Luis Hartwig (born 23 November 2002) is a German professional

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 ...

who plays as a

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for Belgian club Oostende.

Career

Hartwig made his professional debut for

VfL Bochum Verein für Leibesübungen Bochum 1848 Fußballgemeinschaft, commonly referred to as simply VfL Bochum (), is a German association football club based in the city of Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club has spent 35 seasons in the Bundeslig ...

in the

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on 24 January 2021, coming on as a substitute in the 83rd minute for Simon Zoller against SV Sandhausen. The away match finished as a 1–1 draw. For the 2022–23 season, Hartwig was loaned to

SKN St. Pölten Sportklub Niederösterreich St. Pölten is an Austrian football club from Sankt Pölten, capital of the Austrian state of Lower Austria. St. Pölten currently play in the Austrian Football Second League, the second tier of the Austrian footbal ...

in Austria. On 1 September 2023, Hartwig signed a three-year contract with Oostende in Belgium.

Personal life

Hartwig's father,

Knut Knut (Norwegian and Swedish), Knud ( Danish), or Knútur (Icelandic) is a Scandinavian, German, and Dutch first name, of which the anglicised form is Canute. In Germany both "Knut" and "Knud" are used. In Spanish and Portuguese Canuto is used w ...

, was also a professional footballer who played in the

for

Wuppertal Wuppertal (; "''Wupper Dale''") is, with a population of approximately 355,000, the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the 17th-largest city of Germany. It was founded in 1929 by the merger of the cities and tow ...

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* * * * 2002 births Living people German men's footballers Men's association football forwards Germany men's youth international footballers VfL Bochum players SKN St. Pölten players K.V. Oostende players Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players 2. Liga (Austria) players German expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Austria German expatriate sportspeople in Austria Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium German expatriate sportspeople in Belgium {{Germany-footy-forward-stub