Rainer Hoffmeister

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Rainer Hoffmeister
Personnel
birthday September 22, 1963
size 184 cm
position goalkeeper
Juniors
Years station
0000-1977 BSG Chemie Leipzig
1977-1982 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1982-1983 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig ( NWOL )
1984 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 0 (0)
1985 HFC chemistry 16 (0)
1985 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 0 (0)
1986-1992 FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt 113 (0)
1993 1. FC Markkleeberg 25 (0)
1994-1998 FSV Zwickau 59 (0)
1998-1999 FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt 2 (0)
1999-2000 SSV Erfurt-Nord 13 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1980-1982 GDR U-18 14 (0)
1984-1985 DDR U-21 13 (0)
1986-1987 DDR Olympia 8 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Rainer Hoffmeister (born September 22, 1963 ) is a former German soccer player. The goalkeeper played in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football , for FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt . He was also in goal for the Thuringians in the 2nd Bundesliga and Regional League . In all German league football , Hoffmeister also played for FSV Zwickau in the second highest division.

Athletic career

National league operation

Rainer Hoffmeister started to play organized soccer at BSG Chemie Leipzig . 1977 moved within the trade fair city to 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig , the main club of the Leipzig district . For the 1984/85 season, the 20-year-old goalkeeper was nominated for the first time for the squad of the Leipzig league team. Since Hoffmeister did not make any league appearances behind the final selection man René Müller and his experienced deputy Siegfried Stötzner , Hoffmeister moved to the second-rate league at the beginning of 1985 for the relegated HFC Chemie . In the 17 back-round games of the GDR league season, he was 16 times in the goal of Halle . Since the HFC missed the promotion, Hoffmeister returned to 1. FC Lok Leipzig at the beginning of the 1985/86 season. Although he was nominated for the league again, the now multiple junior and junior national player could not get past René Müller, who played all 13 league games in the first half of the season.

At the beginning of 1996 Hoffmeister joined the league competitor FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt, who had lost his previous goalkeeper Wolfgang Benkert . Hoffmeister managed to oust Benkert's substitute Michael Oevermann and was used ten times in the 13 remaining league games. In the following four seasons with a total of 104 league games until the end of GDR football, Hoffmeister was number one in the Erfurter Tor. Of the 104 league seasons during this time, he played 88 games. In the first season in Erfurt in the DFB game operation 1990/91 Hoffmeister lost his regular place to the Hungarian national goalkeeper Péter Disztl and was only used three times. In the 1991/92 and 1992/93 seasons Hoffmeister played for FC Rot-Weiß in the 2nd Bundesliga and made a total of ten appearances there.

After two appearances in the southern season of the third-class NOFV amateur league for Red White, Hoffmeister moved to league competitor 1. FC Markkleeberg after seven years at Red-White . At the next turn of the year, the goalkeeper went from the Leipzig suburbs to FSV Zwickau . With the of Zwickau he succeeded in 1994, the rise in the second league, in which of the necessary qualifying round his teammate Ralph Kircheis in all four games the FSV gate guarded. In the first second division year Hoffmeister was with 31 of 34 possible season inserts goalkeeper at FSV Zwickau, which sporty could not stay in the league, but due to the Lizenzentzüge Dynamo Dresden and 1. FC Saarbrücken allowed to remain in the 2. Bundesliga. In the following two years he sat behind the Latvian national goalkeeper Oļegs Karavajevs largely only on the reserve bench. In the previous Zwickau second division season , Karavajevs and Hoffmeister both made 15 appearances.

After the relegation of the FSV, the goalkeeper went back to FC Rot-Weiß in Erfurt in the third-class regional league . There the now 35-year-old Hoffmeister stayed behind Steffen Kraus but in 1998/99 as a substitute keeper. The former GDR junior selection player ended his long career with the then fourth division SSV Erfurt-Nord in the Oberliga Nordost .

Selection bets

At the beginning of the 1980/1981 season, 17-year-old Rainer Hoffmeister was appointed to the squad of the GDR junior national team for the first time . He played his first international match with the U-18s on September 28, 1980 in Chirpan, Bulgaria. In the 2-0 defeat against the Bulgarian junior team, he was substituted on for Thomas Michalowski from Erfurt. Later he was in his eleven junior international matches until 1982 seven times over the entire season in goal. The highlight of his junior career was in 1981 when he took part in the friendship youth competitions in Czechoslovakia , in which the GDR team only achieved 7th place.

After Hoffmeister had outgrown the junior age, he started his career in the DFV youth national team in 1984 before his first and second division debut . Horst Brunzlow , who was commissioned in 1983 to rebuild the U-21 team in preparation for the 1986 European Championship , used Hoffmeister for the first time in the international match between Denmark and GDR (1: 3). Then Hoffmeister played a total of 13 junior international matches by 1985, including all six games in the European Championship qualification, in which the GDR could not qualify for the quarter-finals of the competition. With the 1-1 home draw in the qualifier against Yugoslavia , Hoffmeister's career in the youth national team ended.

At the beginning of 1986 Rainer Hoffmann was appointed to the squad of the GDR Olympic team. Since he was only classified as number two behind Jörg Weißflog, Hoffmeister was only used in the test matches. This also included the games at the Nehru Cup , in which the East German Olympic team met the Olympic teams from the Soviet Union and Bulgaria. At the beginning of 1986 he played three and Dirk Heyne two of the five East German games. In the 1987 edition of the tournament, the Erfurt and Magdeburg team (two appearances each) shared the four matches. In the end, the GDR reached the semi-finals. In the qualifying games for the 1988 Olympic football tournament, he was not considered. After the GDR team missed the Olympics in spring 1988, Hoffmeister could no longer play a role in the reconstruction with the changed U-23 regulations in the summer of 1989.

literature

  • Andreas Baingo , Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , page 310.
  • DSFS (Ed.): Nordost-Journal-Extra. Amateur football in northeast Germany: 1991 / 92–1994 / 95. Data, facts and figures from six regional associations. Berlin 2013.
  • Hanns Leske : The GDR league players. A lexicon . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-392-9 , page 192.
  • Hanns Leske : Magnets for leather balls. Goalkeeper of the GDR . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-368-4 , page 93/94.

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personal data
SURNAME Hoffmeister, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1963