Ernst Jordan

With the German national football team on April 5, 1908 ( 6th from right )

Ernst Jordan (* May 18, 1883, † 1948) was a German football player.

A trained painter Ernst Jordan played for the FUCC Cricket Viktoria Magdeburg in 1897 as a defensive player and was also called "Long Meier " because of his height of just 1.90 meters.

He belonged to the team that ran aground at the first official international match of the German national team on April 5, 1908. For this premiere, the two Leipzig defender Walter Hempel and Heinrich Riso ( " Riso I") were set in defense, but Riso was injured in the week before the international match. To Jordan came to a use in the national team. Unfortunately for him he scored in this game, which was lost in Basel against Switzerland 3:5, the first own goal of the German national team and was classified as "very poor" in a contemporary match report. This may be the reason that Jordan was more to any further international duty.

From 1910 to 1914 he won with his club five times in a row Gaumeisterschaft Middle Elbe. Jordan was also one of the best discus throwers of Gaus Middle Elbe, but enough with its width of 33 meters, not to the German elite approach, which even then threw the discus up to 40 meters.