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Heino Kleiminger (3 February 1939 – 16 April 2015) was a
Heino Kleiminger (3 February 1939 – 16 April 2015) was a German
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. His career took place in East Germany, then an independent state known as German Democratic Republic
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Kleiminger, born in Wismar
Wismar (; Low German: ''Wismer''), officially the Hanseatic City of Wismar (''Hansestadt Wismar'') is, with around 43,000 inhabitants, the sixth-largest city of the northeastern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and the fourth-largest city ...
, Mecklenburg
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, originally played for BSG Motor Wismar. In 1956 he joined first division club SC Empor Rostock which in 1965 mutated into FC Hansa Rostock
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. The forward stayed there until 1970 and scored 62 goals in 186 league matches. In this period the club was four times runner-up in the championship and three times finalist in the cup competition. In 1963 and 1964 he won 4 caps for East Germany
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, scoring five goals, four thereof in a 12-1 win against Ceylon in Colombo. Between 1970 and 1974 he played for the second division
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side TSG Wismar.
From 1976 to 1981 he served as coach for second division club TSG Bau Rostock, nowadays known as Rostocker FC.
Kleiminger survived a massive heart attack in 1997, and had a bypass operation in 1998. He died from cancer on 16 April 2015 in Rostock
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aged 76. His son Ralf Kleiminger, born 1963, was also a footballer and played in the 1980s 32 matches in the East German first division for Rostock and 1. FC Magdeburg.
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