Siegfried Söllner
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Siegfried Söllner (born November 1, 1936 in Vogtland ; † 2019 ) was a soccer player in the GDR league with SC Lokomotive Leipzig and SC Empor Rostock .
Life
Söllner moved with his family from Vogtland to Ribnitz on the Baltic Sea during the Second World War . In Stralsund he later trained as a machine fitter and played in the district league for BSG Lokomotive .
After he excelled as a talented player there, the central sports association Lokomotiv delegated him to their top club SC Lok Leipzig in the summer of 1955 , which had finished the past season with 11th place in the Oberliga, the highest GDR soccer class. As a midfielder, Söllner quickly found a regular place and was already able to celebrate his greatest success of his football career by winning the GDR football cup in 1957 at the age of 21. In the cup final on December 22, 1957, which ended with a 2-1 victory over SC Empor Rostock , Söller was called up as a left midfielder. In this position he played his second cup final a year later. This encounter on December 14, 1958 ended tragically for him, because against SC Einheit Dresden he scored an own goal in extra time, which meant the 2-1 victory for Dresden. In the same year he was used in two games of the B national team . Söllner completed a third international B game in July 1960. At this point it was already clear that he would leave SC Lokomotive Leipzig in the direction of Rostock .
On September 25, 1960, the 17th league matchday, Söllner appeared for the first time for SC Empor Rostock. He took over the position of left defender, where the eliminated Karl-Heinz Singer had to be replaced. By the end of the season Söller played eight of ten league games in Rostock and was also used in the cup final on October 7, 1960 against SC Motor Jena . As in 1958, he had to accept another defeat in the final, because the Rostockers lost 3-2. In the years that followed, Söllner's career stagnated, until 1965 he only made 31 league appearances. At the beginning of the 1965/66 season he was only used in the 2nd team, in which he first played in the third-class district league, before his team made it to the GDR league in 1967 . There Söllner played another season and then, at the age of 31, went to third division club Schiffahrt / Hafen Rostock , where he finally ended his active career.
In 2019 , Söllner, a member of the honor guard of FC Hansa Rostock , died a few weeks before his 83rd birthday.
literature
- German sport echo : born 1955–1968. ISSN 0323-8628
- Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , page 418.
- DSFS (ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 8). Berlin 2011, page 336.
Web links
- Siegfried Söllner in the database of the German Football Association
- Siegfried Söllner in the database of weltfussball.de
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| SURNAME | Söllner, Siegfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vogtland |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2019 |