Rolf Baumann (soccer player, 1933)

Rolf Baumann (born December 10, 1933 ) is a former German soccer goalkeeper. From 1953 to 1961 he played 114 games for Motor Zwickau in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football . Baumann is a junior and B national player of the GDR.

Athletic career

In 1953, Rolf Baumann moved from the third-class district division Empor Apolda to the Oberliga-third Motor Zwickau. There he was first second goalkeeper behind Heinz Hippmann , so that he came to his first league appearance only on the 15th matchday of the 1953/54 season in the encounter progress Meerane - Motor Zwickau (4: 1). By the end of the season Baumann had played a total of five league games. He was with Zwickau in the final of the GDR soccer cup (1: 2 against Vorwärts Berlin ), and he played an international match with the GDR junior national team. In the following season 1954/55 he managed to outstrip Hippmann, who was six years his senior, because he played 23 of the 26 point games. Baumann maintained his regular place in the Zwickau goal until the 1958 season (since 1956 calendar year season). In 1959, Heinz Franke overtook him , because Baumann was only used twelve times in the league. In 1960 Baumann was only used in ten league games, but played one international game with the B national team. 1961/62 (return to the summer-spring rhythm) was Baumann's last league season, in which only four league games were called up.

In 1961 Baumann moved to the local neighbor, activist Karl Marx Zwickau, in the third-class II. GDR League . With activist he rose in 1962 to the first GDR league , in which he played 57 point games for activist until 1967. Baumann then retired from competitive football at the age of 33.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1953–1967. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 63.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 348.

Web links

• Rolf Baumann in the database of the German Football Association