Heinz Senftleben

Heinz Senftleben
Personnel
birthday	October 25, 1919
place of birth	Erfurt ,  Germany
date of death	1996
position	goalkeeper
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1943	FC Erfurt North	1
1949-1952	KWU / Turbine Erfurt	74
1952-1956	Eintracht Braunschweig	2
1 Only league games are given.

Heinz Senftleben (born October 25, 1919 in Erfurt ; † 1996 ) was a German football goalkeeper. Between 1949 and 1956 he played in the first division with KWU / Turbine Erfurt and Eintracht Braunschweig .

Athletic career

In the last years before the Second World War , Senftleben played for FC Erfurt Nord in Gauliga Mitte , one of the 16 highest leagues in Germany at the time. After the end of the war he was a member of the SG Pels Erfurt. In 1949 he moved to SG Fortuna Erfurt , which competed in the soccer east zone championship in 1949 without Senftleben and became runner-up. As a runner-up, SG Fortuna was given the right to start the newly founded East German soccer zone league (later DS-Oberliga, GDR-Oberliga ), with which the East German soccer champion was determined from 1949/50. The team from Erfurt, who started the 1949/50 season as BSG KWU, also included Senftleben as a goalkeeper.

Senftleben played in the zone league for the first time on the third match day and played a total of 21 point games by the end of the season. Then he was with KWU Erfurt in the final of the GDR soccer cup . In the 58th minute he had to retire injured at the score of 1-0 for Stahl Thale , and Erfurt was finally beaten 4-0. Because of his injury Senftleben came again late in 1950/51, only on the fourth day of play. After that he was the undisputed number one in the goal of the Erfurt team, who have since competed as Turbine Erfurt. At the end of the season they were tied with BSG Chemie Leipzig at the top of the now so-called DS-Oberliga (Oberliga des Deutschen Sportausschusses ). Erfurt lost the deciding game for the GDR championship with Senftleben in goal with 0: 2. 1951/52 Senftleben went into his third season in the top division of the GDR and was the goalkeeper at Turbine Erfurt from the first day of the game. Apart from a four-week injury break, he completed all of the league matches up to the 26th matchday. Up to this point, Senftleben had also been a regular member of the Thuringian national team, with which he played six games.

At the beginning of March 1952, Senftleben, who by then had completed 74 zones / league games for Erfurt, sat ten game days before the end of the season of the DS league from the GDR and joined Eintracht Braunschweig in the Oberliga Nord . Since Braunschweig was transferred to the Lower Saxony East amateur league on June 15, 1952, on suspicion of manipulation by the sports court of the DFB , Senftleben and the eastern trio Winfried Herz , Werner Oberländer and Heinz Wozniakowski , who had already come to Braunschweig in the winter of 1951/52, had to be in 1952 / 53 start in the amateur field (until then, the league statute did not give the player the right to play, as it made it impossible to change clubs during the current season). As a regular goalkeeper under the new coach Edmund Conen, Senftleben made a significant contribution to the immediate return to the northern German league. The Eintracht were superior champions in Lower Saxony and prevailed in the promotion round against the competitors VfL Wolfsburg , ASV Bergedorf 85 and VfR Neumünster . Senftleben is listed in the statistics in this round with 25 league and six promotion round games.

With the team from the stadium on Hamburger Straße, the blue-yellow lions, Senftleben took fourth place in 1953/54 . In his second league year he came in sixth with the blue and yellow lions. During these three rounds he was the undisputed regular goalkeeper in Braunschweig. In his third league round, 1955/56 , Eintracht fell back into midfield and Senftleben lost the regular place to Heinz Winneke , who made 18 league appearances. Senftleben played the last league game on March 18, 1956 in a 3: 4 home defeat in front of 25,000 spectators against the champions Hamburger SV , in whose ranks the trio of strikers with the brothers Seeler and Klaus Stürmer again provided a lot of goalkeeping work.

In total, the goalkeeper is led at Braunschweig with 63 Oberliga-Nord games.

literature

• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 28, 312.
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 363.
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 412.
• Horst Bläsig, Alex Leppert: A red lion on the chest. The story of Eintracht Braunschweig. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89533-675-1 , p. 79.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heinz Senftleben. (No longer available online.) Sport1.de, 2015, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved September 3, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The link is superfluous anyway, it contains the senseless information "without association" (for someone who has long since died!) And "strong foot", whatever that means