Siegfried Tröger

Siegfried Tröger (born May 8, 1929 ) is a former German soccer player. From 1954 to 1959 he played for the SC Lokomotive Leipzig and the BSG Lokomotive Stendal in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football .

Athletic career

Until 1953 Siegfried Tröger played in the company sports club (BSG) Lokomotive Zwickau , most recently in the fifth class district class. For the 1953/54 season he moved to the upper division BSG Lok Stendal, but was initially only used in the reserve team. When the Stendal's league team was relegated at the end of the season, the GDR sports association Lokomotiv arranged for several Stendal players to move to the central club of the SC Lokomotive Leipzig sports association. Among them was the 25-year-old striker Siegfried Tröger. However, the action was reversed after the 3rd league match day of the 1954/55 season, and the previously transferred players returned to BSG Lok Stendal, which played in the second-rate GDR league after being relegated . Tröger, who had previously been used as a striker in two league games in Leipzig, also played for Stendal in attack and played all of the remaining 21 point games. He scored 20 goals and was the second best goalscorer of the Stendal team behind Kurt Weißenfels (34). While Lok Stendal ended the 1954/55 season as a promoted team, Tröger did not succeed in asserting himself as a regular again in the following seasons. In 1956 (change to the calendar year game rhythm) he was only used in five league games and in the first half of 1957 only in the last eleven games of the league season, but came in 1957 to five goals. Then Stendal rose again, but also in the GDR league season 1958 Tröger played only eight games in the first half, but scored six goals. Stendal managed to return immediately to the league, but Tröger only played two league games in the 1959 season and then ended his career in higher-class football as a 30-year-old.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1954–1959. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 494.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 342.

Web links

• Siegfried Tröger in the database of the German Football Association