Kurt Borkenhagen

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Kurt Borkenhagen
Personnel
birthday December 30, 1919
place of birth Düsseldorf - Flingern ,  German Empire
date of death May 12, 2012
Place of death Dusseldorf ,  Germany
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
1932–? Düsseldorfer SV 04
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1946-1955 Fortuna Dusseldorf 147 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1952 Germany 1 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Kurt Borkenhagen , called "La Jana" (born December 30, 1919 in Düsseldorf - Flingern ; † May 12, 2012 in Düsseldorf), was a German football player . He played his first and only international match for the German national team in 1952 in the 3-1 defeat in Paris against France . For Fortuna Düsseldorf he played 147 games in the Oberliga West from 1947 to 1955.

Athletic career

youth

At the age of twelve he came to Düsseldorf SV 04 in Lierenfeld . At the age of 20, usually the start of a sports career, Kurt Borkenhagen was confronted with the horrors of the Second World War . After the end of the war, the game for the highest class - the Oberliga West - could only be kicked off in the West in September 1947. When the league started on September 14, 1947, Borkenhagen was already 27 years old and just three months later celebrated his 28th birthday. Like many others of his generation, this war robbed Kurt Borkenhagen of the best years of his sporting career.

Fortuna Düsseldorf 1947–1955 Oberliga West

After the end of the round, the Dortmund Borussia had brought the first championship of the Oberliga West to Borsigplatz. Sportfreunde Katernberg were surprising runners-up. Fortuna Düsseldorf finished seventh in the table with 24:24 points. Kurt Borkenhagen had shown at the side of the old international Paul Janes (71 internationals, 1932-1942) in 22 of 24 games full commitment for the Fortuna and proved to be equal to the challenge of the new league. In the next rounds with Toni Turek , Matthias Mauritz , the Gramminger brothers, Erich Juskowiak and Jupp Derwall, high-performance players were added, but Kurt Borkenhagen's great success with Fortuna Düsseldorf was not to be possible until his last round in 1954/55. Reaching the finals was never possible. Dortmund, Schalke , Rot-Weiss Essen and 1. FC Cologne were stronger all the time.

With five games in the 1954/55 season he ended his career, he was now 34 years old and the probation in professional life demanded more and more commitment and energy.

Selection games

In the early years of the major leagues there were so-called “representative games” between the individual leagues, even before the first international match after the Second World War, the game on November 22, 1950 in Stuttgart against Switzerland .

  • On May 8, 1949, game north against west in Bremen with Borkenhagen
  • On October 5, 1952, international match against France in Paris

The appointment to the West selection in May 1949, especially at the side of Paul Janes, was a great honor for the iron-hard and headed defender , who was anything but squeamish and did not only focus his game on pure defense the appointment of national coach Sepp Herberger in October 1952 for the international match in Paris against France was really a sensation. Although the national team missed the injured defenders Kohlmeyer and Streitle for this game, the appointment of the 32-year-old surprised pretty much all football fans.

The game was played with the following formation:

Turek-Retter, Borkenhagen-Posipal, Liebrich, Schanko-Rahn, Wientjes, O. Walter, F. Walter, Termath . In the 31st minute, the Stollenwerk was used for O. Walter .

The opponents around Stopper Jonquet and the also debuting playmaker Kopa gained chance after chance and won with 3: 1 goals. Nevertheless, this international commitment formed a high point in his career as a football player for the debutant.

After the career

After his active career, which ended in 1955, Kurt Borkenhagen lived and worked as a qualified engineer for heating and sanitary installation in the Eller district of Düsseldorf . Borkenhagen died on May 12, 2012 in Düsseldorf at the age of 92. He was buried in the Eller cemetery .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ex-national player Kurt Borkenhagen is 90 years old .
  2. ^ Werner Raupp : Toni Turek - "Football God". A biography, Hildesheim: Arete 2019 ( ISBN 978-3-96423-008-9 ), pp. 73–97, 130–136.
  3. ↑ Fortuna mourns Kurt "La Jana" Borkenhagen .
personal data
SURNAME Borkenhagen, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Düsseldorf - Flingern , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 2012
Place of death Dusseldorf , Germany