Bernd Krauss (soccer player)

Bernd Krauss (born December 5, 1947 ) is a former German football player who played for FC Carl Zeiss Jena from 1966 to 1970 in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of GDR football . In 1970 he was GDR champion with FC Carl Zeiss.

Athletic career

At the age of 18, Bernd Krauss moved from the company sports community (BSG) progress Meerane to the runner-up of the preseason FC Carl Zeiss Jena for the 1966/67 season . After he was first used in the games of the reserve team, he came on October 29, 1966 in the match of the 8th game day FC Carl Zeiss - Lok Stendal (3: 1) for the first time in the league. He was called up as a substitute for the not ready to play Dieter Lange as a left winger. In the further course of the season Krauss could not play his way into the top line-up of the top division team and ended up only playing nine top division games. In the 1967/68 season, in which FC Carl Zeiss became champions of the GDR, Krauss was not part of the league team. Instead, he played 26 of the 30 point games played with the 2nd team, which played in the second-rate GDR league . Only in the season 1968/69 Krauss returned to the league team, in which he came first as a substitute in the first half of the season, but was regularly used in attack from the 17th matchday on. With 14 league games, it was the best season in Bernd Krauss's career. In the 1969/70 season, FC Carl Zeiss became champions for the third time, but Kraus only made five appearances. In addition, he played twelve minutes in the 1969/70 Messestädte-Pokal in the first round encounter between FC Carl Zeiss and Altay İzmir (1-0). Although Bernd Krauss was also mentioned in the print media for the 1970/71 season in the top division, he was actually only used in the second team, where he played 19 games until April 1971. With the league team he completed the second half of the quarter-final match in the 1970/71 European Cup Red Star Belgrade - FC Carl Zeiss (4-0), with which the Jena team were eliminated from the competition.

In May 1971 Krauss was drafted into the military for a year and a half, but during this time he was able to continue playing football at SG Vorwärts / Motor Teltow in the third-class Potsdam district league . After the end of his military service, Krauss joined the GDR league club BSG Wismut Gera in November 1972 . By the 1976/77 season he played 65 point games and scored 24 goals. While BSG Wismut failed in the promotion games to the league in 1974 and 1975, it succeeded in promotion in 1977. In the promotion season, Bernd Krauss was one of the guarantors of success with 30 appearances and twelve goals. However, he was not allowed to play in the league (according to Leske, Encyclopedia of GDR Football , p. 274 “because of alleged [long ago] lack of discipline”).

Krauss therefore moved to the 1977/78 season for the newly promoted GDR league SG Dynamo Gera . There he played 18 of the 22 point games, but could not prevent the immediate relegation. In order to be able to continue playing in the GDR league, Bernd Krauss progressed Weida . There he came by 1982 within four seasons with a total of 88 point games on 66 missions. Then Weida was relegated from the GDR league and Krauss ended his career in higher-class football at the age of 34.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1966–1982. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 274.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 321.

Web links

• Bernd Krauss in the database of the German Football Association