Heinz Degenkolbe

Heinz Degenkolbe (born October 15, 1937 ) is a former German soccer player. For progress Weissenfels he played 72 games in the GDR league between 1958 and 1960 , the top division in GDR football . He scored thirteen goals.

Athletic career

For the 1958 season, the football league team progress Weissenfels expanded its line-up to include three new players, including the 20-year-old striker Heinz Degenkolbe. Coach Herbert Worbs planned with him as a left winger and put him in this position in 21 games during the 1958 season. Degenkolbe only scored his first league goal on the last day of the match, when he made the final score in the 90th minute of a 4-0 home win over Motor Zwickau . In 1959 Degenkolbe was able to increase his goalscoring rate in the major league to nine hits and was the second best scorer in the Weißenfels team behind Horst Meyer (10). This season Degenkolbe played all 26 point games. With three goals in the game in 1960, he had already lost his marksmanship again, although he had only missed one league game. At the end of the season progress Weissenfels was determined as relegated to the GDR league . There Degenkolbe completed 87 point games between 1961 and 1968, in which he scored eleven goals. Both 1966 and 1968 he had to relegate with progress in the third-rate district league. After 1968 there was no return to higher-class football for him.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1958–1968. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 102.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 346.
• DFSF (Ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 8). Berlin 2011, p. 152.

Web links

• Heinz Degenkolbe in the database of the German Football Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In some sources the surname is given as "Degenkolb", but in the contemporary print media with "e".