Siegfried Meier
Siegfried Meier (born July 10, 1924 - † October 17, 1977 ) was a German football player .
career
society
Siegfried Meier, who was born in Duisburg , became acquainted with football relatively late. In French captivity in 1944 he played in a camp elf in Marseille . After the end of the war in Zwickau , he played for a short time in 1946 for Ebersbrunn and SG Planitz in the first district class eleven. With success, because in 1948 he played in the district class for Cainsdorf . After SG Cainsdorf was incorporated into ZSG Horch Zwickau in 1949 , he immediately became a regular player and developed into one of the best left wingers in GDR football in the early 1950s.
As an active member of the ZSG Horch Zwickau, he won the GDR championship in 1949/50 in front of the SG Dresden-Friedrichstadt . With BSG Motor Zwickau he was in the FDGB Cup final in 1954 , which was lost to the ZSK Vorwärts KVP Berlin with 1: 2 goals. Overall, Siegfried Meier came to 147 DS / GDR league games for Motor Zwickau and scored 37 goals. He played another 11 league games in 1951 for Vorwärts Leipzig without scoring his own. He was also used at Motor Zwickau in 22 FDGB Cup games, in which he scored 9 goals.
With the state selection of Saxony, for which he played 4 games (2 goals), Meier won the GDR country cup in 1951.
National team
For the national team of the GDR he played a total of three international matches , including the first international match against Poland on September 21, 1952 in Warsaw, when he was substituted on for winger Johannes Matzen . The Motor Zwickau player also played his second international game against Poland, and he was substituted on for Johannes Matzen. The game ended on September 26, 1954 in Rostock with a 0-1 defeat for the GDR. In his third and last international match on October 24, 1954 in Sofia against Bulgaria, Siegfried Meier scored the consolation goal by converting a penalty eleven to the 1: 3 final score. This was the first penalty that the GDR was awarded in its international history. With the end of the 1954/1955 season, Siegfried Meier ended his league career at Motor Zwickau, but remained active in the reserve team until 1960.
Siegfried Meier died on October 17, 1977 at the age of 53 of complications from a brain tumor.
literature
- Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 .
- Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
- Norbert Peschke , 100 years of football in the Zwickau region, self-published 2006, ISBN 3-9808512-6-5
- Norbert Peschke / Dieter Völkel, The history of FSV Zwickau, FSV Zwickau 2012, ISBN 978-3-9815145-0-6
Individual evidence
- ↑ Presentation of the players in the program of February 11, 1951 for the 23rd day of the Motor Zwickau game
- ^ Norbert Peschke / Dieter Völkel, The history of the FSV Zwickau, page 451
- ↑ Obituary in the program booklet No. 4 - 1977/78 from Sachsenring Zwickau
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meier, Siegfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Duisburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th October 1977 |
| Place of death | Zwickau |