Kurt Lippert

Kurt Lippert (born February 19, 1932 in Streit, Silesia ; † December 8, 1986 in Greifswald ) was a football goalkeeper in the GDR league . In 1956 and 1958 he played for SC Empor Rostock in the top division of the East German soccer game .

Kurt Lippert came in 1955 from the Erzgebirge ISG Geyer to SC Empor Rostock, which was founded a year earlier, in the GDR league to replace the previous 34-year-old goalkeeper Rudi Leber . At the same time, however, he had competition from Manfred Schröbler, who was two years his junior . In his first league season in 1956, Lippert was not necessarily the goalkeeper of Rostock with 14 out of 26 possible point game appearances, because including substitutions, Schröbler made the same number of appearances. At the end of the season Rostock had to relegate to the first GDR league and Lippert became a second division player. Here, too, he was unable to assert himself as a regular player and was only ten times in goal in the 26-game season. The SC Empor managed the immediate promotion, and Lippert was again part of the sports club's league squad for the 1958 season. However, he fell completely in the shadow of Schröbler, who played all 26 point games, while Lippert was only substituted on the 7th match day for the injured Schröbler.

As with the young Jürgen Heinsch had already made a new goalkeeper talent at SC Empor attention, Lippert left in winter 1958 after 25 Oberligapunkt- and seven cup matches Rostock and signed up for the season 1959 in the East German league team unit Greifswald on . Here he was the first goalkeeper and was used in all 26 point games. Until the end of the 1961/62 season, Lippert remained the first choice in the Greifswalder Tor. In 1962/63 he was only used in six games, in the following season Peter Below had finally ousted him, Lippert only played a single GDR league game. In the 1964/65 season he then celebrated an unexpected comeback, since Below had switched to the Oberliga promoted SC Neubrandenburg after five point games . For the rest of the season Lippert was back in the Greifswalder Tor. In 1965/66 he played all 30 point games, but could not prevent the Greifswald unit from relegating to the district league after a disastrous performance . In the following two years Lippert then only played in third-rate football. When Greifswald returned to the GDR league in 1968, the now 36-year-old Lippert was still part of the squad and until matchday 12, except for one game, regularly guarded the goal of the GDR league team, which is now under the new name North Greifswald nuclear power plant began . In the meantime, however, with Höft and Socher, two younger goalkeepers had played themselves in the foreground, so Lippert was eliminated from the Greifswald first team at the end of the 1968/69 season. In his eleven years in Greifswald, Lippert had completed eight seasons in the GDR league and was used in 151 games.

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German sport echo, born 1956 to 1970