Helmut Lipper

Helmut Lipper (born July 9, 1922 ) is a former German soccer player who played first division soccer in Erfurt between 1949 and 1952 .

Athletic career

After the end of the Second World War , Lipper began to play football for the Erfurt-West sports club. With his team he reached the semifinals of the Thuringian soccer championship in 1948 , but the Erfurt team were defeated by SG Sömmerda with 0-2. He then moved to local rivals Fortuna Erfurt , who qualified in 1949 for the soccer east zone championship. In the quarter-finals, Lipper made it 5-0 in a 10-0 win over SG Wismar-Süd . The SG Fortuna made it into the final, which however was lost with 1: 4 against the ZSG Union Halle and took place without Lipper.

As a runner-up, Erfurt had qualified for participation in the first season of the newly introduced East German soccer zone league (later DS-Oberliga, GDR-Oberliga ). This season, in which Erfurt competed as BSG KWU, Lipper played for the first time on the third match day and also scored his first league goal. At the end of the season, he had completed 17 matches of the 26 league games played and scored six goals. Then Lipper stood with his team in the final of the GDR soccer cup . For the 1950/51 season, the Erfurt team was now called BSG Turbine, Lipper was used from the start, but then had numerous failures, so that he could complete only 16 of the 34 point games. This time he scored five goals, of which he scored three in the match on the 17th matchday between Turbine Erfurt and Stahl Altenburg (5: 1). At the end of the season Turbine Erfurt had to play a decisive game for the championship against BSG Chemie Leipzig , as both teams were tied at the top of the table. With Lipper as a left winger, Erfurt lost 2-0.

In 1951/52, the 29-year-old Lipper was there again from the first day of play, but again had numerous compulsory breaks and thus only made 15 appearances and only one goal in the mammoth season with 36 point games. On May 1, 1952, he played his last league game in the encounter on the penultimate match day Stahl Thale-Turbine Erfurt (5-0). It was his 48th championship game in three seasons, in which he had scored twelve goals.

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. 299.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 28, 311.

Web links

• Profile at weltfussball.de