Ernst Seikowski
Ernst Julius Seikowski (born January 18, 1917 in Dirschau , West Prussia , † December 3, 1986 in Hamburg ) was a German football player .
At the age of three the child came to Hamburg with his family and grew up in the Wilhelmsburg station district.
The son of an assistant conductor joined the local FC Unity in 1927. There the talent made his debut at the age of 16 in the league team and was appointed to the Harburg-Wilhelmsburg city team the following year . The all-round player - u. a. Used as left winger, left defender and center runner - was considered to be powerful and extremely powerful.
In the summer of 1939 he moved to the Hamburger Sportverein (HSV), with which he won the last "Gaume Championship" of Nazi football in 1944/45. In 1944 he appeared briefly as a guest player for 1. FC Nürnberg .
As a sergeant in a grenade unit, he was taken prisoner in Italy in May 1945 and was interned in Egypt at the Bitter Lake . Here he was captain of the camp team of "PoW Camp 306" and "Arbeitsskompanie 2719", in which u. a. Heinz Schwipps ( Guts Muts Dresden ), Günther Voigt ( Wacker 04 Berlin ) and Heinz Liebers ( Preußen Münster ) played. In December 1947 he led a German prisoner selection to a 3-0 victory over an English army selection.
Seikowski finally returned to the destroyed Hamburg in September 1948 - despite an offer from England - and led his parent club Einigkeit Wilhelmsburg in 1950 to the amateur league, the second German division. He finally ended his career in 1954 with the amateur league team Rasensport Harburg .
The trained boilermaker and engine driver died of a stroke in 1986.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Uwe Hansen: "How unity was found again". In: Wilhelmsburger Zeitung of April 7, 1967
- ↑ cf. Ralf Klee: "The forgotten international match". In: Hamburger Abendblatt from December 6, 2007
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seikowski, Ernst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Seikowski, Ernst Julius (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tczew |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd December 1986 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |