Franz Linken
Franz Linken (born July 13, 1912 in Barmen , † 1976 in Düsseldorf ) was a German football player and coach.
Player career
Linken started at the age of twelve at SSVg Barmen from the town of the same name near Wuppertal . Outgrown adolescence, he moved in 1930 to TuRU Dusseldorf , where he until 1933 in the West German Game Association discharged Championships in mountain district-Mark disputed point games. From 1933 to 1935 - not represented in the Lower Rhine Gauliga , as one of initially 16, later increased to 23 Gauligen at the time of National Socialism as the uniform top division in the German Reich - he played in the second-rate district league . He contributed to the promotion to the Gauliga Niederrhein in 1935 , but switched to Holstein Kiel , for the club he played in the Gauliga Nordmark until 1942 , and from 1942 to 1945 in the Gauliga Schleswig-Holstein point games.
After a six-month stint at FC St. Pauli , he returned to Holstein Kiel for the 1946 season and remained loyal to the club until the end of the 1949/50 season , most recently in the second-rate Schleswig-Holstein regional league.
Because of the two Gaume Championships with Holstein Kiel in 1943 and 1944, he also took part in the respective final round of the German championship . At its premiere in this competition, he played five games in which he scored two goals. In third place - the game for third place was won 4-1 in Berlin on June 26, 1943 against First Vienna FC - he achieved his greatest sporting success. The 1: 3 semi-final defeat against Dresdner SC was preceded by the 2: 0 victory over Berliner SV 92 and the 4: 1 victory over FC Schalke 04 ; with the latter he scored two goals. In the following season, he and his team fell out in the round of 16 with the 2: 4 defeat against Hertha BSC .
He was also used as a player in the Niederrhein and Nordmark district selection team. With the latter, he reached the final of the Reichsbund Cup in Essen as an active player on November 15, 1942, which was lost, however, 1: 2 against the Niederrhein district selection team.
Coaching career
Franz Linken officially began his coaching career at VfB Kiel . With VfL Benrath he was German amateur champion in 1957, with FC Grenchen in 1959 Swiss cup winner and runner-up. He also held other coaching positions at VfB Bottrop and FC Luzern . His last coaching time was from July 1964 to November 1965 with the then Bundesliga club Tasmania Berlin . On closer inspection, Linken's first coaching station was Holstein Kiel, whom he practically trained as a player- coach with Franz Esser during the so-called “coachless time” in 1947 .
successes
- as a player
- Third in the German championship in 1943
- Gaumeister Schleswig-Holstein 1943 , 1944
- Reichsbund Cup finalist 1942
- as a trainer
Web link
- Franz Linken in the database of weltfussball.de
literature
- Patrick Nawe: 100 years of Holstein Kiel: Kieler SV Holstein from 1900. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00891-8 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Left, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player and soccer coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barmen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1976 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |