Hermann Schweickert

Hermann Schweickert (born November 14, 1885 in Pforzheim ; † August 24, 1962 in Triberg ) was a German football player .

Career

societies

In 1897, at the age of eleven, Schweickert joined 1. FC Pforzheim, which was founded the year before in his hometown . Since his older brother Ernst - first German champion over 400 m in 1903 - held the office of 1st chairman from 1904 to 1908, was the first secretary of the South German Football Association and was killed in World War I , he was given the name Schweickert II for reasons of distinction .

As a right wing he belonged to the club until 1912 and came to the championships organized by the Association of South German Football Associations , from the 1904/05 season - as a climber - in the Gau Mittelbaden within the southern district and from the 1908/09 season in the Gaue not subdivided into Gaue Südkreis used. 1906 was the most successful sporting year for him and his team; the championship in the Gau Mittelbaden was followed by the championship in the southern district and the southern German championship, which was won in the final on April 25, 1906 with 5: 3 against the 1st Hanau football club in 1893 . He and his team took part in the final round of the 1906 German Championship . In the quarter-finals , which he won 4: 2 a . V. against Cologne FC 1899 , he made the preliminary decision with his goal to 3: 2 in the 100th minute. He also played the semi-final, won 4-0 in Braunschweig on May 20, 1906, against the BTuFC Union 92 from Berlin . The final against VfB Leipzig on May 27, 1906 in Nuremberg was lost 2-1. In 1908 he became a captain named 1. FC Pforzheim; a year later he became a national player . A persistent tendon injury - incidentally, and not uncommonly, also active as a sprinter in athletics - forced him to end his active football career in 1912.

National team

He played his only international match for the senior national team on April 4, 1909 in Karlsruhe in a 1-0 victory over the Swiss national team , the first victory of a German national team.

Schweickert (5th from right) and teammate of
1. FC Pforzheim; South German master 1906

successes

• Second in the German championship in 1906
• South German master 1906
• Southern District Master 1906
• Gaumeister Mittelbaden 1906

Others

Schweickert, a businessman by trade and independent jewelry wholesaler in Pforzheim since 1935, was a well-known citizen of the gold city even after his time as a football player . He came from a family of singers, joined the men's choir "Harmonie" Pforzheim in 1920 and was its chairman and chairman for over 30 years. As an enthusiastic skier and mountain hiker, he was a member of the German Alpine Association and the Black Forest Association . During a Sunday hike in the Black Forest, he suffered a myocardial infarction at the age of 77 , of which he died in 1962 in the Triberg hospital . He found his final resting place in the main cemetery in Pforzheim in the same grave as his former team player Arthur Hiller , with whom he was later related because he had married his sister-in-law.

Web links

• Hermann Schweickert in the database of weltfussball.de
• Hermann Schweickert on dfb .de

literature

• Archive “Pforzheimer Zeitung” November 14, 1960, August 26, 1962, May 27, 2006, June 17, 2006.
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .