Friedrich "Fritz" Herkenrath (9 September 1928 in Cologne – 18 April 2016) was a football goalkeeper for West Germany at the 1958 FIFA World Cup.
[1] He took his club team Rot-Weiss Essen to the peak of its history and won a national championship in 1955.
Herkenrath began studying at the German Sport University Cologne where he first encountered Sepp Herberger, who was a tutor there.
FC Köln in the early 1950s, Herkenrath was mostly the second goalkeeper behind the Dutchman Frans de Munck.
He retired in 1962 after 336 games in the Oberliga West and became a professor at the college of education in Aachen.