Erwin Seifert

Erwin Seifert (born April 13, 1939 in Zellmühle ) was a football player in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in East Germany. There he played for SC Turbine / FC Rot Weiß Erfurt and SC Motor Jena .

SC Turbine Erfurt

As a young player, Seifert was a member of the company sports association (BSG) Motor Sömmerda from 1956 to 1960 , for which he played two international matches with the GDR junior team in 1956. In 1957 he was top scorer at Motor Sömmerda with 15 goals in the 2nd GDR league . From Sömmerda he was delegated to the regional top club SC Turbine Erfurt at the beginning of the football season in 1961. There were 39 point games for the league team in the 1961/62 season, as the season was changed from the calendar year to the autumn-spring rhythm. The 22-year-old Seifert immediately got off to a good start in the top division, played 26 league games, became Erfurt's top scorer with 22 goals and came second in the league scorer behind Arthur Bialas from Rostock (23). This good start helped Seifert to an international match in the GDR junior national team. On May 8, 1962 he was substituted on as a striker in the second half of the game GDR - Poland (1: 3). In the following season 1962/63 he had fully established himself as a regular player. He was regularly used as a striker and was again the club's best scorer with 14 goals, finishing third in the league.

SC Motor Jena

As a potential national player, Seifert became interesting for the GDR champions 1963 SC Motor Jena, and this prompted Seifert to move from Erfurt to Jena. Although Seifert did not make any further international appearances, he found his way in the championship league team in 1963/64 and completed 23 of the 26 point games in which he was successful with seven goals. He was also used in the two European Cups of SC Motor against Dinamo Bucharest (0: 2, 0: 1). In the season 1964/65 he came in the Hinserie only in the first three point games and in the second half of the season only sporadically in another five games. At the end of the season Seifert returned to Erfurt.

FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt

At SC Motor Erfurt, he rejoined the first division team seamlessly. During the 1965/66 season, in which the team moved to the newly founded FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt, Seifert was used in 21 league games and was again the most accurate shooter in Erfurt with nine goals. However, the newly founded club had to relegate from the league in its first season, and Seifert had to play in the second-rate GDR league for a year . The people from Blumenstadt immediately managed to get promoted again, also thanks to Seifert's 20 goals, with which he became the league's top scorer. In the new league passage 1967/68 he could only be used from the 10th game day and came so only to 16 point game stakes. In 1968/69 he had his regular place in the league team again, but was used in different positions in all parts of the team. Seifert's last league season was the 1969/70 season. He completed another 14 first division games in different positions and also scored four more goals. His last league game was the game of the 15th match day on March 21, 1970. In the 1-0 victory over Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt, he was a left winger in the team for 74 minutes.

End of the football career

Within ten years Seifert came to 158 GDR league games (127 in Erfurt, 31 in Jena), in which he scored 64 (55/9) goals. He ended his career as a soccer player at Motor Sömmerda. With this team he rose in his first season 1970/71 in the GDR league. In 1972 he stopped playing football for good. He then became a trainer for the Sömmerda team, which was now called BSG Zentronik, until 1978. From 1982 he coached the BSG unit Kölleda in the third-class district league Erfurt , which in 1990 (now SV Funkwerk Kölleda ) was one of the founding members of the Thuringian League and with which he became Thuringian champion in 1992 and thus rose to the amateur league. After relegation, Seifert trained the team for one more season before retiring into private life in 1994.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 411.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 312, 322.
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .

Web links

• Erwin Seifert in the database of the German Football Association
• Erwin Seifert in the database of weltfussball.de
• Erwin Seifert game statistics at rsssf.com