Günter Niewand

Günter Niewand (born August 17, 1936 ) is a former German soccer player. In 1955 he played 16 games for Turbine Erfurt in the GDR league , the top division in GDR football . With Turbine Erfurt he was GDR champion, he is a seven-time junior national player.

Athletic career

As a junior player for Turbine Erfurt, Niewand played seven international matches with the GDR junior national team in 1954 and 1955. He was used as a center forward and scored seven goals.

His first appearance in the GDR league had Niewand on March 27, 1955 in the encounter on the 23rd day of the game Turbine Erfurt - Dresden unit (1-0). One day later he shot his first league goal. Then he was called up again on the 25th and penultimate league match day. With his three appearances, Niewand had only a small share in winning the second GDR championship from Turbine Erfurt. In the so-called transition round to switch to the calendar year seasonal rhythm, which took place in the fall of 1955, Niewand was used in all 13 games and was Erfurt's best scorer with six goals.

After Niewand did not appear in higher-class football in 1956, he appeared for the 1957 season in the squad of the second-class GDR list structure Magdeburg . While he was one of the pillars of the team in his first Magdeburg season with 22 appearances in 26 point games and four goals, he only completed five point games in 1958 and remained without scoring. He then moved to Turbine Magdeburg in the fourth class district league in 1959 . A year later he became district champion with the team and rose to the 2nd GDR league . In 1961/62, GDR football returned to the summer-spring rhythm. In addition, all leagues had to complete a season from March 1961 to June 1962, 39 point games took place in the II. GDR League. Niewand scored his team as the relay top scorer with 42 goals for promotion to the first GDR league. Fortuna Magdeburg was able to assert itself in the GDR league for three seasons until 1964/65. Of the 86 league games played during this time, Niewand played 82 games and scored 17 goals.

At the time of relegation to the district league, Niewand was 29 years old and he did not return to higher-tier football.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1954–1965. ISSN  0323-8628 .
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 336.
• DFSF (Ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 8). Berlin 2010, p. 277.

Web links

• Günter Niewand in the database of weltfussball.de