Eduard Geyer

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Eduard Geyer
Federal Archives Image 183-1989-0812-013, SG Dynamo Dresden - HFC Chemie 2-0.jpg
Geyer (left) as coach of Dynamo Dresden in 1989
Personnel
birthday October 7, 1944
place of birth Bielitz ,  German Empire
size 184 cm
position Attack , defense
Juniors
Years station
1954-1956 Construction of Dresden center
1957-1962 SC unit Dresden
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1962-1965 SC unit Dresden 54 0(7)
1965-1968 FSV locomotive Dresden 74 (12)
1968-1975 Dynamo Dresden 113 (13)
1970-1975 Dynamo Dresden II 11 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1962 GDR junior selection 4 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1975-1986 Dynamo Dresden (youngsters)
1986-1990 Dynamo Dresden
1989-1990 GDR national team
1991-1992 Bányász Siófok
1992-1994 FC Sachsen Leipzig
1994-2004 Energy Cottbus
2005-2006 Al-Nasr Sports Club
2006-2007 FC Sachsen Leipzig
2007-2008 Dynamo Dresden
1 Only league games are given.

Eduard "Ede" Geyer (born October 7, 1944 in Bielitz , Upper Silesia ) is a former football player in the GDR league , in which he was twice champion and once cup winner with Dynamo Dresden . He is a GDR junior national player several times. As a football coach , he worked in the GDR league, for the GDR national team, in the Federal Republic of Germany and abroad, where he is best known for his many years of experience at Energie Cottbus . Geyer worked under the code name "Jahn" for more than ten years as an unofficial employee for the GDR State Security .

player

Youth and second division players

After fleeing during the expulsion of his family from Upper Silesia after the Second World War, Geyer grew up in Dresden. At the age of nine he started to play football as a goalkeeper at the company sports association Aufbau Dresden-Mitte . In 1957 he moved as a field player to SC Einheit Dresden , whose first soccer team was leading in Dresden at the time and played in the Oberliga, the highest East German league. There he went through the usual youth teams. He won his first title as early as 1961 when he won the GDR Cup with the youth team. As a junior player he was part of the squad of the GDR junior national team, with which he played four international matches in 1962. A year later he played his first games with the men's team of SC Einheit Dresden, which now played in the second-rate GDR league . In 1966, the soccer section was spun off from the sports club and continued as FSV Lokomotive Dresden .

Soccer player at Dynamo Dresden

In 1968 the FSV delegated their 1.84 m tall striker Geyer to the new number one in Dresden football, SG Dynamo Dresden. Dynamo had also just been relegated to the GDR league, but with their new striker, who had already made 23 league appearances and seven goals, managed to return to the league within a year. In his first league season, however, it took until the 16th matchday before he got his regular place back in the storm. Although Geyer only made 13 league matches in 1970/71, as in the previous year, it was his most successful season, as he and his team were both champions and cup winners. In the cup final on June 2, 1971 against Berlin's FC Dynamo (2-1), Geyer was used as a center forward. In the 1971/72 season Geyer had his most league missions. From the beginning, coach Walter Fritzsch used him as a defender, and Geyer played 22 of the 26 point games played. In the following two seasons Geyer was only used in 13 and 16 top division point games. Meanwhile 30 years old, Geyer completed his last league season in 1974/75. He was only intended as a substitute and was only used for the injured Hartmut Schade and Siegmar Wätzlich in 13 games. At the end of the season he ended his career as a soccer player, in which he had played 90 league games with six goals for SG Dynamo Dresden.

Employee of the GDR State Security

After an unauthorized night stroll after a European Cup match in Amsterdam on September 15, 1971, the 26-year-old Geyer was forced by the State Security Service to work for him. As an unofficial employee , he was initially given the task of "securing the league collective of SG Dynamo Dresden." Under the code name "Jahn", he had to report on the sporting, political and character traits of his teammates. With the beginning of his trainer activity, Geyer was promoted to unofficial employee / suspected enemy activity (IMV) in 1975 and to unofficial employee in special operations (IME). His state security files show over 100 reports for the period from 1975 to 1986. In the summer of 1986 his work in the Stasi ended. The payment with East and West money denied by Geyer is evidenced by receipts. Geyer later justified his behavior: “Anyone who has never been to competitive sport in the GDR can certainly never understand my situation. I should have questioned a lot of things back then. "

2018 resignation as honorary captain of Dynamo Dresden

In 2018, Eduard Geyer's Stasi involvement was on the agenda again, with the threat of resignations as honorary captain of Dynamo Dresden by Klaus Sammer , Dieter Riedel and Hans-Jürgen Kreische with the demand that Eduard Geyer be deprived of honorary captaincy. Due to the pressure, Eduard Geyer resigned from his honorary leadership.

Trainer

Dynamo Dresden

Geyer, originally a technology engineer by profession, had already completed his training as a certified sports teacher while he was playing. Dynamo Dresden seamlessly accepted his previous player into its coaching staff, where he initially worked as an assistant coach in the junior division from 1979. From 1983 to 1986 he looked after the juniors, with whom he won the GDR championship in 1985 and the cup winners in 1985 and 1986. When the Dynamo men's team finished the 1985/86 season with a disappointing sixth place, Geyer was appointed as the new head coach on June 30, 1986. He led the team in his first season 1986/87 to the runner-up team and in 1989 to the championship title. He had replaced the BFC Dynamo , which had previously won ten championships.

