Franz Schopp

Franz Schopp (born December 29, 1904 in Rottweil ; † after 1957) was a German soccer player and soccer coach. In 1955 he was coach of the GDR upper division club SC Einheit Dresden .

Athletic career

In Lörrach , Baden , Franz Schopp began playing football at the age of fourteen. From 1925 he played at the Loerrach workers' sports club. After finishing his career as an active soccer player, he completed his physical education teacher exam and became a soccer coach.

After the end of the Second World War , Schopp continued his coaching activity in East Germany . His first stop there from 1945 was the Großschirma sports community . In 1949 he helped the company sports association (BSG) Deutsche Reichsbahn Nossen to the district championship and promotion to the fourth-class district class in Dresden . With the BSG unit Mittweida he was 1952 champion in the Chemnitz district class and qualified the team in the 1952/53 newly introduced third-class district league Chemnitz.

In October 1952, Franz Schopp took over the training of the second-rate GDR league club BSG Einheit Greifswald . The team, which had just been promoted from the district league, had previously been looked after by player- coach Kurt Holze, who had to resign as a coach for professional reasons. Schopp took over the team in eleventh place in the thirteen-team league season after four defeats and only one victory. With some changes in the team structure and in the training work, he managed to lead the BSG unit to the safe eighth place in the table by the end of the season. Schopp trains unit Greifswald for two more seasons in the GDR league, whereby the team was always able to place itself in the midfield. Eighth place in 1955 was no longer enough for relegation because the GDR league was reduced from three to one season.

During the 1954/55 season, Schopp had been seconded to the top division unit Dresden for three point games. Two coaches had already tried their hand at this in the current season, and Schopp replaced Helmut Rentsch , who was last acting, after the 13th league game . After two defeats and an 8-1 victory over Rotation Leipzig , Schopp left Dresden again and continued his work at Einheit Greifswald. After the Greifswald players had to play in the new third-class II. GDR league from 1956 , Franz Schopp did not return to higher-class football. He trained the Greifswald unit until 1957, but was dismissed by the SED district management during the season because he had opened a restaurant and thus violated the principles of a socialist sports director.

literature

• The new football week : born 1949–1955. ISSN  0323-8407
  (see also No. 4/53, p. 12 with a detailed portrait)
• DSFS (ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 8). Berlin 2011, p. 391