Otto Michaelis (soccer player)

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Otto Michaelis
Karlsruher FC Phoenix 1909.jpg
Michaelis (standing, left)
and teammate of the Karlsruher FC Phönix
as German champion in 1909
Personnel
birthday March 30, 1887
place of birth KarlsruheGerman Empire
date of death March 13, 1934
Place of death Karlsruhe,  German Empire
position goal
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Karlsruher FC Phoenix
1 Only league games are given.

Otto Michaelis (born March 30, 1887 in Karlsruhe ; † March 13, 1934 there ) was a German football player. The goalkeeper won the German championship in 1909 with his club, FC Phoenix Karlsruhe .

Career

Michaelis, whom everyone called "Micha" or "Michal", belonged to the Karlsruher FC Phönix . In the final round of the 1908/09 South German Championship , he replaced the previous goalkeeper Lehne before the decisive second leg at 1. FC Nürnberg ; with the 4: 3 victory he was with the team South German champions. Through this success, he and his team were qualified as a participant in the final round of the German championship . He played all three final round matches: On May 2, 1909 in Duisburg in a 5-0 quarter-final victory over Munich-Gladbacher FC 94 , after he also won 9-1 in the semifinals over SC Erfurt on May 23 in Frankfurt am Main Having guarded the gate in 1895 , he reached the final. The final held in Wroclaw on May 30th was won 4-2 against BTuFC Viktoria 89 . The Berlin team went into the final as favorites with their national players Paul Fischer , Willi Knesebeck , Paul Hunder , Otto Dumke , Willi Worpitzky and Helmut Röpnack . Phoenix was able to counter it with Robert Neumaier , Karl Wegele , Otto Reiser , Emil Oberle and captain Arthur Beier .

After the final it was recorded in the DFB yearbook: “The little Karlsruhe gatekeeper is a model of calm and prudence, and he owed the victory to Phoenix.” In “lawn sport” it was stated: “The winner was Michaelis in goal, the last one several times Moment saved, as well as the winger, especially Oberle, very first class, the rest equally well. "

successes

Others

After the championship, Michaelis moved to Braunschweig for professional reasons; he had started a job there at the tax office. He died in 1934 in the municipal clinic in Karlsruhe as a result of a war injury sustained as a soldier in the First World War; At the front he had suffered a bilateral lung bullet from which he never recovered.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Staisch: The German Masters. P. 96
  2. ^ Staisch: The German Masters. P. 103
  3. ka-news.de: 120 years of KFC Phönix: Pure drama - the battle against Nuremberg (June 4, 2014) , accessed on December 23, 2018
  4. ^ Staisch: The German Masters. P. 168
  5. ^ Staisch: The German Masters. P. 168
  6. ^ Staisch: The German Masters. P. 103

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. 258 .
  • Thomas Alexander Staisch: The history of the Karlsruher FC Phönix 1894. The German champions 1909 - a forgotten championship. BadnerBuch-Verlag BBV. Rastatt 2014. ISBN 978-3-944635-09-5 .