Horst Weigang

Horst Weigang ( born September 30, 1940 in Bielawa, Silesia) was soccer goalie in the GDR Oberliga for Leipzig and Erfurt, and was twelve times in goal for the national football team of the GDR.

Horst began his footballing career Weigang 1951 at Leipzig Medical Center, before moving to SC Lok Leipzig 1954. Besides his footballing commitment, he was trained as a fitter at the Deutsche Reichsbahn. 1961/62 he played for one season at Turbine Erfurt, before he moved back to Leipzig. There he played until 1967 at the 1 FC Locomotive Leipzig or its predecessor clubs SC rotation and SC Leipzig. In 1965 he was elected Player of the year in the GDR. In 1967 he moved again to Thuringia and still played until 1973 when FC Rot -Weiß Erfurt. A total of 234 league games for Weigang denied Erfurt and Leipzig. In the 1971/72 season he played 10 games in the second-rate DDR League for RWE.

Weigangs international career began in March 1958 in the junior national team. With it, he played a total of nine games. After six more games with the youth team and an insert in the B national team, he made ​​his debut in the GDR national team on 21 November 1962 in Berlin 2-1 against Czechoslovakia. Until 1967, he played a total of 12 caps for the German Democratic Republic. His greatest achievement was winning the bronze medal with the all-German team, represented by the selection of the GDR, at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964. It was used in the preliminary round game against Mexico in place of the ordinary goalkeeper Jürgen Heinsch. For the 1st FC Lok Leipzig he stood in 16 European games in goal.

After his playing career Horst Weigang worked on the coaching staff of Rot-Weiß Erfurt. Further stations as motor coaches were Weimar, Eisenach motor, motor Rudisleben (1980 /81), motor Gotha and Erfurt post. Furthermore, there was Horst Weigang as a teacher of social right and as a physical education teacher at the former chemical plant and Erfurt Rudisleben active.

His daughter, Birte was a successful swimmer and won, among others, at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul the gold medal in the 4 × 100 m medley relay of the GDR. His son Sven Weigang was also goalkeeper and played for the BSG Stahl Riesa in the GDR Oberliga and for blue - white 90 Berlin in the Bundesliga 2.

Since 2000, Horst operate Weigang and his son Sven in Kleinmachnow a football school.