Heinz Steinborn

Heinz Steinborn (front) 1965

Heinz Steinborn (born March 15, 1940 ) was a football player in the top division of GDR football, the Oberliga . He played there for SC Chemie Halle and 1. FC Magdeburg .

Change between Dessau, Neubrandenburg and Berlin

Steinborn began his football career with the small company sports club BSG Motor Süd in Dessau and was later taken over by BSG Motor Dessau . When he joined the " National People's Army " in 1959 , he moved to the army sports community Vorwärts Neubrandenburg and played there until the end of the 1962/63 season, in the last two years in the second-rate GDR league . Vorwärts Neubrandenburg belonged to the system of the central army sports association Vorwärts , whose focus club ASK Vorwärts Berlin received the best football players from the territorial army sports communities. So the Neubrandenburg delegated their talented midfielder Steinborn in the summer of 1963 to ASK. The hopes associated with Steinborn were not fulfilled, however, he was never used in the Berlin league team. Steinborn was discharged from the army in November 1963 and returned to BSG Motor Dessau, where he played again in the GDR league until the end of the 1964/65 season.

A league season in Halle

He then made another attempt to gain a foothold in the major league and joined the region’s main sport club, the SC Chemie Halle . His soccer team had just been promoted to the league and was looking for an experienced player in Steinborn, who is now 25. He lived up to expectations from the start and developed into a versatile player who played in the 20 league missions of the 1965/66 season as a striker as well as in midfield and in defense.

Via Eisenhüttenstadt to Magdeburg

Surprisingly, Steinborn left the Halle club after a year and followed the recruitment of the GDR league representative BSG Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt , who tried to put together a team suitable for the top division. After Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt had missed his goal to rise to fourth place at the end of the 1966/67 season, Steinborn moved to 1. FC Magdeburg , who had made it to the league instead of Eisenhüttenstadt. The driving force was, among others, Steinborn's former trainer in Halle, Heinz Krügel , who now trained the Magdeburg team. He visited Steinborn personally in Eisenhüttenstadt and persuaded him to move to the Elbe. Steinborn was used from the beginning of the 1967/68 season in the FCM's league team and played 21 league games as a permanent midfielder in his first season in Magdeburg. Until 1970 Steinborn was part of the team at 1. FC Magdeburg. In the meantime, however, having turned 30, he was increasingly ousted from his position by younger players like Gaube and Sykora , and so Steinborn played his last league point game on October 3, 1970 in the encounter between FC Dynamo and 1. FC Magdeburg (2: 1) . Then he was used for some time in the 2nd team of the FCM, with which he rose in the summer of 1971 in the GDR league. Even after his time as an active football player, he remained true to his sport. At the age of almost 60, he was still coaching the state division club SV 09 Staßfurt . He still resides in Magdeburg. FCM supporters dedicated a stone to Heinz Steinborn in a building block campaign for the new Magdeburg stadium .

Suspicious wanderer

With his frequent changes, Steinborn clearly falls outside the framework of GDR sports policy. Changes of football players were usually only usual as delegations from lower-class communities to the priority clubs or upper-league company sports communities. Changes within the league were usually only carried out if it was beneficial to the national team. When Steinborn moved to 1. FC Magdeburg in 1967, it was the eighth station of his career, commented Joachim Pfitzner, sports editor of the "central organ" of the GDR state party SED ( New Germany ) the process as follows:

“Heinz Steinborn is now playing in Magdeburg. The ex-Dessauer developed into a 'wanderer', as the footballers say. After his military service - during which time he played in Neubrandenburg and Berlin - he returned to Motor Dessau. It didn't last long there, however. During the season he moved to Halleschen FC Chemie. After 12 months he packed his things again and traveled to Eisenhüttenstadt. And now, almost a quarter of a year after he was defeated 0: 5 with Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt in the decisive game for the league promotion in Magdeburg, he turned away from BSG Stahl and turned to Magdeburg. Mind you, we are not concerned with grudging anybody with a player or telling a football player where to play. We are concerned with an appeal to conscience, to morality. The attitude to pick the best raisins from the cake everywhere does not go hand in hand with our lifestyle. Steinborn did that up to now, and in Magdeburg they now hopefully know about the additional educational task. "

- New Germany July 31, 1967

Note: The statements about the move from Dessau to Halle are incorrect. In fact, Steinborn did not move to Halle until the end of the 1964/65 season, and the club was still SC Chemie at the time.

statistics

• All league games and goals
  • 1965/66: SC Chemie Halle, 20 games, 6 goals
  • 1967/68: 1. FC Magdeburg, 21 games
  • 1968/69: 1. FC Magdeburg, 16 games, 1 goal
  • 1969/70: 1. FC Magdeburg, 16 games
  • 1970/71: 1. FC Magdeburg, 02 games

literature

• German sport echo : born 1950–1990. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 473
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 320, 333.
• DFSF (Ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 8). Berlin 2011

Web links

• Heinz Steinborn in the database of the German Football Association