Otto Sienholz

Otto Sienholz (life dates unknown) was a German football player .

Career

societies

Sienholz belonged to the BTuFC Viktoria 89 , which was renamed BFC Viktoria 89 Berlin on August 19, 1933. As a defender , he played in the championships organized by the Brandenburg Ball Game Clubs in the 1932/33 season. From the Berlin-Brandenburg district, which is divided into two groups, and next to the Pomerania district, which is divided into three districts, he and his team emerged as the winner of group A with one point ahead of last year's champion Berlin tennis club Borussia . Qualified for the final round of the VBB , his team finished second (tied with the Berliner SV 1892 ) behind the undefeated champions Hertha BSC . The playoff for the runner-up was won 6: 4 after a two-way leg and entitled to participate in the final round of the German championship . His debut - together with his brother Werner - on May 14, 1933 in the 1: 4 defeat against FC Schalke 04 in the round of 16, he immediately crowned with his first goal, the goal to 1: 2 in the 79th minute.

In the following season he played with his team in the Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg , one of initially 16, later increased to 23 Gauligen at the time of National Socialism as a uniform top division in the German Empire . With three points ahead of Hertha BSC, he was Gaumeister with his club and was thus again qualified for the final round of the German championship. In the championship, which was held in four groups of four teams each, he was used in five of the six games in Group A , in which he scored four goals, and thus contributed to the group win without losing points. In the semi-finals held by the group winners, he and his team lost 2-1 to 1. FC Nürnberg on June 17, 1934 in the Probstheidaer Stadium in Leipzig .

From 1934 to 1937 he and his club held the class in the Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg and took places two, six and seven. At the end of the 1937/38 season, however, he rose with his team in the district league . During this period he was used in the 1935 newly created cup competition for club teams for the Tschammer Cup . His only two cup games - in which he scored one goal each - he played on June 13 and 28, 1936 in the 1st and 2nd final round in a 2-1 win over SC Wacker Leipzig and in the 2-5 defeat at PSV Chemnitz .

Selection team

As a player in the regional selection team of the Association of Brandenburg Ball Game Clubs, he was used in the competition for the Reichsbund Cup together with his brother Otto. With his team he made it to the semi-finals , which however was lost on January 5, 1936 in Chemnitz with 0: 2 against the regional team of Saxony .

successes

• Semi-finalist for the 1936 Reichsbund Cup
• Gaumeister Berlin-Brandenburg 1934
• Second in the Berlin championship in 1933

Web links

• Otto Sienholz in the database of weltfussball.de
• Otto Sienholz in the database of the German Football Association