Werner Oberländer

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Werner Oberländer (born November 28, 1921 ; † 2002 ) was a soccer player in Thale and Braunschweig , where he played in the top soccer class.

Soccer career

Thale until 1951

Oberländer started his football career in the small Harz town of Thale. He started at SpVgg. Thale 04 and later moved to the rival club SC Preußen Thale. After the end of the Second World War, in 1946, at the age of 24, he witnessed the rebuilding of football in Thale. The Soviet occupying power had banned all sports clubs and allowed sports competitions only in provisionally formed sports communities at district level. Oberländer joined such a sports community in Thale. In 1948 the sports community was taken over by the newly formed company sports community Eisenhüttenwerk Thale , whose football section then started a successful period with its center forward Oberländer. On April 7, 1950, the BSG EHW became regional champion of Saxony-Anhalt with a 3-1 victory over the BSG hydrogenation plant Zeitz. After the subsequent promotion games to the GDR Oberliga were successfully designed, the team played in the first division of East Germany in the 1950/51 season. During the season the BSG was renamed Stahl Thale. As a newcomer, the steelworkers achieved a respectable 6th place and surprisingly won the GDR soccer cup with a 4-0 victory over runner-up Turbine Erfurt. In the final on September 3, 1950, Oberländer was called up as a center forward and scored 3-0 in the 80th minute. Previously, Oberländer was the third-best goalscorer in the Oberliga with 31 goals and was used three times in the Saxony-Anhalt state soccer team. He was also part of the 30-man squad of the provisional GDR football team and played five games with her, in which he scored two goals.

As early as 1950, Oberländer had been elected to the newly founded Football Committee of the German Sports Committee , the forerunner of what would later become the German Football Association of the GDR . In addition to him, Alfred Kunze and Georg Buschner , who later became known as football coaches, were appointed. On April 27, 1951, the GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho published its poll results for the most popular GDR athletes of the year. The winners were the soccer players Werner Oberländer and Fritz Gödicke .

Eintracht Braunschweig 1952 to 1956

Despite these achievements and honors Oberlander left 1,951 Thale in December and, together with the football players Winfried heart , Heinz Wozniakowski and goalkeeper Heinz Senft life of turbine Erfurt, East Germany . During a "guest appearance" in the shirt of BSG Chemie Leipzig , Oberländer drew attention to himself in front of 65,000 spectators with two goals against Hamburger SV in August . The quartet joined the Lower Saxon upper division club Eintracht Braunschweig and was used there (with the exception of Senftleben) immediately at the start of the second half of the 1951/52 season, contrary to the statutes, in a upper division game against Göttingen 05 . Since Eintracht lost 1: 4, Oberlander's goal could still be credited to him. At the end of the season, the affair no longer played a role, as Braunschweig was forcibly transferred to the amateur league because of more or less proven attempted bribery, so that Oberländer and the others had to play second class for a year. The Eintracht succeeded with coach Edmund Conen the immediate rise, and then Oberländer played three more years in the Oberliga Nord , one of the five highest divisions of the German Football Association . In the Oberliga Nord he was used in 54 league games and scored 21 goals.

Return to Thale in 1956

In the summer of 1956 Werner Oberländer returned to Thale. There he was initially banned from the GDR Football Association with a one-year ban and from May 1957 he played again for the Stahl Thale team, which had meanwhile been relegated to the third-rate 2nd GDR league . In 1959 he ended his career as an active soccer player. For Thale he had played a total of 141 point games in which he had scored 107 goals. Of these, 42 games and 38 goals were played in the GDR Oberliga, making him the Thalensians' best Oberligatorschützen. Oberländer then took over the training of BSG Stahl Thale for many years.

In 1998 Oberland became an honorary citizen of the city of Thale.

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The following sources were used for the first version of the article:

literature

  • Jankowski / Pistorius / Prüß : Fußball im Norden , Barsinghausen 2005, pages 94 ff
  • Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-463-1 (chapter "Fräulein Hilde and the bones").

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chronicle 1951 , Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg , viewed on July 5, 2017.
  2. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt of August 24, 1951
  3. ↑ Honorary Citizen of the City of Thale , viewed on July 5, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Oberländer, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1921
DATE OF DEATH 2002