Heinz Ernst

Heinz Ernst (born November 22, 1926 ) was a soccer player in the Thuringian region. In 1951 he played for Motor Gera in the Oberliga , the highest East German soccer class. From 1958 he worked as a football coach, among other things in the second-rate GDR league .

Athletic career

Ernst began playing football in 1938 in Wünschendorf, Thuringia . After the Second World War he settled in Gera and joined BSG Mechanik / Motor Gera in 1950. The Geraer belonged to the top of the Thuringian football teams at that time and played in the major league. In 1951 Ernst played for Motor Gera in five league games and was successful with three goals. At the age of 26, Ernst left the Gera team in 1953 and then played for the lower-class teams from Motor Neustadt / Orla , Aufbau Triebes and Progress Weida . In Triebes he worked as a player coach.

After the final end of his career as a player, Ernst was a coach at Progress Weida in the seasons 1958 and 1959. He led the team in 1958 to the district championship and the third-class II. GDR league , but rose again after a year. From 1960 to 1964 Ernst was employed as a district trainer for the Gera district technical committee. In 1964, the trained lathe operator obtained his diploma as a sports teacher at the Leipzig Sports University DHfK and took over the training of the GDR league team Motor Eisenach . After the Eisenacher had to relegate in 1970 and then clearly missed the promotion, Ernst went back to his former community in Gera for the 1971/72 season, which was now under the name Wismut Gera. There he was in charge of training for four seasons. In 1974 and 1975 he was with the Geraern relay winner in the second-rate GDR league, but missed promotion to the top division every time. From 1975/76 Ernst was a trainer at Motor Suhl . He also led this team in the first year of his activity in the promotion round to the league. After he failed a second time with Suhl in the league promotion round in 1979, Ernst moved for two seasons to league competitor Progress Weida, where he began his coaching career in 1958.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 127.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 316.
• GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho , edition June 16, 1980, short biography

Web links

• Heinz Ernst in the database of the German Football Association