Johannes Kirk (3 March 1924 – 20 November 2010) was a German

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who played as a defender for Werder Bremen and

Hannover 96 Hannoverscher Sportverein von 1896, commonly referred to as Hannover 96 (), Hannover, HSV or simply 96, is a German professional football club based in the city of Hanover, Lower Saxony. They played in the Bundesliga for a total of 30 years betwe ...

. He later became Hannover 96's manager in the 1960s. He was also part of the Germany national team's squad for the football tournament at the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

, but he did not play in any matches.

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* 1924 births 2010 deaths German men's footballers Men's association football defenders SV Werder Bremen players Hannover 96 players German football managers Hannover 96 managers People from Słupsk County Footballers from Pomeranian Voivodeship Sportspeople from the Province of Pomerania West German men's footballers West German football managers {{Germany-footy-bio-stub