Ernest Wilimowski
Willimowski (front, with ball) in a 1937 match for Ruch Chorzów against Warta Poznań.
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Ernst Otto Wilimowski | ||
| Date of birth | 23 June 1916 | ||
| Place of birth | Kattowitz, German Empire | ||
| Date of death | 30 August 1997 (aged 81) | ||
| Place of death | Karlsruhe, Germany | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1. FC Kattowitz | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1934–1939 | Ruch Chorzów | 86 | (112) |
| 1939–1940 | 1. FC Kattowitz | ||
| 1940–1942 | PSV Chemnitz | ||
| 1942–1944 | TSV 1860 München | ||
| 1946–1947 | SG Chemnitz-West | ||
| 1948 | BC Augsburg | ||
| 1949–1950 | Offenburger FV | ||
| 1950–1951 | FC Singen 04 | ||
| 1951–1955 | VfR Kaiserslautern | ||
| National team | |||
| 1934–1939 | Poland | 22 | (21) |
| 1941–1942 | Germany | 8 | (13) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Ernst Willimowski (born Ernst Otto Prandella, nicknamed "Ezi") (23 June 1916 – 30 August 1997) was a German–Polish football player, who ranks among the best goalscorers in the history of both the Poland national team and Polish club football. After re-taking German citizenship, he also played for the Germany national team.
Willimowski was the first player to score four goals in a single FIFA World Cup game. Over the course of his career, he scored a total of 1,175 goals; though this tally is unverified and will include friendly and unofficial matches. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation credits Wilimowski with 554 official goals, making him the 11th-most prolific goalscorer in history.
Willimowski also occasionally played ice hockey for the team Pogoń Katowice.
Born in Kattowitz (Katowice), Prussian Silesia, German Empire, Willimowski was raised in a Silesian family, typical of the Upper Silesian Polish-German borderland. After eastern Upper Silesia became part of Poland in 1922, he became a citizen of the Second Polish Republic.
His parents, Ernst-Roman and Paulina, were German. His father, a soldier for the German Empire, died on the Western Front in the First World War. His mother sent him to a German kindergarten, a German primary school and, when he was nine years old, to the German football team 1. FC Kattowitz. At the age of 13, he was legally adopted by his stepfather, who was Polish, and took on the surname Willimowski. At home, he spoke German for the most part, while in public he often spoke a Silesian dialect of the Polish language. Officially a citizen of Poland, he referred to himself as a Silesian ("Górnoślązak" - Oberschlesier).
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