Wolfgang Knust

Wolfgang Knust (born January 11, 1929 - † June 10, 2013 ) is a former German football goalkeeper. For SC Chemie Halle Leuna he was in the goal of the GDR league team 17 times in 1955 and 1958 , and he was a long-time member of FC Grün-Weiß-Piesteritz.

Athletic career

Knust came as the goalkeeper of SC Chemie Halle-Leuna to his first league appearances after the regular goalkeeper Meininger had suffered a lengthy injury at the beginning of the second half of the 1954/55 season. Knust was used from the 15th game on and played seven games in a row before he was replaced by future goalkeeper Günter Melchior . Then Knust was only a substitute goalkeeper, until 1958 he was only 17 times in point games in the goal of the 1st team of SC Chemistry. In addition, he completed eight games in the second-rate GDR league in 1956 (change to the calendar year rhythm) , since the Halle residents were relegated in 1955. By the summer of 1958, Knust played most of his games with the SC Chemie reserve team. In June 1958 SC Chemie Halle-Leuna merged with SC Wissenschaft Halle and then appeared as SC Chemie Halle. The GDR league team of SC Wissenschaft became the 2nd team of SC Chemie and was reinforced by several SC Chemie players, including goalkeeper Knust, who remained a substitute goalkeeper. Since the first team was relegated again after the 1958 season, the SC Chemie II had to compete in the third-class II. DDR league in 1959 , the team was returned to the HSG Wissenschaft. Knust stayed there until the end of the 1960 season, after which he ended his career as a competitive athlete.

As early as 1939 he had joined the club FC Grün-Weiß Piesteritz , at that time still TSB (gymnastics and sports club) and later BSG Chemie Piesteritz. After his time at SC Chemie Halle-Leuna, he took an active part in club life, in the traditional team and as a trainer. After a heart attack in 1990, he ended his active football career and remained loyal to the club. In 2004, FC Grün-Weiß voted Wolfgang Knust into the “Eleven of the Century”.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1955–1960. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 261.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 319.

Web links

• Wolfgang Knust in the database of the German Football Association
• Wolfgang Knust at mz-web.de: "Honorary goalkeeper legend keeps the ball flat" by Andreas Hübner on November 24, 2010 (accessed on August 5, 2019)
• Wolfgang Knust obituary notice