Wolfgang Enge

Wolfgang Enge (* 17th September 1944 ) is a former German football player in the 1960s and 1970s for motor / Sachsenring Zwickau and FC Karl-Marx-Stadt in the DDR-Oberliga , the top division in East German football , running was.

Athletic career

Wolfgang Enge made his debut in the GDR league at the age of 20. On the 20th day of the 1964/65 season he was used as a midfielder at the Betriebsportgemeinschaft (BSG) Motor Zwickau. By the end of the season he had a total of five league games. In the following season he established himself as a regular player with 20 league appearances. After Enge had only been used in four league matches in 1966/67 and also failed to play in the cup final, which Motor Zwickau won 3-0 over Hansa Rostock , he moved to the second-rate GDR league team BSG at the beginning of the 1967/68 season Stahl Riesa . After he had played twelve league games there, he was taken over in December 1967 by the upper division club FC Karl-Marx-Stadt. After only two league missions, Enge had to do 18-month military service in the National People's Army in May 1968 . During this time he was able to continue playing football in the GDR league with the Army Sports Association (ASG) Vorwärts Leipzig . Of the 39 league games between August 1968 and October 1969, he completed 36 games and was successful with nine goals. Then Enge returned to Zwickau. His BSG Motor had meanwhile been renamed BSG Sachsenring, and the 2nd team played in the GDR league. With the GDR league team, he completed 14 more league games by the end of the 1969/70 season. 1970/71 Enge played his last league season, in which he was called up at irregular intervals in different positions. He also played nine more point games for Sachsenring II, in which he scored four goals. He completed his last season for the BSG Sachsenring Zwickau in 1971/72, in which he was used exclusively in the 2nd team. He missed only one of the 22 point games and with his eleven goals became the top scorer of the Zwickau. At the beginning of the 1972/73 season, Enge moved to local rivals BSG Motor Werdau , who were also represented in the GDR league. There Enge was a regular player for three seasons, he played 63 of the 66 played point games and was successful with ten goals. After he had only played two league games in 1975/76, he ended his career in higher-class football at the age of 31. Between 1965 and 1976 he had played 40 league games with two goals and 156 GDR league games with 36 goals.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1964–1976. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 121.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 323, 348.

Web links

• Wolfgang Enge in the database of the German Football Association