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Max Richard Hofsommer (born March 2, 1912 in Zwötzen , today a district of Gera ; † October 2, 1979 in Zwickau ) was a soccer goalkeeper in Zwickau in the 1940s and 1950s. With the Zwickau suburban club Planitzer SC he became Saxon Gaumeister in 1942, with Horch Zwickau in 1950 the first GDR soccer champion.

Career

In the 1935/36 season Hofsommer was the first goalkeeper in the Gauliga team of Planitzer SC, after he had previously guarded the gate at Wacker Gera . In 1942 he was in the Planitz team, which surprisingly won the championship in the Gauliga Sachsen before the Dresdner SC . The Planitzers were thus qualified for the final round of the German championship in 1942, Hofsommer played all three final round matches that brought his team to the quarter-finals (2: 3 against Vienna Wien). Then Hofsommer was called up for military service.

After the Planitzer SC was dissolved after the Second World War, Hofsommer joined the ZSG Horch Zwickau in 1949 . He worked as a driver for the ZSG company, the Horch car factory. The ZSG was one of the founding members of the upper league of the German Sports Committee , the highest East German soccer class. In their first season, the 37-year-old Hofsommer played 19 of the 26 point games played and between December 1949 and February 1950 set a never-surpassed league record with 486 minutes without conceding a goal. The Zwickau ended the season as the first GDR soccer champions.

Then Hofsommer ended his career as a goalkeeper and worked as a coach. From January 1950 to summer 1952 he coached the second division Motor Nordhausen West . In the 1953/54 season he was the coach of the second-class Motor Jena .

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 .
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .

Web links

• Court summer at www.weltfussball.de