Horst Walter (soccer player)

Horst Walter
Personnel
birthday	July 2, 1939
date of death	July 22, 2015
Place of death	Dresden ,  Germany
position	Winger
Juniors
Years	station
	BSG tractor Oberbobritzsch
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1957-1963	SC unit Dresden	109 (15)
1963-1966	SC Chemie Halle / Hallescher FC Chemie	79 (23)
1966-1969	SG Dynamo Dresden	45 (1)
1969-1972	SG Dynamo Dresden II
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1962	GDR	1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Horst Walter (born July 2, 1939 in Oberbobritzsch ; † July 22, 2015 in Dresden ) was a German soccer player who played an international match for the GDR national soccer team .

Athletic career

At the age of 18, Walter, who had started playing soccer at BSG Traktor in Oberbobritzsch and learned to be a blacksmith there, was already part of the senior division of SC Einheit Dresden in 1957 . While in the early 1950s Dresden with the SG Dynamo and the BSG Rotation (the forerunner of the SC unit) was always represented with two teams in the GDR Oberliga, now only the SC unit played in the top football class of the GDR. The team had mostly placed in the top third of the league in recent years, but now needed a replacement for the aging strikers Harry Arlt (* 1926) and Heinz Nicklich (* 1927). Walter quickly won a regular place on the right attacking side and with his playful qualities also recommended himself for international assignments. After 10 games in the junior national team, 3 internationals with the junior national team and appearances in the B team, he was called to his only A international match on May 16, 1962. In the encounter against Yugoslavia in Belgrade, he was called up for half-time as a right-winger. Walter celebrated his only title win in 1958 when he won the GDR Cup . In the 2-1 final against SC Lok Leipzig on December 14, 1958, he worked as a half-right striker of SC Einheit Dresden. After winning the cup, however, the Dresdeners started a serious downward trend, which ended after the 1961/62 season with relegation to the GDR league . For one season, Walter joined the SC unit in the second division, but then moved to SC Chemie Halle , which had finished the 1962/63 season with sixth place in the major league. For Einheit Dresden Walter had completed 88 games in the league in six years and scored 16 goals.

With Günter Busch, who had ended his active career, the Halle residents replaced their most successful goalscorer in recent years and found a hopeful successor in Horst Walter. Walter's engagement in Halle was initially disappointing, because his first season in Halle ended again in 1964 with relegation to the GDR league. With a convincing performance, however, with the record number of goals since the introduction of the two-track GDR league in 1962 of 78 goals in 30 games, the immediate rise was achieved. In the new league season 1965/66 Walter was the best attacker of his team with nine goals, which now took on as Hallescher FC Chemie. With his goals, Walter shot his way up to 5th place on the Oberliga top scorer list. After playing 51 times in the Oberliga in Halle and scoring 12 goals, he then moved back to his home in Dresden.

Since his old unit team, now devalued as FSV Lokomotive , had drifted into the lower regions of the second-rate GDR league, Horst Walter joined SG Dynamo Dresden, which had established itself in the top division since 1964 with an increasing tendency. His hopes of being able to participate in top-class football in the last few years of his football career were initially confirmed with fourth place in the 1966/67 season . All the greater was the disappointment after the sudden drop in the following season , when Dynamo also had to go into the second division after 13th place. But just as before with Halle, Walter also managed to get back on track with Dynamo Dresden. There was no other league season for Horst Walter, because at the age of 30 he was only used in the 2nd team. Here he was available until 1972, after which he ended his active career. At Dynamo Dresden he was used again in 40 league games, so that he came to a total of 179 league appearances in the course of his career, in which he scored 29 goals.

After his career as a footballer, Walter was groundskeeper at Dynamo Dresden for many years . He died on July 22, 2015 after a long and serious illness in the Dresden-Friedrichstadt hospital .

Career at a glance

Oberliga / GDR League
1957-1963	Oberliga	SC unit Dresden	88 games, 16 goals
1962/63	GDR League	SC unit Dresden	21 games, 6 goals
1963/64 1965/66	Oberliga	SC Chemie Halle / Hallescher FC Chemie	51 games, 12 goals
1964/65	GDR League	SC Chemistry Hall	28 games, 11 goals
1966-1968	Oberliga	SG Dynamo Dresden	40 games, 1 goal
1968/69	GDR League	SG Dynamo Dresden	5 games, 0 goals
1969-1972	District League, GDR League	SG Dynamo Dresden II

International
	Junior national team	10 games, 4 goals
	Junior national team	3 games
	B national team	4 games
1962	A national team	1 game

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 512.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 306-307, 320.
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .
• GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho . Born 1957 to 1972

Web links

• Horst Walter in the database of the German Football Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dynamo Dresden mourns Horst Walter. Former SGD player and long-time groundskeeper died on Wednesday. www.dynamo-dresden.de, July 22, 2015, accessed on July 22, 2015 .