Wolfgang Jahn (soccer player)

Wolfgang Jahn (born November 18, 1935 in Lobstädt ) is a former German football player who was active from 1956 to 1962 for the SC Rotation Leipzig in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football .

Athletic career

Even as a child, Wolfgang Jahn played football for the company sports association (BSG) Stahl Lippendorf . At the age of 18 he was accepted into their first men's team. There he developed into a successful striker, which led to the fact that the Leipziger Oberligaclub Rotation Leipzig brought Jahn in 1956 (calendar season) into its league team. Initially, coach Heinz Krügel let him play in the reserve team and only used him for short appearances in five league games. Under Hans Studener , Jahn immediately became a regular player in 1957, played all 26 league games as a striker on the half-left and became Leipzig's top scorer with nine goals. In the 1958 season, Studener put Wolfgang Jahn, who this time missed a point game, as the successor to the eliminated Manfred Pfeifer in midfield. There Jahn only scored one goal. In 1959, Jahn received his third Leipzig trainer, Martin Braunert , who put him in the defensive line. There, too, Jahn played all league games up to the 22nd matchday, but had no more opportunity to score goals. On the 22nd matchday he was injured so badly that he could no longer be used until the beginning of the 1961/62 season (return to the summer-spring rhythm). Then he completed 30 games of the 39 league games necessary because of the change of season, in which he played mainly in midfield, but in the end again in defense. Wolfgang Jahn scored his last and only goal of the season on matchday 3 in the 1: 2 defeat at SC Empor Rostock . After five seasons with 108 league stakes and eleven goals, Wolfgang Jahn ended his senior league career in the summer of 1962.

He returned to BSG Stahl Lippendorf and helped to end the 1962/63 season as a relay winner in the 2nd GDR league and as a promoter in the second-rate GDR league . In the 1963/64 season he could not prevent his team from being relegated again after a year. Of the 30 league games, Jahn only played 16 games and only scored one goal. After the 2nd GDR League was discontinued, Stahl Lippendorf was classified in the now third-class Leipzig District League . Jahn remained active there until 1967 and then worked as a trainer for both BSG Stahl and its successor club Sportfreunde Neukieritzsch until he was 75. The association then made him an honorary member.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1956–1962. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 234.
• Andreas Baingo , Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 329.

Web links

• Wolfgang Jahn in the database of the German Football Association
• Wolfgang Jahn in the database of weltfussball.de
• Wolfgang Jahn "Jahn's Bomber" - From Lippendorf to the top league and back at sportbuzzer.de