Dietrich Gaatz

Dietrich Gaatz (born September 17, 1948 ) is a former German soccer player who played in 1974 for FC Hansa Rostock in the GDR upper league .

Athletic career

Gaatz was registered for the first time in national GDR football in 1968 when he played for the Army Sports Association (ASG) Vorwärts Meiningen in the second-rate GDR league . After completing his military service, Gaatz joined the GDR league club BSG KKW Greifswald , for whom he played the first league game on March 27, 1970. By the end of the season there were a total of eleven league games in which he scored three goals as a right striker. By the end of the 1973/74 season Gaatz was used in another 66 of 92 played point games, where he was only called up twice in the 1972/73 season. He added another eleven hits to his goal account.

In the summer of 1974 Gaatz was delegated to the upper division Hansa Rostock as a replacement for the long-term injured striker Jörg Kampf . There he came in the 1974/75 season for 1st team only on the 1st match day for use, and he played twice for Hansa II in the GDR league.

After this misunderstanding, Gaatz returned to BSG KKW Greifswald before the end of the season and played the last two point games of the season. In 1975/76 he was again a regular player in Greifswald with 16 point matches with two goals. In the 1976/77 season Gaatz did not play in the GDR league, for the 1977/78 season he was part of the squad of the GDR league promoter Motor Wolgast , for whom he continued to play second division football as a striker except 1979/80 (relegated) until 1981 .

literature

• German sport echo : born 1968–1981. ISSN  0323-8628 .
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 338.

Web links

• Dietrich Gaatz in the database of weltfussball.de