Horst Bartholomew

Horst Bartholomäus (born November 23, 1927 ) is a former German football player. From 1951 to 1958 he played in the GDR Oberliga , the highest league in GDR football .

Athletic career

In the 1948/49 season, the sports association of the German People's Police Potsdam took part in the Brandenburg state football class for the first time and won the Brandenburg Football Cup. The team's squad also included the 21-year-old Horst Bartholomäus. In 1950 the new second-rate GDR league was introduced, for which the Potsdam People's Police qualified. In the GDR league season 1950/51 the SG VP was the relay winner, to which Bartholomäus had contributed as a midfielder in all 18 point games with a goal. The relay championship was decided in a playoff against the tied table runner-up Anker Wismar , which the Potsdam team lost 1: 2 with the help of center runner Bartholomäus.

For the 1951/52 season, Horst Bartholomäus was delegated to the newly founded sports association Volkspolizei Vorwärts Leipzig (from April 27, 1952 SVgg Vorwärts Head Office Training). With that he had the pleasure of playing in the GDR-Oberliga in the future, because the SVgg was integrated there without any athletic qualifications. The league was played in this season with 19 teams and that had to play 36 games. Bartholomäus played all the games in which he was used by coach Heinz Krügel 25 times as a middle runner and in between as a right defender. In May 1952, in preparation for two unofficial country comparisons with Hungary , Bartholomew received an invitation to a training course for the B-team, but the participation had no consequences. In the 1952/53 season, Bartholomäus only completed the first seven league games.

In the summer of 1953 Bartholomäus returned to Potsdam and joined the Babelsberger Vorstadt- Betriebsportgemeinschaft (BSG) Rotation Babelsberg , which was also represented in the upper league. While he was used in only two league games in 1953/54, he was able to increase his number of uses in 26 league games to 19 matches in 1954/55, where he was always used as a central defender. Bartholomäus also occupied this position in the following three seasons, in which he was missing only four times in 65 league games. He played his last league season for Rotation Babelsberg in 1958 (calendar year season) at the age of 31 with just six missions. After that he was no longer represented in higher-class football elsewhere.

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. 61.
• Andreas Baingo , Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 292.
• DSFS (ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 8). Berlin 2011, p. 128.

Web links

• Horst Bartholomäus in the database of the German Football Association
• Horst Bartholomäus in the database of weltfussball.de