Horst Oettler

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Horst Oettler (left) 1956

Horst Oettler (born February 28, 1923 in Zwickau ; † December 6, 2007 ) was a soccer player in Kassel , Osnabrück and Zwickau, where he always played in the top soccer class. As a trainer, he won the GDR soccer cup with Motor Zwickau in 1967 .

Athletic career

Oettler's football career began relatively late because of the Second World War. It was only when regular football matches could be resumed in Germany that Oettler was deployed in the SG Zwickau-Mitte . He worked there in August 1945 in the first post-war derby against SG Zwickau-Nord (3-0) and scored the first goal before Herbert Heinze let the other two follow. Oettler also contributed to the success in the city game Berlin against Zwickau (2: 4) on September 21, 1946.

From 1947 he played at KSV Hessen Kassel in the Hessian amateur league. After 50 matches, he joined the upper division VfL Osnabrück at the beginning of the 1949/50 season and became a contract player . In 1950 and 1952 he reached the finals of the German championship with VfL. For Osnabrück, Oettler played 119 games in the Oberliga Nord and scored seven goals as a defender and midfielder. After the end of the 1952/53 season, Oettler returned for a year and a half to KSV Hessen Kassel, which had just been promoted to the Oberliga Süd . After Kassel had managed to stay in the league with 13th place in his first league season, Oettler played the first half of the 1954/55 season and thus came back to 29 league games. He then moved to the GDR , where he joined the GDR upper division Motor Zwickau in his hometown . The 32-year-old had no problems adapting to the level of the top GDR soccer class. Between 1955 and 1959 he was used in 92 out of 130 possible point games of the Zwickau league team. With his experience of 148 first division games in the German upper leagues, Oettler played a key role in ensuring that Motor Zwickau, although often playing on the verge of relegation, always managed to stay in the league during his time and became the best company sports community in the upper league in the last three years of his participation .

After Oettler ended his career as a soccer player at the age of 36 at the end of 1959, he switched to coaching. For several years he coached the company sports club Lokomotive Zwickau in the fourth and third class district league . When the GDR Cup winner from 1963, Oettler's former Motor Zwickau team, barely saved himself from relegation during the following season, Oettler's former coach Karl Dittes was dismissed and replaced by Horst Oettler. However, he initially remained head coach for only one year, although he had led Zwickau from twelve in the previous year to eighth place in the 1964/65 season. He was replaced by Heinz Werner , who was inexperienced in the Oberliga , who in turn only finished the 1965/66 season with Motor Zwickau in tenth place. As a result, Oettler was brought back as head coach in the summer of 1966. Oettler crowned the 1966/67 season with the greatest success of his football career. On April 30, 1967, his team won the final of the GDR soccer cup 3-0 over FC Hansa Rostock. After this high point in his career, Oettler left his coaching career of his own free will at the age of 44. He worked as a physical education teacher at the Dittesschule in Zwickau-Pölbitz until the end of the 1980s .

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  1. ↑ Obituary: http://familienangebote.genealogy.net/detailstod.php?ID=879474&PID=846
  2. ↑ Peschke, Norbert / Völkel, Dieter: The history of FSV Zwickau from wasp stings and heaps of heaps, Zwickau 2012, page 126 and another team photo on page 127
  3. ↑ IFFHS (ed.): Libero No. 4, autumn 1989, p. 43 f.
personal data
SURNAME Oettler, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 2007