National coach GDR

Because of this successful work, the GDR football association appointed Geyer in September 1989 in addition to his work at Dynamo Dresden as the coach of the national team , after the latter had not won five games under coach Manfred Zapf and the qualification for the 1990 World Cup was in jeopardy. Geyer once again gave hope when the national team won the next two World Cup qualifiers against Iceland (3-0) and the Soviet Union (2-1) under his leadership. Then came the political turning point in the GDR. The qualifying game in Austria was lost 3-0 and the qualification was gambled away. Geyer then looked after the national team until they were dissolved in 1990 in a further seven international matches, including the last international match against Belgium . Under Geyer, the team won eight games, two games ended in a draw and only two were lost.

Resignation from Dynamo Dresden

In April 1990, Geyer resigned from the position of head coach at Dynamo Dresden despite good prospects of winning the championship again. After the political influence ended due to the turnaround, the players protested against the authoritarian style of their coach. From October 1990 he worked as a youth coordinator for FC Schalke 04 .

Bányász Siófok (Hungary)

In the summer of 1991 Geyer got a job as a coach at the Hungarian first division club Bányász Siófok . Although he led the club in the course of the season up to the top group of the first Hungarian league, the engagement was ended before the end of the season in February 1992 for financial reasons.

Saxony Leipzig

Geyer then returned to Germany and took over the training of the league club FC Sachsen Leipzig at the beginning of the 1992/93 season . After a year, the Saxons had won the championship of the Oberliga Nordost under Geyer , but remained third-rate because the license for the 2nd Bundesliga was refused for financial reasons. When FC Sachsen lost contact to the top of the league in the spring of 1994, Geyer was sacked six game days before the end of the season in April 1994.

Energy Cottbus

On July 1, 1994, Geyer became coach of the regional division Energie Cottbus . Within three years he managed to move up to the 2nd Bundesliga with the team . After another three years, promotion to the 1st Bundesliga was achieved in 2000 . Geyer managed to keep the financially weak club in the first class for three seasons and caused a sensation by forming a successful team with a team consisting mainly of foreign players. 2003 Cottbus had to relegate back to the 2nd Bundesliga. When during the first half of the 2004/05 second division season Energie fell back to 14th place after just four wins and a 2-1 home defeat against Alemannia Aachen on matchday 14, Geyer was given a leave of absence on November 23, 2004 after ten years of service. The contract, which ran until June 30, 2006, was terminated on June 30, 2005.

Al Nasr and again Saxony Leipzig

After a nine-month interlude at the Arab football club Al Nasr in Dubai , Geyer returned to FC Sachsen Leipzig, where he initially worked as a sports director from May 23, 2006 and as a coach from October 4, 2006 with a contract that ran until summer 2008. Since FC Sachsen was close to bankruptcy in 2007, the club president and his deputy resigned on July 2, 2007 and Eduard Geyer agreed to cancel his current contract.

Dynamo Dresden

On September 25, 2007 Geyer took over the training management at his hometown club Dynamo Dresden. He became one of six coaches at Dynamo Dresden with several terms. The objective was to achieve at least the qualification for the upcoming single-track 3rd professional league . Although he had already achieved this on the penultimate matchday, his contract was terminated on June 2, 2008.

family

His son Jan Geyer came in the 1990s as a player for Chemnitzer FC to sporadic appearances in the 2nd Bundesliga .

successes

As a player:

  • GDR youth cup winner 1961.
  • GDR league promotion 1969.
  • GDR champion 1971, 1973.
  • GDR cup winner 1971.

As a trainer:

  • GDR junior cup winner 1976, 1985.
  • GDR junior champions 1982, 1985.
  • GDR champion 1989 (Dynamo Dresden)
  • DFB Cup finalist 1997 (Energie Cottbus)
  • Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga 1997 (Energie Cottbus)
  • Promotion to the 1st Bundesliga 2000 (Energie Cottbus)
  • Promotion to the 3rd league in 2008 (Dynamo Dresden)

Fonts

literature

Web links

Commons : Eduard Geyer  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sid / dpa: Dynamo Dresden: honorary captain Kreische and Geyer attack each other. In: welt.de . June 1, 2018, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ https://www.sz-online.de/nachrichten/er-luegt-nach-wie-vor-3946684.html
  3. ↑ http://www.horch-und-guck.info/hug/archiv/2004-2007/heft-51/05102/
  4. ↑ Eduard Geyer and the Stasi - GDR contaminated sites , Sport Inside , WDR December 5, 2018, 9:59 minutes (available until December 5, 2019)
  5. ↑ Stasi past of the ex-coach Dynamo club legends step down as honorary captain - because of Ede Geyer , Der Spiegel June 1, 2018
  6. ↑ Dynamo Dresden Eduard Geyer to lose honorary title , Der Tagesspiegel June 1, 2018
  7. ↑ Dynamo Dresden Dispute about Ede Geyer's Stasi past: Dynamo idols rebel against honor , Focus June 1, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Geyer, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geyer, Ede
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach, Stasi-IM
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielitz