Helmut Lorenz (soccer player, 1923)

Helmut Lorenz (born March 18, 1923 ) was a football player in the GDR Oberliga . In the top division of the GDR soccer association , he played for the sports association Vorwärts Leipzig and the company sports community (BSG) Chemie Karl-Marx-Stadt .

Football career

Leipzig

When the GDR league started as a new substructure for the GDR upper league in GDR football in 1950 , the BSG Einheit Ost Leipzig was one of the founding teams. The 27-year-old Helmut Lorenz, who had previously played football in Bernsbach in the Ore Mountains , was also in their line-up. After Lorenz had reached third place with the BSG Einheit Ost in the southern relay of the GDR League, he joined the newly founded sports association Vorwärts Leipzig for the 1951/52 season. With this sports association, the foundation stone was laid for the sports center of the GDR security forces, from which the forward army sports club later developed. For political reasons completely unrelated to sport, SV Vorwärts Leipzig was incorporated into the league at the start of the 1951/52 football season, and so Lorenz got the opportunity to play first division football. On August 29, 1951, he was part of the Leipzig squad that played the first league game at SG VP Dresden and lost 6-1. In the course of the season, the SV Vorwärts received successively the additional names Volkspolizei and HVA . She was only 15th among 19 teams at the end of the season and only narrowly escaped relegation. During the season 1952/53 Lorenz had to live up to the competition from eight players poached by the league competitor Chemie Leipzig , so that he only belonged to the extended regular formation. At the beginning of 1953, the GDR Interior Ministry decided to relocate SV Vorwärts, which had meanwhile become the sports center of the barracked people's police , to East Berlin . From April 1953, the league team of SV Vorwärts KVP had to play their home games in East Berlin's Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark . For Lorenz and his teammates, this meant that they trained in Leipzig during the week and had to take the train to Berlin for the “home games”. After the SV Vorwärts was already in the area at risk of relegation at the time of the move to Berlin, they ended up in relegation position 14 at the end of the season.

Karl Marx City

After these adversities, Lorenz decided to return to his central Saxon homeland and after 32 league games with seven goals in the summer of 1953, he joined the GDR league club BSG Chemie Karl-Marx-Stadt. There he immediately had a regular place and played 22 of the 26 point games as a half-right striker and scored eight of the 59 Karl-Marx-Städter championship goals that helped the team to rise to the top division. At the beginning of his third league season in 1954/55, Lorenz was already 31 years old. After he had completed eleven of the 13 point games in the first half of the season, he was then only used twice in the major league. Lorenz played his last competitive game for the first team of BSG Chemie on March 27, 1955 when they met on the 23rd match day between SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt / Aue - Chemie Karl-Marx-Stadt (2-0) on the usual half right Attack side. It was his 35th league game appearance for BSG Chemie, for which he had scored eleven goals in these games. He then ended his career in competitive football.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 303.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 314, 324.

Web links

• Helmut Lorenz in the database of the German Football Association