Jakob Eckert
Appearance
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 18 October 1916 | ||
Place of birth | Monsheim, Germany | ||
Date of death | 5 June 1940 | (aged 23)||
Place of death | Villers-Carbonnel, France | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Wormatia Worms | |||
International career | |||
1937 | Germany | 1 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Jakob Eckert (18 October 1916 – 5 June 1940) was a German international footballer.[1] He was part of Germany's squad at the 1936 Summer Olympics, but he did not play in any matches.[2]
Personal life
[edit]A Gefreiter in the German army, Eckert served in World War II, and died on 5 June 1940 in Villers-Carbonnel, France at the age of 23.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Kicker Fußball-Almanach 2011: Mit aktuellem Bundesliga-Spieler-ABC. Stiebner Verlag GmbH. August 2010. pp. 115–. ISBN 978-3-7679-0914-4. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
- ^ "Jakob Eckert". Olympedia. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
- ^ "Jakob Eckert". German War Graves Commission (in German). Archived from the original on 12 April 2020. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
Categories:
- 1916 births
- 1940 deaths
- People from Alzey-Worms
- Footballers from Rhineland-Palatinate
- Men's association football forwards
- German men's footballers
- Germany men's international footballers
- German Army personnel killed in World War II
- German Army soldiers of World War II
- 20th-century German sportsmen
- German football forward stubs