Waldemar Mühlbächer

Mühlbächer 1956

Waldemar Mühlbächer (born September 25, 1937 in Mediaș , Romania ) is a former soccer player and 17 times national soccer player of the GDR .

Athletic career

Mühlbächer came to Germany from Romanian Transylvania with his family of German descent during the Second World War as part of the National Socialist Heim-ins-Reich program . His father Wilhelm Mühlbächer had played in Romania at the Urania Sighișoara club, and in Germany he played in Leipzig-Schönefeld and Grimma . Between 1947 and 1955 he was a player in Unity / Progress Meerane , where he competed 38 times in the GDR league .

His son Waldemar Mühlbächer began playing football at Progress Meerane as a teenager. He was 18 when Meerane was relegated from the league in 1955. At this point he had already played six games in the GDR junior team, so he was anxious to play in the top GDR soccer class in the future. So he joined the SC Dynamo Berlin in 1956, which had reached 7th place in the GDR Oberliga last season. With Werner Heine and Martin Skaba , Mühlbächer is one of the players who later shaped Dynamo, who no longer belonged to the generation of players who moved from Dresden. On June 13, 1956 he came in the 3-0 away win at SC Empor Rostock for his first league use. His first year in Berlin ended in disappointment, however, because the Dynamo team had to be relegated from the league at the end of the 1956 season. After the direct resurgence, Mühlbächer was appointed to his first international match on May 1, 1958. In the game against Albania (1: 1) he was used in midfield as the left runner. By 1965, 16 more games followed with the national team.

Mühlbächer only received titles once when he won the GDR Cup with Dynamo Berlin on December 13, 1959 (3-2 against SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt ). On June 10, 1962, he and his team were once again in the cup final, which the Berliners lost 3-1 to SC Chemie Halle .

At the end of the 1967/68 season, Mühlbächer ended his football career. After 13 years at Dynamo Berlin, he had played 218 league games and scored 31 goals as a midfielder. In addition to his 17 international A matches and six junior selection matches, he was also used four times in the youth team and four times in the B national team.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 324.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 294.

Web links

• Waldemar Mühlbächer in the database of the German Football Association