Martin Zöller

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Martin Zöller (born October 2, 1921 in Semlin ) is a former soccer player and university professor.

As a football player, he was active in the 1950s for the BSG unit Pankow and the BSG Motor Oberschöneweide in the DS-Oberliga , the top division in GDR football . He later held a professorship at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Life

Zöller was born as the 6th child of the farmer Jakob Zöller in Semlin near Belgrade . Here he attended elementary school and for four years middle school as well as another four years at the commercial academy, which he graduated from high school in 1941.

After a 3-year military service in the German Wehrmacht, he worked for several years in Neubauer after the war in Brandenburg and then until 1954 in various functions in social organizations in the GDR. Before his studies he worked as an assistant to the cultural director in the Berlin Transfoirmatorenwerk "Karl Liebknecht". Delegated to study by this company, he began studying history at the Humboldt University in 1954, which he completed in 1958 with good success. During his studies he was an assistant assistant for two years at the Institute for the History of the Peoples of the USSR, where he received special training in the field of Eastern European history.

After a year and a half as a freelance translator of South Slavic aesthetic literature, he took up the position of a research assistant at the Institute for the History of the Peoples of the USSR on November 1, 1959, where he was appointed senior academic assistant and later professor.

Athletic career

Zöller was one of the 13 new football players who, along with 16 former players from VfB Pankow, who had previously been relegated, had been grouped together in the new football section of the BSG unit Pankow. This team was incorporated into the DS-Oberliga as the second East Berlin team next to the SG Union Oberschöneweide without sporting qualifications for the 1951/52 season . This was done on the instructions of the GDR leadership in order to emphasize the sporting importance of the "capital of the GDR".

As before VfB, the BSG unit did not have the quality of a first division team in 1951/52 and had to relegate from the league after only five wins in 36 point games and the worst goal difference of all 19 participants of 38:94. Zöller was used as a right striker from the first day of play and played all league matches up to the 26th day of play. With interruptions, he was then used in three other league games, so that he was called up a total of 28 times at the end of the season. With five goals he was together with two other players the top scorer of the Pankower. During the season, Zöller was part of the so-called core soccer team of the GDR Sports Committee (DS) , which was formed to prepare for the first GDR international matches. In contrast to the poor performance in the upper league, the BSG unit reached the final of the GDR soccer cup. But it owed this to the fact that the BSG Lok Stendal , who were defeated in the semifinals with 0: 1, was disqualified because of the use of an ineligible player. With Martin Zöller as right winger, Pankow met the runner-up SG Volkspolizei Dresden and lost 3-0 without a chance. Zöller was replaced after 70 minutes by Horst Assmy , who was twelve years his junior .

After the descent of the BSG unit Pankow, Zöller joined the last remaining Berlin league club BSG Motor Oberschöneweide (formerly SG Union) for the 1952/53 season. After a bumpy start, he won a regular place in the league team from the 7th match day and played a total of 26 of the 34 point games. He was mainly used as a right striker and came up with seven goals, with which he was second best shooter of the Oberschöneweider behind Günther Wirth . However, these did not make it through to relegation. Zöller stayed with BSG Motor in the second-class GDR league until 1955, after which he retired from active football.

He later became chairman of the East Berlin District Committee on Football.

Works

  • Martin Zöller (1963): [Review by:] Dimitrijević, Sergije: Foreign capital in Yugoslavia before the Second World War. Berlin 1963. In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft <Berlin>: ZfG 11 (5), pp. 987–990.
  • Martin Zöller (1965): Will and Work of the Croatian Bishop Josip Juraj Stroßmeyer (1815–1905). Contributions on political, cultural and ecclesiastical religious endeavors from the point of view of the national and religious unity of the South Slav peoples. Berlin, Humboldt-U., Phil. F., Diss. V. March 31, 1965 (Not for Aust.). Berlin.
  • Martin Zöller (1968): Beginning of Relations between Josip Juraj Strossmeyer and Russia. In: Scientific journal of the Humboldt University of Berlin 17 (2), pp. 235–242.
  • Norbert Müller and Martin Zöller (1970): Occupation crimes of the fascist Wehrmacht against the Serbian population in autumn 1941. In: Zeitschrift für Militärgeschichte 9 (6), pp. 704–715.

editor

  • Martin Zöller with Kazimierz Leszczyński (ed.) (1965): Case 7 . The verdict in the hostage murder trial. Liked on February 19, 1948 by the United States Military Tribunal V. 1st edition Berlin: Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften.
  • Martin Zöller (1978): History of football in Germany until 1945 (Bank 1). History of football in the GDR until 1976 (Volume 2). 2., arr. Aufl. Berlin: Sportverlag (contributions to the history of the sport of football. Collective of authors: Martin Zöller (leader)

translator

  • Sergije Dimitrijević (1963): Foreign capital in Yugoslavia before the Second World War. Translation by Martin Zöller. 1st edition Berlin: Rütten & Loening.
  • Miroslav Krleža (1971): The Return of Filip Latinovicz. Novel. Translation by Martin Zöller 1st edition Berlin: Verlag Volk und Welt.

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personal data
SURNAME Zöller, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Semlin