Günter Birr

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Günter Birr (born December 6, 1948 in Haynrode ) is a former German football player. From 1971 to 1982 he was active in the second-rate GDR league .

Athletic career

As a teenager, Günter Birr first played in the agricultural company sports associations (BSG) Tractor Haynrode (1958–1960) and Tractor Großbodungen (1960–1964). For the 1964/65 season he moved to the football focus of his home region, the SC Turbine Erfurt , from which the FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt was formed a year later . In Erfurt, Birr first played in the junior team , then with the 2nd team of FC Rot-Weiß, with whom he rose in 1967 to the second-rate GDR league . Although Birr stayed with FC Rot-Weiß until 1969, he was not used in either the Oberliga or the GDR league.

During two short episodes between 1969 and 1970, Birr played for the third-class district division Motor Hennigsdorf and TSG Gröditz . In May 1970 he was drafted into the National People's Army for 18 months and was able to continue playing football with the Vorwärts Löbau army sports community . In the 1970/71 season he helped the Löbauern to the Dresden district championship and promotion to the GDR league. There he played all eight GDR league games until his discharge from the People's Army at the end of October, scoring one goal.

In November 1971 Birr joined the GDR league club Energie Cottbus , where he played four more point games by the end of the season, but did not score a goal. The season 1972/73 ended the BSG Energie as second in the table of the league season B. Birr was involved in it with another four league games, again without scoring a goal. Since the season winner BFC II was not eligible for promotion, the Cottbusers played in the promotion round for promotion to the GDR upper league, which came second in the table. Birr was not used in the eight games. For the league season 1973/74 he was named for the player lineup, but was not used. Instead he played with the 2nd team in the Cottbus district league . For the 1974/75 season, Birr moved to local rivals and East German league promoted Lokomotive Cottbus . There he had a regular place with 17 league appearances and scored three goals. After only one season, the railway team rose again from the GDR league.

In order to be able to continue playing second class, Birr played for Stahl Finow from the 1975/76 season on . Both in this season and in 1976/77 he was part of the regular staff of the league team, for which 34 games played in a total of 44 point games and scored one goal in each season. 1977 Stahl Finow had to relegate to the district league, but Birr remained loyal to the team. It took until 1981 before Stahl Finow was able to return to the GDR league with the district championship title. At the age of 32, Birr played a GDR league season in which he played eleven of the 22 games. After only one year, the steelworkers were relegated to the district league again. Birr was still active in the team until 1984, but took over training at the same time. After finishing his soccer career in Finow, he coached the district league team until the end of the 1985/86 season.

He then worked from 1986 to 1988 as a recreational footballer for the lower class BSG Traktor in Kruge-Gersdorf . For the 1988/89 season Birr took over the training of the district league team Motor Eberswalde . He led the team to the district championship, which, however, failed in the promotion games to the GDR league. In 1990 BSG Motor was again district champion under Birr and this time achieved promotion to the second class. There, Hartmut Hoffmann, a new coach took over the Eberswalder team, which had since been converted into the SV Motor 1909 club. Günter Birr then did not appear again in higher-class football. As a soccer player, he had played 78 games in the GDR league in six seasons and scored six goals.

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SURNAME Birr, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Haynrode , GDR