Ernst Walter Joachim

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Ernst Walter Joachim (born January 3, 1901 in Vienna , † December 1976 in New York City ), known by his nickname Walter Jokl , was an Austrian football player in the position of goalkeeper . Since his debut at the age of 16 years and 305 days, Joachim has been the youngest player in the history of the Austrian national team .

biography

Seasonal statistics 1916–1923
season space Games
1915/16 7th 11
1916/17 8th. 18th
1917/18 8th. 16
1918/19 6th 14th
1919/20 2. 12
1920/21 2. 16
1921/22 4th 13
1922/23 2. 20th
Coat of arms of the Viennese amateur sports club

Ernst Walter Joachim was born on January 3, 1901 at Förstergasse 7 in the Vienna district of Leopoldstadt as the son of Arthur Joachim (1864–1944) and his wife Jenny, née Jenny. Rottenstein (1874–1966) born. He was of Jewish descent, but later left Judaism .

Club career and in the national team

On December 5, 1915, 14-year-old Joachim made his debut in the championship for the Viennese amateur sports club . In the 4-0 defeat against eventual champions Rapid Wien, "[he] proved himself to the best and saved many difficult situations". During this time, many players from the "Violets" were drafted into the army , including goalkeeper Viktor Gefäll , so that many players from the young team had to move up. For the second half of the 1915/16 season Joachim already belonged to the permanent staff of the fighting team. In the following years, the Viennese could maintain his place in the goal of the amateurs, but because of his antics - Joachim is said to have left the field angry about a goal against him during a game - he was temporarily ousted by Wilhelm Meisl . He was nicknamed " Jokl " at a young age as a corruption of his surname. In a competition in November 1918, Joachim was used as a center forward and scored one goal. In 1920, 1921 and 1923 Joachim with the "Violets" was three times behind Rapid Austrian runner-up, on May 20, 1923 he played his 120th and last championship game against Hertha Vienna (4-0). In the summer of 1923, the amateurs signed the goalkeeper Theodor Lohrmann from SpVgg Fürth , who from then on became a regular goalkeeper. In April 1924 Joachim took an active part in founding the “Wiener Corinthians”, a loose association for promoting amateur sport . In March 1925 he played a friendly game for the Vienna AF , but played again for the reserve team of amateurs the following week. In mid-1926 Joachim was active as a goalkeeper for the reserve team of the Vienna AC , the following year in the academy team of Austria Vienna .

Due to his "repeatedly shown brilliant performances in club games" Joachim came to his first international game on November 4, 1917 in the international match of the Austrian national team against Hungary at the age of 16 years and 305 days, replacing Georg HOT as the youngest ÖFB team player in history; this record was not mentioned in the contemporary press. His debut performance in the 1: 2 defeat under national coach Heinrich Retschury described the foreign paper with the words:

“The young goalkeeper Jokl unfortunately did not keep what was promised. He seemed a little nervous and spoiled a numerical victory for Austria by bad placement. "

Despite this, Joachim came to further international honors and guarded the goal on December 23 and 26, 1917 against Switzerland (1: 0 and 2: 3). In his fourth and last international match on April 6, 1919, Joachim represented Gustav Kraupar from Floridsdorf ; the game of the German-Austrians against Hungary in front of over 50,000 spectators was lost, like Joachim's premiere game, 1: 2.

Coaching career and later life

At the beginning of December 1931, Joachim went to Catania , Sicily , to work as a trainer for the SS Catania based there. He took over the club playing in the third-class Prima Divisione from his predecessor Nicola Papa . Catania got into major financial difficulties, so that Joachim returned home ten weeks later and after nine league games and Giacinto Bavazzano took over the club. In January 1933 the Austrian moved to Port Said, Egypt, and took over the coaching position at Port Fouad SC , the city's only international club. Thanks to the club's sporting successes, Joachim still held this position in May 1934. During this time he was in regular contact with his coaching colleague Viktor Hierländer in Alexandria. In 1939 Joachim worked as a commercial clerk in Port Said , even during the Second World War he did not return to his Austrian homeland on his mother's advice. After the end of the war, Joachim lived in England for a few years , where he worked for a book publisher . In November 1950 he finally set out on a steamer from Port Said to New York City , where his sister Käthe Guth (1896-2004) had emigrated in the early 1920s. "Ernest Joachim", as he wrote himself in the United States, worked from then on until his retirement in a hospital administration in the Manhattan borough . He died in New York City in December 1976 at the age of 75.

For a long time, little was known about Joachim's life. Since his debut in October 2009, David Alaba has been considered the youngest team player in the Austrian national team (17 years and 112 days), previously compatriot Hans Buzek had been honored for 54 years. In April 2020, Der Standard published its research on the date of birth and life of Joachim, according to which he has been the youngest national player in the country for more than 102 years. Although the correct date of birth had been entered in various databases since 2014, no one had questioned Alaba's supposed record.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ambrosius Kutschera: Championship Austria I (including subpages of the seasons). In: austriasoccer.at , accessed on April 20, 2020.
  2. Jump up ↑ Rapid — Amateurs 4: 0 (0: 0). In: Fremd-Blatt of December 6, 1915, p. 6.
  3. ↑ Hertha — Amateurs 3: 2 (2: 1). In: Fremd-Blatt of November 4, 1918, p. 6.
  4. ↑ An interesting foundation. In: Sport-Tagblatt of April 8, 1925, p. 1.
  5. ↑ Rapid against W. A. ​​F. 1: 0. In: Sport-Tagblatt of March 23, 1925, p. 3.
  6. ↑ Amateurs vs sports club 1: 1 (1: 0). In: Vienna Latest News of March 30, 1925, p. 8.
  7. ↑ Richard Soukup: From earlier days. In: Illustrated Sportblatt from July 17, 1926, p. 8.
  8. ↑ Competition program: Austria academics. In: Sport-Tagblatt of September 24, 1927, p. 7.
  9. ↑ international competition Austria-Hungary. In: Fremd-Blatt of November 3, 1917, p. 3.
  10. ↑ international competition Austria-Hungary. In: Fremd-Blatt of November 5, 1917, p. 6.
  11. ^ International battle between Germany and Austria and Hungary. In: Sport-Tagblatt of April 5, 1919, p. 4.
  12. ↑ Notes. In: Sport-Tagblatt dated December 11, 1931, p. 4.
  13. ↑ a b Errata corrige , p. 3. In: Antonio Buemi, Carlo Fontanelli, Roberto Quartarone, Alessandro Russo, Filippo Solarino: Tutto il Catania minuto per minuto. Dalle origini al 2010. Geo Edizioni, Empoli 2010.
  14. ↑ Walter Jokl: At the foot of the Aetna. In: The evening of February 16, 1932, p. 9.
  15. ↑ Sports letter from Egypt. In: Neues Wiener Journal of July 1, 1934, p. 26.
  16. ^ Walter Jokl: A Viennese trainer in Egypt. In: Neues Wiener Journal of May 20, 1934, p. 33.
  17. ^ Cilli Kasper-Holtkotte: Germany in Egypt. De Gruyter, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-052361-4 , p. 301 ( online ).
  18. ↑ Death Index US Social Security ( Social Security Death Index ), 1935-2014.
  19. ↑ International match statistics: team player IL ( memento from December 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at austriasoccer.at .
  20. ↑ Player overview: Walter Joachim (Jokl) ( memento from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) at austria-archiv.at .
personal data
SURNAME Joachim, Ernst Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jokl, Walter; Joachim, Ernest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian national soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 1976
Place of death New York City