Herbert Kordfunke

Herbert Kordfunke
Personnel
birthday	April 30, 1921
place of birth	Germany
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
1931-1938	Arminia Bielefeld
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1938-1955	Arminia Bielefeld
1955-1958	VfB 03 Bielefeld
1 Only league games are given.

Herbert Kordfunke (born April 30, 1921 ) is a former German soccer player .

Career

Kordfunke began his career at the age of ten in Arminia Bielefeld's student team . In 1938, under strange circumstances, he made his debut in the first team that played a friendly against Sparta Prague at the time . Two regular players were drafted into the Reichswehr shortly before the game , so that the then 17-year-old Kordfunke, who was among the spectators, was summoned to the field. He came to the Eastern Front during World War II and was shot in the lung in Russia .

After the end of the war, Kordfunke returned to Bielefeld and, with the Arminia in 1949 , was promoted to what was then the first-class Oberliga West . After only one year, he was relegated to the 2nd Division West , from which the Arminia also relegated in 1954. Between 1949 and 1954, right-winger Kordfunke played 134 championship games for Arminia, scoring 16 goals and earning the reputation of an idol among Bielefeld's youth footballers.

In 1955 Kordfunke moved to Arminia's local rival VfB 03 Bielefeld . This change caused a sensation and Kordfunke was insulted as a traitor . Herbert Kordfunke played for the "Hüpker" from VfB 03 for three years before he ended his career in 1958.

literature

• Jens Kirschneck, Marcus Uhlig , Volker Backes, Olaf Bentkämper, Julien Lecoeur: Arminia Bielefeld - 100 years of passion . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-479-0 , p. 176 .
• German Sports Club for Football Statistics (Ed.): Football in West Germany 1945–1952 . 2011.
• German Sports Club for Football Statistics (Ed.): Football in West Germany 1952–1958 . 2012.