Günter Hoge
| Günter Hoge | ||
 GDR national soccer team, 1967
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Günter Hoge | |
| birthday | October 7, 1940 | |
| place of birth | Berlin , Germany | |
| date of death | November 6, 2017 | |
| Place of death | Berlin , Germany | |
| size | 169 cm | |
| position | striker | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| until 1958 | EAB Lichtenberg 47 | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1958–1962 | ASK Forward Berlin | |
| 1962-1964 | BSG Motor Köpenick | |
| 1964-1966 | TSC Berlin | 25 (6) |
| 1966-1970 | 1. FC Union Berlin | 77 (5) |
| 1970-1973 | BSG Motor Hennigsdorf | |
| from 1973 | IHB Berlin | |
| Motor Friedrichshain | ||
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1961 | GDR (youngsters) | 1 (0) |
| 1961-1968 | GDR | 6 (0) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Günter Hoge , called "Jimmy", (born October 7, 1940 in Berlin ; † November 6, 2017 there ) was a German football player . He played six times for the GDR national team .
Career as a player
Career start and GDR champion with Vorwärts Berlin
Hoge began his football career in the youth teams of SG Lichtenberg 47 , from where he moved to the GDR upper division ASK Vorwärts Berlin in 1958 at the age of 18 . With Vorwärts, the only 1.69 m tall winger was GDR junior champion in 1959 and GDR champion in 1960 and 1962. He made his debut in the GDR league in the championship year 1960 on March 27 in the match on the 2nd match day SC Einheit Dresden - ASK Vorwärts (1: 3) as a substitute. A year later he was appointed to the squad of the GDR youth national team, for which he played an international match as a substitute on May 27, 1961 (GDR - Denmark 2-1). For the first time in the GDR national team, Hoge played as a left winger on June 21, 1961 in the friendly game GDR - Morocco (1: 2). After the subsequent World Cup qualifier GDR - Hungary (2: 3), however, he disappeared from the squad for six years.
Despite his widely valued sporting achievements in terms of ball safety, dribbling strength and speed, the Hoge, also called "Jimmy", fell out of favor with coaches and officials due to his rather idiosyncratic and unorthodox manner. He was therefore given a class lower in July 1962 to the GDR league club BSG Motor Köpenick .
Time in Köpenick - Cup victory in 1968 with Union Berlin
After the relegation of Motor Köpenick two years later in 1964 in the district league, Hoge moved to local rivals TSC Berlin, who continued to play in the GDR league . On January 20, 1966, TSC Berlin became the new 1. FC Union Berlin , with which Hoge celebrated promotion and thus his return to the GDR league at the end of the 1965/66 season under coach Werner Schwenzfeier .
As a Union player, Hoge made it back into the national team and played four more games for the selection up to his last international match on February 2, 1968 against Czechoslovakia . He did so on a South America trip with the GDR team that the local press gave him the nickname “motorneto” (“small motorcycle”). He also came on September 26, 1967 for a mission in the B national team (GDR - Hungary 2: 1). On June 9, 1968, Hoge surprisingly won the FDGB Cup with 1. FC Union after a 2-1 win against FC Carl Zeiss Jena . At this point in time he had already become one of the most popular spectators among the fans in the An der Alten Försterei stadium .
After the great cup success, things went downhill very quickly in the 1968/69 season. Due to "disciplinary misconduct" (including driving without a driver's license ), Hoge was "closed to all play and sports traffic for the period from October 17, 1968 to May 31, 1969". In the decision of the DFV it said u. a. that Hoge "was repeatedly under the influence of alcohol" and "grossly insulted his teammates". According to the DFV ruling, he had not been able to "anchor his behavior within the collective and in the usual life of our society".
Since Hoge had not yet come into play due to an injury, he did not play a single game for the "Iron" in the 1968/69 season. His teammates fared no better either, because the club ended up relegated to the GDR league. This also meant the dismissal of the coach Werner Schwenzfeier, who had been successful up to that point.
End of the playing career
In the following season, Union and Hoge initially looked up again. The club managed to return to the league, and Hoge was back on the team. After the end of the summer 1970 season, however, an incident occurred which resulted in Hoge being banned from practicing his profession . The 1. FC Union team drove to the Baltic Sea together at the end of the season. There, Hoge met his former coach Schwenzfeier in a restaurant and, after drinking a lot of alcohol, began to sing the Deutschlandlied at the start of a TV broadcast of an international match for the German national team . This incident was reported to State Security some time later .
The verdict of the GDR Football Association for the almost 30-year-old player was: six years in the upper league, two years in the league, one year in the district league . This ended the football career of "Jimmy" Hoge, who had been a national player two years earlier. Subsequently, Hoge played for three years from 1970 to 1973 at BSG Motor Hennigsdorf - due to the one-year district league suspension, the first season 1970/71 even in the second team.
In 1971/72 he managed - then playing in the first team - with the BSG Motor (mostly in the shadow of Stahl Hennigsdorf ) the championship in the Potsdam district league and promotion to the GDR league. Hoges suspension for the second highest GDR league had expired at this point. Motor Hennigsdorf was relegated from the GDR league a year later. With this, Hoge ended his active playing career in 1973, but in the following years was still partially active as a supplementary player in the lower-class teams of the IHB Berlin and Motor Friedrichshain .
Further development
This was followed by a career as a coach of teams in mostly lower divisions, most recently from 2001 to 2006 at the Brandenburg state division MSV 19 Rüdersdorf .
"Jimmy" later played in the old men team from Hertha BSC and in the traditional team of 1. FC Union. In addition, since July 2007 he has been the coach of the AK 40 senior team at KSV Johannisthal. He was also an honorary member of 1. FC Union Berlin.
death
Hoge died in 2017 of complications from cancer and was buried in the Berlin-Kaulsdorf cemetery.
Sporting successes
- GDR champion 1960, 1962
- GDR runner-up in 1959
- GDR Cup Winner (FDGB) 1968
- 6 international matches for the GDR
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rest in peace, Jimmy! at www.fc-union-berlin.de
- ↑ December 27, 1968. Immerunioner.de, archived from the original on April 29, 2012 ; accessed on November 7, 2017 .
- ↑ "What is ... Frank Terletzki actually doing?" Welt.de , December 1, 2003, accessed on November 7, 2017.
- ^ Farewell to ex-national team player Günter "Jimmy" Hoge. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 28, 2017.
literature
- Harald Tragmann, Harald Voss: The Union Statistics, A Club between East and West . 3. Edition. Harald Voß Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-935759-13-7 .
- Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 222.
- Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 296, 314.
Web links
- Günter Hoge in the database of the German Football Association
- Günter Hoge on immerunioner.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoge, Günter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 7, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 6, 2017 |
| Place of death | Berlin |