Joachim Vogel (soccer player)

Joachim Vogel (born March 4, 1931 ; † 1984 ) was a football player in Lauter, western Saxony . He started at SG Limbach / Sa. in the youth department with soccer. With the BSG Empor Lauter he played from 1952 to 1954 in the DS-Oberliga , the top division in GDR football . He then moved to Dynamo Dresden. Due to an injury, he ended his footballing career early.

Athletic career

After the end of the Second World War, Vogel was one of the athletes who revived football in Lauter in the Ore Mountains after SV Viktoria was broken up with SG Lauter. In 1950 he experienced the establishment of the company sports community (BSG) Freiheit Wismut Lauter and its renaming in 1951 to BSG Empor. With the founding of the DS-Liga in the 1950/51 season, he played with BSG Freiheit Wismut in the 2nd league of GDR football and was one of the players in the BSG Empor in 1951/52, who promoted promotion to the highest GDR football class, the DS-Oberliga, made it. Although he played only 16 matches as a center forward of the 22 championship games of the promotion season, he was the top scorer of the Lauterer with 12 goals and thus significantly involved in the promotion. When the league championship against BSG Motor Jena was won at the end of the season , Vogel was involved in all four finals (1-0, 1: 5, 0-0 afterwards, 3-0).

In 1952/53 Empor Lauter started the first league season with the new coach Walter Fritzsch . Even under Fritzsch, Vogel was only 21 years old and played in his traditional position as a center forward from day one. He played 29 of the 32 championship games, was again the Lauterer's best shooter with 12 goals and landed on rank 10 of the top division shooting list. With 10th place out of 17 teams, the West Saxony safely managed to stay in the league. The new coach Heinz Pönert initially renounced Vogel at the beginning of the 1953/54 season. It was not until the 12th championship game that Vogel returned to the team and played 12 championship games by the end of the season.

In the first championship games of the 1954/55 season, Vogel played four point games under coach Oswald Pfau . When, in November 1954, most of the players from Empor Lauter switched to the new Empor Rostock sports club and the Lauterer football section ceased operations, Vogel ended his career as a football player in the performance area. During his league time between 1952 and 1954 he had played 45 point games and scored 20 goals.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 .
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .
• GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho. Born 1952 to 1954.