Ernst Bätz
Ernst Bätz (born February 5, 1942 in Steinach (Thuringia) , † December 19, 2001 there ) was a German football player. In 1965 he played for Motor Steinach in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football . He was a GDR junior national player.
Athletic career
When the company sports association (BSG) Motor Steinach played in the second-rate 1st GDR league for the first time in 1959 (calendar year season) , the team also included the 17-year-old Ernst Bätz. In the 26 league games was used 17 times and scored one goal. In autumn 1959 he was part of the squad of the GDR junior national team , for which on November 1, 1959 in the encounter Czechoslovakia - GDR (5-1) played as a defender his only international match.
Since the BSG Motor did not manage to stay in the league , they played in the second GDR league in the two following seasons , but returned to the first GDR league in 1962. In the 1962/63 season, Bätz played twelve games out of 26 league games. In May 1963 he was drafted into the National People's Army for 18 months . During this time he was able to play football in the GDR League (II. League was discontinued) with the Army Sports Association (ASG) Vorwärts Cottbus , but was only used there in nine point games in the 1963/64 season. When he returned to Steinach in November 1964, BSG Motor was already playing its second season in the GDR league. In the second half of the 1964/65 season Bätz came to three missions. At the end of the season, Motor Steinach had to relegate back to the GDR league. Bätz was a member of the squad until 1971. With the exception of the season 1967/68, in which he played only four point games, he was always part of the team. This was also the case in his last GDR league season in 1970/71, in which he completed 25 out of 30 league games and scored another goal. When he ended his career as a competitive athlete in the summer of 1971, he had a record of three league games and 166 GDR league games with 14 goals.
literature
- German sport echo : born 1959–1972. ISSN 0323-8628
- Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 58.
- Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 341.
Web links
- Ernst Bätz in the database of the German Football Association
- Ernst Bätz at the museum website Forward Cottbus
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bätz, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Steinach (Thuringia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 19, 2001 |
| Place of death | Steinach (Thuringia) |