Werner Bejer

Werner Bejer (born December 15, 1925 ) is a former German football player. From 1950 to 1952 he played in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of GDR football, for the BSG Einheit / Progress Meerane .

Athletic career

For the 1950/51 season, the company sports community (BSG) unit Meerane took the 24-year-old striker Werner Bejer on to the top division squad. Player- coach Erich Lüdecke used him in the league games from the start, and Bejer scored a goal in the first game. At the end of the season he had scored 21 goals and was the Meeraner top scorer . Bejer missed only two of the 34 league games. In February 1951, the Meeraner BSG was renamed BSG Progress. At the end of the season, Bejer won the GDR state cup with the Saxony state selection after a 2-1 victory over the Saxony-Anhalt selection . In the season 1951/52 Bejer could no longer build on the successes of the previous season. On the one hand, he failed in ten league games in the second half of the season and only scored six goals. The season was also negative for the team, because after three first division seasons they had to relegate to the second-rate GDR league .

Instead of continuing his career as Meerane progressed in the GDR league, Bejer joined the neighboring BSG Chemie Glauchau for the 1952/53 season , which played in the third-rate Chemnitz district league . With Bejer, the Glauchau were district champions and qualified in the promotion round for the GDR league. In his first GDR league season in 1953/54, Bejer helped his team with 20 appearances in 26 league games and ten goals to a surprising 2nd place in season 2 behind the sovereign season winner ASK Vorwärts Berlin . In 1954/55 Bejer was able to increase his stakes in the league to 25 and was the top scorer in BSG Chemie with 21 goals and in the league season 3. He was also the best goalscorer in Glauchau in the seasons 1957 (calendar year season) and 1958 with 16 and nine goals respectively . Before that, in the fall of 1955, when a transition round with 13 games was played in the GDR league to switch from the summer-spring game rhythm to the calendar year season, he had accomplished the feat of scoring six goals (best value for Glauchau) in only seven appearances. Bejer completed his last season in higher-class GDR football in 1959, in which the BSG Chemie had to be relegated from the GDR league. As a 33-year-old, he played 23 of 26 league games and added two more goals to his hit rate. Within eight seasons he had scored 27 goals in the major league and 66 in the GDR league. To do this, he needed 58 Oberliga and 148 GDR league games.

literature

• The new football week : born 1950–1957. ISSN  0323-8407
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 72 (as Werner Beyer).
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 334.

Web links

• Werner Bejer in the database of the German Football Association