Henry Schützer

Henry Schützer (born February 1, 1931 ) is a former German soccer player in Lauter, West Saxony . For the BSG Empor Lauter he played in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football .

Career as a soccer player

When BSG Empor Lauter played their first East German league season in 1952/53, only four players were younger than 22 years: Hans Meyer , Karl Pöschel , Gottfried Schubert and Henry Schützer. As a 19-year-old, he won the Saxon runner-up in 1950 with the previous team SG Lauter. From 1950/51 he played after renaming with the BSG Freiheit Wismut Lauter in the second-class DS league and rose in 1952 with the again renamed BSG Empor Lauter team in the GDR upper league.

Coach Walter Fritzsch saw Schützer as a right winger, but initially put Karl-Heinz Mohr, three years older, in this position. Schützer only got his chance after eleven championship games and played 17 point games by the end of the season, initially on the right attacking side, later as a left winger. When Heinz Pönert was the new coach for the 1953/54 season , this protector was sent to the reserve team. In the league team, Schützer only played ten point games at irregular intervals, several times only as a substitute.

In the first half of the season 1954/55 Schützer was not used in the league at all, and he was not one of the players who moved to SC Empor Rostock in November 1954 . At the age of 23, after 27 league games in which he had scored six goals, he ended his career in the GDR league.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 .
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .
• GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho . Born 1952 to 1954