Jörg Ohm

Jörg Ohm 1973

Jörg Ohm (born March 14, 1944 in Haldensleben ; † May 22, 2020 ) was a German football player in the GDR Oberliga for Chemie Leipzig and 1. FC Magdeburg . The regular defender was GDR champion four times between 1964 and 1975.

Athletic career

Jörg Ohm's first stop on the eventful and successful path through GDR football was the Lokomotive company sports community in the then district town of Haldensleben, north of Magdeburg . There he went through the junior teams until he was delegated in 1962 by the central sports association Lokomotive to their main club SC Lokomotive Leipzig . This happened due to the fact that Ohm, with his good performance in Haldensleben, recommended himself for the junior national team and had completed four games there in the spring of 1962.

In 1963 the 1.79 m tall ohm belonged to the group of players who were assigned to the BSG Chemie Leipzig in the course of the reorganization of Leipzig football, the so-called "rest of Leipzig". The supposed top footballers were united in the future specially funded SC Leipzig . Surprisingly, however, a year later, Chemie Leipzig became GDR soccer champion, Ohm had played four point games that season and won his first title. He stayed with BSG Chemie until 1968, for which he was used in a total of 33 league point games. During this time, Chemie Leipzig won the Cup in 1966, but Ohm was not in the final team.

With the beginning of the football season 1968/69 Ohm was in the ranks of the first division team of 1. FC Magdeburg. At the end of this season the Magdeburg team won the GDR soccer cup, and this time Ohm was in the winning team. With two goals he was instrumental in the 4-0 victory over FC Karl-Marx-Stadt. This second title in Ohm's career was followed by three more successful seasons from 1972. He was in the championship squad of 1. FC Magdeburg in 1971/72 (7 point games), 1973/74 (3) and 1974/75 (3). Ohm was just as little involved in the 1973 Magdeburg Cup victory as in the grandiose victory in the 1974 European Cup Winners' Cup. In this successful international cup round, Ohm only played one game in the first round. The year 1974 was also the end point in Ohms Oberliga career. In the six years in Magdeburg, he had completed 78 league games and thus completed his overall balance on 111 first division appearances. He played for the second team of the FCM until 1976, after which Ohm, who had also been trained as a mechanical engineer, finally ended his career as an active football player. On September 10, 1976 he was adopted before the league game FCM - Hansa Rostock as an FCM player.

• Footballer career in numbers :
  • 111 league games in total
  • 33 league appearances for Chemie Leipzig
  • 78 league appearances for 1. FC Magdeburg
  • 5 European cup games for 1. FC Magdeburg
  • 4 games with the GDR junior national team
  • GDR soccer champions 1964, 1972, 1974, 1975

Immediately after his time as a soccer player, Ohm turned to coaching. In the summer of 1976 he took over the second division team Stahl Blankenburg , which he then led four times to second place and once to third place in the GDR league season C as ninth in the previous year. From 1981 to 1983 Ohm coached the GDR league club Lok Stendal for two seasons , but he had to relegate to the district league in 1983 under his direction. In the 1983/84 season, Ohm was a trainer at Chemie Ilmenau , but was not very successful there with 9th place. Further coaching stations for higher-class teams are not known. Ohm later settled back in his hometown of Haldensleben and got involved in the not far away 1. FC Lok Stendal , where he was a member of the board until 2006. In the same capacity, he also worked in the Altmark-Ost regional football association.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 346.

Web links

• Jörg Ohm in the database of the German Football Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The family's obituary in the Magdeburger Volksstimme on May 30, 2020