Wolfgang Nitsche

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Wolfgang Nitsche (born June 6, 1925 ; † unknown) was a German football player. As a striker and goalkeeper, he played for KWU / Turbine Erfurt in the top division of GDR football . In 1954 he was GDR champion with Turbine Erfurt.

Athletic career

Nitsche began his career as a football player after the end of the Second World War with the Erfurt-West sports community. In 1948 he reached the semifinals of the Thuringian football championship with his team , but the Erfurt were defeated by SG Sömmerda with 0-2. When in 1949 the SG Fortuna emerged as the strongest sports club in Erfurt and qualified for the East German soccer zone league , which was held for the first time , Nitsche moved there.

At the beginning of the zone league season 1949/50, the SG Fortuna was restructured into the company sports community (BSG) KWU Erfurt. He played Nitsche's first zone league game on September 25, 1949 in the match on the 3rd day of the match between ZSG Industrie Leipzig and KWU Erfurt (0: 4). By the 23rd matchday he missed only two point games, but on this day he was injured so badly that he could no longer play the remaining three point games. With his nine goals this season, he was still one of the most accurate players at BSG KWU. At the end of the season, the KWU played the final of the GDR soccer cup . The game in which Nitsche was called up as a center forward was lost against BSG EHW Thale 4-0.

The 1950/51 season, in which the zone league in DS-Oberliga (Oberliga des Deutschen Sportausschusses ) and the Erfurt team were renamed BSG Turbine, Nitsche surprisingly began as a goalkeeper, as regular goalkeeper Heinz Senftleben was injured. Nitsche represented him for four game days and only then returned to the attack. He proved to be a particularly accurate goalscorer, because by the 32nd matchday he had already scored 19 goals. This earned him the nomination for two GDR selection games against a Polish union selection (in 1951, the GDR selection could not play any official international matches because they had not yet been accepted into FIFA ). Even before the first encounter, Nitsche rioted with some other players in a Berlin restaurant, with the result that the perpetrators were given longer game bans. Nitsche was banned from selection games for a year and for the rest of the league season. So he could not be used in the playoff for the GDR championship, which his team lost 2-0 to BSG Chemie Leipzig . (Erfurt and Leipzig were tied at the top of the table at the end of the season.)

In the season 1951/52 Nitsche was used variably in the attack of Erfurt and played in all storm positions except right wing. He was very effective and was Erfurt's most successful goalscorer with 18 goals. His 30 league appearances (of 36) also included four games in which he stepped in again as a goalkeeper. This also prompted Thuringia's selection coach to put Nitsche in the goal in a comparison with the state selection of Lower Saxony . At 5: 5, however, Nitsche did not cut a good figure. Turbine Erfurt also started again with Nitsche as goalkeeper in the 1952/53 season, until he had to retire injured in the fourth game. After he was operational again after a month, he moved back into the attack, where he used again in different positions, still denied 22 of the remaining 24 league games. He came to eight goals.

BSG Turbine Erfurt ended the 1953/54 season as GDR champions. Nitsche had little part in this. He was only a striker in three league games at the beginning of the season, after which he was missing until matchday 25. On that day he was substituted on again as a goalkeeper in order to guard the Erfurt goal until the end of the season. The last league game of the season, which brought the final decision about the championship for the BSG Turbine, meant for Wolfgang Nitsche at the same time the farewell to the higher class football sport. He had played five seasons for Erfurt, in which he had been used in a total of 114 first division games (16 times as a goalkeeper) and scored 55 goals.

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SURNAME Nitsche, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1925