Bernhard Zander

Bernhard Zander was a German soccer player from Leipzig . Both before World War II and in 1949, he was represented in top division football.

Athletic career

Zander played with SC Wacker Leipzig in Gau Groß-Leipzig until 1932 . In the same year the new club Tura Leipzig was founded, which poached numerous players from other clubs. Bernhard Zander was among them. The club went into the official game operation for the 1933/34 season and, with Zander, had already made it to the Gauliga Sachsen , one of the 16 highest football leagues in the DFB , in 1936 .

When all Leipzig sports clubs were dissolved in 1945, several former Tura players joined the newly founded SG Leipzig-Leutsch in 1946. When in 1949 a national soccer championship was held in East Germany for the first time in the East Zone with the DS League, later the GDR Oberliga , the former Tura player Bernhard Zander was also part of the Leutzscher squad. However, he was only used by coach Fritz Krauss in the first three league games. In the opening game of the 1949/50 season, Zander played in front of his own audience as a half-left striker and lost 2-1 with his team against Waggonbau Dessau . In the following two league games, the Leipzig team remained without a win with 2: 2 and 0: 4. Zander was used as a right winger in both matches.

Until the end of the season, Bernhard Zander was no longer used in the league games at ZSG Industrie. Zander was no longer present in the Leipzig squad for the 1950/51 season, now competing as a company sports association (BSG) Chemie Leipzig.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1949–1950. ISSN  0323-8628
• Andreas Baingo , Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 328.
• DSFS (Ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 1). Berlin 2011, p. 12

Web links

• Bernhard Zander in the database of the German Football Association
• Bernhard Zander in the database of weltfussball.de