Klaus-Dieter Boelssen

Klaus-Dieter Boelssen (born February 6, 1948 in Halle / Saale ) was a football player in the top league of the GDR football league . He played there for Halleschen FC Chemie .

Soccer career

From the boys to the big leagues

When he was ten, Boelssen began to play organized football in the boys' team at SC Chemie Halle. He was used as a striker from the start and went through all of the club's youth teams. In the men's area, Boelssen was initially used in the upper division reserve and in the 2nd team in the fourth class district class. At the age of 19 he played his first league game in the GDR league. He was called up on October 14, 1967 in the encounter Hansa Rostock - HFC (3: 1) as a right winger for the club, which has now been converted into the Halleschen FC Chemie. From the 20th match day of the 1967/68 season on Boelssen was regularly in the Oberligaelf der Halle, so he came in his first first division season on nine missions. On the 23rd matchday he also came to his first goals in the league. In the game HFC - 1. FC Lok Leipzig he scored three goals in the 4-2 success of the Saalstadt team.

Eventful years in Halle

In the 1968/69 season, Boelssen, who had meanwhile also completed his apprenticeship as a diesel locomotive fitter, finally seemed to have made his breakthrough as a first division player. He played 17 of the 26 league games and was the most successful goalscorer of his team with eight goals. He also played two international matches with the GDR youth team in October 1968. In the encounter Poland - GDR he scored the 1-0 winning goal. But from the 20th league point matchday, Boelssen no longer appeared in the Halle squad. Only a year later, on May 9, 1970, he completed another league game for the HFC. Reasons cannot be found in the relevant literature, only in Leske, encyclopedia of GDR football , one can infer that Boelssen played for the fourth division club BSG Turbine Halle during this time . In 1970/71 Boelssen was immediately a regular in the HFC league team and again the most accurate shooter with seven goals. He was thus significantly involved in reaching 3rd place in the HFC this season, which entitled to participate in the UEFA Cup competition 1971/72. In the first round Halle had to play against PSV Eindhoven . Boelssen was called up, but only scored 0-0 with his team at home. The second leg did not take place because the night before the Halle's hotel burned down and the HFC withdrew its team because of its dead player Wolfgang Hoffmann . Boelssen played for HFC until the end of the 1974/75 season. 1973/74 he had to play for a year in the second-rate GDR league , as his team had previously been relegated from the league. With 15 point games and ten goals Boelssen was involved in the immediate resurgence, but in his last league season he was only used three times. In his seven years in the men's area of ​​the Halle club, he played 101 games in the major league and scored 32 goals.

Second division player and sub-class coach

At the beginning of the 1975 season Boelssen moved to the GDR league club Motor Suhl , where his former Halle teammate Erhard Mosert was playing. With his move to a lower division, however, Boelssen had lost his military service protection status and was drafted into the National People's Army in November 1975 after just a few game days . Only after a year he was able to play again for Motor Suhl, where he was called up as a midfielder in the future. In the 1979/80 season he took over the office of team captain, and in the summer of 1981 he ended his career as an active soccer player at the age of 33.

Then Boelssen became a trainer for lower-class teams. At the end of the 1990s he settled in Aurich , Lower Saxony , where he initially coached the reserve team and later the juniors at SpVg Aurich . In 2003 he became assistant coach of the first team in the Lower Saxony league.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 76.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 318.
• German sport echo v. November 21, 1968
• Ostfriesische Nachrichten v. September 12, 2003

Web links

• Klaus-Dieter Boelssen in the database of the German Football Association