Klaus Heinzel

Klaus Heinzel (born March 31, 1941 ) is a former German football goalkeeper who was in goal for Motor Steinach and SC Motor / FC Carl Zeiss Jena in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football , in the 1960s .

Athletic career

At the beginning of the 1962/63 season, 21-year-old goalkeeper Klaus Heinzel was promoted to the second-rate first GDR league BSG via the stations Oberligareserve Motor Zwickau and the company sports association (BSG) activist "Martin Hoop" in Mülsen (5th division) Activist "Karl Marx" Zwickau . Of the 26 league games he played 21 games and then moved to the league promoted Motor Steinach.

After experimenting there with four goalkeepers in the preseason, Heinzel took over the position of regular goalkeeper in the 1963/64 season with 19 appearances in 26 league games. In June 1964 he played an international match with the GDR youth national team . Heinzel then left Steinach and joined the 1963 GDR champion SC Motor Jena . From the 1964/65 season he was scheduled to represent the long-term injured goalkeeper Harald Fritzsche . Heinzel represented him in six league games in the first half of the season and in eight league games in the second half of the season. Also in 1965/66 Heinzel was number two behind Fritzsche, whom he replaced from matchday 18 in the remaining nine league games. At that time, BSG Motor had already been converted into FC Carl Zeiss Jena.

For the 1966/67 season, FC Carl Zeiss signed the national team goalkeeper Wolfgang Blochwitz, a new number one for the goal. Heinzel then left FC in the direction of BSG Motor WEMA Plauen , which played in the GDR league, but was not used in any league game there. So Heinzel made another change and joined the GDR league club BSG Wismut Gera .

At the beginning of the 1967/68 season he injured himself so badly before the first match day that he could only be used in the second half of the season and so only made 13 league appearances in this season. In the following three seasons Heinzel was the undisputed goalkeeper at BSG Wismut. During this time, 30 point games were played in the GDR league, of which Heinzel only missed a game in 1968/69. In the 1971/72 season, after a league change, only 22 point games were played, of which Heinzel played 14 matches. With Peter Winkler , a competitor for the goalkeeping position had been found who ousted Heinzel, now 31, from 1972/73. Heinzel only came to one league appearance this season, was absent from all point games in 1973/74 and only played one game in the league promotion round, which Wismut Gera had achieved thanks to the relay victory. With fifth place, however, the promotion was missed. In his last GDR league season 1974/75 Heinzel was used again in seven league games and reached the promotion round again with the team. There Heinzel was used in seven of the eight games, but a third place was again not enough for promotion. Then Klaus Heinzel ended his career as a competitive athlete. He could look back on 42 league appearances and 145 GDR league games.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1962–1975. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 197.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 321, 341.

Web links

• Klaus Heinzel in the database of the German Football Association
• Klaus Heinzel in the database of weltfussball.de