Kurt Habermann

Kurt Habermann (born January 15, 1939 ) was a soccer player in Greifswald and Rostock . For the SC Empor / FC Hansa Rostock he played at the highest GDR football class Oberliga 1963 to 1970 100 point games.

Athletic career

Habermann played his first game in the GDR league team of Einheit Greifswald at the age of 21 at the start of the 1960 football season on March 6, in the home game against SG Dynamo Eisleben, which Greifswald won 1-0. This season he was used eight times. Then it took over a year before he came back to the 1st team. In the 1961/62 season, which ran over three rounds due to the change from the calendar year to the autumn-spring rhythm, Habermann was involved in 25 of 26 point games from August 1961 and was almost always used on the right midfield . In the season 1962/63 he finally became a regular player for Greifswald, he played all point games, but this time commuted between midfield and attack. As a rule, however, he formed the midfield tandem of the unit team with Helmut Hergesell .

In the summer of 1963, both players moved to the region’s football center, SC Empor Rostock . Habermann, who had previously played 59 second division games in Greifswald, was intended as an alternative to Rostock's midfield director Heinz Minuth , who had ended his active career. After Habermann had already completed five intercup appearances for the Rostockers, he initially took over the position of Minuth on the left side of midfield from the second match day of the 1963/64 season, but was later ousted there by Klaus-Dieter Seehaus and switched to Storm. There he was also preferred in the following years, without being able to achieve a permanent position.

The international section in Habermann's football career began with the Intercup game Slovan Bratislava - Empor Rostock on June 23, 1963 (1: 1). Altogether, Habermann played 17 times in the Intercup, but his appearances in the Messestädte Cup of the 1969/70 season were more important . In the forerunner of the later UEFA Cup, Habermann played all four Rostock games against Panionios Athens (3-0, 0-2) and Inter Milan (2-1, 0-3). On October 19, 1968 Habermann came to his only international selection assignment. Together with his Rostock teammates Hergesell and Drews , he played in the B national team against the B team from Poland (1-0).

Habermann played his last league season with Hansa Rostock in 1970/71. He has made 100 stakes with 12 goals in the top division, nine games and three goals in the national cup and 13 European cup games. With SC Empor / FC Hansa, he was twice GDR runner-up. Habermann ended his active career with the third-rate district division Schiffahrt / Hafen Rostock , with whom he was promoted to the GDR league in 1972.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1960–1972. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 182.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 338.

Web links

• Kurt Habermann in the database of the German Football Association