Klaus-Dieter Trapp

Klaus-Dieter Trapp (born April 25, 1935 ) is a former German soccer goalkeeper. In 1957 he played seven games for SC Chemie Halle-Leuna in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football .

Athletic career

In 1954, GDR football started an attempt to install a cadre forge for the national football team at the Leipzig German University of Physical Culture (DHfK) by means of a football section . With talented football players from all over the GDR, two teams (SC DHfK I and II) were formed and for the 1954/55 season they were classified in two seasons of the second-rate GDR league without any athletic qualifications . The 19-year-old goalkeeper Klaus-Dieter Trapp was among the selected players. After the end of the first half of the season, the project was discontinued due to unsuccessfulness and the players were distributed to other teams. Trapp moved to the GDR league club SC Wissenschaft Halle . In the 13 point games of the second half of the season he was used eleven times. In the fall of 1955, a transition round was held in GDR football in order to be able to switch over to the calendar year from 1956 onwards. There were 13 games to be played in the GDR league, in which Trapp was eight times in the goal of SC Wissenschaft. During the 1956 season Trapp couldn't get past Wolfgang Meinel and was only used six times in the 26 league games. In 1957 he went to Rostock and was part of the reserve team of SC Empor Rostock .

After a year Trapp returned to SC Wissenschaft, where he played four GDR league games in 1958. When SC Wissenschaft merged with the top division club SC Chemie Halle in July 1958, this brought Trapp into his top division team and, after the failure of the goalkeeper Günter Melchior, played in the last seven top division league games. At the end of the season, SC Chemie had to relegate to the GDR league. There, coach Otto Werkmeister had his goalkeepers rotate in the first half of 1959, so that Trapp had to take turns with his competitor Heinz Weise from game day to game day . Werkmeister ended the rotation after ten match days, and by the end of the season only Weise was in goal for Halle. With one substitution and one appearance on the last day of the match, Trapp only made six league appearances.

In 1960 Trapp returned to Science Hall. In the meantime, downgraded to the University Sports Association (HSG), the soccer team has now played in the third-class 2nd GDR league . Neither the HSG nor Trapp returned to higher-class football. Trapp later did his doctorate at the DHfK and in the 1970s became head of the science center of the GDR football association.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1955–1960. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 493.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 320.
• DFSF (Ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 8). Berlin 2010.

Web links

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