Dieter Fietz

Dieter Fietz
Personnel
birthday	September 12, 1942
Juniors
Years	station
until 1963	SC Empor Rostock
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1963-1964	Forward Neubrandenburg
1964-1965	Forward Rostock
1966-1970	Motor Warnowwerft Warnemünde
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
	GDR U-18	3 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1970-1971	Motor Warnowwerft Warnemünde
1972-1974	1. FC Union Berlin (Co)
1974-1975	1. FC Union Berlin
1982-1984	Stahl Hennigsdorf
1984-1989	KWO Berlin
1992	Blue-White 90 Berlin
1 Only league games are given.

Dieter Fietz (born September 12, 1942 ) is a former German soccer player and coach who was under contract with 1. FC Union Berlin and Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin , as well as a functionary with CSKA Moscow .

Sports

Dieter Fietz began his career in the junior division of the SC Empor Rostock and was part of the extended upper league squad of the Ostseestädter. He took part in 5 junior international games for the GDR . To his further playing career belonged GDR league representatives. In 1968 he graduated from the DHfK in Leipzig with a specialization in football.

Fietz initially worked as a trainer in Warnemünde . In 1972 he moved to 1. FC Union Berlin, initially as an assistant coach. In 1974 he replaced Ulrich Prüfke as head coach. The targeted promotion to the GDR Oberliga he did not succeed with this club. In the following years Fietz took on responsibility as a district trainer in Berlin and accompanied and promoted a.o. a. Andreas Thom already as a 13-year-old talent. Fietz appeared in the 1980s at Stahl Hennigsdorf and KWO Berlin as a trainer and at 1. FC Union as deputy sports director. An appointment by the GDR Football Association in 1985 to coach the GDR's Olympic football team failed because his parents, as retirees , had submitted an application to leave the GDR and his dismissal from 1. FC Union Berlin was justified by this process. This marked the beginning of his successful training at KWO. Dieter Fietz developed excellent relationships with the Soviet armed forces stationed in the GDR , which meant that KWO temporarily ran up with up to four Soviet players from the SASK Elstal army sports club, who had international experience from their home clubs.

With the dissolution of the East German league representative KWO Berlin immediately after the fall of the Wall , Fietz stepped in again briefly in 1992 as a coach at the second division club Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin. In terms of sport, he was still able to free the club from the relegation zone, but at the end of the season Blau-Weiß went bankrupt. Due to his old relationship between KWO Berlin and SASK Elstal, Fietz was subsequently hired as general manager of the Russian army sports club ZSKA Moscow. He stood for the Russians a. a. as an international players agent , represented the club in front of the UEFA committees and made a name for himself when he organized the club's Champions League game in 1993 in Berlin's Olympic Stadium . Overall a successful time in which u. a. also 2 victories in Champions League matches over FC Barcelona counted. In addition to his work for CSKA Moscow, Fietz was also the team manager of the Russian national soccer team in preparation for the 1994 soccer World Cup in the USA.

Business activities

With the help of influential members of Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin, Dieter Fietz built a finance and insurance sales agency (approx. 500 employees) in East Germany, with which he realized his start-up capital for further business activities. The sporting contacts in Moscow brought him further business opportunities, which he realized with the construction of two hotels between 1995 and 1998, with the second hotel being built on the premises of CSKA Moscow. Fietz was the first foreigner to build and run a hotel (ART HOTEL MOSKAU) in Russia on a private basis after the October Revolution in 1917 . Another extraordinary project also took place at this time, which was based on the socio-political upheavals in the former Soviet Union: In 1999 Fietz bought most of the holdings of the State Art Academy of the USSR and had 3500 works of art transported to Berlin, from where they moved to marketed across Europe over the next three years.

Dieter Fietz, as managing director of International Sport Promotion (ISP), attracted attention , which was to bring 1. FC Union Berlin as main sponsor from 2009 to 2014 an annual income of two million euros. After 1. FC Union had already received the first installment of one million euros, the contract was terminated by the football club. The reason given was the Stasi past of the chairman of the ISP's supervisory board, Jürgen Czilinsky . As a consequence, his immediate resignation was not enough for 1. FCU to continue the partnership, which was originally planned for five years.

During his eight years (2002 to 2010) in Dubai and Qatar , Fietz was, among other things, advising the football association of Qatar, the Qatar Football Association , with the power of attorney of the sports committee of the German Bundestag in the context of the application for the football World Cup 2022 .

literature

• Dieter Fietz In: Hanns Leske: Encyclopedia of GDR football. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 .
• Dieter Fietz In: 11 Friends : The Adventure of His Life .