Bernd Donau

Bernd Donau (born May 1, 1946 ) was a football player in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of the GDR football association . He played there for Hallescher FC Chemie , whose successor club Hallescher FC he led as coach in the 2nd Bundesliga in 1991 .

Athletic career

Donaus football career began in 1955 with the company sports association (BSG) Chemie Buna Schkopau . As a junior player, he was appointed to the squad of the GDR junior national team in 1963 and played his first international junior match as a right-back in the encounter between GDR and Romania (4-1) on October 13, 1963. By May 1965 he came with the junior selection to a total of five international matches. He was then taken over in the youth national team, for which he played an international match for the first time on October 31, 1965. In the 2: 3 in Poland he was used as a striker and was immediately successful with one goal. By 1968 he was used in a total of six junior internationals and scored two goals.

Before his appointment to the junior national team, Donau was delegated to the football center of his home district, the SC Chemie Halle, in the summer of 1965. A few months later, the football section of SC Chemie was converted to Halleschen FC Chemie (HFC). On the 2nd day of the 1965/66 season, Donau played his first game for Halle in the GDR league. In the encounter between Motor Jena and SC Chemie (2: 1) he started as a right winger. He immediately fought for a regular place in the league team and was there until the end of the season in all point games, where he was used in all five storm positions. In the league season 1966/67 he scored the most hits of his career with six goals and emerged as a half-left attacker in his 21 point games. In the summer of 1967 Danube suffered a serious injury, so that he could only play in the league again in the spring of 1968. From that point on, he was converted to a midfielder. In the spring of 1969 he was seriously injured again and was only used again in early 1970 for four games in the 1969/70 season in the major league.

In November 1970, Danube was drafted into a three-year military service without having played a league game after the summer break. During this time he played football for the Vorwärts Leipzig army sports community . With her he became district champion in 1971 and then played in the second-rate GDR league . When Donau was discharged from the army in October 1973, the HFC also played as a relegated league in the GDR league. Of the 30 point and promotion games, Danube played 15 more games and thus helped the Halle team to gain immediate promotion. At the age of 29, he then played his last league season. 1974/75 he completed eleven point games, the last of his career was the match on the 16th match day HFC - Vorwärts Stralsund (1: 1). So he had come within six league seasons to 86 league games in which he had scored ten goals.

After the end of his career as a football player, Donau started a new career as a football coach. Initially he worked for the HFC in the junior division, in 1987 he became assistant coach of the 1st team. In the summer of 1990 he replaced the dismissed head coach Karl Trautmann and led Halleschen FC in the 1990/91 season with fourth place in the 2nd Bundesliga. Under the direction of Danube, the HFC could not hold the class in 1991/92, and Danube was released again. After that he was no longer represented in top football. Most recently, he was the coach of the national league club SV Merseburg 99 , the successor to his former community Buna Schkopau, until 2008 . The association made him an honorary member in 2008.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 106.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 318.
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .

Web links

• Bernd Donau in the database of the German Football Association