He earned 32 caps and scored five goals for the Denmark national team and was in the Danish squad for the 1986 FIFA World Cup.
He was assured by Rangers manager Graeme Souness that he would fit into his tactics, but found himself deployed as a strictly defensive full back.
Bartram did not take to the strict discipline of new coach Timo Konietzka and played his last Uerdingen game in March 1991,[3] before he was fired for arriving late at a training session.
He played 14 Superliga games until June 1991, when he took a sabbatical year away from football, and travelled around the world.
[1] He returned to AGF's Superliga team in August 1992, and played a further 35 games for the club until April 1996.