Johannes Breitenstein

Johannes "Hanno" Breitenstein (born March 30, 1918 , † November 3, 1986 ) was a football player in Gera and Zwickau . With the Planitzer SC he played in the Gauliga , with Horch / Motor Zwickau in the GDR Oberliga , each of the highest football classes. With SG Planitz he was East Zone Master, with Horch Zwickau GDR Master.

As a 14-year-old, Breitenstein played football in Gera-Pforten . In 1933 he joined FC Wacker Gera and in the summer of 1938 moved to the Gauliga Sachsen for Planitzer SC. With the Planitzer SC he was Gaumeister in 1942 and played all three games of the final round of the German championship up to the quarter-finals. In the finals he was called up to attack and scored one goal in both the qualifying round and the quarter-finals. In 1943 he was called up for military service and his football career was interrupted for five years.

After the end of World War II, Breitenstein returned to Planitz , where the Planitzer SC had been dissolved in 1946. He was one of the players who promoted the rebuilding of football with the Sportgemeinschaft Planitz. On July 4, 1948 he was with SG Planitz as a right half-forward in the final of the 1st East Zone Championship , which the Planitz won 1-0. In 1949 the SG was taken over by the Horch automobile plant and converted into the ZSG Horch Zwickau. In the Saxon championship she only reached fourth place and had to play three qualifying games against the Thuringian team SG Zeiss Jena for participation in the first season of the German sports committee's upper league (1: 1, 2: 2, 5: 1).

In 1950, in the new, highest East German soccer class, the Zwickauers won the GDR's first soccer championship title. Among the master's players was Johannes Breitenstein, who played 21 of the 26 point games played in that 1949/50 season and scored a goal. He played until 1954 for the Zwickau, who started as BSG Motor from 1950, in the league and ended his career as a football player in 1955 at the age of 37. In his six league years he played 122 point games in which he scored eight goals. In the state selection of Saxony he came to six missions, in 1951 he was part of the 30-man squad of the unofficial GDR selection team.

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 .