Hermann Wiggers
Hermann Wiggers ( April 7, 1880 - 1968 ) was a German football player . On June 18, 1911 he played his only international match for the senior national team , which won 4-2 over the Swedish national team in Solna, Sweden , in which Otto Dumke alone scored three goals.
career
Wiggers played for Altona 93 from 1895 to 1910 , then for SC Victoria Hamburg until 1916 , before he was again active for the AFC in 1916/17. With Altona, the defender won the Greater Hamburg championship several times and won the North German championship with the AFC around the outstanding player Adolf Jäger on April 25, 1909 with a 6: 3 against Eintracht Braunschweig . As defending champion, he lost with the black, white and red striped jersey straps on April 3, 1910, the semi-final game with 1: 5 against Holstein Kiel. He then joined Victoria Hamburg and was again in the final of the North German Championship on May 25, 1913 in 1912/13 . He lost with the blue-yellow with 2: 3 against Braunschweig.
His appointment to the national team took place at the end of the first season with Victoria, on June 18, 1911 in Solna against Sweden. In addition to Hamburg, who is shortly before his 31st birthday, the two attackers Dumke and Rudolf Droz also made their debut in the DFB selection.
The defender ended his active career with his home club Altona 93 in the 1916/17 season. He was again with other players like Adolf Jäger, Waldemar Gilge, Kurt Hilbert and Oskar Lüdecke master of Greater Hamburg.
The most striking feature of the defender was the hat he wore during club games.
Web links
- Hermann Wiggers in the database of weltfussball.de
- Hermann Wiggers on dfb .de
literature
- Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 420 .
- Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 541 f .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fritz Tauber: German national football team: Player statistics from A to Z . 3. Edition. AGNON, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-397-4 , p. 135 (176 pages).
- ^ Norbert Carsten: Altona 93. 111 league years in the up and down. Verlag Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2003. ISBN 3-89533-437-5 . Pp. 43/44
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wiggers, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1880 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1968 |