Werner Welzel

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Werner Welzel (born June 21, 1923 in Dessau ; † April 21, 2001 in Dessau) was a German football player and national player of the GDR .

Championship career

SV Dessau 05 / BSG Motor Dessau

Welzel had been known to Dessau football fans since the 1940s, when he was still playing for the multiple Gaumeister SV Dessau 05 . For a while, "18-year-old Welzel playing in the style of an expert" also appeared as a guest player at Hannover 96 . Years later, in the autumn series of 1947/48, he appeared as a "zone jumper" at Werder Bremen .

Also in the post-war years the Dessau club, now as the company sports association Waggonbau Dessau, played a good role and from 1949 to 1954 belonged to the Oberliga , the top East German soccer class. Welzel was one of the pillars of the team. When the East German unified union, the Free German Trade Union Federation, launched the FDGB soccer cup in 1949, BSG Waggonbau Dessau won 1-0 against BSG Gera Süd in the final on August 28, 1949 in Halle (Saale) . At the first East German cup winner, Werner Welzel, then 26, was involved on the half-left stumbling block .

In his five league years in Dessau he was the most successful goalscorer of his team, with 65 goals he scored a fifth of all Dessau goals in the league, of 156 possible point appearances he played 142. In the league season 1953/54 Welzel's home team, which is now BSG Motor Dessau called, exceeded the peak of their performance. The average age of the regular eleven was 27 for the time, well above the league average, and several top performers had since left the team. As the new coach, Walter Fritzsch introduced new training methods, the harshness of which the players were not used to before. An open revolt broke out against the coach, in which Werner Welzel was also involved. He was then banned for six months along with five other players. At the end of the season Motor Dessau had to relegate.

Berlin / Leipzig / Halle

After serving his suspension, Welzel went to the league promoted ASK Vorwärts Berlin , for which he played nine point games in the 1954/55 semi-series. At the beginning of 1955, numerous players from the dissolved SC DHfK Leipzig were delegated to the ASK, which in turn sent surplus players to SC Vorwärts Leipzig . Werner Welzel was among them. After six months he would have had to move again, because the soccer section from Vorwärts Leipzig was relocated to Cottbus .

Welzel, however, stayed in Leipzig and joined the SC Rotation Leipzig , which had just finished the league with a third place. In the meantime, however, Welzel was already 32 years old, and with the exception of a deployment in the transition round in 1955, he was only used in the reserve team of Rotation. After the end of the 1956 season, Welzel went to Halle (Saale) in order to be able to play at least in the second-rate GDR league at SC Wissenschaft Halle . A year and a half later, the fact that his team fell victim to restructuring was a stroke of luck. The SC Wissenschaft was converted in June 1958 into the reserve team of the upper division club SC Chemie Halle , and so Welzel was given the opportunity to offer himself for games in the top division. Until the end of the season (the rhythm was then spring / autumn) he was used there four times. It was his last league game, because Chemie Halle was relegated, and after being promoted again immediately Welzel was too old for high-performance football at the age of 36. He ended his active football career in 1960 after he had completed 156 point games in the GDR league and scored 68 goals.

National team

With his consistently good performances, Welzel also drew the attention of GDR national coach Willi Oelgardt in the early 1950s . After the first appearance of the GDR national team , which was disappointing with a 3-0 defeat against Poland , he was looking for powerful strikers. So Welzel got his chance on October 26, 1952 in the international match against Romania . At 1: 3 in Bucharest , the GDR team scored their first goal, but that was scored by Karl Schnieke from Jena . In the further search for national players Welzel was not taken into account, so there was only one senior international match. Further selections were a B international match on May 10, 1953 (GDR - Poland 3-0) and seven appointments to the state selection of Saxony-Anhalt.

Trainer

After his active career, Welzel, who was a trained sports teacher, worked as a trainer at SC Chemie Halle (until 1962) and from 1962 to 1967 at BSG Motor Dessau , which he helped to advance to the GDR league in 1963 . Between 1967 and 1973 he was a trainer at SC-Chemie's successor HFC Chemie , where he looked after the 2nd team. He then trained Chemistry Wolfen until 1981 , where he also made it to the GDR league in 1977.

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Single references

  1. ↑ http://vorwaerts-cottbus.de/ Spieler- profil / Werner_Welzel / 193 /1955
  2. ↑ Football Week, North German edition of September 22, 1942, page 7
  3. ↑ Jankowski / Pistorius / Prüß : Fußball im Norden , Bremen and Barsinghausen 2005, page 100
personal data
SURNAME Welzel, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wetzel, Werner (misspelling of the DFB)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 2001
Place of death Dessau