Heino Kleiminger

Heino Kleiminger
Kleiminger in 1964.
Personal information
Date of birth 3 February 1939
Place of birth Wismar, Mecklenburg, Germany
Date of death 16 April 2015 (aged 76)
Place of death Rostock, Germany
Position(s) Forward, midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1956 BSG Motor Wismar
1956–1970 SC Empor/Hansa Rostock 191 (62)
1970–1974 TSG Wismar 79 (23)
International career
1956–1957 East Germany U18 3 (0)
1963–1964 East Germany 4 (5)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Heino Kleiminger (3 February 1939 – 16 April 2015) was a German footballer. He was capped four times for East Germany in 1963 and 1964. He survived a massive heart attack in 1997, and had a bypass operation in 1998.

Kleiminger died from cancer on 16 April 2015 in Rostock, aged 76.[1]

Personal life

His son, Ralf Kleiminger (born 1963), was also a footballer.

References

  1. ↑ "Hansa-Nationalspieler Heino Kleiminger ist tot". sportbuzzer.de (in German). 17 April 2015. Archived from the original on 18 April 2015. Retrieved 20 April 2015.