Lothar Haack

Lothar Haack (born August 21, 1941 ) is a former soccer player and national soccer player of the GDR .

Athletic career

Lothar Haack was part of the surprise team of the 1950s SC activist Brieske-Senftenberg from 1959 to 1961 . As BSG Franz Mehring Marga , the team from the Senftenberg suburb in the Lusatian lignite district had already taken part in the 2nd East Zone soccer championship and in 1958, as SC activist Brieske-Senftenberg, achieved their best result in the Oberliga , the highest GDR soccer class, with 3rd place . When Haack came to Brieske in 1959 as an 18-year-old two-time junior national player, the team was already in decline. A year and a half after Haack's departure, he was relegated to the second-rate first GDR league . In his three years in Briesker Haack was used in 31 league games mainly as a striker and scored nine goals. Haack played his first league game for Brieske at the beginning of the second half of the 1959 season on August 2 in a game against SC Rotation Leipzig (0-2) as a right winger.

As a player from Brieske-Senftenberg, Haack was used on June 21, 1961 in the GDR national team's game against Morocco. The team was in a form low at the time and had not been able to win the last three games. Against the Moroccans there was no victory, rather there was a disappointing 1: 2 home defeat in Erfurt. Also international newcomer Haack could not fix the storm weakness of the GDR team as a right winger and was substituted in the second half against the Auer Dieter Erler . In addition to three junior international games in 1961, Haack received no other selection appointments.

After completing the first half series of the 1961/62 league season, Haack moved to the second division club SG Dynamo Dresden , with whom he made promotion to the league at the end of the season. After Haack was used in the following season 1962/63 only five times between the 19th and 23rd matchday as a right winger in the league team, he made another change at the beginning of the season 1963/64 and went to runner-up SC Empor Rostock . But even here he was unable to assert himself and was mainly used as a center forward in only 13 league games until 1965. Then he had to give up high-performance sport due to persistent knee problems.

After a year-long interlude at BSG Post Neubrandenburg , Haack played for a few years in the reserve teams of FC Hansa Rostock , the successor to the soccer section of SC Empor. In August 1966 he completed his studies in mechanical engineering. In 1967 he led the 2nd Hansa team to the district championship and promotion to the GDR league . In the GDR league season 1967/68 Haack played only five point games, then Haack only played in the third team. In 1969, Haack returned to Post Neubrandenburg, where he finally ended his career as a football player at the age of 30 in 1971, after only a few league matches.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 181.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 301, 305, 338.
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .
• GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho , born 1959–1971

Web links

• Lothar Haack in the database of the German Football Association