Robert Hense
Robert Hense ( born November 17 1885 in Cologne, † June 20, 1966 ) was a German football player who played before the First World War for the Kölner BC 01 and 1910 played one match for the German national team.
Career
Youth and Cologne BC
As a member of the school team of the Cologne Marzellen -Gymnasium, the relationship of Robert Hense began to football game. In 1900, he was a 15 -year-old one of the founders of the Rhenaniastraße Cologne, for which he rushed to the temporary dissolution of the association in 1902. Then he went to Cologne for the BC 01, where he played in defense. As a "West German league" was launched at the beginning of the 1909/10 season from the former districts of Cologne / Bonn, Lower Rhine and the Rhine / Ruhr, Hense was there with the KBC. In the 1911/12 season the championship was achieved in this league and with a 4-2 win over Borussia Monchengladbach also followed the title win in West Germany. This moved the team of Robert Hense in the final round of the German football championship of the year 1912. On May 12, but demonstrated the Karlsruher FV with his national team Max Breunig, Ernst Hollstein, Fritz conveyor, Gottfried Fuchs and Julius Hirsch in Mönchengladbach with a 8-1 win against the KBC, the then superiority of the Southern German football. When the merchant was staying for the purpose of vocational training in France in 1911, he gained experience as a member of Cercle Athletique Paris and Racing Roubaix. After his return he played until 1914 at the Cologne BC.
Crown Prince Cup and the German national football team, 1910
When Robert Hense acted on 9 October 1910 in Cologne during a match of West Germany against Southern Germany on the left back position, it was also because already the KFV player, reinforced by Karl Burger and Marius Hiller, who in the 1:4 defeat of West Germany, the strength of the Southern German football put to the test. Seven days later, on 16 October 1910, he played his only match against the Netherlands. In Kleve, in front of 10,000 spectators, lost the DFB team with 1:2 goals. At the tenth international match of Germany no player from southern Germany was used. It debuted on the side of Hense the other newcomers Neisse, Bülte, Hanssen and Umbach. The team led by Captain Camillo Ugi it owed primarily to the outstanding goalkeeper Adolf Werner that it remained in the tight 1-2 defeat.
Profession, hobby and ceremony
After his playing career, he ran a bicycle and motorcycle wholesaler at Bonner Wall in Cologne. Hense was an all-round athlete, and thereby also an avid rower and talented tennis player. Until 1942 he packed the football section of his KBC soccer shoes, moreover, it was a long time as a volunteer groundskeeper for the club operates. In 1953, then handed him the Golden Badge of Honour of the 1st FC Cologne (fusion club from KBC and SpVgg Suelz ).