Personal information | |||
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Full name | August Gottschalk | ||
Date of birth | 14 December 1921 | ||
Place of birth | Essen, Germany | ||
Date of death | 27 November 2014 | (aged 92)||
Place of death | Essen, Germany | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Youth career | |||
–1939 | Preußen Essen | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1939–1945 | Rot-Weiss Essen | ||
1945–1946 | Preußen Essen | ||
1946–1955 | Rot-Weiss Essen | ||
Managerial career | |||
1955–1956 | SV Borbeck | ||
BV Altenessen 06 | |||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
August Gottschalk (Essen, 14 December 1921 – Essen, 27 November 2014)[1][2] was a German footballer who played as a forward.
Biography
[edit]He debuted professionally in 1939 with Rot-Weiss Essen. In his first stint with the club, he played for six seasons. He left the club in 1945 to play for a year for Preußen Essen. At the end of the 1945/1946 season, he returned to the Rot-Weiss Essen, where he played for another nine seasons. In this second stint with Rot-Weiss Essen he scored 99 goals in 186 matches. He was captain of the team when it won the DFB-Pokal in 1953 and Bundesliga championship in 1955.
References
[edit]- ^ RWE-Meisterkapitän August Gottschalk ist tot Archived 2016-08-10 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
- ^ August Gottschalk feiert 90. Geburtstag Archived December 18, 2014, at the Wayback Machine (in German)