Walter Espig

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Walter Espig (born August 14, 1921 in Lauter / Sa. , † January 19, 1993 ibid) was a football player in the GDR upper league . In the top division of GDR football , he played in the 1950s for the company sports clubs Empor Lauter and Motor Zwickau .

Athletic career

The season 1949/50 was for the football players of the West Saxon Erzgebirge -based SG Lauter to a sense of achievement. The players from the town with 8,000 inhabitants had left teams from Aue, Plauen, Zwickau and Chemnitz behind in the Saxon football championship and had become champions of the western relay. Although they were defeated in three finals by the East Master SG Dresden-Mickten , they qualified as runner-up for the newly created second-class DS league . The 28-year-old Walter Espig was one of the successful players.

After two years in the second division, the team, initially renamed BSG Freiheit Wismut and then renamed BSG Empor, was promoted to the GDR league in 1952. Both the BSG Empor Lauter and Walter Espig easily found their way around the first class. The team was 10th among 17 league clubs at the end of the season, Espig played, mainly as a half-right striker, 30 of 32 point games. He scored 15 championship goals and was not only the best Lauterer shooter, but also placed 5th in the league goalscorer list, ahead of greats like Günter Schröter (Dresden), Herbert Heinze (Zwickau) or Johannes Schöne (Babelsberg). In the 1953/54 season Espig was used in all 28 league league games, first played as an attacker on half left, at the end of the season as a left runner . In the summer of 1954, Espig began his third league season with Empor louder. By the end of October he played all eight championship games, initially again in midfield, later as a half-right striker. In the course of October, the players of the BSG Empor Lauter were asked to join the newly founded sports club Empor Rostock , which was supposed to take over the Oberligaplatz of the Lauterer. Nine regular players followed the request and played for SC Empor Rostock from November. The players Hertzsch , Friedrich and captain Espig, with a total of 19 championship goals Lauterer record scorer, refused and joined the neighboring league club Motor Zwickau.

At Motor Zwickau, Espig was used as a striker from the beginning of the second half of the league in January 1955. Playing half right or half left, he played eleven of the thirteen second round matches. In the transition round to the future calendar game year held in autumn 1955, Espig was consistently called up on the half-left attacking side and was only missing in one of the thirteen matches. In the same position he played all 26 league games in 1956. The same was repeated in 1957 until the 20th matchday, after which Espig was missing until the end of the season in four point games. In the 1958 season he was only used in six league games up to the 8th matchday, only one of which over the full game. After that, Espig's senior league career was over, in which he had played 122 league games between 1952 and 1958 and scored 30 goals. The 37-year-old returned to Lauter , where he completed his career as a football player with the lower class BSG Motor.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Collective of authors: Successful athletes. Walter Espig . In: Festschrift Heimatfest 850 years Lauter. Where the Gehringsberg greets us , Aue, BERGstrasse, 2008, p. 168.
  2. ^ Obituary notice in the Free Press , local edition Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb. dated January 23, 1993.
personal data
SURNAME Espig, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Louder / Sa.
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1993
Place of death Louder / Sa.