Waldemar Mühlbächer

Waldemar Mühlbächer (25 September 1937 – 3 July 2021) was a German footballer.

Club career Mühlbächer began his senior career with BSG Fortschritt Meerane from Meerane in Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt.

He played for BSG Fortschritt Meerane in the 1954-55 DDR-Oberliga. He made his first appearance in the DDR-Oberliga as a 17-year-old in the match away against SC Rotation Leipzig on 30 Match 1955. Mühlbächer played four matches in the DDR-Oberliga for BSG Fortschritt Meerane during the 1954–55 season. But in the summer of 1956, the East German football weekly Die neue Fußballwoche (FuWo) announced that Mühlbächer had joined the Volkspolizei and would continue to practice his sport at SC Dynamo Berlin. Mühlbächer then joined the first team of SC Dynamo Berlin in the DDR-Oberliga. The move to sports club SC Dynamo Berlin would give him better prospects for his sporting development. Together with Werner Heine and Martin Skaba, he was part of the new generation of players that would come to shape the team of SC Dynamo Berlin in the late 1950s, and who did not belong to the generation of players that had been transferred from SG Dynamo Dresden to SC Dynamo Berlin in 1954. Mülbächer won the 1959 FDGB-Pokal with SC Dynamo Berlin.

Mühlbächer scored a hat-trick for SC Dynamo Berlin in the 3–2 win against SC Lokomotive Leipzig in the final matchday of the 1961-62 DDR-Oberliga on 13 June 1963.

The football department of SC Dynamo Berlin was separated from the sports club and reorganised as football club BFC Dynamo during the winter break 1965-1966. BFC Dynamo played its first competitive match against BSG Motor Zwickau on the 14th matchday of the 1965–66 DDR-Oberliga at the Dynamo-Stadion im Sportforum on 12 February 1966. BFC Dynamo won the match 2–0. Mühlbächer scored the first goal for BFC Dynamo in the match and thus also scored the historic first goal ever for BFC Dynamo in a competitive match. Mühlbächer became the best goal scorer of BFC Dynamo in the 1965-66 DDR-Oberliga.

Mühlbächer ended his football career with BFC Dynamo after the 1967–68 season. He played 218 matches and scored 31 goals in total in the DDR-Oberliga for SC Dynamo Berlin and BFC Dynamo between 1956 and 1968.

International career Mühlbächer also played in 17 matches for the East Germany national football team from 1958 to 1965.

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