Christoph Franke

This article covers the soccer player and coach. For the musician see Christopher Franke .

Christoph Franke
Christoph Franke (1990)
Personnel
birthday	20th December 1944  (age 75)
place of birth	Mülsen St. Jacob ,
size	177 cm
position	Defender
Juniors
Years	station
1958-1961	BSG activist "Martin Hoop" Mülsen
1961-1963	BSG Motor Zwickau
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1963-1969	SC / 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	72 0(3)
1968-1988	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	163 (20)
1978-1981	BSG engine "Fritz Heckert" Karl-Marx-Stadt	48 0(4)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1962-1963	GDR U-18	4 (0)
1965-1968	DDR U-23	4 (0)
1968	GDR B	1 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1983-1986	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt (Juniors)
1983-1986	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt (assistant coach)
1996-2000	Chemnitzer FC
2001-2005	1. FC Dynamo Dresden
2008	Chemnitzer FC
1 Only league games are given.

Christoph Franke (born December 20, 1944 in Mülsen St. Jacob ) is a former German soccer player and today's coach .

Athletic career

BSG and club stations

He began his football career at the age of 13 with the BSG activist "Martin Hoop" Mülsen, the sports community in his home town. In 1959 he moved to the youth department of BSG Motor Zwickau and became a junior national player there .

At the beginning of the 1963/64 season, SC Leipzig took over the talented defender in its senior division squad . On March 28, 1965 Franke was used for the first time in a game of the GDR Oberliga. In the match on the 14th match day between SCL and SC Aufbau Magdeburg (6: 2) he was the central defender on the field and was then regularly used in this position, so that at the end of the season he was able to refer to nine league appearances. Franke stayed in Leipzig until 1969 and after the soccer department was outsourced from SC Leipzig in 1966, it was also taken over by the newly founded 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig . However, he only made his breakthrough as a regular player in the 1967/68 season, when he played all 26 league point games. During his time in Leipzig, he also obtained his diploma as a sports teacher at the DHfK sports university there .

In the summer of 1969, after 72 first division games for the Messestädter, he moved to the upper division club FC Karl-Marx-Stadt , where he was also a regular player in defense. At the end of the season, however, FCK was relegated to the GDR league , so Franke had to play in the second division for a year until he was immediately promoted again. He was used eleven times in the GDR league. After the promotion, the qualified sports teacher played for another six years for FCK in the league. In his last season, 1977/78, he only played the first match day between FCK and FC Vorwärts Frankfurt / Oder (3: 1), in which he was called up again as a defender. Subsequently, Franke was still part of the squad of GDR league club BSG Motor "Fritz Heckert" Karl-Marx-Stadt for three years .

As an active player, he completed a total of 224 GDR league games , in which the defensive team scored 23 goals. In the European Cup , he played nine games.

Selection bets

He completed his four international junior games in 1962 and 1963. Furthermore, Christoph Franke was used four times between 1965 and 1968 in the GDR youth team . In his only meeting with the B national team in October 1968 against Poland, the defender scored the 1-0 winner.

Coaching career

Immediately after the end of his active career, Christoph Franke began working as a junior coach at FC Karl-Marx-Stadt. From 1983 to 1986 he was responsible for the FCK junior league team, which he led to the GDR championship in 1986 . In 1988 he became the assistant coach of the GDR league team under Hans Meyer . It was not until 1996, after Reinhard Häfner's dismissal, that he received his first post as head coach at Chemnitzer FC and a short time later he was relegated with the team from the 2nd Bundesliga , but in 1999 he was promoted again. On September 7, 2000, the club separated from him due to continued failures. During Franke's coaching activity, Michael Ballack , among others, developed from a talented young player to a professional footballer in the 2nd Bundesliga.

In 2001 Franke received a trainer offer from the traditional Dynamo Dresden club , where he started work on July 1, 2001. With Dynamo Dresden he made two promotions in three years from 2001 (from the Oberliga to the 2nd Bundesliga) and in 2005 he was relegated and 8th place in the second-highest German division. In the 2005/2006 season, despite repeated failures, he survived an ultimatum for his dismissal when his club Dynamo Dresden could not win nine games in a row. Massive fan protests against his dismissal, which were unique in their dimensions in Germany, secured Christoph Franke his job as a trainer in Dresden. After twelve games without a win, he was released from his post on December 15, 2005. He is still the Dynamo Dresden coach with the longest term in office since the fall of the Berlin Wall and, after 1990, the only coach with a term of office of more than four years.

After he was even traded as the successor to Eduard Geyer at Dynamo Dresden in March 2008 , he took up the post of head coach at Chemnitzer FC on April 21, 2008, replacing Tino Vogel . By the end of the season, Franke had made it to the regional league and won the Saxony Cup . However, he was then replaced by Gerd Schädlich .

literature

• Andreas Baingo , Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 .
• Hanns Leske : The GDR league players. A lexicon . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-392-9 .

Web links

• Christoph Franke in the database of the German Football Association
• Christoph Franke in the database of weltfussball.de
• Christoph Franke in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Christoph Franke in the database of transfermarkt.de (player profile)
• Christoph Franke in the database of transfermarkt.de (trainer profile)