Horst Jura

Horst Jura (born March 16, 1937 in Plauen ; † October 4, 2000 there ) was a football player in the GDR Oberliga for Motor / Sachsenring Zwickau from 1958 to 1968 . He won the GDR soccer cup twice and was a B and young national player.

As a six-year-old student, Horst Jura began playing football for the small club VfB Plauen in 1943. The end of the Second World War and the post-war period interrupted his football activities. It was not until 1947 that VfB, which had since been disbanded by the Soviet occupying power, was re-established as SG Plauen Nord, later replaced by the BSG Empor Plauen. Jura played there until 1956, finished his apprenticeship as a car mechanic and at the beginning of the 1957 season switched to local rivals Wismut Plauen , who played in the then fourth-class district league Karl-Marx-Stadt . Just one year later, at the beginning of the 1958 season, the top division Motor Zwickau took over the talented striker.

Horst Jura was also brought into the spotlight to those responsible for the GDR youth selection. On June 28, 1958, he was used for the first time in an international match of the youth national team (GDR - Poland 3: 3). If he was a substitute in the first game, he was there from the start in the following game against Romania (1-0). On May 1, 1959, Jura played his third and last junior international game against Hungary (0-2), in which he was exchanged for Werner Drews from Rostock . His last international selection game was on April 15, 1961, the B international game GDR - Hungary (0: 1), where he came on for Helmut Müller from Jena .

In Zwickau, Jura had meanwhile grown into a regular player. On May 1, 1963, he celebrated his first major success as a center forward with the 3-0 victory over Chemie Zeitz in the final of the GDR soccer cup. He was able to repeat this title win on April 30, 1967 with the 3-0 victory over Hansa Rostock , this time as a central midfielder. After twelve years, Jura said goodbye to the GDR Oberliga, in which he had played 252 point games for Zwickau. This puts him in 6th place in the Zwickau ranking. With its 58 league league goals, Jura ranks third in Zwickau. In addition to the league games took Jura on all four games of the Zwickau in the European Cup in part in 1963 and the 1967th

After his career as an active soccer player, Horst Jura worked as a coach. First he worked at the Zwickau training center, then from 1971 to 1973 as a coach for the Sachsenring Zwickau junior team. He then coached Union Freiberg's regional league team from 1973 to 1980, and from 1980 to 1982 he was a coach at Motor Brand-Langenau .

In 1986 Jura returned to Plauen, where he died on October 4, 2000 of complications from lung cancer.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 .
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .