Heinz Lemanczyk

Heinz "Heini" Lemanczyk (born November 13, 1934 in Poley , Anhalt ) was a football player in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football , where he mainly played on the position of the half-striker . He was used twice in the GDR national soccer team .

Athletic career

Right from the start, Lemanczyk experienced the rebuilding of football in East Germany, which was accompanied by numerous upheavals, and was directly affected by the organizational confusion. He began playing football in 1948 in Marga , a colony in the village of Brieske in Niederlausitz , where the Marga sports association succeeded SV Marga, which was dissolved in 1945 and was one of the top teams in Brandenburg before the Second World War. SG Marga continued this tradition, becoming Oberlausitz champion in 1948 and Brandenburg runner-up in 1949 as SG Grube Marga. Under the name BSG "Franz Mehring" Marga, the team took part in the 2nd East Zone Championshippart, but retired there after a 4-0 defeat against Eintracht Stendal in the quarter-finals. The 2nd place in Brandenburg was also the right to start the first season of the Oberliga , the newly created top soccer class in East Germany. In this team, which continued to change its name at short intervals (1950 BSG activist Brieske-Ost , 1954 SC activist Brieske-Senftenberg ) Lemanczyk became a regular player as an inside striker and completed 42 point games by the 1953/54 season.

In 1954, a soccer section was founded at the German University for Physical Culture in Leipzig with the aim of developing young talent into top soccer players. Throughout the GDR, young football players from numerous sports communities were brought together in Leipzig and integrated into two teams (SC DHfK I and II) in the second-rate GDR league . Among those selected was 19-year-old Heinz Lemanczyk, who from August 1954 was used in the first and second teams. The prospect of top football at DHfK quickly faded, because both teams couldn't get past midfield positions in their league relay. Thereupon the project was discontinued after six months and both teams were dissolved. The players were mainly delegated to ASK Berlin and SC Dynamo Berlin, the rest looked for other teams.

Lemanczyk returned to his home country after eleven missions with the DHfK, where the SC activist still maintained his position in the top division. In the transition round played in the fall of 1955 to switch the football season to the calendar year, Lemanczyk made a big impression, so that those responsible for the GDR selection became aware of him. On September 18, 1955, he received his first chance in the senior team, where he was used in the game against Romania (3: 2) for 62 minutes in the position of the left inner striker. In the 1956 season he created a small sensation with his team when the Senftenberger Vorstadtklub finished second with only two points behind the champions SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt . In the following years Lemanczyk, who had meanwhile been appointed team captain, played with the Brieskern in the highest GDR soccer league. On September 14, 1958, he played another A international match, in which there was again a 3-2 win against Romania. Lemanczyk was a substitute for 32 minutes. In addition to his two A internationals, he was also used in ten games of the B selection and scored two goals there.

With the end of the season 1962/63, the chapter of the league was over for Brieske, as bottom of the table followed the descent into the second-rate GDR league. From 1955 to 1963 Lemanczyk had again completed 190 league games and came together with his first Briesker years on 252 first division appearances in which he scored 60 goals. With the descent of the soccer team, the end of the SC activist was sealed, in its place the SC Cottbus was founded in the district capital . He was also assigned the first Briesker soccer team, while the reserve team continued to play as BSG activist Brieske-Ost in the Cottbus district league. Lemanczyk, now 29 years old, helped make the move to Cottbus and thus became a victim of the unsteady GDR football policy after the Leipzig fiasco. In the second division games of SC Cottbus, which reached places 4 and 2 in the seasons 1963/64 and 1964/65, Lemanczyk did not really get the chance and was used nine times. At the end of 1965 it was restructured again, the soccer section was spun off from SC Cottbus and from 1966 had to continue playing as BSG Energie Cottbus . Here Lemanczyk was only used in the 2nd team. At the end of the 1965/66 season he ended his active career. He then worked as a sports teacher at a Cottbus high school.

Although Heinz Lemanczyk only made one real community change in his football career, he wore jerseys with eight different names in the 19 years:

1948	SG Marga
1949	SG pit Marga
1950	BSG "Franz Mehring" Marga
1951	BSG activist Brieske-Ost
1954	SC DHfK Leipzig
1955	SC activist Brieske-Senftenberg
1963	SC Cottbus
1966	BSG Energie Cottbus

literature

• German sport echo : born 1950–1966. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 290.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 301.

Web links

• Heinz Lemanczyk in the database of the German Football Association
• Heinz Lemanczyk in the database of weltfussball.de
• Heinz Lemanczyk in the database of fussballdaten.de