Henning Frenzel

Henning Frenzel

Frenzel in 1976
Personal information
Date of birth	(1942-05-03) 3 May 1942
Place of birth	Geithain, Germany
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)[1]
Playing position	Striker
Youth career
1952–1959	Motor Gethain
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1960–1978	Lokomotive Leipzig	420	(152)
2004	Lokomotive Leipzig	1	(0)
National team
1961–1974	East Germany	56	(19)
	East Germany Olym.	16	(8)
Honours Men’s Football Competitor for  Germany Tokyo 1964 Team Competition
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (goals)

Henning Frenzel (born 3 May 1942 in Geithain) is a German former footballer. Frenzel was active in East Germany, and spent his entire career with Lokomotive Leipzig (in its various guises), where he totalled 420 appearances and 152 goals, respectively the third and fourth best in the DDR-Oberliga. He won 42 caps for East Germany, scoring 19 goals, and was part of the bronze medal-winning side at the 1964 Olympics.^[2] After retiring in 1978 he worked as a youth coach. In 2004, at the age of 62, he made a comeback for the now re-established Lokomotive Leipzig, in a Kreisliga-3 (tier 11) match against SV Paunsdorf.

Frenzel scoring against Rot-Weiß Erfurt in 1975.

References

Germany squad – 1964 Olympic Bronze Medalists 1 Heinsch 2 Urbanczyk 3 Walter 4 Geisler 5 Seehaus 6 Unger 7 Pankau 8 Rock 9 Körner 10 Barthels 11 Engelhardt 12 Backhaus 13 Bauchspieß 14 Frenzel 15 Fräßdorf 16 Nöldner 17 Lisiewicz 18 Vogel 19 Stöcker 20 Weigang Coach: Sós

DDR-Oberliga Top Scorer 1949–50: Satrapa 1950–51: Schöne 1951–52: Krause 1952–53: Arlt 1953–54: Satrapa 1954–55: Tröger 1955: Seligow 1956: Lindner 1957: Kaulmann 1958: Müller 1959: Bauchspieß 1960: Bauchspieß 1961–62: Bialas 1962–63: Ducke 1963–64: Backhaus 1964–65: Bauchspieß 1965–66: Frenzel 1966–67: Rentzsch 1967–68: Kostmann 1968–69: Kostmann 1969–70: Skrowny 1970–71: Kreische 1971–72: Kreische 1972–73: Kreische 1973–74: Matoul 1974–75: Vogel 1975–76: Kreische 1976–77: Streich 1977–78: Havenstein 1978–79: Streich 1979–80: Kühn 1980–81: Streich 1981–82: Schnuphase 1982–83: Streich 1983–84: Ernst 1984–85: Ernst 1985–86: Sträßer 1986–87: Pastor 1987–88: Thom 1988–89: Gütschow 1989–90: Gütschow 1990–91: Gütschow