Klaus-Dieter Seehaus

Seehaus as a national player in 1964

Klaus-Dieter Seehaus (born October 6, 1942 in Hagen / Westphalia , † February 10, 1996 in Rostock ) was a German football player (GDR).

Athletic career

Seehaus grew up in Schönberg in western Mecklenburg and began his football career in 1955 with the lower-class Dynamo Schönberg . At the age of 17 and a completed lathe operator training, he came to what was then SC Empor Rostock, the predecessor of FC Hansa Rostock . There he first played a year in the junior team and was then used in the reserve team of SC Empor. After he had completed his first league game as a substitute on September 16, 1961, he became a regular in the Oberligaelf from the 1962/63 season and replaced midfielder Heinz Minuth . With Herbert PankauIn the next few years he formed the central axis of the Rostockers. At that time Empor / Hansa Rostock had its "silver series", in which the team was runner-up in the GDR Oberliga four times within seven years and twice in the final of the GDR Football Cup (FDGB Cup). Seehaus was used in Rostock in 261 league games and is the player with the third most appearances for Rostock after the GDR league ranking. In his league appearances he scored four goals.

His good performances in the club also helped Seehaus to an international career. At the age of 22, he played for the first time on December 17, 1963 for the GDR national team , which defeated Burma 5-1 in Rangoon. In 1964 he was a member of the GDR Olympic team, which won the bronze medal in Tokyo. Between 1964 and 1965 he was also used in six games of the GDR youth team. Seehaus played his 10th and last international A match on November 22, 1969 in the 3-0 defeat of the national team in the World Cup qualifier against Italy in front of 90,000 spectators in Naples.

After finishing his active career, Seehaus was a coach from 1974 to 1979 at the second-class company sports association Schifffahrt / Hafen Rostock , where his former club mate Herbert Pankau also played in the first year . He then worked as an engineer-economist at the Rostock shipping company and the Rostock service combine. After the political change in 1989, Seehaus became unemployed and later became ill with alcohol. He died in 1996 at the age of 53 in Rostock.

Web links

• Klaus-Dieter Seehaus in the database of the German Football Association
• Seehaus biography at www.fc-hansa.de ( Memento from March 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )