Full name William Hartwig Name Jimmy Hartwig Date joined 1978 1973–1974 Kickers Offenbach Spouse Stefanie Almer (m. 2010) | Years Team Height 1.77 m Role Football player Children Daniel Hartwig | |
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Date of birth (1954-10-05) 5 October 1954 (age 61) Place of birth Offenbach am Main, West Germany | ||
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William "Jimmy" Hartwig (born 5 October 1954) is a retired German football player. He played for Kickers Offenbach, TSV 1860 München, 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 black players in German and Austrian football.
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Hartwig won the European Cup in 1983 with Hamburger SV, and was three times German league champion in 1979, 1982 und 1983 and three times league runner-up with Hamburger SV. He also earned two caps for the West German national team, making him only the second non-white player (after Erwin Kostedde) to achieve this feat.
After his playing career, Hartwig worked as a coach at FC Augsburg in 1989 and FC Sachsen Leipzig in 1990. He entered the TV business, where he has been working ever since, whilst also appearing in the theatre as an actor.
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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 father from Senegal never took care of him.
Hartwig is married for the fourth time and has three children.
Singing
In 1980, the single Mama Calypso was released, with Sometimes on the reverse side, on the RCA label.