Max Senn

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Max Senn
Personnel
birthday February 11, 1883
place of birth Basel ,  Switzerland
date of death July 21, 1933
Place of death Basel ,  Switzerland
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
before 1901 FC Basel
1901-1903 Hannover 96
1906-1907 FC Basel
1 Only league games are given.

Max Senn (born February 11, 1883 in Basel ; † July 21, 1933 there ) was a Swiss watchmaker and football player .

Life

Max Senn was born as the son of the Basel watchmaker Emil Senn and his wife Frida née. Bürgin born. As a teenager he played as a striker for FC Basel before moving to Hanover for professional reasons in 1901 to work for a limited period as a trainer for the company Uhren-Stellmann . The football enthusiast, described by contemporary witnesses as an “excellent ball technician”, joined the Hanoverian Football Club (HFC) as a striker, the predecessor club of Hanover 96  - and was not only the top scorer there , but above all as “one of the first foreigners generally on record in German football ”.

June 2, 1901 on the field in Hannover-Bult on the occasion of the game HFC v. 1896 against Eintracht Braunschweig : Max Senn sitting under the players holding the now round ball

Senn had left his mark on German football history, especially in Hanover, but so far only one surviving photograph of Max Senn from his time in Hanover has been found. The photo shows him - holding the ball - on June 2, 1901 at the Bult in Hanover with the 1st team of the HFC from 1896 against Eintracht Braunschweig . The occasion was an early game after a member of the HFC decided to only play with a round ball instead of an oval one, as before. In 1903 Max Senn ended his “mercenary years” at Hannover 96 and is said to have returned to FC Basel afterwards.

But it wasn't until August 3, 1906, that Senn registered again in Basel. Although the archives of FC Basel generally hardly contain any documents on the players from the period before around 1920, Senn seems to have been a member of the team in the 1906/07 season that won the first title of the “Master of Central Switzerland” Club history earned.

Max Senn subsequently ran his own business, but had to file for bankruptcy in November 1926 before he died in 1933.

family

Max Senn had been with Emma Louise Karolina born on February 18, 1909. Zehnder (born September 24, 1870) married. The couple had four children, Max Kurt (* April 24, 1910), Emil Alfred (* December 15, 1911), Jeanne Louise (* November 20, 1914) and Yvonne (* June 15, 1916).

Research

To find out more about Max Senn, the Hannover 96 sports club asked the Basel-Stadt State Archives in June 2015 . Shortly thereafter, the Basellandschaftliche Zeitung (bz) headlined the large-format team photo from 1901: "Hannover 96. Where is the excellent ball technician who rushed around the defense?" The article is said to have moved the descendants of the top scorer to get in touch for more information.

literature

  • Matchplan , Hannover 96 stadium newspaper, issue of October 24, 2015
  • Josef Zindel: FC Basel 1893 to 1993 , Basel 1993, p. 25 (team photo)

Archival material

Archives by and about Max Senn can be found, for example

  • as a team photo with the FCH 1896 from June 2, 1901 in the archive of the Hannover 96 Association
  • in the residents ' registration office of the Basel community , archive signatures PD-REG 14a 12-3 No. 1047 and PD-REG 14a 12-3 No. 21363 as well as PD-REG 14a 12-4 No. 2163

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Daniel Kress, Daniel Hagmann: On searching and finding: Where is Max? / Questions and answers on the blog.staatsarchiv-bs.ch website of the Basel-Stadt State Archives on October 11, 2015, last accessed on August 2, 2019
  2. ↑ a b c d e o. V .: The first foreigner at Hannover 96 ... , article with the only known photo of the football player in 2015 on the hannover96.de page from October 23, 2015, last accessed on July 31, 2019
  3. ↑ a b huf: Hannover 96. Where is the excellent ball technician who rushed around the defense? , Article on the website of the Basellandschaftliche Zeitung (bz) from October 8, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Senn, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss football player and watchmaker
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1933
Place of death Basel