Christian Radtke

Christian Radtke (born April 5, 1950 ; † 2018 ) was a football player in the GDR upper league . In the highest East German soccer class, he played for FC Hansa Rostock .

Radtke was accepted into the youth team of FC Hansa Rostock in 1975. From 1967 he played for Hansa in the junior league, and on April 5, 1970 he made his debut as a left winger for the 2nd team for the first time in the men's area. Almost four weeks later, on May 2, 1970, he was in the Bundesliga team for the first time in the encounter between FC Dynamo and FC Hansa (0-0). In the 75th minute he was substituted on for left winger Gerd Kostmann . A week later he was used a second time in the Oberligaelf. For the 1970/71 season Radtke was officially nominated for the league team, but was only used as a substitute in the first two match days, after which he played continuously in the 2nd team until October 1970. In November of that year he had to start his army service. At the beginning of the 1972/73 season Radtke was able to play again for FC Hansa and was already on the threshold of becoming a regular player with 17 league appearances. He achieved this status in 1974/75 with 24 of 26 possible first division games. At the end of this season, however, Rostock rose from the league. In the second-rate GDR league , Radtke completed only nine point games in 1975/76, the rest of the time he spent again in the 2nd team, which now played in the Rostock district league due to the relegation of the 1st .

He was then delegated from the club at the end of the season and had to join the GDR league club TSG Bau Rostock . After he had become TSG's most successful goalscorer with twelve goals in the 1977/78 season, he was allowed to return to FC Hansa Rostock at the beginning of the 1978/79 season and played there in 17 league point games. After a year Hansa was relegated again to the GDR league, but this time Radtke was significantly involved with 28 out of 30 possible point games in the immediate rise.

From 1980 the FC Hansa stabilized in the league and the 1.85 m tall Radtke finally became a regular player, from the summer of 1980 to 1985 he played 109 of the 130 league point games. In addition, the trained engineering economist began studying law in 1981. When Radtke ended his career with Hansa Rostock in the summer of 1985, his record showed 184 league games with 21 goals and 28 cup games with two goals. He then let the competitive sport fade away with the district league club Chemie Piesteritz .

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• Stations: Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 .
• Dates of birth, league operations: Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The history of the GDR league. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .
• Details of games: Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): DDR-Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FC Hansa mourns the loss of Christian Radtke on the pages of Hansa Rostock, accessed on April 19, 2018.