Karl Gola

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Karl Gola (born June 29, 1920 in Halle (Saale) ) is a former German soccer player who won the East German league with Turbine Halle in 1952 .

Career

Before the Second World War, 1930–1940

At the workers' sports club VfB Trotha (Halle), 10-year-old Karl Gola started playing football in the youth department. After the political ban on workers' sports clubs , he moved to FC Wacker Halle in 1933 . As a 16-year-old he was accepted into the league team from FC Wacker, which competed in the Gauliga Mitte in the 1936/37 round . Gola played there until his front line assignment in Russia from 1940. In 1945 he returned home.

Beginning after the Second World War

A state championship was not held in Saxony-Anhalt in the rounds from 1945/46 to 1947/48. It was played with varying degrees of intensity at district and city level. Karl Gola was bound to remain in his residential area in Giebichenstein - a district in the north of Halle - until 1948. It was only with the founding of the SG Freiimfelde Halle that he was able to experience regular training and a point game operation beyond the local limits from 1948.

SG Freiimfelde Halle / ZSG Union Halle, 1948–1950

Heinz Acke, Halle entrepreneur, was the great pioneer of Halle football after the Second World War . He was the creator and the soul of Freiimfelde Halle, the first major club in the state capital of Saxony-Anhalt. Of course, the agile, extraordinarily tricky and fast winger Karl Gola was part of the new successful team from Halle from day one. The state of Saxony-Anhalt was divided into more than two dozen football circles, each of which determined its own master. The so-called regional championships were played beyond these circles. When the two representatives of Saxony-Anhalt had to be identified for the championship in the Soviet occupation zone , the area champions fought over this qualification. In the semifinals on June 6, 1948 Freiimfelde Halle in Bitterfeld met SG Köthen Süd. Gola scored the goal to make it 1-0 in a 5-2 win. In the championship, which was played for the first time in 1948, two representatives from each of the states of Mecklenburg, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and Saxony were allowed to start, while representatives from Berlin were not allowed to compete for political reasons. The SG Freiimfelde prevailed over the SG Wismar and SG Meerane and was in the final against SG Planitz (Zwickau) on July 4, 1948 in Leipzig . The team from Saxony prevailed with a 1-0 win. Karl Gola had worked as a left winger for Freiimfelde. In the 1948/49 round, the SG Freiimfelde won the championship first in the national class, Staffel Süd, ahead of Union Dessau. They reached the championship of Saxony-Anhalt on April 10, 1949 with a 2-0 in Magdeburg against BW Stendal. Gola stormed on the left wing position of the championship team, which had been renamed the ZSG Union Halle from April 1949 . Union Halle prevailed in May in the games for the 1949 championship with 2-1 against SG Dresden-Friedrichstadt and 3-0 against Eintracht Stendal . Due to the preference for two home games and the unpunished use of players who were not eligible to play Knefler (Bernburg), Lehmann, Blank (both Glaucha-Halle) and Schmidt (Zappendorf), the outrage against the ZSG Union Halle was huge in the Soviet occupation zone. Union Halle, the prototype of the planned company sports clubs, to which the future GDR's political leadership wanted to own the future, had to win - no matter what the cost. The final on June 26, 1949 in the Dresden Ostragehege (Heinz-Steyer-Stadion) was decided by the union with 4-1 goals due to a closed team performance. Outstanding actors in the winning rows were the stopper Otto Knefler , the two fast wingers Rolf Theile and Karl Gola who were strong in two combat and shooting, and in the center forward position the trump ace Herbert Rappsilber , who also scored two goals in the final.

In the 1949/50 season, the championship was played for the first time in a league. In the DS league, the ZSG Union Halle took 5th place in the table. Karl Gola was in 25 out of 26 possible games for Union. In the state cup - which was only played in this round in Germany as a whole - the two-footed left winger made two appearances in the team from Saxony-Anhalt against Thuringia and North Württemberg. The absolute superstar in GDR football in the 1949/50 season was Helmut Schön from Dresden . He was the director, goalscorer and player-coach of the Friedrichstadt-based company and at the same time the first national coach of the GDR.

BSG Turbine Halle, 1950–1953

The next renaming took place in 1950. The ZSG Union became the BSG Turbine Hall . The "blue-whites" from the Kurt Wabbel Stadium took 6th place in the 1950/51 round and Karl Gola had played 18 games on the left wing. In the second year, the newly installed BSG hit the jackpot. Turbine Halle was in the 1951/52 championship of the East German league . SG Volkspolizei Dresden and BSG Chemie Leipzig were relegated to the places with 53:19 points . Karl Gola had made his contribution to winning the championship in 26 games. At the age of 33 he said goodbye after the round in 1952/53 - he had still played in 12 games - from the league. From 1949 to 1953 he had played 81 games in the league and scored 24 goals.

Career finale, 1953–1956

From October 1953 to 1956, Karl Gola ended his career as a player-coach at Motor Hohenthurm.

Professional / private

Karl Gola had completed an apprenticeship as a building fitter from 1934 to 1938 and married on July 8, 1944. Later he worked as a transport brigadier in VEB Dampfkesselbau Hohenthurm. In Hohenthurm, about 10 km from the city center of Halle, he also had his residence and worked in his free time in his allotment garden.

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SURNAME Gola, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)