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Henry Weißkopf (born September 17, 1935 ) is a former German football player. From 1956 to 1965 he played for the company sports community (BSG) Lokomotive Stendal in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football .

Athletic career

Henry Weißkopf began his career as a football player at BSG Lok Röblingen in the Mansfeld region . In 1953 he moved to the BSG activist Amsdorf , where he last played in the third-class Halle district league . From there he went to the 1956 season (calendar year game rhythm) to the upper division Lok Stendal, where he played twelve of the remaining thirteen point games as a defender in the second half of the season instead of Dieter Tanneberger, who was eliminated . In the following 1957 season, Weißkopf played in all 26 league games, but rose with the Lok team at the end of the season in the second-rate GDR league . In the GDR league season 1958 he was used in 23 of the 26 point games and scored twice as a defender. Lok Stendal rose again immediately, but in the following seasons developed into an elevator team between first and second class. So Weißkopf had to play twice in the GDR league in 1960 and 1962/63 (since 1961 again in the autumn-spring rhythm). It was not until 1963 that the BSG locomotive was able to establish itself in the top league in the long term. Weißkopf had meanwhile been converted to midfielder, but had maintained his regular place. After he had completed another successful season in 1963/64 with 21 matches and two goals, he was only able to play twelve matches in the first half of the season in the 1964/65 season. In 1965/66 Weisskopf played his last season for Lok Stendal's 1st team. He was only used in four league games in the first half of the season and also missed the final of the GDR soccer cup , in which the Lok team lost 1-0 to Chemie Leipzig . Until 1968 he was still active in the second team of the BSG Lok Stendal in the fourth class district class Magdeburg . Then he returned to Amsdorf , worked in the neighboring potash works Teutschenthal , initially played as a recreational footballer for the lower-class BSG activist Teutschenthal, where he later also acted as a trainer.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1953–1968. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 519.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 342.
• DFSF (Ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 8). Berlin 2011.

Web links

• Henry Weißkopf in the database of the German Football Association
• Interview at mansfelder-seen.de