Wolfgang Juhrsch

Wolfgang Juhrsch (born January 6, 1948 ) was a football player in the GDR . For 1. FC Union Berlin he played in the highest GDR football class, the Oberliga . He played three times in the GDR junior national team. After his football career, he was a coach for lower-class football teams.

Soccer player

Saxony and Thuringia

At the age of ten, Juhrsch was accepted into the children's team of the company sports community (BSG) Aufbau Meißen . As a junior player, he moved to SC Einheit Dresden in 1965 , at that time second force in Dresden behind SG Dynamo. At the same time he was included in the squad of the GDR junior national team and played three junior internationals in autumn 1965, in which he was used as a midfielder. After Juhrsch was allowed to play for the men's division in 1966, he played briefly in the second-rate GDR league for FSV Lok Dresden, which has since been spun off from the sports club . In November 1966 he was drafted into military service and assigned to the Vorwärts Meiningen army sports community , where he could continue to play football in the GDR league. When Juhrsch was released from the army in May 1968, he joined the upper division club FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt , but was only used in the 2nd team that played in the GDR league.

1. FC Union Berlin

After the Rot-Weiß II was relegated at the end of the 1968/69 season, Juhrsch moved to the Oberliga relegated 1. FC Union Berlin. There, too, he initially only played in the 2nd team in the third-class district league . It was not until the second half of the 1969/70 season that he moved up to the first team and played eleven of the remaining 15 point games, after which Union had made it back to the league immediately. In the league season 1970/71 belonged to the squad of the 1st team and played his first league game on the 1st matchday. In the encounter between Union Berlin and Rot-Weiß Erfurt (4: 1) he was called up in the left midfield. If he was still used irregularly in the first half of the season, Juhrsch fought for a regular place in the Oberligaelf with twelve appearances in the second half. He defended this status and his position in midfield until 1975. 1973 Union had to relegate again, so that Juhrsch had to spend his last two seasons with the club in the GDR league. His last competitive game for Berlin on April 20, 1975 was the GDR league encounter Forward Frankfurt / O. II - 1. FC Union (0: 2). After 127 competitive games, including 65 league games with seven goals, the 27-year-old Juhrsch ended his career at 1. FC Union Berlin in the summer of 1975.

Career finale

Between 1975 and 1977 Juhrsch played for BSG Stahl Finow in the GDR league. After relegation from the GDR league, he moved for the 1977/78 season to the East Berlin district division Sparta Lichtenberg and was then active from 1978 to 1981 at the league competitor EAB Lichtenberg 47 . In the 1980/81 season Juhrsch behaved the Lichtenbergers to the district championship and promotion to the GDR league, but at the end of the season 33 years old finally ended his career as a football player.

coach

After his career as a soccer player, Juhrsch became a soccer coach. He only coached lower-class teams and usually changed at short intervals. Until 2010 he worked as a trainer for 17 sports communities and clubs. His first positions were, among others, the GDR district leagues Motor Eberswalde, TSG Meißen and Lok Halberstadt. Most of the years he stayed in Zehdenick, where he initially trained the BSG Aufbau from 1987 to 1989 and led them into the third-rate district league. 1997 and later from 2005 to 2008 he was in charge of the national league club SV Zehdenick. In addition, he worked from 1990 in the Potsdam and Berlin area, where he mainly worked for state division clubs (VfB Einheit zu Pankow, Eintracht Königs Wusterhausen (2000-2002), TSV Lichtenberg, MSV Rüdersdorf). At the beginning of 2009 he took over the coaching position at the regional league club Concordia Wilhelmsruh, which he led to promotion to the eight-class regional league after half a year. In 2018 he returned to the regional top division club FSV Eintracht 1910 Königs Wusterhausen, whom he continues to coach today. In the 2019/20 season, he and the Eintracht team were promoted to the national class again.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 240.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 296.
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .

Web links

• Wolfgang Juhrsch in the database of the German Football Association
• Wolfgang Juhrsch on immerunioner.de