia. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89784-128-2 , pp. 140, 142/143