Horst Weißhaupt

Horst Weißhaupt (born July 23, 1949 in Sangerhausen ) was a German football player in the GDR . For FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt , he played in the top soccer class of the GDR soccer association , the Oberliga . His twin brother Jörg Weißhaupt was also a soccer player.

Athletic career

Horst Weißhaupt began his football career at the age of ten with the company sports association (BSG) Aufbau in Kelbra . From 1969 to 1971 he played with Lok / Vorwärts Halberstadt and in the 1971/72 season with BSG Motor Nordhausen West . Both in Halberstadt and in Nordhausen he played in the second-rate GDR league .

At the beginning of the 1972/73 football season, he and his twin brother were delegated to the regional football focus, FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt, which had just been promoted to the major league. Horst Weißhaupt was used in the league from the start of the season. His first league game was the match between FC Rot-Weiß and Sachsenring Zwickau (0-3), in which he was called up as a right winger in the first half. The 1.77 m tall Weißhaupt played this position most often by the end of the season, and with 24 stakes in the game he had immediately established himself as a regular player. Together with Rüdiger Schnuphase he was also Erfurt's top scorer with nine goals. In the 1973/74 season alone, five goals were enough to become the Red-Whites' best shooter. With 13 goals, Weißhaupt landed in 1974/75 as the best Erfurt goalscorer in fourth place on the Oberliga scorers list. This season he also managed to play all 26 point games for the first time. In the 1975/76 season he was the top scorer at Rot-Weiß Erfurt for the last time with ten goals. In September 1975 he played his only youth international match. In a qualifier for the European youth championship against Belgium (1: 2) he was used as a center forward. Although Weißhaupt had already switched back to Motor Nordhausen at the beginning of the 1977/78 season, the Erfurt club brought him back to his league team at the end of the season. He was used again as a striker in four games, in which he once again proved his scoring risk with four goals. After the now six league seasons, Horst Weißhaupt had played a total of 114 point games and thus left his brother Jörg, who had made 82 league appearances, well behind. With 45 goals, he was the most dangerous player at Rot-Weiß Erfurt between 1972 and 1978.

At the age of 28, Horst Weißhaupt and his brother left the league in the summer of 1977 in order to play for Motor Nordhausen again in the second-rate GDR league. Despite his intermittent interlude at Rot-Weiß Erfurt, he became top scorer in the GDR league with 23 goals in the 1977/78 season together with Rainer Jarohs from Rostock . In 1978/79 he scored 16 goals and was the best shooter at Motor Nordhausen. He was able to repeat this success in 1980, 1982 and 1983. From 1983 Weißhaupt was a regular midfielder, in 1984 he moved back to the defense and in 1985 he ended his career as a football player at Motor Nordhausen.

Horst Weißhaupt stayed with Nordhausen football even after his football career. After 2000 he was still working at the BSG-Motor successor club Wacker as a coach of the 2nd team and in the junior division. Until 2009 he was a coach at the district league team Aufbau Sundhausen.

literature

• 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 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 312.
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .
• GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho , short biography, January 26, 1978

Web links

• Horst Weißhaupt in the database of the German Football Association