Walter Schmidt (soccer player, 1920)

Walter Schmidt (born October 20, 1920 ) is a former German soccer player who played for the BSG unit Pankow in the top division of the GDR , the upper league of the GDR sports committee , in the early 1950s .

Athletic career

On December 13, 1950, the BSG unit Pankow was founded in East Berlin . In May 1950 she took over most of the football players who had previously played for VfB Pankow in the DS-Oberliga. In the just ended 1950/51 season, the VfB had become bottom of the league table and was thus determined to be relegated. Since the team of the Berlin SG Lichtenberg 47 had ended up on a relegation zone, East Berlin would only have been represented by one team with the SG Union Oberschöneweide in the 1951/52 season . In the opinion of the GDR government, the image of the “capital of the GDR” was not to be represented, so it was arranged that the BSG unit Pankow was integrated as an additional team in the league.

Since not all VfB players had made the move to the company sports association, the BSG team had to be formed with numerous new players. 31-year-old Walter Schmidt was one of them. The fact that the team was not suitable for the first division was already evident in the first league game, which was lost 9-0 in its own place against last year's ninth Motor Dessau . Schmidt only got in in the fourth point game, when the BSG unit already had a goal difference of 2:13. Even with Schmidt as the right defender, there was no improvement. At the end of the season, Einheit Pankow was at the bottom of the league table after only five wins in 36 point games and a goal difference of 38:94. Schmidt had established himself as a regular player and played in 32 point games.

Schmidt experienced a surprising success in his football career when he reached the final of the GDR Football Cup in 1952. Unity Pankow had lost the semi-final against Lok Stendal with 0: 1, but the Stendal team were disqualified because a player who was not eligible to play was involved. For example, Einheit Pankow and right-back Walter Schmidt played in the final against Dynamo Dresden , but lost 3-0 without a chance.

In the 1952/53 season Schmidt played with Pankow in the second-rate GDR league . After that there was no return for him to the first division football.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1950–1953. ISSN  0323-8628
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 336.

Web links

• Walter Schmidt in the database of weltfussball.de