Karl-Heinz Holze

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Karl-Heinz Holze (born June 30, 1930 - June 11, 2000 ) was a German football player (GDR).

Athletic career

After the end of the Second World War, Holze joined the newly founded Sports Association of the People's Police (SG VP) Greifswald . At the age of 19, he moved to the state capital of Mecklenburg Schwerin in 1949 , also to the SG Volkspolizei, which played in the second-class state league that year.

In 1950, the Central Sports Association of the German People's Police, subordinate to the GDR Interior Ministry, was founded. Dresden was chosen as the football focus of the sports association , where the GDR runner-up SG Dresden-Friedrichstadt had just been smashed for political reasons. In the summer of 1950, the SV Dynamo gathered 40 players from the people's police communities of the entire GDR in Forst for sighting and put them together to form the team for the SG People's Police Dresden , which in the 1950/51 season took over the place of the SG Dresden-Friedrichstadt in the highest GDR league league took. One of the selected players was Karl-Heinz Holze, who was appointed team captain at the age of 20.

Holze played as a right winger and formed a successful attacking duo with Günter Schröter (later 39 times national player). Since a Kurt Holze also played at Dynamo until 1952, Karl-Heinz was listed as Holze II in the match reports. In their first league season, the new Dresden team scored 75 goals in 34 games and came fourth. After a 2nd place in 1951/52 , Dynamo Dresden was the dominant team in GDR football in the 1952/53 season and won both the championship and the GDR Cup ( FDGB Cup ). Holze played 31 of the 32 league games, scored 12 goals and was in the cup winners' XI. With his winning goal in the championship playoff against Wismut Aue (3-2) and his two goals in the cup final against Unity Pankow , he was instrumental in both successes. In the league season 1953/54 Holze again scored 12 goals and was the top scorer of his team, which this time came in third.

May 8, 1954 was the high point in Karl-Heinz Holze's football career. His outstanding performance in the Dresden team prompted national coach Siegert to use Holze in the international match against Romania. He played in his usual right wing position, but couldn't convince in the 1-0 defeat in Berlin.

The 1954/55 season began with seven wins from eleven games when, in mid-November 1954, SV Dynamo, completely surprisingly, ordered the league team to move from Dynamo Dresden to Berlin to the newly founded Dynamo sports club. On November 24, 1954, SC Dynamo Berlin played its first league game instead of Dynamo Dresden. At the end of the season, the Berliners landed on the less than glamorous 7th place. Together with Johannes Matzen, Holze was again the top scorer of his team with 13 goals. When SC Dynamo Berlin had to relegate from the league in 1956 , Holze had played 85 league games and scored 46 goals (44 players, 17 points for Berlin).

After relegation to the league, Holze returned to his hometown Greifswald in 1957 at the age of 26 and joined the third-class BSG unit . There, too, he continued to play in his traditional right wing position, quickly becoming the team's spiritus rector and the crowd's favorite. In his second season in Greifswald, he helped the Greifswald unit to rise to the first GDR league in 1958 . Decisive were his 32 goals, which he scored in the 26 point games. After the 1964/65 season, Holze said goodbye to active football at the age of 35 after completing around 200 point and cup games for Greifswald in eight years.

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SURNAME Holze, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player (GDR)
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1930
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 2000