Karl-Heinz Ilsch

Karl-Heinz Ilsch (born April 21, 1927 ; † 2005 ) is a former soccer player who played in Dessau in the top GDR soccer class and played a game for the GDR national team.

Karl-Heinz Ilsch played his first football games in the men's field with the lower class team of Union Koethen. At the beginning of the football season 1950/51, he moved to the company sports association (BSG) Motor Dessau , which in 1949 was still the first FDGB cup winner under the name Waggonbau Dessau and had finished the first GDR league season with third place. At the side of experienced soccer players such as goalkeeper Wolfgang Klank , stopper Paul Breitmann, director Heinz Matthies and his storm colleagues Rolf Theile and Werner Welzel , the 23-year-old quickly matured into a valuable regular player in Dessau. In his second Dessau season 1951/52 Ilsch was the top scorer of his team with 19 goals.

After Klank and Welzel had already come to missions in the GDR national team in 1952, Ilsch was used on June 14, 1953 in the encounter with Bulgaria in the national team in the position of left winger. The game in Dresden ended 0-0, and Ilsch was replaced in the second half by Leipzig's Lothar Vetterke . Since later Günther Wirth prevailed on the left wing position, it remained for Ilsch with the one international assignment.

In the meantime, the Motor Dessau team had passed the peak of their performance. In the 1952/53 season she was able to place herself in 6th place in the upper third of the league, but in 1954 she had to relegate after a turbulent season as the penultimate. At times, Ilsch was the focus here. On the one hand, with his 13 goals, he had again proven to be the most accurate shooter of his team, on the other hand, he was dropped after being sent off for the last two point games that were decisive for relegation. Before that, he was one of the group of players who had openly rebelled against the training methods of coach Walter Fritzsch . This earned him a six-month suspension with six other players.

After relegation, Ilsch was one of the few regular players who remained loyal to Motor Dessau. When Ilsch retired from active football in 1963, his Dessau team was only third-rate. From 1950 to 1954 Ilsch had played 108 points games for Dessau in the league and scored 57 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 .
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .