Werner Oberländer
Werner Oberlander ( born November 28, 1921) was football players in Thale and Brunswick, where he played each in the highest soccer class.
Football career
Thale to 1951
Oberlander began his football career in the small town of Thale, Harz. He started for SpVgg. Thale 04 and later moved to the competition SC Prussia Thale. After the end of World War II, he experienced in 1946 as a 24 -year rebuilding the sport in the valley with. The Soviet occupation authorities had banned all sports clubs and sports competitions allowed only in temporarily formed sports teams at the district level. One such sports community in Thale joined Oberlander. 1948, the sports community was taken over by the newly formed Sports Association ironworks Thale, whose football section then with their center forward Oberlander started a successful period. On April 7, 1950, the BSG EHW national champion of Saxony -Anhalt was a 3-1 victory over the BSG hydrogenizing Zeitz. After the subsequent rise of games to DDR Oberliga were successfully designed, the team played in the season 1950/51 in the first division of East Germany. As the season progresses, the BSG called into steel Thale. As a freshman, the steelmaker reached a respectable 6th place and won on top of that surprisingly the GDR FA Cup with a 4-0 victory over runner- Turbine Erfurt. In the final game on September 3, 1950 Oberlander was summoned as a center forward and scored in the 80th minute, the time between 3-0. Previously, Oberlander in the league with 31 hits third best scorer and had become used three times in the Football Select a country Saxony -Anhalt. He also belonged to the 30 - man squad of the provisional East German football team and played with her five games in which he scored two goals.
In 1950, Oberlander had been elected to the newly established technical committee of the German Sport Football Committee, the forerunner of the German Football Association of the GDR. Next to him also who later became known as a football coach Alfred Kunze and Georg Buschner were called among others. On 27 April 1951, the GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sport Echo released their survey results by the most popular East German athletes of the year. As the winner of the football players and Fritz Werner Oberlander Gödicke had been chosen together.
Eintracht Braunschweig 1952-1956
Despite these successes, and honors left top countries in December 1951 Thale and together with the football players Winfried heart, Heinz Wozniakowski and goalkeeper Heinz Senft life of turbine Erfurt the GDR. The quartet joined the Oberliga Niedersachsen Eintracht Braunschweig and was there ( except Senft Life) 1951/52, the statutes unconstitutional used immediately with the start of the season in a league match against Göttingen 05. At the end of the season played the no longer relevant because Brunswick was forcibly transferred to the amateur league for more or less proven bribery trials, so Oberlander and the other one years had to play second-rate. The harmony was achieved with coach Edmund Conen of immediate re-emergence, and then played Oberlander three more years in the Oberliga Nord, one of the five top divisions of the German Football Association. In the Oberliga Nord it was used in 54 league matches and scored 21 goals.
Return to the valley in 1956
In the summer of 1956, Werner Oberlander returned to the valley. There he was first occupied by East German Football Association with a one-year lock and played May 1957, again for the team of steel Thale, which was now relegated to the third class II DDR -Liga. In 1959, he ended his career as an active football player. For Thale he had a total of 141 point games contested in which he scored 107 goals. Accounts of which 42 games and 38 goals, with whom he became the best scorers in the league Thale on the DDR Oberliga. Then took Oberlander for many years the training of BSG Steel Thale.
Swell
For the first version of the article, the following sources were consulted:
- Hanns Leske: Encyclopedia of the GDR football. The workshop, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3
- Baingo / Horn: History of the GDR Oberliga. Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-428-3
- Oberlander in steel Thale
- Oberlander at Eintracht Braunschweig