Günter Busch (soccer player, 1930)

Günter Busch , called "Buscher" (born February 15, 1930 in Großpösna ; † August 9, 2006 in Leipzig ) was a German football player and coach who won the championship in the GDR league with BSG Chemie Leipzig in 1950/51 won.

Career

society

Beginning, 1942–1949

At the age of twelve, Günter Busch opened the football game in the club at MTV 1858 Liebertwolkwitz , which is located between Großpösna and Probstheida. Since his role model was ex-national goalkeeper Hans Jakob von Jahn Regensburg, he decided to play the goalkeeper game. His favorite club was SV TuRa 1932 Leipzig. The high school student at Nikolai School played in Liebertwolkwitz until 1948. In spring 1949 he moved to SG Leipzig-Leutzsch. The "green-whites" became champions in the Leipzig district league. Immediately before the games for the Saxony Championship, the ZSG Industrie Leipzig emerged from Leutzsch and Lindenau-Hafen . The SG Dresden-Friedrichstadt with the personalities Richard Hofmann and Helmut Schön prevailed in the finals and celebrated winning the Saxony Championship.

Zone League / GDR Oberliga, 1949–1959

After eighth place in the 1949/50 season, Industrie Leipzig, which was renamed BSG Chemie Leipzig on August 16, 1950, headed for the championship title in the 1950/51 season. In the season's final spurt, the Saxons caught up with leaders Turbine Erfurt and there was a playoff for the championship. On May 20, 1951, Chemie Leipzig won the final game in Chemnitz in front of 60,000 spectators with 2-0 goals. Günter Busch guaranteed the decisive strength of the defensive department with the class of his goalkeeping game and the support of defender legend Walter Rose . “Buscher” shone with its outstanding strength on the line and spectacular flight parades. Apart from Wolfgang Klank , no goalkeeper was so popular in GDR football in the 1950s . He was an agile and supple goalkeeper who, with his 1.79 m height and 72 kg body weight, was not a forerunner of the tall muscles of the later decades. The decider itself has the following history: In April 1951 unofficial selection games between the GDR and Poland took place. During the “cozy evening” there were verbal incidents that prompted the GDR's football division to take draconian punitive measures. The captain of Turbine Erfurt, Helmut Nordhaus and the striker Wolfgang Nitsche, were suspended and were therefore not available to Erfurt in the final stages of the championship and in the play-off. In the round of 1952/53, “chemistry” was in the sights of the political functionaries. By December 23, 1952, eight players - including Rainer Baumann, Werner Eilitz, Heinz Fröhlich, Rudolf Krause and Horst Scherbaum - were delegated to Vorwärts Leipzig and thus the planned crash of the men around Günter Busch and Walter Rose. The 40-year-old figurehead Walter Rose together with Günter Busch, Gerhard Polland and Walter Stieglitz formed the remaining "core" of the chemistry team. The support of the fans in Leipzig is clearly expressed through the home record of 26,438 spectators compared to 11,938 of the rival Vorwärts, which is one-sided preferred by the officials. In March / April 1953 alone, Chemie had five home games, each with over 30,000 spectators. The local Georg-Schwarz-Sportpark had to give way to the Bruno-Plache-Stadion. In the first half of 1953 the “chemistry spirit” was born. In March, chemicals were to be removed from the trade fair city and relocated to Leuna / Buna. Against this, the fans and the players around Walter Rose and Günter Busch successfully rebelled. In April 1953 - before the end of the season - the league team was moved from Vorwärts Leipzig to Berlin and at the end of the round was relegated to 14th from the league. With the 8th place in chemistry and its record number of viewers, the functionaries had lost a battle in Leipzig. In this dramatic round, “Buscher” had played all 32 games in the major league. In the 1953/54 round, Alfred Kunze took over as coach of the chemical eleven. He led the "green-whites" with 35:21 points behind the master Turbine Erfurt to the runner-up. Günter Busch also benefited from the creative training design of the soccer lecturer and practitioner. In the audience response, Chemie led the table again with 27,413. In the 1954/55 season the sports club formations were operated. The first sports club in the GDR, SC Lok Leipzig , was the successor to BSG Chemie Leipzig. An increase in performance did not occur, on the contrary, with 11th place in the table you landed on the worst place in the league so far. A total of 29 players were used. Günter Busch guarded the goal in 25 games. The soccer section of the GDR deposed coach Alfred Kunze and banished the independently thinking Rudolf Krause to the second division in Weimar. On December 22, 1957, SC Lokomotive Leipzig won the FDGB Cup in Karl-Marx-Stadt with 2-1 goals after extra time against SC Empor Rostock . Günter Busch guarded the goal of the cup winner in the Ernst-Thälmann-Stadion. "Buscher" completed a total of 246 top division games for the Leipzig clubs Industry, Chemistry and SC Lokomotive. In 1959 he was replaced by the talent Horst Weigang - later 12 times international - in goal.

Selection games

At the age of 21, Günter Busch guarded the gate of Saxony in the final of the GDR regional cup on August 1, 1951. The cup was won against Saxony-Anhalt with 2-1 goals. In a game of a GDR selection against the Leipzig district selection, he was in the gate of the GDR selection on July 9, 1953 in Leipzig. In the fourth international match of the GDR on May 8, 1954, he made his debut in the goal of the national team in Berlin. The opponent was Romania. Coach Hans Siegert had made the move from Wolfgang Klank to Günter Busch as the successor to Willi Oelgardt . The game ended in a 1-0 defeat. Five players from East Berlin were used who did not play in the upper league. It was the international restart after the uprising of June 17, 1953. In 1953, the international match played on June 14 in Dresden against Bulgaria was the only game of the DFV-Elf. On September 26, 1954, Karl-Heinz Spickenagel played for the first time in the national team and subsequently developed into their first goalkeeper. "Buscher" was appointed to the Leipzig district selection on September 8th and to the GDR national B team on September 26th and October 24th, 1954. His club coach Alfred Kunze was responsible for the B-Elf. On November 9, 1955, Günter Busch secured Leipzig's 1-0 success against Dynamo Kiev with his goalkeeping game in the city game. With the Leipzig city selection, he took part in the Exhibition Cup competition 1956-1958 against Lausanne. Coach János Gyarmati brought him on September 25, 1957 in the World Cup qualifier in Cardiff against Wales for the second time in the national team. The game was lost with 1: 4 goals.

Trainer

Günter Busch worked as a trainer at Aufbau Nord Leipzig (1964–1965), Progress LWK Leipzig (1965–1968), Motor Mockau Leipzig (1968–1969) and then only at Chemie Leipzig.

job

Günter Busch studied chemical engineering at the technical college and later made a postgraduate patent engineer. In his private life he was very interested in music, which is why he was considered the mood cannon with his accordion during his active time. He was a member of the Honorary Council at Saxony Leipzig.

literature

• Michael Horn, Gottfried Weise : The great lexicon of GDR football . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-536-8 , page 66.
• Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
• Football Lexicon. Copress, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-7679-0330-X .
• Libero. No. D 1, 1991, GDR football 1952–54, IFFHS.
• Libero. No. 1, April – July 1988, Football in the GDR: 1950/51, IFFHS.
• Dieter Zimmer: A matter of honor . In: Ebinger, Wolfgang (ed.), Small stories for football fans , pp. 28–32, Stuttgart undated, ISBN 3-87203-175-9 .