Lothar van Gogh explained

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]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Totaal Interlands. Total Interlands. voetbalstats.nl. 30 April 2016. Dutch.
  2. Web site: Lothar van Gogh. 15 March 2021. Oorlogsgravenstichting.