Ernst Eikhof

Ernst Eikhof
Personnel
birthday	May 6, 1892
place of birth	Hamburg ,  German Empire
date of death	November 19, 1978
size	185 cm
position	Central defender
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1911-1930	SC Victoria Hamburg	413 (?)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1923	Germany	3 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Ernst Eikhof (born May 6, 1892 in Hamburg , † November 19, 1978 ) was a German football player . Ernst Eikhof was in the middle, which corresponds to today's central defender. He played from 1911 to 1930 in the league team of SC Victoria Hamburg .

Career

societies

Eikhof played for SC Victoria Hamburg throughout his career. This included the period between 1911 and 1930. During this time he played at least 413 games for Victoria. After 1930 he played for Victoria senior teams until 1942. He was considered an impeccable sportsman. He was only sent off once in his career. This was on September 28, 1919 in the game against HSV , when he was provoked by "a meanness of the half-left tailor" (who also had to leave the place).

Selection / national team

As early as February 8, 1914, he and his club-mate Adolf Gehrts represented the colors of Northern Germany in the semifinals against Brandenburg in Hanover. The game was won with 3-2 goals and the final two weeks later Eikhof and his teammates won (2-1 against Central Germany in Berlin). In the 1923/24 round, northern Germany with center runner Ernst Eikhof qualified again for the final with a 4-2 win after extra time in the semi-finals. But southern Germany prevailed with 4-2 goals. By 1926, Eikhof had played 12 games in the national cup games for Northern Germany, and in total he was used 27 times for the NFV.

Ernst Eikhof debuted only four days after his 31st birthday on May 10, 1923 in the senior team . In his hometown of Hamburg in the Hoheluft stadium , the Netherlands were the opponents in a goalless draw. His club mate Henry Müller played on the left defender position. On June 3, 1923, he played his second international match in a 2-1 win in Basel against Switzerland . Together with the two Nuremberg side runners Carl Riegel and Hans Schmidt , he formed the runner row. Ernst Eikhof completed his last international match on August 12, 1923 in Dresden, when they lost 2-1 to Finland . He led the team without Fürth players as captain. The mustached hamburger was a middle class old school.

Others

The businessman came from a Hanseatic footballer family. His brother Otto "Tulle" Eikhof was on the Victoria team for years, played representative for Hamburg and was also a well-known referee who led the final of the 1906 German championship. Brother Willi distinguished himself as a goalkeeper. Football historians today owe Ernst Eikhof a number of personal records, including rare statistics, as well as the only surviving ticket to the final of the 1903 German championship in Altona, which he attended as an eleven-year-old student.

Web links

• Ernst Eikhof in the database of weltfussball.de
• Ernst Eikhof on dfb .de

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 .