Engelbert Koch

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Engelbert Koch
Personnel
birthday March 22, 1918
date of death April 29, 1962
Place of death Hagen (Westphalia),  Germany
position Defense , attack
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1939 Prussia Munster
1940-1944 → Hertha BSC (guest) 43 (19)
1944-1949 Prussia Munster
1949-1950 SC West Cologne 27 (5)
1950-1952 VfL Cologne 1899 32 (9)
1952-1953 Fortuna Cologne
1 Only league games are given.

Engelbert Koch (born March 22, 1918 , † April 29, 1962 in Hagen ) was a German football and tennis player .

Player career (soccer)

Engelbert Koch began his career with Prussia Munster , where he played until 1939, before working as from January 1940 guest player at Hertha BSC participated. With the Berliners he played three more games as a defender in the war championship . But already in the following Gauliga season 1940/41 he was on the fourth day of play for the first time as a striker in the starting line-up against Union Oberschöneweide and in this game scored the goal to make it 2-0. He stayed in this position for three games before returning to the defense, but there, too, he now had his regular place and knew how to convince with his goal threat. A season later, he played 15 of 18 games as a striker and, together with Wilhelm Hildebrandt , scored the most with nine goals at Hertha. In 1942/43 Koch lost his regular place to Fritz Balogh , who scored 20 goals in 16 league games and scored 15 goals in four games in the Tschammer Cup, just like Bram Appel . In the 1943/44 season that finally ended with the Gaume Championship before LSV Berlin , Koch only played three games. With the title, the old lady secured the right to start in the final round of the German championship in 1944 , in which Koch was only used in the first game at 0-0 at LSV Danzig . So he could not prevent the unfortunate end in the quarter-finals against HSV Groß Born .

Afterwards Koch returned to Münster and played again for Prussia. With the Münsteraners, who were temporarily second class in 1947, he managed to (re-) rise straight away. The following season of the Oberliga West was surprisingly finished fourth, with Koch played 21 games in which he managed a hit.

In 1949 Koch moved to SC West Cologne , where he played a season in the II Division , which ended in seventh place.

But after only one year he moved to local rivals and promoted VfL Cologne in 1899 . The 1950/51 season ended in a decent eighth place.

For the 1951/52 season , Koch's ex-clubs SC West Cologne and VfL Cologne 99 formed a syndicate . In the second half of the season, however, they played their games out of competition and was removed from the rating.

Engelbert Koch then moved to Fortuna Cologne , where he ended his football career in 1953 after one season at the age of 35.

Player career (tennis)

Engelbert Koch was even more successful than in football in tennis, which he played both during his active football days and afterwards. Koch won several German championship titles and represented Germany four times in the Davis Cup in 1953 and 1954 . He won only one of five individual games. His association was the TC Münster , later Rot-Weiß Köln . Engelbert Koch wore the silver-gold plated badge of honor of the DTB. He died in 1962 while still an active player on the tennis court.

successes

Web links

swell

  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
  • Harald Tragmann, Harald Voß: The Hertha Compendium. 2., revised. and exp. Edition. Harald Voß, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-935759-05-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg 1943/44 , viewed on August 22, 2010
  2. ↑ in singles, doubles and mixed, cf. Web link TC Münster
  3. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, April 30, 1962
personal data
SURNAME Koch, Engelbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1918
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1962