Dé Kessler

Johann Heinrich Hermann "Dé" Kessler (11 August 1891 – 6 September 1943) was a Dutch football and cricket player.

Dé Kessler

Personal information
Full name	Johann Heinrich Hermann Kessler
Date of birth	(1891-08-11)11 August 1891
Place of birth	Garut, Dutch East Indies
Date of death	6 September 1943(1943-09-06) (aged 52)
Place of death	Netherlands
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1904–1920	HVV Den Haag	328	(121[1])
International career
1909–1922	Netherlands	21	(9)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Football

Kessler - along with brother Tonny and cousins Boeli and Dolf - played club football for amateur side HVV Den Haag. Kessler also won 21 caps for the Netherlands national side between 1909 and 1922, scoring nine goals.^[2] After playing alongside each other in a match against England in March 1913, the Kessler brothers became the first brothers to represent the Netherlands together in an international match.^[3]

Cricket

Kessler played for the Netherlands national team. He played five matches for them between 1921 and 1925, including two against the Free Foresters and one against the MCC.^[4] In August 1922 he scored a century against Ingoniti, scoring 100 not out in the second innings of the match.^[5]