Wolfgang Jeßner

Wolfgang Jeßner (born July 8, 1931 ) is a former German soccer player. In 1956 and 1957 he played with the SC Rotation Leipzig in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football .

Athletic career

At the age of 24, Wolfgang Jeßner played his first point games in higher-class football in the 1954/55 season. For the company sports community (BSG) Empor Wurzen , he completed the last six point games in the second-rate GDR league , where he introduced himself with his only goal on his first use. Usually he was used as a center forward. Subsequently, in the fall of 1955, a three-month transition round with 13 match days was carried out in GDR football to switch to the calendar year season based on the Soviet model. Wolfgang Jeßner was used in nine games without scoring a goal. Coach Hans Studener initially experimented with him as a striker, then he used him both in defense and in midfield.

For the 1956 season Jeßner moved to the league club SC Rotation Leipzig, the top club of the Rotation sports association , where he should take the place of the retired striker Gerhard Matthäus . Leipzig coach Heinz Krügel immediately put Jahn in Matthäus' position as a half-left striker on matchday 1, but replaced him after 55 minutes. Jeßner did not play regularly until the 10th match day, was in the starting line-up fourteen times, but only five times over the full length of the game. He came to a total of 16 league missions, in which he was usually called up on the left attacking side. On matchday 14, Jeßner scored his first league goal in the match between SC Rotation and Lok Stendal in a 5-3 win, which was also the only one this season. Jeßner played 19 games of the 26 league games in the 1957 season. His former and now new coach of SC Rotation Studener now consistently used him from the start as a half-right striker and only replaced him once. With his nine goals Jeßner became the top scorer of his team. Two weeks before the start of the 1958 season, the SC Rotation Leipzig announced that its player Wolfgang Jeßner had been excluded because of behavior that was unworthy of the club.

Jeßner moved to the BSG Lok Ost Leipzig in the third class II. GDR league , with which he was relegated to the district league at the end of the 1958 season. In 1959 he won the Leipzig District Cup with Lok Ost, where he contributed two goals in the 4-2 final victory. His last football station was the third-rate BSG Motor Grimma , where he ended a sporting career in 1965.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1954–1965. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 239.
• 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 Jeßner in the database of the German Football Association
• Wolfgang Jeßner in the database of weltfussball.de