Lothar Schlegel (soccer player)

Lothar Schlegel (born September 29, 1933 ) is a former German soccer player. For SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt , he played 21 games between 1956 and 1963 in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football . In 1956 and 1959 he was GDR champion with SC Wismut.

Athletic career

Schlegel first appeared in higher-class football when he played a league game for progress Hartha in the second-rate GDR league in the 1953/54 season . For the season 1954/55 he moved to the league competitor Wismut Plauen and was used there in 17 point games.

Subsequently, the game operations in GDR football were switched to the calendar year. After Plauen was relegated in 1955, Schlegel was accepted for the game year 1956 by the upper division club SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt, who was based in Aue . His first league game he completed on August 12, 1956 in the encounter of the 14th game day SC Wismut - progress Weissenfels (2-0) as a left defender. It was his only league use that season in which his team was GDR champions. 1957 Schlegel was not used in the league, and in the following seasons until 1963 he did not get beyond the substitute role. In 1959 he was GDR champion for the second time with eight appearances. When he had ended his career in high-class football after the 1962/63 season (GDR football had returned to the summer-spring rhythm), he had only made 21 league appearances. He hadn't scored any goals.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1953–1963. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 437.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 291.
• DFSF (Ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 8). Berlin 2010, p. 314.

Web links

• Lothar Schlegel in the database of the German Football Association
• Lothar Schlegel in the database of weltfussball.de