Klaus Schlegel (soccer player)

Klaus Schlegel (born May 4, 1931 in Erfurt ; † December 28, 1992 ) was a German football player and sports journalist .

Athletic career

The later trade journalist was active as a half-striker and libero himself in football . Before the end of the Second World War Schlegel played in the junior division at VfB Erfurt (1942–1945). After the capitulation of the German Reich and the suppression of National Socialism, as well as in the GDR founded in 1949 , Schlegel played at BSG KWU Erfurt , VfB Pankow and Rotation Mitte Berlin, among others .

Professional career

Schlegel's professional career is closely linked to Sportverlag Berlin , to which he has belonged since 1950. First he worked for the East German sports daily Deutsches Sportecho - and for a short time for a publication on motorsport. In 1960 the journalist moved to fuwo - The New Football Week - as editor-in-chief . In this position he was finally replaced in 1985 by the old international Jürgen Nöldner . Due to health problems that forced him to retire, Günter Simon and Nöldner had already represented Schlegel in the executive position in 1984.

Between 1962 and 1984 Schlegel was always significantly involved in the football world championship and football European championship books, mostly written by a collective of authors from the Berliner Sportverlag, from an East German perspective and with a particular focus on football in the GDR . Many of the texts on the GDR national team and on the World Cup finals, which he was allowed to attend in 1958, 1970, 1974 and 1978, come from his pen, as he is often the only (fuwo) editor of the team on its foreign tours or the final tournaments could accompany journalistically.

Since fuwo was the press organ of the German Football Association , it is not surprising that Schlegel was a member of the DFV Presidium between 1960 and 1990 and also chairman of the GDR Association's press commission until 1984. At the international level, the Erfurt native was a member of the amateur committee of the world football association FIFA from 1978 to 1984 .

Fonts

• Under the spell of the ball (with Rainer Baumann , Horst Friedemann, Wolf Hempel and Günter Simon ). Sportverlag Berlin , East Berlin 1965.
• Football - magnet for millions (with Wolfgang Behrendt ). Sportverlag Berlin , East Berlin 1977, license number 140 355/46/77 9005.

literature

• Bernd Rohr, Günter Simon: Football Lexicon . Verlag Copress, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-7679-0330-X , page 318.
• Bernd Rohr, Günter Simon: Football Lexicon . Verlag Copress, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-7679-0410-1 , page 371/372.
• Michael Horn, Gottfried Weise : The great lexicon of GDR football. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-536-8 , page 300.
• Hanns Leske : The GDR league players. A lexicon. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-392-9 , page 463.