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

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Club career

Mühlbächer began his senior career with BSG Fortschritt Meerane from

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. 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. BSG Fortschritt Meerane was relegated to the second-tier

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after the 1954-55 DDR-Oberliga. BSG Fortschritt Meerane finished the 1955 DDR-Liga in first place, but the 1955 season was a transitional season, as the league switched from an autumn-spring to a spring-autumn format, and no teams were promoted to or relegated from the DDR-Oberliga. BSG Fortschritt Meerane thus continued in the DDR-Liga in the 1956 season. Mühlbächer played for BSG Fortschritt Meerane in the DDR-Liga during the first half of the 1956 season. But in the summer of 1956, the East German football weekly Die neue Fußballwoche (FuWo) announced that Mühlbächer had joined the

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and would continue to practice his sport at

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. Mühlbächer then joined the first team of SC Dynamo Berlin in the DDR-Oberliga. The move to

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SC Dynamo Berlin would give him better prospects for his sporting development. Mülbächer made his debut for SC Dynamo Berlin against SC Empor Rostock in the 1956 DDR-Oberliga on 13 June 1956. 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 who had been transferred from

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to SC Dynamo Berlin in 1954. Mülbächer won the

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with SC Dynamo Berlin. Mühlbächer scored a

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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. He became the best goal scorer of BFC Dynamo in the 1965-66 DDR-Oberliga. Mühlbächer ended his football career with

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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

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from 1958 to 1965.

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