Fritz Godicke

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Fritz Gödicke (born October 21, 1919 in Zeitz ; † April 28, 2009 ) was a German football player, coach and official.

Career as a player

Fritz Gödicke was a defender. He began his football career in 1931 with the Zeitz Free Gymnastics Association. After its dissolution by the National Socialists, he played for the Zeitz sports association from 1933 to 1938 , before playing for the Leipzig sports association TURA 1899 until 1945 . After finishing school, he was trained as a lathe operator in a Zeitz machine factory. During his pre-war period in Leipzig he was a member of an anti-fascist youth group. From 1943 to 1945 he was drafted into military service. After the Second World War, Gödicke played for the Leipzig SG Leutzsch, from which Chemie Leipzig emerged a little later . For the Leutzscher he played 21 games in the GDR league and scored one goal. In a reader survey by the two GDR sports newspapers Deutsches Sportecho and Neue Fußballwoche , Gödicke was chosen as the best athlete. In 1951, Gödicke ended his active career after winning the GDR soccer championship .

Career as trainer and functionary

Gödicke, a KPD member since 1945, later in the SED, became head of the sport department in the Leipzig FDJ district management in 1947 and first chairman of the football technical committee, the forerunner of the GDR German football association, in 1950 within the German Sports Committee (DS) . He held this position until 1953, when he assumed the function of DS secretary. In addition, he was Vice President of the National Olympic Committee (NOK) of the GDR from 1951 to 1953 .

Gödicke 1959 as coach of the GDR national team.

After training at the Leipzig Sports University DHfK , Gödicke became a trainer. First he became a junior coach at DFV in 1953. In the spring of 1955 he took over the coaching position at SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt , which he led to the GDR championship in 1956 and 1957. In 1958 he left the club and succeeded János Gyarmati as coach of the GDR national team on May 1 . Under his direction, the team could only win two out of ten games, so that he was replaced by Heinz Krügel in August 1959 .

In 1962 Gödicke became a coach at the top division club SC Dynamo Berlin , whose football department later became independent as BFC Dynamo . Until 1965 he was the head coach of Berlin for three seasons before he was dismissed in 1965 for "insufficient performance". Gödicke then went to TSC Berlin, whose soccer section was converted to 1. FC Union Berlin shortly afterwards . First he worked there as a youth coach, in 1969 he took over the first team, which had just been relegated to the second division, which he immediately returned to the top division. Then Fritz Gödicke ended his coaching career because of his damaged knee. His successor at Union was Harald Seeger on July 1, 1970 .

From 1970 to 1985 Fritz Gödicke finally worked as a research assistant in the State Secretariat for Physical Culture and Sport. As a retired man, Gödicke lived on Alexanderplatz in Berlin.

literature

  • Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .
  • Wolfgang Buss, Rolf Husmann: "That wasn't that easy" - Fritz Gödicke and football in the GDR ; Göttingen: IMF Knowledge and Media, 2008.
  • Short biography for:  Gödicke, Fritz . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Otto Altendorfer, The GDR national soccer coach between SED and State Security - A biographical documentation , Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-86583-848-3 .

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personal data
SURNAME Godicke, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player, coach and official
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Time
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 2009