Karl Höger (soccer player)

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Karl Höger (born May 27, 1897 in Mannheim , † March 31, 1975 in Santa Margalida , Mallorca ), nicknamed "Schlappen" , was a German football player and coach .

Player career

societies

Höger started playing soccer at Preußen Essen at the age of nine and remained loyal to the club until 1918. Used for military service, he was stationed as a soldier in Mannheim during World War I , where he met Sepp Herberger , who moved him to move to SV Waldhof after the end of the war . From then on he played in the championships held by the South German Football Association until October 1921 in the regional top division, the Odenwald district league . Together with Herberger and Hutter , he formed the so-called "Drei-H-Sturm" , which also made him nationally aware of himself. Shortly afterwards he had himself and Herberger lured away for money by the Mannheim local rival Phönix , whereupon both were declared professional players. While Herberger was suspended for this offense by the South German Football Association, Höger evaded this punishment by switching to Bonn FV , for which he played until the end of the 1921/22 season under the umbrella organization of the West German Game Association in the Rheingau .

From August 1922 to November 1923 he played for SpVgg Fürth in the Northern Bavarian Regional League, which he completed with his team as a champion, as well as the subsequent final for the South German Championship . As a result, he was qualified with his team as a participant in the finals for the German championship . He made his debut in the finals on May 6, 1923 in a 4-0 victory over the United Breslauer Sportfreunde in Nuremberg . The semi-final match against SC Union Oberschöneweide was lost 2-1.

Returning to Mannheim in December 1923, he played for VfR Mannheim until June 1929 , initially in the Rhine District League , from which he and his team emerged as champions the following season , as well as from the final round of the South German Championship . The seasons 1927/28 and 1928/29 he played in the district league Rhein / Saar .

In the last year of the war he was a coach at Hamburger SV in the Hamburg district , which he completed with the Hamburg team as a master. At 47, he occasionally used himself.

National team

Höger played two international matches for the senior national team in 1921 and 1924 . He made his debut on June 5 in Budapest in the 3-0 defeat by the Hungarian national team . His last appearance as a national player was on December 14th in Stuttgart in a 1-1 draw against the Swiss national team .

successes

Coaching career

After his active career as a football player, the following clubs trained from 1931 to 1961:

STV Horst-Emscher , Schwarz-Weiß Essen , Mülheimer SV 06 , Fortuna Düsseldorf , SV Dessau 05 , Hamburger SV , LSV Hamburg , SG Dessau-Nord , Werder Bremen , SC Peine 48 , TSG Hannoversch-Münden, KSV Hessen Kassel , FSV Peine , FC Singen 04 , VfB Dillingen , VfB Rheingold Emmerich , TuS Helene Essen .

Others

Höger, who was considered a fun-loving “buddy” , died during his vacation in Mallorca.

Höger's son Karl-Heinz was also a soccer player (goalkeeper), among others at Dessau 05, Hamburger SV, LSV Hamburg, Werder Bremen, SpVgg Fürth and Schwarz-Weiß Essen .

Web links

literature

  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 152.
  • Fritz Tauber: German national soccer player. Player statistics from A to Z. Updated and advanced Edition. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-89784-366-0 , p. 80.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephan Vogel: Fortuna Düsseldorf in the National Socialism . 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Höger, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1975
Place of death Santa Margalida , Mallorca