Klaus Otte (soccer player)

Klaus Otte (born August 20, 1942 ) is a German former football player who was active in the 1960s for SC Progress Weissenfels and SC Chemie Halle in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football .

Athletic career

Klaus Otte played his first games in the GDR league in the 1960 season (calendar year season) for SC progress Weissenfels. The sports club lost several regular players in the course of the season, so that many new players had to be used. Among them was the 18-year-old Otte, who made his first appearance on the 11th league matchday as a substitute. By the end of the season he was called up as a striker in a total of eight league games, where he was in the starting line-up five times. The SC progress ended the season as relegated and played 1961/62 in the second-rate I. GDR League . Because of the change to the summer-spring game rhythm, 39 point games had to be played between February 1961 and June 1962, and in June 1961 the progress sports club was converted into a company sports community (BSG) of the same name. With 38 league appearances, Otte became a regular player for the Weißenfelser and was able to defend this status in the 1962/63 season. 26 point games were played normally again, in which Otte was called up 23 times.

For the 1963/64 season, Otte was delegated to the regional football focus, the upper division club SC Chemie Halle. There he was used as a replacement for the non-operational midfielder Heinz Walter in his position in seven league games. With SC Chemie, too, Otte had to relegate back to the GDR league after a season, but was not involved in the immediate resurgence in the 1964/65 season. In 1965 and 1966 he was a soldier in the National People's Army . During this time he was able to continue playing football and until April 1966 played 18 games in the GDR league with the army sports community Vorwärts Leipzig and appeared for the first time as a goalscorer in the higher-class league with his five goals.

After his discharge from military service, Otte returned to BSG Progress Weissenfels, which now played in the third-class Halle district league . With the team Otte was district champion in 1967 and helped her to rise again to the GDR league. There he was used in 1967/68 in 27 of the 30 league games now played, in which he scored three goals. Since the BSG did not manage to stay up, they had to play in the district league again for several years. For Klaus Otte there was no return to the higher-class football, so that his balance there amounts to 15 league games and 106 GDR league appearances. He scored his eight goals exclusively in the GDR league.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1960–1968. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 347.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 320, 346.
• DSFS (ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 8). Berlin 2011, p. 281.

Web links

• Klaus Otte in the database of the German Football Association