Heino Kleiminger

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Heino Kleiminger
Kleiminger 1964.gif
Kleiminger as a national player in 1964
Personnel
birthday February 3, 1939
place of birth Wismar ,  German Empire
date of death April 16, 2015
Place of death Rostock ,  Germany
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1951-1955 BSG Motor Wismar
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1956 BSG Motor Wismar
1956-1970 SC Empor /
FC Hansa Rostock 		191 (62)
1967-1970 Hansa Rostock II at least 71 (15)
1970-1974 TSG Wismar 79 (23)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1956-1957 GDR U-18 3 (0)
1959-1965 DDR U-23 9 (2)
1963-1964 DDR Olympia 9 (8)
1959-1963 GDR B 4 (0)
1963-1964 GDR 4 (5)
1 Only league games are given.

Heino Kleiminger (born February 3, 1939 in Wismar , † April 16, 2015 in Rostock ) was a German football player. Between 1956 and 1970, the striker scored 62 goals in 186 games in the GDR league for SC Empor Rostock and FC Hansa Rostock . In 1963 and 1964 he also appeared four times for the GDR national football team , for which he scored five goals.

career

Kleiminger began his football career at the age of twelve with the West Mecklenburg company sports association (BSG) Motor Wismar , which was represented in the second-rate GDR league at the time. There he played for five years in the youth teams and in 1956, after his first appearances for Motor in the 2nd GDR league , then the third highest division, at the age of 17, he went to the GDR upper division SC Empor Rostock, later FC Hansa Rostock. He belonged to the young, second generation of upstairs players, mainly from Northern Germany, after the team had been relocated to the Baltic Sea in 1954 from the Erzgebirge BSG Empor Lauter . Between 1956 and 1957, Kleiminger was part of the GDR junior national team , for which he played three international matches.

Kleiminger played the first league game on September 23, 1956 against Motor Zwickau , in which he scored a goal in the 3-6 home defeat. He was active until 1970 at the Rostock football club , which was separated from the SC Empor in 1965, and was mainly used as a half-striker. He made 186 league games and scored 62 goals. These years were among the most successful of the Hanseatic League, who achieved second place in the league four times and made it to the final of the GDR soccer cup three times .

Between 1963 and 1964 he also came to four internationals in which he scored five goals. He scored four goals in the 12-1 win against Ceylon (now Sri Lanka ) on January 12, 1964 in Colombo . All four games were preparatory games for the GDR Olympic team , in which, according to the rules of the time, players who were used in the World Cup qualification were not eligible to play. Because of an injury, Kleiminger was unable to play the 1964 Olympic tournament , in which the GDR team won bronze. Overall, Kleiminger took part in nine games of the GDR Olympic selection - six of them in qualifying for the tournament in Tokyo. In addition, nine caps with the coming GDR junior national team and four appearances in the B select the DFV .

Further career

After his senior league career, Kleiminger was again active from 1970 to 1974 at TSG Wismar in the GDR league. He then worked as a youth coach and from 1976 to 1980 was a trainer at TSG Bau Rostock, later Rostock FC .

In 1997 Kleiminger survived a severe heart attack and in 1998 a bypass operation . Later he was a trainer in Kritzow from 1996 to 2000. He settled in Graal-Müritz and trained there from 2005 to 2006 the sixth-class Mecklenburg state division TSV Graal-Müritz. At the age of 67, he took over the coaching position of the fifth-class association division SG Warnow Papendorf for one season . In April 2015, Kleiminger died of cancer at the age of 76.

family

Heino Kleiminger was a nephew of the Mecklenburg educator and local history researcher Rudolf Kleiminger , cousin of the former Rostock state superintendent Matthias Kleiminger and great cousin of the SPD politician and former Rostock member of the Bundestag Christian Kleiminger . The former league player Ralf Kleiminger is his son. He was also related to the internationally renowned physicist and Nazi opponent Gustav Mie (" Mie scatter ").

literature

Web links

Commons : Heino Kleiminger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FC Hansa mourns Heino Kleiminger - fc-hansa.de
personal data
SURNAME Kleiminger, Heino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Wismar
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 2015
Place of death Rostock