Siegfried Loh

Siegfried Loh (born September 25, 1928 ) was a football player at SC Motor Karl-Marx-Stadt . There he played three seasons in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of the GDR Football Association .

When the GDR Oberliga carried out a transition round to switch to the calendar year rhythm in the fall of 1955, the 27-year-old midfielder Siegfried Loh was used for the first time in a league game at the company sports association (BSG) Chemie Karl-Marx-Stadt. He played all thirteen games of the transition round and scored two goals. At the beginning of the 1956 season, the soccer section of BSG Chemie was incorporated into the newly founded SC Motor Karl-Marx-Stadt. Loh was still used mainly in midfield and brought it to 21 stakes. In the league season 1957 Loh started weak, had to record only four missions up to the 10th game day. It was only when defender Siegfried Schwärig was out in the summer that Loh took over his position on the right defensive side and thus made 17 league appearances. The SC Motor ended the season as relegated and played in 1958 in the second-rate first GDR league. The new coach Fritz Wittenbecher ordered Loh back into the right midfield, where he initially played the first five point games. The 7th matchday with the encounter between Stahl Stalinstadt and SC Motor (0-0) was Loh's last league game of the season. Only as a substitute did he only come on in the 74th minute. The SC Motor had to relegate from the first GDR league after the season. In the second GDR league, the immediate promotion to the first league succeeded, but there Loh was no longer part of the SC Motor squad. This left him with a record of 51 league games with two goals and six GDR league games without a goal.

literature

• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 324.
• DFSF (Ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 8). Berlin 2011, p. 253.

Web links

• Siegfried Loh in the database of the German Football Association (with the wrong first name Manfred)