Lutz Eigendorf was a German professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
12 Facts About Lutz Eigendorf
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Lutz Eigendorf began playing football for BSG Motor Sud Brandenburg in 1964, enrolled in the elite Children and Youth Sports School "Werner Seelenbinder" in Alt-Hohenschonhausen in Berlin in 1970 and joined the youth academy of BFC Dynamo the same year.
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Lutz Eigendorf proved to be a very talented player and made his professional debut for BFC Dynamo in 1974.
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Lutz Eigendorf went on to collect six caps, scoring three goals.
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Lutz Eigendorf's final international was a February 1979 friendly match against Iraq.
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Lutz Eigendorf jumped into a taxi without money and fled back to Kaiserslautern.
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Lutz Eigendorf had thereby defected to the West, hoping to play for the football team.
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In 1983, Lutz Eigendorf moved from Kaiserslautern to join Eintracht Braunschweig, all the while under the scrutiny of the Stasi who employed a number of West Germans as informants.
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Apparently, a large truck had blinded him by turning on its main headlights just as Lutz Eigendorf was approaching a curve.
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An autopsy indicated a high blood alcohol level despite the testimony of people he had met with that evening which indicated that Lutz Eigendorf had only drunk a small amount of beer.
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The police ruled the case an accident and Lutz Eigendorf was buried without autopsy.
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The thesis that an angry Erich Mielke arranged for the murder of Lutz Eigendorf is merely speculative, and it is unsupported by the facts.