Horst Weigang

Horst Weigang
Personnel
place of birth	Langenbielau ,  German Empire
size	185 cm
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
1952-1954	BSG Medicine Leipzig Center
1954-1958	SC Lokomotive Leipzig
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1959-1960	SC Lokomotive Leipzig	13 0(0)
1961–1962	SC Turbine Erfurt	25 0(0)
1962-1967	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	92 0(0)
1967-1973	FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt	119 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1958-1959	GDR U-18	10 0(0)
1964	DDR Olympia	1 0(0)
1962-1968	GDR	12 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Horst Weigang (born September 30, 1940 in Langenbielau , Silesia ) was a German football goalkeeper in the GDR Oberliga for Leipzig and Erfurt. He was in the goal of the GDR national soccer team twelve times .

Athletic career

Horst Weigang began his footballing career in 1952 at Medicine Leipzig Mitte before moving to SC Lokomotive Leipzig in 1954 . In addition to his football involvement, he was trained as a fitter at the Deutsche Reichsbahn . In 1961/62 he played for Turbine Erfurt for one season before moving back to Leipzig. There he was active until 1967 at 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig and its predecessor clubs SC Rotation and SC Leipzig . In 1965 he was voted footballer of the year in the GDR.

In 1967 he moved again to Thuringia and played for FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt until 1973 . Weigang played a total of 234 league games for Erfurt and Leipzig. In the 1971/72 season he played 10 games in the second-class league for RWE and shared the goal with the newcomer Wolfgang Benkert in this season also in the successful promotion round . Klaus Reßler , who became a regular in the second half of the season, and Benkert fought for a place in the Erfurter Tor in the following season , while Weigang only played four games shortly before the winter break in his final year.

Weigang's international career began in March 1958 in the junior national team . With her he played a total of ten games. After six more games with the youth team and an assignment in the B national team, he made his debut in the GDR national team on November 21, 1962 in Berlin in a 2-1 win against Czechoslovakia . By 1967 he played a total of 12 international matches for the GDR. His greatest success was winning the bronze medal with the all-German team , represented by the selection of the GDR , at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo . He was used in the preliminary round match against Mexico in place of the goalkeeper Jürgen Heinsch . Weigang was also active on the international stage for the Leipzig colors: In addition to four games for the city selection of the trade fair metropolis, he was in goal for 1. FC Lok Leipzig in twelve other European Cup games .

After the active career

After his active career, Horst Weigang worked in the coaching staff of Rot-Weiß Erfurt. Further stations as a trainer were Motor Weimar , Motor Eisenach , Motor Rudisleben (1980/81), Motor Gotha and Post Erfurt. Furthermore, Horst Weigang worked as a teacher for social law and as a sports teacher in what was then chemical and plant engineering in Erfurt-Rudisleben. Horst Weigang and his son Sven have been running a soccer school in Kleinmachnow since 2000 .

Trivia

His daughter Birte became a successful swimmer and won the gold medal in the GDR's 4 × 100 m individual relay at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul . His son Sven Weigang was also a goalkeeper and played among others for BSG Stahl Riesa in the GDR Oberliga and for Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin in the 2nd Bundesliga.

literature

• Andreas Baingo , Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .
• Michael Horn, Gottfried Weise : The great lexicon of GDR football. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-536-8 .
• Lorenz Knierim, Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Lexicon of players 1890-1963 . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , page 411.
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 .
• Hanns Leske : The GDR league players. A lexicon . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-392-9 , page 567.
• Hanns Leske : Magnets for leather balls. Goalkeeper of the GDR . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-368-4 , pages 238-240.

Web links

• Horst Weigang in the database of weltfussball.de
• Horst Weigang in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Horst Weigang in the database of the German Football Association
• Horst Weigang's league games season after season in the RSSSF archive. Accessed on September 26, 2012.