Frank Lippmann

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Frank Lippmann (born April 23, 1961 in Dresden ) is a former German soccer player. He started his career in the GDR . After his escape from the GDR in 1986, he also played in the German Bundesliga as well as in Austria and Switzerland. With Dynamo Dresden he won the GDR soccer cup twice . After the end of his playing career, he became a football coach.

GDR Oberliga player

Lippmann grew up in the Dresden district of Zschachwitz and played there until 1979 with TSG Blau-Weiß, most recently with the men's team in the fourth class district class. At the beginning of the 1979/80 season, Lippmann was delegated to the GDR upper division Dynamo Dresden. There he was initially nominated for the junior league. But already in this season he came on April 12, 1980, the 21st matchday, for his first appearance in the men's league when he was substituted on shortly before the end of the game against Wismut Aue (4-2). For the season 1980/81, the 1.73 m tall attacking player was nominated for the first team and played for them from the start of the season in different positions in the attack formation. In his first league season he came to 18 point games, but without scoring. His only selection game, which he played with the GDR youth national team, also fell during this season. In the 1981/82 season he could not prevail against the parade storm Schülbe , Minge , Döschner and only came to seven league games, most of which were only short-term assignments. In the following two seasons, Lippmann only played the role of substitute player, but on May 26, 1984 he was a left winger in the Dynamo team, which won the GDR soccer cup with a 2-1 win over FC Dynamo from Berlin. In 1984/85 he made his breakthrough as a regular player, in 24 of 26 played point games he was in the Oberligaelf, usually further than left winger. In this position he was also involved in the cup defense on June 8, 1985 , this time the Dresden team won 3-2 again over the BFC Dynamo.

Escape to the west

Lippmann continued as a regular player in the 1985/86 season. By matchday 16, he had played 14 games as a left winger. By this time Dynamo Dresden had reached the quarter-finals of the European Cup Winners' Cup and created a good starting position for the semi-finals with a 2-0 home win over Bayer 05 Uerdingen . This was nullified on March 19, 1986 with a 3-7 defeat . It was Lippmann's 14th European Cup game, and with the 2-1 opening goal for Dresden, he scored his sixth goal in the European Cup, five of which he scored in the current competition. After the game, Lippmann left the team and went to live with relatives in Nuremberg , where he declared at a press conference that he did not want to return to the GDR. Contrary to previous practice, when fleeing GDR athletes were hushed up, the GDR news agency ADN reported: "The player Frank Lippmann betrayed his comrades for a large sum of money offered by anti-sports circles." Lippmann left his family and his in the GDR Fiancée to a three month old child. Family and fiancé were massively urged by the Stasi to persuade Lippmann to return, but were unsuccessful. Lippmann managed to get the bride and child out of the GDR through Hungary by means of an escape agent. In discussions with officials, it was discussed that "... such traitors could be liquidated at any time by staging a car accident".

Professional footballer in the west

Immediately after his arrival in Nuremberg, Lippmann contacted the president of 1. FC Nuremberg and received a professional contract until the end of the 1986/87 season . First, the European football association UEFA imposed a one-year ban, and Lippmann tore a cruciate ligament in training . He only played his first Bundesliga appearance for 1. FC Nürnberg on matchday 22, which was followed by four more by the end of the season. Since his contract was not renewed, he signed for two years with Bundesliga club Waldhof Mannheim . At Mannheim Lippmann came in the 1987/88 season on 16 Bundesliga appearances, in the successful relegation games against SV Darmstadt 98 he did not take part. At the beginning of 1989 he was signed by the Austrian club LASK Linz and subsequently played for Vorwärts Steyr and the Swiss second division club FC Zug .

Return to Saxony

In the summer of 1990, a few months after the political change in the GDR, Lippmann settled back in Dresden. There he joined the re-founded Dresdner SC , with whom he rose in 1991 to the fourth-class regional league and in 1992 to the amateur league. After the end of the 1992/93 season, in which he suffered a fractured ankle and shin, Lippmann ended his career as a football player.

Trainer

After the end of his playing career, he first became a youth coach at DSC, in 1995 he returned to Dynamo Dresden after nine years, where he also worked as a youth coach and as an honorary coach for the DFB . After a surprising leave of absence at Dynamo on April 9, 2008 and a short interlude at the Bischofswerdaer FV 08 , he took over the coaching position at the Saxon district class club SV Pirna-Süd in 2009, which he led into the seventh class district league in 2010. Lippmann has been a trainer at Königswarthaer SV since 2017.

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  1. ↑ Munzinger Archive 19/1986 of April 28, 1986
  2. ↑ https://www.mdr.de/zeitreise/stoebern/damals/artikel87074.html
personal data
SURNAME Lippmann, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden