Heinz Hippmann

Heinz Hippmann (born January 6, 1926 ) is a former German soccer goalkeeper. In the GDR league , the top division in GDR football , he played 100 championship games between 1951 and 1956 (92 for Motor Zwickau , eight for SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt ). With the SC Wismut he was GDR champion in 1956.

Athletic career

After the end of the Second World War , Hippmann first became a goalkeeper for the Zwickau-Mitte sports community . Between 1949 and 1950 he played at 1. FV Bebra in the second-class state league Hessen . 1951 Hippmann returned to Zwickau and joined the GDR upper division company sports community (BSG) Motor Zwickau. There he was used in the 1951/52 season as a replacement for the retired previous goalkeeper Joachim Otto from the first day of play. Of the 36 point games played, Hippmann played 32 games and established himself as the new number one in the Zwickau goal. He retained this status until the end of the 1953/54 season. By then he had played 89 of the 96 league games played. For the 1954/55 season, coach Erich Dietel designated Rolf Baumann, who was six years his junior, as the new goalkeeper, and Hippmann was only used three times in the first half of the season.

In the second half of the 1954/55 season Hippmann was given up to the second division club BSG Stahl Stalinstadt . There he was in all 13 point games in the second half of the season.

Hippmann then moved to SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt, which was based in Aue in the Ore Mountains . It was used in the last three games of the so-called transition round, which was played over 13 games in autumn 1955 as a transition to the calendar year rhythm in GDR football. In the following season, 1956, Hippmann was initially called up in the first seven league point games, but then lost his regular place to Kurt Steinbach , who had already been the regular goalkeeper of the Wismut team in 1953/54. Hippmann was only used once as a substitute in a point game. SC Wismut ended the 1956 season as the new GDR soccer champion, Hippmann ended his career in higher-class soccer.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1951–1956. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 217.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 291, 349.
• DFSF (Ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 8). Berlin 2010, p. 202.

Web links

• Heinz Hippmann in the database of the German Football Association