Lothar van Gogh | |
Birth Date: | 7 February 1888 |
Birth Place: | Sukabumi, Dutch East Indies |
Death Place: | Cimahi, Dutch East Indies |
Position: | Forward |
Years1: | 1906–1914 |
Clubs1: | HFC Haarlem |
Nationalyears1: | 1907 |
Nationalteam1: | Netherlands |
Nationalcaps1: | 2 |
Nationalgoals1: | 2 |
Lothar van Gogh (7 February 1888 –) was a Dutch footballer who played as a forward. He was part of the Netherlands national team, playing two matches and scoring two goals. He played his first match on 14 April 1907.[1]
Van Gogh was the son of Jeanette Louise Vos (1854–1906) and Johannes van Gogh (1854–1913), a coffee grower on Java who was a full cousin of Vincent van Gogh.
A civilian colonial administrator in the Dutch East Indies before capture by the occupying Japanese in World War II, Van Gogh died in one of the Japanese-run internment camps in Cimahi on Java. He was buried in Dutch War Cemetery Leuwigajah in Cimahi.[2]