Bernd Röpcke

Bernd Röpcke (born November 15, 1951 ) was a football player in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of the East German Football Association. He played there for 1. FC Union Berlin and BSG Chemie Leipzig . Röpcke is a six-time junior national player.

Athletic career

Röpcke played in the junior league team of FC Hansa Rostock until 1969 . In 1969 he also made six international appearances in the GDR junior national team, but was only a substitute in the offensive area. After Röpcke had become eligible to play for the men's area, he came there on April 4, 1969 in the 2nd team of FC Hansa in the league game of the second-rate GDR league BSG KKW Nord Greifswald - FC Hansa Rostock II (0-0) as a right winger Commitment. Five more GDR league games followed by the end of the season. The 1.79 m tall Röpcke did not make the leap into the league in the following years either. By 1971 he completed 22 point games in the GDR league for FC Hansa II. Röpcke played his last point game for Rostock on October 4, 1970 as a center forward in the encounter between Hansa Rostock II and SG Dynamo Schwerin (0-0). He then began an 18-month military service.

After his dismissal, Röpcke played from October 1972 for the GDR league club Schiffahrt / Hafen Rostock and completed 18 point games there by the end of the season. At the beginning of the 1973/74 season he joined the first division club 1. FC Union Berlin. Here he came to his first league assignment on June 9, 1973. In the game Union - Hallescher FC (2-0) he was substituted on as a center forward in the 70th minute and scored the 1-0 for his team just a minute later. By the end of the season he played another three point games, each as a substitute. Union was relegated and played in the GDR league in 1973/74. Here Röpcke was only used twice in the 22 point games, in the subsequent promotion round, in which Union failed with third place, but he completed all eight games. In the 1974/75 season Röpcke played for the GDR league club Motor Nordhausen .

In the summer of 1975 Röpcke changed again and joined the upper division chemistry Leipzig, where his former teammate Gerhard Brümmer had been playing for two years . On the 4th match day of the 1975/76 season Röpcke appeared for the first time for the Leipzig in a league game, in the encounter BFC Dynamo - Chemie Leipzig (1-0) he was used as a center forward. Usually in this position he played a total of twelve times this season. Röpcke also got down with chemistry in his first year. Without success, the chemists reached the promotion round twice, only in the season 1978/79 succeeded in returning to the league, Röpcke was involved with 27 missions and eight goals in the success. Also in the new league season 1979/80 he was a regular player in the Leipzig attack with 22 point games. On May 3, 1980 Röpcke played the last league game of his career. On the penultimate day of the season he was substituted on again in the 42nd minute in the match between Dynamo Dresden and Chemie Leipzig (4-0). So he had completed 38 games in the GDR league within seven years.

As a recreational soccer player, the engineering pedagogue joined the company sports association Baukombinat Leipzig in 1980, which at that time was playing in the third-rate district league. In 1987 Röpcke won the city cup with the Volkssportgemeinschaft Städtebau Leipzig.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 394.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 297, 327.
• Deutsches Sportecho , born 1969 to 1980

Web links

• Bernd Röpcke in the database of the German Football Association
• Bernd Röpcke on immerunioner.de
• City Cup winner 1987 on the website of VSM Städtebau Leipzig