Wolfgang Lichtenstein

Wolfgang Lichtenstein (born January 6, 1929 ) is a former German soccer player. From 1949 to 1955 he played for Unity / Progress Meerane in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football .

Athletic career

When the company sports community (BSG) Einheit Meerane started the first season of the Eastern Zone League (later GDR Oberliga) in 1949/50, striker Wolfgang Lichtenstein was the youngest player in the line-up at the age of 20. Nevertheless, he managed to play his way into the team of Meeraner with 23 appearances in 26 point games and four goals . In the 1950/51 season, in the course of which the team name was changed to BSG progress, he was missing from 34 point games in only one game and increased his goal rate to seven hits. The best of his career went for Lichtenstein in the 1951/52 season, when he was used in all 36 league games and with 15 goals was the second top scorer behind his strike partner Wolfram Starke (23). For BSG Progress, however, things went badly because they ended up on a relegation zone at the end of the season. In the second-rate GDR league , Lichtenstein fell out several times in 1952/53 and was only able to complete 16 matches of the 24 league games, but again as the second-best goalscorer, again behind Starke (25), with nine goals contributed significantly to the immediate resurgence. In his fourth league season too, Lichtenstein had to pass twelve point games, only made 16 appearances and only scored one goal. It was not until the 1954/55 season that he found his way back to his old strength, played 23 of the 26 league matches and scored five goals. But this time it was not enough to keep up and progress Meerane had to say goodbye to the league forever. After the transition round to change to the calendar year rhythm of play in the fall of 1955, in which Lichtenstein played eleven of the 13 games and scored five goals, he completed two seasons in the GDR league. In a total of 52 league games he was used in 46 games and scored five or two goals. At the age of 28, Wolfgang Lichtenstein ended his career in higher-class GDR football in the winter of 1957. Within eight years he had come to 131 league games (32 goals) and 73 games in the GDR league (21) goals.

literature

• The new football week : born 1949–1957. ISSN  0323-8407
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 294.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 334.

Web links

• Wolfgang Lichtenstein in the database of the German Football Association