Heinz Klemm (soccer player)

Heinz Klemm (born October 31, 1926 ; † after 1973) was a German football goalkeeper. For the SG Volkspolizei / Dynamo Dresden and the SC Dynamo Berlin he played in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football . In 1953 he was GDR champion with Dynamo Dresden.

Athletic career

Until 1950, Klemm played with the lower class SG Volkspolizei Leipzig. In the summer of 1950 he was invited to a screening course of the sports association German People's Police , which should serve to upgrade the third-class SG People's Police Dresden to a team suitable for the first division. Klemm achieved the inclusion in the squad for the 1950/51 season, with which the SG VP Dresden was incorporated into the GDR league without athletic qualifications. Klemm was used from the first league point game and was only absent from one of the 34 championship games played. Also in the following two seasons he was the goalkeeper of Dresden. In 1953 he and his team, which had since been renamed SG Dynamo Dresden, were East German champions. This season Dynamo Dresden also won the cup, in the 3-0 final win over Einheit Pankow , Klemm was in goal as usual. In 1953/54 he had to pause several times due to injuries, so that he could only play 15 of 28 point games.

In the first half of the 1954/55 season, Klemm had completed the first eight point games for Dresden, after which the team was relocated to East Berlin in a night-and-fog campaign . On November 21, 1954, she first appeared as SC Dynamo Berlin. Klemm played 15 of 18 league games for SC Dynamo this season. Klemm remained the regular goalkeeper at Dynamo Berlin until the end of the 1956 season (it was now played every calendar year). Then Dynamo Berlin rose from the league. In the GDR league season 1957, Klemm was initially replaced by Walter Hindenberg, only came back to the team at the end of the first half of the season and was only used 14 times in 26 games.

Even after the immediate promotion, Klemm was no longer able to establish himself as a regular goalkeeper. Between 1958 and 1960 he only made 26 appearances in 78 league games. In 1961, GDR football returned to the summer-spring rhythm, and a mammoth season with 39 match days was held in the major league between March 1961 and June 1962. It was Klemm's last season in the major league. He played only six point games and then ended his career as a top division player. Within ten seasons he had completed 187 league point games, 116 for Dynamo Dresden and 71 for Dynamo Berlin.

After the end of his football career, Klemm became a trainer for various Berlin football teams. He started in 1962 with the Army Sports Association Vorwärts Berlin, which he led after one season to promotion to the then fourth-class City League East Berlin. Further stations were the 2nd team of FC Vorwärts Berlin , Vorwärts Bestensee (1973 promotion to the city league), BSG Turbine Berlin and BSG Tiefbau Berlin .

literature

• German sport echo : born 1952–1962. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 256.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 305.

Web links

• Heinz Klemm in the database of weltfussball.de