Max Wollenschläger

Max Wollenschläger (born January 21, 1916 , † after 1980) was a German soccer player and soccer coach. For Gera he played first division football from 1949 to 1951 . He then coached teams in the GDR in the second and third division.

Athletic career

Soccer player

When Max Wollenschläger was in the final of the East German Football Cup on August 28, 1949, at the age of 33 he was the oldest player in his team, SG Gera-Süd . The Geraer lost the final 0: 1 against Waggonbau Dessau with Wollenschläger as the right wing runner , but had qualified as a cup finalist for the newly introduced East German football zone league (from 1950 DS-Oberliga, from 1953 GDR-Oberliga ).

When the Zone League started its first season in 1949/50 to determine the East German soccer champions, Wollenschläger was also part of the SG Gera-Süd squad. However, he was not used for the first time until matchday 11, but then played all of the remaining point games except for one game. In 1950/51 the Gera team joined the company sports club (BSG) Mechanics, Wollenschläger continued to be part of the top division. This time he was called up from the first day of play, but had to sit out for four weeks after the second game. He then played his way into the regular team and played a total of 28 of the 34 league matches by the end of the season.

At the age of 35, Wollenschläger started his third first division season in the summer of 1951, in which he was initially called up from the start. His team was now called BSG Motor. By October he was used in nine league games as a midfielder. The game Unity Pankow - Motor Gera (1: 4) on October 28th was his last first division game. It was his 51st appearance in the zone and major league, he did not score goals.

coach

After the end of his career as a football player, Wollenschläger started a career as a football coach. In the 1954/55 season he trained the second-rate GDR league club BSG Motor Nordhausen-West . In 1956, he also trained BSG Chemie Zeitz in the GDR league for one season . In 1959 he led the BSG Chemie Elsterberg to the district championship and promotion to the third-class II. GDR league . In 1968 and 1969 Wollenschläger returned to Nordhausen again and helped BSG Motor to rise again from the district league to the GDR league. He had a long-term commitment in Bleicherode , where he coached the district league team BSG Glückauf from 1969 to 1981 .

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 530.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 22, 317.

Web links

• Max Wollenschläger in the database of the German Football Association
• Max Wollenschläger in the database of weltfussball.de