Heinz Ditgens

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Heinz Ditgens
Personnel
birthday July 3, 1914
place of birth Mönchengladbach ,  Germany
date of death June 20, 1998
Place of death Mönchengladbach ,  Germany
position Defense
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1930-1938 Borussia Monchengladbach
1938 MSV Jäger 7 Bückeburg
1945-1948 Borussia Monchengladbach
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1936-1938 Germany 3 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1950-1951 Borussia Monchengladbach
1 Only league games are given.

Heinz Ditgens (born July 3, 1914 in Mönchengladbach ; † June 20, 1998 there ) was a German football player .

life and career

The son of Hermann Ditgens , one of the founding members of Borussia Mönchengladbach , and nephew of Stephan Ditgens , who was the team captain of the same football club in 1920, was born in the Mönchengladbach district of Eicken . After graduating from primary school, Ditgens first worked as a draftsman and from the age of 18 played as a defensive player in Borussia's first team. The then Reich coach Otto Nerz called Ditgens in 1936 first for two of the five test matches of the national team against the English club FC Everton and finally in the line-up of the German national soccer team in order to compete at the Olympic soccer tournament in Berlin . Ditgens became the first national player of Borussia, known up until then only by winning the West German championship in 1920 and at that time competing in the district class. With the national team Ditgens completed three international matches ; on August 5, 1936 against Luxembourg (9: 0) and on August 8, 1936 against Norway (0: 2) at the Olympic Games and on March 20, 1938 in a friendly against Luxembourg (2: 1). In 1936 the Wehrmacht gave him the order to be brought to the barracks in Bückeburg . He supported the local club MSV Jäger 7 Bückeburg as a player and coach. In general, Ditgens was considered a good header player who could shoot well with both feet.

During the Second World War he suffered severe frostbite at the Battle of Stalingrad , whereupon nine toes had to be amputated. After being transferred back to Mönchengladbach from the Eastern Front in 1944 , he found a job in the local city administration from 1945 onwards. He worked first in the housing and property office, later in the city bath. Ditgens was a player at Borussia Mönchengladbach until 1948, when he played as a defender in the district league with specially made shoes . He was active on the board of Borussia Mönchengladbach until 1950 and coached the club for a short time from 1950 to 1951 together with Paul Pohl . After completing his active career, he continued to work as an employee of the Mönchengladbach city administration and was a football specialist in the city sports association as well as a member of Borussia Mönchengladbach's honorary council until the 1990s . Ditgens celebrated his 80th birthday in Mönchengladbach's Kaiser-Friedrich-Halle ; He passed the proceeds on to the Sepp Herberger Foundation .

literature

  • Natascha Oberste: Heinz Ditgens . The first Borussia player to play for the German national team. In: HINDENBURGER - the city magazine for Mönchengladbach and Rheydt . 4th year June 2010, p. 10 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Natascha Oberste: Heinz Ditgens . The first Borussia player to play for the German national team. In: HINDENBURGER - the city magazine for Mönchengladbach and Rheydt . 4th year June 2010, p. 10 .
  2. ↑ a b Heinz Ditgens . Borussia VfL 1900 Mönchengladbach GmbH. June 29, 2007. Retrieved June 8, 2010.
  3. ^ Markus Aretz, Stephan Giebeler, Elmar Kreuels: Borussia legend Ditgens: Gladbach's first national player . SPIEGEL ONLINE GmbH. December 29, 2010. Retrieved December 29, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Ditgens, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Mönchengladbach
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1998
Place of death Mönchengladbach