Ernst Kaltenbach

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Ernst Kaltenbach
Personnel
birthday February 7, 1889
place of birth Basel ,  Switzerland
date of death October 10, 1965
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1911-1927 FC Basel 68 (5)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1911-1922 Switzerland 13 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Ernst Kaltenbach (born February 7, 1889 in Basel ; † October 10, 1965 ), known as "Pfumpf", was a Swiss football and national team player.

society

Kaltenbach played for FC Basel between 1911 and 1927 . During this time, FCB always played in Serie A, in the "central" group. Kaltenbach had a total of 68 missions and scored five goals.

On April 24, 1921, he was the best Basel player in a comparison between a Berlin city selection and FC Basel in front of 35,000 spectators. The Basel team achieved a 3: 3, but had previously traveled 19 hours by train. In the domestic championship, FC Basel almost suffered relegation from Serie A in the same season.

National team

Kaltenbach was one of the pioneers in Swiss football history and played a total of 13 international matches for the Swiss national football team between 1911 and 1922 . In his first international match, on October 29, 1911, there was a 9-0 defeat against Hungary in Budapest . His last international match, eleven years later, was also a comparison with the Hungarians in Budapest, this time there was an honorary entry with a 1-1 draw.

The first success in Swiss football history in the third international match (they had lost the first two to France) was on April 5, 1908 at the Basler Landhof against the national team of the German Empire . Kaltenbach's club and national team colleague Siegfried Pfeiffer , also with a doctorate and at the same time President of FC Basel, scored two goals in the legendary 5-3 victory.

On June 27, 1920 in Zurich in a 4-1 victory over Germany, Kaltenbach was the Swiss captain. That game was the first appearance by a German selection after the First World War.

Private life

Dr. phil Ernst Kaltenbach was a high school teacher in Basel and shaped the early history of FC Basel. In 1916 he was one of the initiators in founding the junior department at FC Basel. From October 29, 1924 he was the editor of the "Schweizerische Fußball- und Athletik-Zeitung", and later wrote about Swiss football for the German magazine "Kicker" and for the sports newspaper "Tip".

titles and achievements

FC Basel

  • Anglo Cup (forerunner competition to the Swiss Cup) : 1912/13

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thilo Mangold, Noëmi Rohner: The oldest Basel football film - the 1921 city selection in Berlin. Tageswoche.ch, 2014, accessed on October 7, 2014 .
  2. ^ Red and white: Kaltenbach Dr., Ernst. Rotweiss.ch, accessed on November 16, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Kaltenbach, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Puff
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1965