Alois Eisenträger

Alois Eisenträger

Personal information
Full name	Alois Bernhard Eisenträger
Date of birth	(1927-07-16)16 July 1927
Place of birth	Hamburg, Germany
Date of death	10 August 2017(2017-08-10) (aged 90)
Place of death	North Somerset, England
Position(s)	Inside forward
Youth career
	Hamburger SV
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1948	Herne Bay
1948–1949	Trowbridge Town
1949–1958	Bristol City	228	(57)
1958–1959	Merthyr Tydfil
	Chelmsford City
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Alois Bernhard "Alec" Eisenträger (16 July 1927 – 10 August 2017) was a German footballer who played as an inside forward.

Career

Eisenträger was made a POW aged 16 after being captured on a Dutch airfield and spent the rest of the war at a POW camp near Trowbridge, England. He started playing for Trowbridge Town and then in 1949 moved to Bristol City, scoring four goals against Newport County in September of that year. Thus, he was part of a professional British football team even before the famous Bert Trautmann moved to Manchester City. He gained promotion with the Robins to the Second Division in 1955. Until he left for Merthyr Tydfil in 1958 he had appeared in 246 games for Bristol City, netting 57 times. In 1959, Eisenträger signed for Chelmsford City, making his debut in a 2–2 home draw against Worcester City on 22 August 1959, becoming the joint 250th player to represent the club.

Personal life

He married a woman from Wales in the early 1950s and had four children.

Further reading

• Harris, N. (2006). The Foreign Revolution. How Overseas Footballers Changed the English Game. London: Aurum Press Ltd.
• Ramsden, J. (2006). Don't Mention the War. The British and the Germans since 1890. London: Little, Brown Book Group.