Lothar Lehmann (soccer player)

Lothar Lehmann (born December 5, 1946 ) was a football player in the GDR . In 1974 he played for BSG Energie Cottbus in the GDR Oberliga , the highest East German soccer class.

Athletic career

Lehmann played in the company sports community (BSG) Post Neubrandenburg until 1969 , most recently in the second-rate GDR league . At the age of 22, he moved to the league competitor BSG Kernkraftwerk Nord Greifswald at the beginning of the 1969/70 season . As a striker on the right attacking side, he immediately fought for a regular place with 25 appearances in 30 point games. In the following years he was also part of the Greifswald players' tribe. In the 1972/73 season he was the top scorer of his team and the GDR league with 16 goals. After four seasons in which he had played 80 point games, Lehmann left Greifswald and in the summer of 1973 joined the league promoted Energie Cottbus.

At Energie Lehmann was initially only used in the 2nd team playing in the third-class district league . He played his first league game on January 26, 1974 at the beginning of the second half of the 1973/74 season. In the encounter between FC Karl-Marx-Stadt and Energie (0-0) he was substituted on in the 46th minute. By the end of the season, Lehmann was used as a striker in a total of eleven league games, but only three games over the full distance were among them. He did not score a goal. At the end of the season Cottbus had to relegate from the league again, so Lehmann had to play again in the second division. In the 1974/75 season he made the leap to become a regular player in the first team, with 21 appearances and six goals in 30 league games played, he was instrumental in the immediate return to the league.

Despite the promotion success, Lehmann left Cottbus at the end of the season and played from the 1975/76 season on at the GDR league club Motor Weimar . There he played two more years mainly in the position of the center forward. Lehmann played 28 of the 44 point games in both seasons. At the end of the 1976/77 season, he ended his career as a competitive athlete at the age of 30.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 289.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 302.
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .

Web links

• Lothar Lehmann in the database of the German Football Association
• Lothar Lehmann at fcenergie-museum.de