Roland Krauss

Roland Krauss (born September 22, 1946 ) is a former German football player who played for 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig and BSG Chemie Leipzig between 1966 and 1971 in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of GDR football . Krauss is a multiple GDR junior national player.

Athletic career

At the age of ten, Roland Krauß was accepted into the children's soccer team at SC Lokomotive Leipzig . During the restructuring of Leipzig football, he moved to SC Leipzig in the summer of 1963 , where he was accepted into the junior team. In the fall of that year he was appointed to the squad of the GDR junior national team, for which he played fifteen junior international matches until 1965, in which he scored once.

In the 1966/67 season he came to his first use in the league. In the encounter on the 21st match day 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig (spun off from SC Leipzig) - FC Vorwärts Berlin , he was used as a midfielder. It was his only league appearance that season, and in 1967/68 Krauss only played three times in the league.

For the 1968/69 season Krauss moved within Leipzig to the top division rivals BSG Chemie. He was able to increase his league play rate significantly in the first season with 13 games, but was only regularly called up as a defender towards the end of the season. In the following season 1969/70 he was established as a regular player, further used in the defense, he only missed two of the 26 league games. 1970/71 he had several failures, so he came only to 17 appearances in the league. Chemie Leipzig ended the season as relegated, and Krauss had to do 18-month military service in the National People's Army after eleven GDR league games .

In the 1974 round of promotion to the league, Krauss appeared as a player in the East German league season winner Chemie Böhlen . He was used in four of the eight promotion games, but even with the former league player, the Böhlener did not make promotion. Subsequently, Krauss completed 17 of the 44 GDR league games played in the 1974/75 and 1975/76 seasons, scoring five goals.

In the summer of 1976 Krauss returned to Chemie Leipzig. The people of Leipzig had once again been relegated to the GDR league, but with Krauss' help they were immediately able to climb back into the league. Krauss was involved with 14 of 22 point games and one goal as well as in the promotion round with two games and one goal. At this time he was already 31 years old and was no longer used in the league for the 1977/78 season. Instead, he played another season with the 2nd team in the third-rate district league before ending his career as a footballer.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1963–1978. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 274.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 327, 329.

Web links

• Roland Krauss in the database of the German Football Association
• Portrait at www.lok-leipzig-db.com
• Chemie-Leipzig-Statistics at www.ronnysfanpage.de