Ernst Lindner

Ernst Lindner ( born March 11, 1935 in Goldbeck in the Altmark, † October 11, 2012 ) was a German football player. He played six times in the national football team of the GDR.

With 12 years Lindner began at the local sports community in Goldbeck to play the later BSG Empor, football. The Junior age outgrown he joined in 1953 by Altmark village in the center of the Altmark, the Oberliga BSG locomotive in Stendal. There he left a positive impression as a striker, so he was first appointed in May 1954 in the East German youth team and delegates in the autumn of the same year for the football section of the SC DHfK Leipzig. There he was to be built along with other football talents for top athletes. However, the two launched for this project Teams SC DHfK I and II could not meet the expected performance in the second-rate DDR -Liga and were released after five months. Lindner did not belong to the circle of players who were passed on to the top clubs forward and Dynamo Berlin, and as he tried to gain a foothold in the Oberliga SC Lok Leipzig. There he was, however, used only in two games and so he went to the end of the season in 1954/55 to Lok Stendal back.

At home, Ernst Lindner trumped then great. After the five -month transition round of the league to switch to the calendar-year season, he helped his team in 1956 to the rank of 4, the best placement in the history of BSG and was charged with 18 -goal top scorer of the league. After a game in the B team in September 1956, he came on 14 October 1956 at the game Bulgaria - DDR ( 3-1 ) his first appearance in the senior team.

These successes also had his first Stendaler coach Oswald registered Peacock, who is now in charge of the Stuttgarter Kickers. He persuaded Lindner, to come to him to Stuttgart. Lindner responded to the call and went early in 1957 illegally to western, southern Germany, in footballing terms. However, the part of the GDR without release and thus locked, it could not be used with the Kickers. He also found a low level team, the descent to the end of the season in the summer of 1958 from the Oberliga Süd. Repentant, he returned to Stendal back, but was assigned as " Refugee Republic " for the rest of the year with a match suspension and had to " prove themselves " as a production worker in the carrier operating the locomotive BSG, the Reichsbahn repair work.

For season 1958 Lindner could again compete for Lok Stendal. According to his negative experience, he now remained down to earth. Even when the locomotive crew had in the second division, he held the loyalty and remained until his retirement in late 1971 in Stendal. In 1964 he was honored by the football magazine " Fuwo " as play the strongest player of the season. After his rehabilitation Lindner 1959 also reinstated in the national team. Come on his account a total of 6 A and 6 B- internationals. In the league he played 242 league games (including 2 for the SC Lok Leipzig ) and scored 36 goals (all for Stendal ). He stands at the BSG Lok Stendal both Oberliga league matches as well as Oberliga gates at the top.

After his playing career, he returned to Goldbeck to act inter alia as coach of the first team (until 1992 ). He died on 11 October 2012.