Kurt Steinbach (soccer player)

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Kurt Steinbach (born August 5, 1922 in Grünhain ) is a former German soccer goalkeeper. He played from 1951 to 1958 in the GDR Oberliga , the highest soccer class in GDR soccer for BSG Wismut Aue and SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt . He was GDR champion in 1956 and 1957 and GDR cup winner in 1955.

Athletic career

Steinbach spent his childhood and youth in the small town of Grünhain in the Ore Mountains, where he gained his first football experience in the local school and youth teams in the 1930s. From 1939 he was used as a goalkeeper in the local first soccer team until he was drafted into military service in 1941. He played at Motor Grünhain after returning home from the Second World War.

After the company sports association (BSG) Zentra Wismut Aue (from 1950 BSG Wismut Aue) had qualified in the spring of 1950 for the second-rate GDR league , which was newly established for the 1950/51 season , it ran a training camp with talented football players from the catchment area of ​​the sponsoring company Wismut AG through in order to be able to strengthen with new players. The 17-year-old goalkeeper Kurt Steinbach was one of the players who were taken over by the BSG. The 1950/51 season ended the BSG Wismut in the GDR league as a relay winner and promoted to the GDR upper league, with coach Walter Fritzsch Steinbach giving preference to Erhard Schmalfuß and using him in 17 of the 18 point games played.

In his first league season 1951/52 there was a real competition between Steinbach and Schmalfuß, which went out with 21 to 18 point games just in favor of Steinbach. Under the new coach Karl Dittes Steinbach had to back off against Schmalfuß in the 1952/53 season and was only eleven times in the goal of the league team in the 32 point games. A year later, both goalkeepers were almost equally, but for the 1954/55 season the situation changed after Schmalfuß had ended his career and was replaced by Klaus Thiele . Thiele immediately took over the role of goalkeeper, while Steinbach was only called up in two championship games. However, he was set up in the final of the GDR soccer cup, which Wismut won 3-2 after extra time against Hansa Rostock FC Hansa Rostock.

In the past season, the league team was transferred to the newly founded SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt, but continued to play their home games in Aue. From August to December 1955, a transition round with 13 games was held in GDR football so that from 1956 the football season could be aligned with the calendar year. Steinbach was only used three times, and another goalkeeper had signed up with Heinz Hippmann . This was also at the beginning of the 1956 season in the Auer Tor, but was replaced on the eighth day of the game by Steinbach, who also guarded the goal on the remaining 18 game days. SC Wismut ended the season as the new GDR champions. In 1957 Aue defended the championship title, Thiele returned to the team and ousted Steinbach after the fifth game day, which was not set up again in this season. Kurt Steinbach played his last and 76th league game for Aue on June 22, 1958. In the 60th minute he was substituted on for Klaus Thiele in the league game Rotation Leipzig - SC Wismut (3-0). It was tragic for him that the last two goals of the game fell against him. He did not return to higher-class football.

From 1959 to 1978 Steinbach acted as section head of his association.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Fuwo. The new football week. Volume 28, edition of March 16, 1976, p. 4. ( PDF )
  2. ↑ Deviating from this, the year of birth 1932 can be found in the literature and in football databases.
  3. ↑ Kurt Steinbach: Experiences on the Edge , in: Wolfgang Polte: Tooor! Players of SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt tell. Sportverlag, Berlin 1957, p. 56 ff.
  4. ↑ Team history BSG Wismut Aue - sporting management , accessed on January 1, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Steinbach, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Grünhain , Germany