Arno Gawöhn

Arno Gawöhn (born June 14, 1938 ) is a former German soccer player. From 1958 to 1967 he played for SC Lokomotive Leipzig and BSG Chemie Leipzig in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football . With Chemie Leipzig he won the GDR championship title in 1964 and the GDR soccer cup in 1966 .

Athletic career

As a 21-year-old, Arno Gawöhn played nine league games for SC Lokomotive Leipzig in the 1958 season . In the following seasons he did not manage to play in the regular team of Leipzig. When in 1961 GDR football switched to the summer-spring rhythm and 39 games had to be played in the major league, Gawöhn came at least almost to the 50 percent limit with nineteen appearances. With eight goals, he also scored the most goals this season of his career in the higher league area.

When the two Leipzig league teams were reorganized in 1963, Gawöhn ended up with the so-called “rest of Leipzig”. While the supposedly best players were assigned to the planned top club SC Leipzig , the allegedly hopeless players came to the newly founded company sports community (BSG) Chemie Leipzig, among them Arno Gawöhn. Also in this team he could not prevail, he was only used in two league games in 1963/64 . So he only had a small share in the surprising win of the GDR championship for Chemie Leipzig. The 1964/65 season was even worse for Gawöhn, because he only played one league game and played neither in the European Cup nor in the GDR Cup games. The 1965/66 season began promisingly for him, as he was called up as a striker eleven times in a row in the first half of the season. In the second half of the season, however, he was only used in two league games. In the five games that Chemie Leipzig needed to win the GDR soccer cup, Gawöhn was involved in three encounters, but was missing in the final, which Leipzig won 1-0 over Lok Stendal . After another four league appearances in 1966/67 , Gawöhn resigned from Chemie Leipzig at the end of the season.

He joined the neighboring BSG activist Böhlen , who had just been relegated from the GDR league to the third-class district league . With Gawöhn the immediate resurgence succeeded, so that he could play from 1968/69 with Böhlen in the GDR league. In the course of the season, the BSG was renamed Chemie Böhlen. Gawöhn finally achieved the status of the regular player, because of the 30 games he played in 27 games. After a less successful season in 1969/70 with only thirteen league games, he came back to 27 point games in 1970/71 and was also reasonably successful as a goalscorer with four goals. At the end of the season he was 33 years old and ended his career in competitive football.

As a recreational footballer, he played for a few years with the second team from Böhlen in the district league.

In his twelve seasons in higher-class football, he had played 141 point games and scored 25 goals.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1958–1971. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 151.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 326.

Web links

• Arno Gawöhn in the database of the German Football Association