Günter Horst

Günter Horst (born October 10, 1919 in Kleinschmalkalden ) was a soccer coach in the GDR and worked, among other things, as an assistant coach for the GDR national soccer team .

Günter Horst grew up in Leipzig and started playing organized football when he was ten. In 1948 he took over the management of the state sports school Saxony-Anhalt in Freyburg (Unstrut) , later he became head of the central soccer training camp in Greiz, Thuringia . When the German University of Physical Culture (DHfK) was founded in Leipzig in 1950 , Horst was involved in building up the football coaching faculty. He then took on a coaching position himself. Between 1955 and 1957 he worked as an assistant coach for János Gyarmati , the coach of the GDR national soccer team. From June to September 1958 he was briefly responsible coach of the GDR soccer champions at the time, based in AueSC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt .

In 1961 Günter Horst went to the university town of Greifswald , where he took over the coaching position at the BSG unit from Lothar Wießner, who had previously been voted out by his own players. Unity Greifswald played at that time in the second-rate I. GDR League . His engagement suffered from the fact that numerous talented players such. B. the later league players Helmut Hergesell , Harald Nitze and Hans-Joachim Steinfurth left the BSG. Horst saw the cause in the fact that the company sports associations outside of the metropolises were only inadequately supported. He publicly announced his frustration on the occasion of the disastrous 0:10 defeat in the cup game against the GDR upper division club SC Dynamo Berlin in the 1963/64 season when he posted a written declaration in the BSG showcases in the Greifswald city area complained about the lack of sporting support for his team on the part of the GDR football association and the Rostock regional football committee and stated that despite everything he wanted to stick to his goal of promotion to the top division. His call for help remained ineffective, his squad lost more and more quality until the team was relegated to the third-rate district league in 1966 after a devastating season . Before the end of the season, Horst had been replaced by former national player Karl-Heinz Holze , who was still active at Einheit Greifswald .

The Rostock district technical committee, which he attacked years ago, took him on anyway and in spring 1966 made him a district youth trainer. Further positions of Günter Horst in higher-class teams are not known.

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• German sports echo from August 27, 1966