Walter Jestram

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Walter Jestram was a soccer player from Berlin . He was active for the BFC Germania 1888 and the BTuFC Britannia 1892 . Before the German Football Association was founded , he played four of a total of seven original international matches for a German national team.

Career

societies

Jestram, who was considered one of the best German footballers at the turn of the century , was one of the co-founders of BFC Germania 1888 , the oldest football club in Germany still in existence today , together with his brothers Paul, Max and Fritz .

From 1888 to 1897 he belonged to the club with which he won the first championship in 1891 in the Association of German Football Players and for which he won the third championship in the 1899/1900 season under the Association of Berlin Ball Game Clubs (at the time still under the name Association Deutscher Ballspielvereine (VDB) operating) from the Berlin football championship .

From 1898 to 1905 he played for local rivals BTuFC Britannia 1892 , with whom he twice won the Berlin championship and as a result also participated in the final round of the German soccer championship in 1903 and 1904 . If he and his team lost the quarter-final game against the eventual German champions VfB Leipzig with 1: 3 in Berlin on May 10, 1903 , followed - after sovereign victories 6: 1 against Karlsruher FV and 3: 1 against SC Germania von In 1887 in the quarter and semi-finals - the final against the reigning champions, scheduled for May 22, 1904 in Kassel . A violation of the statutes of the DFB to allow all final round matches to be played on a neutral seat, after the Karlsruhe FV complained, led to the final being canceled and all final round matches being annulled.

Selection team

Jestram was used as a player in the BTuFC Britannia 1892 in the city game Vienna - Berlin in two comparisons. On his debut on October 29, 1899 on the WAC-Platz in Vienna, he scored the goal to make it 1-0 in the 15th minute in a 2-0 victory. On March 5, 1905, he also took part in the 3-1 victory in the interior of the Friedenau cycling track in the sports park of the same name in Berlin.

With the exception of the 7-0 defeat by an English national team on November 28, 1899 in Karlsruhe , he played the two comparative competitions against White Rovers Paris and a city selection from Paris on November 12 and 13 , which he won 7-0 and 2-1 . December 1898. He also played the four competitions against an English national team made up of professionals and amateurs . The two football competitions held in Berlin on November 23 and 24, 1899, and the two football competitions held in London and Manchester, were all lost with 4:45 goals.

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. The encyclopedia. Sports publishing house Berlin. 2000. ISBN 3-328-00857-8 . P. 305.
  2. Wolfgang Niersbach, Rudi Michel: 100 years of the DFB. The history of the German Football Association , p. 484.
  3. Information on political education, issue 290 . Universum Verlagsanstalt 2006, p. 10.
  4. ^ Klaus Querengässer: The German football championship. Part 1: 1903-1945 (= Agon-Sportverlag statistics. Vol. 28). Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-106-9 , pp. 34-37.
  5. Match report on austriasoccer.at
  6. Match report on austriasoccer.at

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