Fritz Herkenrath, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German footballer
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Place of Birth: Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Fritz Herkenrath
- Friedrich "Fritz" Herkenrath (9 September 1928 in Cologne – 18 April 2016) was a football goalkeeper for West Germany at the 1958 FIFA World Cup.
- He earned 21 caps between 1954 and 1958.He took his club team Rot-Weiss Essen to the peak of its history and won a national championship in 1955.
- The following season, Rot-Weiss Essen became the first German side to qualify for the European Cup. Initially, Herkenrath played handball.
- He started out as a right winger and only later became a goalkeeper.
- Soon after World War II, Herkenrath switched from handball to football.
- Herkenrath began studying at the German Sport University Cologne where he first encountered Sepp Herberger, who was a tutor there.
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- FC Köln in the early 1950s, Herkenrath was mostly the second goalkeeper behind the Dutchman Frans de Munck.
- He joined Rot-Weiß Essen in 1952 and soon rose to prominence playing for Essen.
- Herkenrath became known as the "flying schoolmaster" due to his main occupation as a teacher. He retired in 1962 after 336 games in the Oberliga West and became a professor at the college of education in Aachen.
- He died on April 18, 2016 at the age of 87.
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