Otto Michaelis (soccer player)
| Otto Michaelis | ||
 Michaelis (standing, left)
and teammate of the Karlsruher FC Phönix as German champion in 1909 |
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| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | March 30, 1887 | |
| place of birth | Karlsruhe , German 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
- Otto Michaelis in the database of weltfussball.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Staisch: The German Masters. P. 96
- ^ Staisch: The German Masters. P. 103
- ↑ ka-news.de: 120 years of KFC Phönix: Pure drama - the battle against Nuremberg (June 4, 2014) , accessed on December 23, 2018
- ^ Staisch: The German Masters. P. 168
- ^ Staisch: The German Masters. P. 168
- ^ 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 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Michaelis, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer goalkeeper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe , German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 1934 |
| Place of death | Karlsruhe , German Empire |