Willy Tröger

Willy Tröger (born 2 October 1928, died 30 March 2004) was a German footballer who played as a striker, spent his entire career with Wismut Aue and made 15 appearances for the East Germany national team. As a youth he played handball and began in football as a goalkeeper, but both were cut short in 1945 when he lost his hand to a grenade in Berlin after being drafted into the Wehrmacht as the war drew to a close. He retrained as a striker, played for local clubs in Zwickau and joined Wismut Aue of the DDR-Oberliga in 1951, following coach Walter Fritzsch. Until 1962, by which time the club had been renamed Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt, he scored 114 goals in 237 games, a club record, and was the league's top scorer in 1954-55 with 22 goals. For East Germany he scored 10 goals between 1954 and 1959, including two in the team's first victory, 3-2 against Romania in Bucharest in 1955.