Erich Martin (soccer player)
Erich Martin (born July 17, 1929 ) is a former German soccer player. He played from 1951 to 1956 for Turbine Erfurt in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football . 1954 and 1955 he was soccer champion.
Athletic career
At the age of 22, Martin played for the first time at the company sports club (BSG) Turbine Erfurt in a league game. In the match on the 18th match day Rotation Babelsberg - Turbine Erfurt (4: 2) on January 7, 1951, he represented the unfit striker Helmut Lipper . When Turbine Erfurt was at the top of the league table together with BSG Chemie Leipzig at the end of the season and had to go into the championship playoff, Martin came on for the injured Heinz Hammer in the 12th minute . Erfurt lost the game with 0: 2.
In the mammoth season of 1951/52 with 36 point games, the ongoing injury Hammers and the migration of several players to Eintracht Braunschweig Martin offered the opportunity to play in the Erfurt regular team. He finally succeeded in the second half of the season, in which, after he had previously played seven league games, he completed all of the remaining 18 point games. He was used as a left winger, but only scored twice. In 1952/53 he was also part of the regular staff, was used 29 times in the 32 point games and this time came up with six point game goals.
In the 1953/54 season Turbine Erfurt became GDR football champions for the first time. Konrad Wallroth was new to the team, displacing Martin from the starting eleven, so that he was only used five times in the league in the first championship season, and where he only managed one goal. When Turbine Erfurt successfully defended the championship title in 1954/55, Martin was completely out of sight. Towards the end of the season he was substituted on twice for Wallrodt and Hammer, and thus his senior league career was over after 66 championship games with nine goals.
In 1957, at the age of 28, he moved to BSG Stahl Maxhütte in the fourth-class district league Gera .
literature
- German sport echo : born 1952–1956. ISSN 0323-8628 .
- Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 311.
- Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 311.
Web links
- Erich Martin in the database of weltfussball.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Martin, Erich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1929 |