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| Birth Name: | Peter Hans König | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 16 October 1931 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Vienna, Lower Austria, Austria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Peter Hans Konig, more correctly König, (born 16 October 1931) is an Austrian-born retired sportsman. Konig was a prominent rugby union player for Leicester Tigers between 1952 and 1960 and played one first class game for Leicestershire County Cricket Club in 1949. Konig was a right-handed batsman who played as a wicket-keeper.
Born in Vienna to Jewish parents, his family fled Austria following its annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938, arriving in Leicester before the Second World War.[1] Konig later made a single first-class appearance for Leicestershire against Northamptonshire at the County Ground, Northampton in 1949.[2] In Northamptonshire's first-innings of 239 all out, Konig made a single stumping when he stumped Gordon Garlick off the bowling of Gerry Lester. In Leicestershire's first-innings response, Konig was the last man out, dismissed for 6 runs by Des Barrick. In Northamptonshire's second-innings of 350/5 declared, Konig caught Percy Davis off the bowling of Charles Wooler.[3] This was his only major appearance for the county as Konig was not kept on by Leicestershire.[4]
Konig made his Leicester Tigers debut on 14 April 1952 in a 19-0 win away to Plymouth Albion on the club's Easter tour.[1] Konig established himself in the club's first team the next season immediately starting the first 11 games of the 1952-53 season and 27 overall.[5] Konig was particularly prominent in Leicester's 8-3 win away to Bath on 3 January 1953, scoring one try and creating another through a crucial interception and break.[6] In 1953-54 Konig was the club's joint top try scorer with 8 in 23 games, and in 1956 he started as Leicester played at Welford Road.[7] His try-scoring form in a December 1956 win against Blackheath saw the Daily Mirror speculate he could be called up by,[8] but he was never selected for the national side and made his final Tigers appearance in April 1960.