Gerhard Wolff

This article is about the soccer player Gerhard Wolff. For the actor Gerhard Wolff see Gerry Wolff ; for other people see Gerhard Wolf .

Gerhard Wolff (born March 28, 1939 ) is a former German football player who was active in the 1960s for FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football .

Athletic career

During his long career in the GDR-wide soccer leagues, Gerhard Wolff always played in the Thuringian region. His first stop was the company sports community (BSG) Lokomotive Weimar , for which he first played a game in the second-rate first GDR league in the 1958 season (calendar year season) at the age of 19 . In 1959, with 22 appearances and one goal in 26 league games, he was already a member of the BSG Lok team. In 1960 Wolff was not used in the league team league games, Lok Weimar was relegated to the 2nd GDR League . At the beginning of the 1961/62 season (return to the summer-spring game rhythm) the BSG locomotive joined the BSG Motor Weimar and at the end of the season rose again to the first GDR league. For the season 1962/63 Wolff was again part of the Weimar squad and was used 19 times in the 26 league games, scoring three goals. For the 1963/64 season, the II. GDR League was discontinued, and the second division was continued under the name GDR League, in which 30 point games were now to be completed. Wolff came to 20 missions and eight goals. After he had started the 1964/65 season with ten league stakes and six goals, he was delegated to the relegated league and football focus of the SC Turbine Erfurt region .

The center forward Rainer Knobloch , who had been handed over to SC Motor Jena , had left a sensitive gap there. As a new center forward, Wolff was used in twelve league games by the end of the season, and with six goals he helped SC Turbine to regain promotion. In the league season 1965/66, in the course of which the soccer section of SC Turbine was converted into FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt, coach Helmut Nordhaus Wolff initially played in midfield, but put him in the defense in the second half of the season. Wolff only scored one goal in his 25 league appearances. 1967/68 Wolff was only on the 5th and 6th game day in the league as a defender, instead played 26 of the 30 point games in the GDR League with the 2nd team of FC Rot-Weiß, where he scored one goal.

For the 1968/69 season Wolff moved to the GDR league club Motor Eisenach . There he became a regular player again with 28 league appearances (one goal), but suffered another setback in the following season with only one league game. Since Eisenach then relegated to the district league, Wolff did not return to the GDR league until the 1971/72 season, but now as a player of the promoted BSG Zentronik Sömmerda . In the GDR league 22 point games have now been played, of which Wolff played 20 matches and was again more successful as a goalscorer with three goals. For the 33-year-old, it was the last season in higher-class football that he was able to play through as a regular player. In 1972/73 he played for Sömmerda in three league games, after which he returned to Motor Eisenach, where he played again in five GDR league games.

In the summer of 1974, Gerhard Wolff ended his career in GDR-wide league football. Between 1958 and 1974 he had completed 27 league games and scored one goal, in the GDR league he was used in 183 games and had 29 goals.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1958–1974. ISSN  0323-8628
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 300.
• DSFS (ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 8). Berlin 2011, p. 371.

Web links

• Gerhard Wolff in the database of the German Football Association