Horst Assmy

Horst Assmy (* November 29, 1933; † January 14, 1972 in Kassel ) was a German football player and national team of East Germany.

Junior and second division players in Berlin

1947, in so far as Berlin already normalized after the Second World War, the sports setting that could take place in football regular competitions. In the Berlin city league twelve teams from the four sectors played for the Berlin championship. Among them was the VfB Pankow, who landed at the end of the season in 8th place. Here had registered at the beginning of the season the 13 -year-old Horst Assmy. He played in the youth teams of Pankow until he was accepted in the season 1952/53, in the cadre of men's team. Meanwhile, the GDR sports leadership had withdrawn the East Berlin football teams from the league and all of Berlin city incorporated in 1950 in the highest DDR - Oberliga league. Among them was also the VfB Pankow, who had indeed become the end of the season knocked off Table, after transformation into a Sports Association (SPA ) under the name Pankow unit but another season in the league was allowed to play. Even after re- Table, the Pankow had for season 1952/53, now competing in the second-rate DDR League with the 18- year-old Horst Assmy. At the beginning of the season unit Pankow had advanced into the semi-finals of the East German Cup ( fdgb Cup ), but it lost to Lok Stendal 0-1. The Stendaler but was disqualified because of the use of a not eligible player, so Pankow in Berlin contested the final against the SG People's Police Dresden on 14 September 1952. In the prior of 0:2 Assmy came off the bench in the team, but could not avert the final 0-3 defeat. As at the end of the season with a 10th place stopped the decline of the sport in Pankow, Assmy moved to Berlin BSG Motor Oberschoeneweide which, however, relegated from the league also had an unsuccessful season behind. 1953/54, failed to Oberschöneweider Weidern Although the resurgence, Assmy could still achieve success for themselves. First, he made 1953 his first game in the U -23 of the GDR ( followed by a second in 1954 ) and was subsequently appointed to the East Berlin city selection, which took on December 25, 1953 against a selection of West Berlin. In the 3-2 victory of the East Berlin scored Assmy bicycle kick made ​​it 2-0. Just five months later denied Assmy, after all, still second division player, on 9 May 1954 was the first senior international match. 70,000 spectators, it was used in Berlin in the encounter with Romania as a substitute.

DDR - Oberliga and football champions with Vorwärts Berlin

In the summer of 1954 Assmy was again in the interest of the Berlin sports events. The Army football team of the ZSK Vorwärts Berlin had risen in the league and had tried in the search for talented players to poach Assmy and other performers of motor Oberschoeneweide. Because of violent protests in the public ZSK first had to take some of the projects spacing. Meanwhile, the tug of war over Assmy went on, because even at SC DHfK Leipzig one was interested in the young striker who should go for the newly formed football team Sport University hunting for goals. Although many other teams had players delegate to Leipzig, the Oberschöneweider Weider Assmy could time being respected. However, they lost with Lothar Meyer ( SC DHfK ) and Günther Wirth ( Vorwärts Berlin ) at the beginning of the season in 1954/55 valuable player, and so also Assmy saw no sporting perspective more in the Sports Association. In December 1954, he also signed up with the Berlin Army football players. There he was immediately starting eleven and formed as right striker along with his old teammates Wirth a dangerous wingers. After his second international match on September 18, 1955 again against Romania, he had also finally won a permanent place in the East German national team. On December 16, 1956 was another year of Assmy fdgb Cup final, but had to this time, now against chemical hall with 1:2 accept defeat. 1958 Assmy was finally able to celebrate his first title victory, Vorwärts Berlin had become sovereign by six points GDR Champion. With its eleven gates Assmy had contributed as top scorer of his team much success. The following year it was initially not as good for the Army football players, and Assmy was attacked together with other players publicly for its lack of riders. Then he left, along with his teammate Rolf Fritzsche in September 1959 the army club and went illegally to West Berlin. Assmy had until then as an Army football player holds the rank of First Lieutenant, and so his departure was sentenced with great propagandistic effort than desertion and betrayal of the GDR sports. In the East German official statistics, he was henceforth no longer performed, although to his credit 102 DDR - Oberliga games and 27 goals, and 12 A- international matches with 4 goals.

GDR national team

(* Serial No. of the GDR 's international match listing)

In addition Assmy In 1958, in a B international match of the German Democratic Republic for use.

Contract player in West Berlin, Gelsenkirchen and Kassel

Because of dressing change Assmy subject first to a 14 - month ban. As of November 1960, he played for one season at the Berlin Oberliga Tennis Borussia, then in one of the five highest West German divisions, was used in 15 games and scored five goals. In the season 1961/62 Assmy played 20 games and scored nine goals for FC Schalke 04 in the Oberliga West, came to three goals in four games of the Cup finals. But even with Schalke was disbanded after one year the contract again and Assmy moved again, this time to the Oberliga Süd to KSV Hessen Kassel. It was the last stop of his career as an active soccer player, in which he again played together for two years with his former colleagues Fritzsche forward. By the end of the season 1964/65 Assmy completed 57 point games in Kassel, where he scored eleven goals. In the last two seasons Kassel was only second-rate, because the team failed to qualify for the Bundesliga introduced in 1963. In June 1965, Assmy took at the age of 31 years leave from active football. He died at the age of 38 from kidney failure.