Jimmy Hartwig

Jimmy Hartwig

Footballer

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Career & Clubs

Club
Hamburger SV (1978–1984)
Club
Kickers Offenbach (1973–1974)
Club
1. FC Köln (1984–1986)
Club
FC 08 Homburg (1986–1988)
Club
FC Red Bull Salzburg (1986–1986)
Club
TSV 1860 München (1974–1978)
Club
Germany men's national association football team (1979–1979)
Club
VfL Osnabrück (1973–1974)
Club
VfL Osnabrück (1973–1973)
Club
Germany Olympic football team (1983–1983)
League
Bundesliga
League
2. Bundesliga
National team
Germany

Personal

Personal life

In his 1994 autobiography, Hartwig described his tough childhood in the city of Offenbach am Main where he was born. He recounted a childhood full of poverty and anti-black racism, with only his German mother as support; his biological African American father never took care of him. In November 2022, he used racist anti-asian slur against the Japan national football team on WELT-TV for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Hartwig is married for the fourth time and has three children. In 2021, he featured in Schwarze Adler, a documentary detailing the experiences of Black players in German professional football. Despite his opposition against anti-black racism, he was criticized for using the word "ching chang chong" in his commentary and then bowing, which was perceived as racist against East Asians, on WELT-TV for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The WELT management company removed the video from YouTube and Hartwig posted an apology on his Instagram.

Legacy

Honours

Hamburg

Bundesliga: 1978–79, 1981–82, 1982–83 European Cup: 1982–83; runner-up: 1979–80 UEFA Cup runner-up: 1981–82, 1985–86

Clubs

Played together with

Archive

Passport
Identifiers & aliases
ISNI

0000000047081814

Description

German footballer (born 1954)

Position

defender

Extract from Wikipedia

William "Jimmy" Hartwig is a German former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He played for Kickers Offenbach, TSV 1860 Munich, Hamburger SV, 1. FC Köln and FC Homburg of the Bundesliga and for Austria Salzburg of Austria. The son of an African-American soldier and a German mother, Hartwig was one of the first players who is of African American descent in German and Austrian football.

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