Fritz Baumgarten

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

Fritz Baumgarten (born 21 December 1886 in Berlin, † May 17, 1961 ) was a German football player.

From July 1906 to June 1914 he played as a goalkeeper for the BFC Germania, 1888. In the Berlin Championship 1907/ 08 he had the fifth occupied with Germania in 1888 and was in Berlin's Cup in the semi finals with 2:7 gates at the Berlin champion and later German Master BTuFC Viktoria 89 Berlin failed. The first international match of the German national football team on April 5, 1908 in Basel against Switzerland was Baumgarten in goal for the DFB team. The would-be high school senior - he was a student of the high school to the gray monastery - had to skip school for the trip to Switzerland. However, the game was lost 3:5. The first national team in addition to their train ticket twenty marks expenses. That should be enough to pay for three days accommodation and meals.

For Baumgarten, this was the only use in the national team. After high school he began to study medicine, later became a doctor and was not able to give the big role in his life to football.

Before Germania 1888, he was active at Tennis Borussia Berlin, after studying briefly at SC Silesia Wroclaw and to conclude with at Britannia Berlin 92.