Karl-Heinz Herrmann

Herrmann 1978

Karl-Heinz Herrmann (born March 25, 1954 ) was a football player in the GDR Oberliga . In the top division of the GDR Football Association , he played for 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig . In 1971 he was a member of the GDR junior national team.

Athletic career

Herrmann began his football career in 1960 with the company sports association (BSG) Empor in Röda in central Saxony . Eight years later, in 1968, he was delegated by the BSG Empor to the regional soccer center 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig. From the student team onwards, Herrmann went through all the other youth teams of the football club. As a junior player, he played two internationals with the GDR junior national team in 1971, scoring his only selection goal in the encounter between CSSR and GDR on September 26th in the 63rd minute with the GDR 2-0. During this time he completed an apprenticeship as an electrician. In 1974 he became champion of the junior league with 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig . He was usually used as a center forward and contributed seven goals to the league title. As early as 1972, the 1.71 m tall Herrmann played for the 2nd locomotive team in the second-rate GDR league . In 1973 he was Lok II's top scorer with ten goals. In the 1974/75 season he made his debut in the first team. Already on the first day of the league game he was in the match between Wismut Aue and 1. FC Lok (0-0) on August 24, 1974 as a center forward. On the 11th and 12th matchday he had two other short appearances. In November 1975 he was drafted into the army for 18 months. After his return, 1. FC Lok initially nominated him for his junior league team . Between the 16th and 26th league matchday, Herrmann also played eight times as a striker for the 1st team and came to three first division teams. He also played for the first in a cup game. For the 1978/79 season Herrmann was officially nominated for the first division team of 1. FC Lok, but he only came to eight first division games and scored only one goal. Of the seven cup games of the first team this season, Herrmann played four games in which he failed to score.

In the summer of 1979 he was given up to the GDR league club BSG activist Espenhain . Herrmann played there until the end of the GDR league season 1980/81, then returned to 1. FC Lok Leipzig and played two short appearances there on the 24th and 26th matchdays of the 1980/81 league season. For the season 1981/82 Lok Leipzig reported Herrmann again for his league team. After he was called up as a center forward on October 20, 1981 in the European Cup game 1. FC Lok Leipzig - FK Velež Mostar (1: 1), he was then only used between the 13th and 18th matchday in three league games, only in the third game as a left winger for the full length of the game. This encounter on March 20, 1982 (Forward Frankfurt - 1. FC Lok 1: 1) was also Herrmann's last competitive game for the 1st team of 1. FC Lok Leipzig. In five league seasons he had made 25 appearances and scored four goals. There were also five national cup games and the European Cup game, each without scoring.

From the 1982/83 season on, Herrmann played for BSG Chemie Ilmenau in the GDR league until the team was relegated to the district league in 1987. In 1986 he scored the most championship goals for Ilmenau with 13 goals. As a recreational footballer, he was later still active at BSG Traktor in Gräfinau-Angstedt .

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 205 (spelling: Hermann).
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .
• GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho : Issue of April 17, 1986 with a short biography