Heinz Fröhlich

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Heinz Fröhlich (born February 15, 1926 , † December 27, 1999 ) was a German football player and was one of the first national players of the GDR .

GDR soccer champions in Leipzig

In the 1950s, Heinz Fröhlich was one of the best-known Leipzig soccer players. He had already started playing football as a youth at the Leipzig game association before the Second World War and in 1945 joined the successor club Sportgemeinschaft Lindenau-Hafen. Even when the SG was absorbed into the newly founded Central Sports Association Industrie Leipzig in 1949 , Fröhlich was part of the football team. Renamed a year later to the company sports club chemistry , the team won the 2nd GDR soccer championship in 1951. Heinz Fröhlich was used in all 36 championship games and usually scored seven goals as a left half-forward. In the same year Fröhlich was in the state selection of Saxony, which won the final of the GDR regional cup 2-1 over the selection of Saxony-Anhalt.

From national player to national police and second division club

In the 1951/52 season, the BSG Chemie got a local rival in the GDR Oberliga with the team of the Barracked People's Police Forward Leipzig . At the end of the season, the chemists came out on top with a third place compared to the 15th place of the police team, but at the beginning of the 1952/53 season, accompanied by political pressure, massive poaching attempts by Vorwärts Leipzig began. The team had been declared a football focus by the central sports association Vorwärts and urgently needed better player material to improve quality. Since the envisaged chemistry players showed little willingness to change, the leverage was set with the players who were members of the GDR state party SED . They were given the task of getting their teammates to switch. Heinz Fröhlich was one of the SED members. In December 1952, eight chemistry players were finally ready to join the forward team, including Fröhlich, who then declared in the “New Football Week”: “We joined the armed forces out of conviction. In none of them are any material aspects in the foreground ” . With Werner Eilitz , Horst Scherbaum and also Fröhlich, three of the players who had transferred had taken part in the first two international matches of the GDR for Chemie Leipzig (September 21, 1952 0: 3 against Poland, October 26, 1952 1: 3 against Romania). The Leipzig soccer audience saw the interplay as treason and punished the forward team with disregard. When the sporting success did not materialize either, Sportvereinigung Vorwärts decided in April 1953 to transfer the entire team to Berlin. At the end of the season, the team now playing under the name ZASK Vorwärts Berlin was relegated from the major league, Heinz Fröhlich and his other Leipzig national and master players now played second class in Berlin.

Return to Leipzig

In the second-class GDR league , the team that had been thrown together and relocated finally matured into a constant unit and achieved immediate promotion. The 1953/54 season was crowned by winning the GDR Cup ( FDGB Cup ). With a 2-1 win over Motor Zwickau , Fröhlich scored the winning goal with a penalty. No sooner had the forward team been promoted to the top division of the GDR than they got into turmoil again. After a failed experiment with the soccer team of the SC DHfK Leipzig , the majority of their players were "delegated" to Vorwärts Berlin. Since this would have increased the squad excessively, the Berlin players were given the option to join the revived army sports community Vorwärts Leipzig. Several former Leipzig players accepted the offer to return to their homeland. One of the returnees was Heinz Fröhlich, who did not move to ASG Vorwärts, but to the newly founded SC Lokomotive Leipzig, successor to BSG Chemie. After moderate performance in the 1954/55 season (11th), Fröhlich's new team reached 3rd place in 1956. In the following season Fröhlich was able to win another title for himself. On December 22, 1957 he was in a cup final for the second time in his career, and like three years ago, he scored the 2-1 winning goal with a penalty, this time against Empor Rostock . After the end of the 1958 season, Fröhlich ended his career in Leipzig and after short episodes with third division Dynamo Schwerin and Dynamo Berlin Ende (two more league appearances) in 1960 at the age of 34, he said goodbye to active football. Between 1949 and 1960 he had 211 league games in which he scored 50 goals.

Track record

  • 1951: GDR soccer champion with chemistry in Leipzig
  • 1951: GDR regional cup for Saxony
  • 1952: two international appointments
  • 1954: GDR Cup winner with Vorwärts Berlin
  • 1957: GDR Cup winner with Lok Leipzig

Political career

After Heinz Fröhlich had played his last league game in Berlin, he turned to politics as an SED party member from the early 1950s. He was given the opportunity to study political science at Moscow's Lomonossow University and was later appointed first secretary (party leader) of the SED city leadership in his hometown of Leipzig. In this position, which he held for many years, he was the most important decision maker in the second largest city in the GDR.

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SURNAME Happy, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1926
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1999