Hans Sturm (3 September 1935 – 24 June 2007) was a German

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player. He was born in Schönau an der Katzbach, Lower Silesia and died in Cologne. The goalscoring inside right midfielder, who won the first Bundesliga trophy with

1. FC Köln 1. Fußball-Club Köln 01/07 e. V., commonly known as simply FC Köln () or FC Cologne in English, is a German professional football club based in Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia. It was formed in 1948 as a merger of the clubs ''Kölner Ballspi ...

in 1964, played just one of his three internationals for West Germany outside a FIFA World Cup. Therefore, he was part at the

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and at the

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, playing one match on each occasion. With 1. FC Köln, Sturm also won the West German football championship in 1962. His son Ralf (born 18 October 1968) was a striker for 1. FC Köln in the Bundesliga himself, netting 28 goals in 121 games as a striker in between 1988 and 1994.

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1935 births 2007 deaths People from Złotoryja County Sportspeople from Lower Silesian Voivodeship German footballers Germany men's international footballers 1. FC Köln players FC Viktoria Köln players Bundesliga players 1958 FIFA World Cup players 1962 FIFA World Cup players Men's association football midfielders Silesian-German people Footballers from Cologne West German footballers {{germany-footy-midfielder-1930s-stub