Karl Drößler

Karl Drößler (born February 16, 1937 in Hohengandern ) is a former German football player. In the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football , he played for SC Lokomotive Leipzig and 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig . He is a multiple B national player. After his soccer career he worked as a biologist, from 1992 to 2002 Drößler was Professor of Animal Physiology at the University of Leipzig .

Athletic career

National

Until 1955, Karl Drößler played football for the company sports community (BSG) Einheit Heiligenstadt . From 1956 (calendar year season) to 1958 Drößler belonged to the squad of the district league team of the university sports association of the Leipzig German University of Physical Culture ( HSG DHfK Leipzig ). When the team was relegated from the district league in 1958, Drößler moved to the top division SC Lokomotive Leipzig at the age of 22. There he was used on the 1st match day of the 1959 season in the league team. After initial attempts in midfield, Drößler was mainly called up as a center forward during the season and was used in 18 of the 26 point games played. Since he had not shown the hoped-for effect with his three goals, coach Alfred Kunze Drößler returned to midfield in the 1960 season, where he played all 26 league games. In the following season, which ran over 39 game days because of the transition from the calendar year season to the summer-spring rhythm, Drößler was set to the position of right midfielder in 1961/62 and was only absent in three point games. Before SC Lokomotive merged with SC Rotation Leipzig to form SC Leipzig in 1963 , Drößler continued to play as a midfielder in all 26 league games in 1962/63.

In the course of the merger, the soccer players of both clubs were reallocated. The supposedly best players, including Karl Drößler, were assigned to SC Leipzig, while the rest were brought together in BSG Chemie Leipzig . Both the SC and the BSG continued to play in the big leagues. The new coach at SC Leipzig was Rudolf Krause , who also stuck to Drößler as a midfielder in the newly formed team in the 1963/64 season. Contrary to what was expected, SC Leipzig lagged behind BSG Chemie, dubbed the “rest of Leipzig”. While the BSG surprisingly became champions, the club had to be content with third place. Drößler was involved with 24 of 26 point games. The SC players could not compensate for the defeat against their local rivals in the cup competition either. They reached the final, but were defeated there with Drößler in the right midfield to SC Aufbau Magdeburg 2: 3. During this season Drößler had to cope with several failures and was absent for the first time since 1960 in six league games.

For the 1965/66 season, the SC Leipzig received a new coach in Günter Konzack . Also under him, Karl Drößler played in midfield, where he was used on both the right and left. Halfway through the season, the soccer section of SC Leipzig was spun off to the newly founded 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig. Even under the new coach Hans Studener , Drößler remained midfielder in the 1966/67 and 1967/68 seasons. While he had always been a regular with only a few failures, 1968/69 indicated the end of his career. In the first half of the season Drößler was only able to play three point games, but was then used in the second half of all league games, now as a defender. After 1. FC Lok had to relegate at the end of the season, Karl Drößler ended his career in high-class football at the age of 32. Within eleven years he had played 234 league games and scored seven goals.

International

Drößler completed his first important game at international level on July 10, 1960 in the international match of the GDR national B team against Bulgaria (2-1). By 1965, five more international matches followed with the B selection. For the Leipzig city selection he was first used on October 19, 1960 in the trade fair cup game against the Belgrade selection (1: 4 in Belgrade ). By 1967 he was called to a total of 27 trade fair cup games, of which he played twelve with the city team, four for SC Leipzig and eleven matches for 1. FC Lok. In May 1966 Drößler won the Intertoto Cup 1965/66 with 1. FC Lok . He played in the two finals against Örgryte IS , in which Leipzig won 3: 4 and 4: 1.

After a footballing career

After the end of his career as a football player, Karl Drößler turned to science. He completed a biology degree at the University of Leipzig , received his doctorate and was appointed professor at the University of Leipzig. He worked for many years as an immunobiologist and in 1991 took over the chair for animal physiology and immunobiology, which he held until his retirement in 2003. He remained connected to football, was president of 1. FC Lokomotive and VfB Leipzig from 1990 to 1991 , after which he remained a member of the executive committee. In 2008 he was awarded the Saxon Football Association's badge of honor.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1959–1969. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 109.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 329.

Web links

• Portrait at weltfussball.de
• Karl Drößler, professors at the University of Leipzig 1945–1993 , accessed on November 21, 2017