Rolf Lohse (soccer player)

Rolf Lohse (born December 16, 1931 ) is a former German soccer player. For BSG Chemie Leipzig and SC Lokomotive Leipzig he played in the GDR Oberliga , the highest league in GDR football, in the 1950s .

Athletic career

Rolf Lohse played his first league season with the company sports association (BSG) Chemie Leipzig in 1952/53. Even before the start of the league game, the 20-year-old was used as a right defender in the friendly between BSG Chemie and Hertha BSC (3-2) on June 22, 1952. In the current season he came to only one league game, in which he played on the 14th matchday in the encounter Rotation Dresden - BSG Chemie (4-1) on the left side of defense. Lohse spent the rest of the time in the reserve team. In the season 1953/54 the chemistry coach Alfred Kunze put him in the first five league games, where he played in the newly introduced three-man chain in the central defense. After that, Lohne only made seven other league appearances at intervals. For the 1954/55 season, the Leipziger started as an SC locomotive. Lohse remained with six league games again only a substitute player, where he was used in two of his three full-time games in attack.

From 1956 GDR football was played according to the Soviet model every calendar year. This season Lohse moved to the fourth-class district division BSG Motor Schkeuditz . In his second season he was district champion with the Schkeuditzers and rose to the third-class II. GDR league . It was relegated to the second GDR in 1959 and rose again in 1960. Starting in 1961, the summer-spring rhythm was played again, for which 39 point games had to be completed in the 2nd GDR League. At the end of this season, Rolf Lohse was 30 years old and he ended his career as a football player.

literature

• The new football week : born 1952–1962. ISSN  0323-8407
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 303.
• Andreas Baingo , Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 327.

Web links

• Rolf Lohse in the database of the German Football Association
• Rolf Lohse in the database of weltfussball.de