Erhard Meinhold

Erhard Meinhold (born January 26, 1923 , † October 16, 2013 in Chemnitz ) was a soccer player in Zwickau . For Motor Zwickau he played in the GDR league , in the national football team of the GDR he was used twice.

The first known stop on Erhard Meinhold's football career is the company sports association activist "Karl Marx" Zwickau . With her he first played in the third-class regional league, from 1952 in the third-class district league Chemnitz . For the 1953/54 season, at the age of 30, he moved to local rivals BSG Motor Zwickau, who had won the first GDR soccer championship in 1950. On July 3, 1954, he was in his regular position right wing striker in the final of the GDR soccer cup , which the Zwickau lost 2-1 against ASK Vorwärts Berlin .

Three months later, on September 26, 1954, Meinhold was first used in the GDR national team. After the strikers used so far had only scored one goal in the first four games of the national team, coach Siegert resorted to two new attacking players in the home game against Poland, Meinhold stormed on right winger, his Zwickau teammate Siegfried Kaiser as a center forward. However, it was again not enough to score, the GDR lost 0-1 in Rostock. In the following international match on October 24 of the same year in Sofia against Bulgaria Meinhold was used again as a right winger. This time, too, he had a Zwickau strike partner in left winger Siegfried Meier , who finally scored a goal for the GDR team again, but it was only the 1-3 consolation goal . After this defeat, coach Siegert had to leave, and the 31-year-old Meinhold was no longer part of the national team.

The 1954/55 season also brought a high point in Meinhold's football career. After a disappointing 11th place in the previous season, Motor Zwickau again achieved an acceptable fifth place. Zwickau's attackers had scored 51 goals, twelve more than a year earlier, and Meinhold had proven to be the top scorer of his team with 14 goals. In the top scorer list of the league season he was also in 5th place. In 1958 Meinhold was again the top scorer in Zwickau. This time he scored only 12 times, but it was enough for second place in the top division list.

After the end of the 1959 season, Meinhold ended his senior league career at the age of 36, in which he had made 132 point appearances and 61 goals. Then he returned to his old community activist Zwickau. Meinhold later worked as a trainer at the BSG Lokomotive Zwickau. Up to retirement age he worked as a skilled welder in a foundry in Schönheide , 30 kilometers south of Zwickau.

Web links

• Erhard Meinhold in the database of weltfussball.de
• Erhard Meinhold in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Erhard Meinhold in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Former Oberliga player Erhard Meinhold has passed away