Günter Reinke

Günter Reinke (born July 24, 1946 in Magdeburg ) was a soccer player in the GDR soccer game , played for the BSG Lok Stendal in the top division and later became a soccer coach, including for the first division club Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt .

Athletic career

Soccer player

Reinke initially played in the youth teams of SC Aufbau Magdeburg . In the 1966/67 and 1967/68 seasons he was part of the Oberliga squad of the company sports association (BSG) Lokomotive Stendal. In 1966/67 Reinke played only two league games on the 11th and 12th matchday. In both encounters he was used in defense. Also in the 1967/68 season he had to wait a long time for an assignment in the major league. It was not until the end of the season that he was called up in ten other first division games, mostly in midfield, from the 16th matchday on. At the end of the season, Lok Stendal had to relegate to the GDR league , where Reinke played for the Altmärker for another year .

In the summer of 1969 Reinke moved to the police sports club Dynamo Frankfurt / Oder in the third-class district league Frankfurt . When it merged with TSG Fürstenwalde, it was taken over by the new Dynamo Fürstenwalde sports club in 1971 and played with it in the GDR league until the end of the 1971/72 season. He then ended his career as a football player.

coach

Reinke then continued his sporting career as a football coach. He was initially a trainer at his previous sports club Dynamo Fürstenwalde, where he worked until 1975. In the seasons 1975/76 to 1976/77 Reinke trained the GDR league team Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt, then for one season the team from Einheit Wernigerode , which also played in the GDR league. In 1978 Reinke returned to Magdeburg and became a junior coach at 1. FC Magdeburg . Until 1983 he looked after the junior league team. When the junior league was dissolved in 1983 , Reinke moved back to the GDR league and coached the Motor Schönebeck team for six years . Initially, the Schönebeckers were relegated after a year, but Reinke managed to lead the team back into the GDR league after two years. He then secured the second tier until he left in 1989.

At the beginning of the 1989/90 season, the qualified sports teacher Reinke took over the only first division team of his career. He became a coach at the top league promoted steel Eisenhüttenstadt and managed to lead the steelworkers into a second first division season. On October 22, 1991 he followed the call of the BSV Stahl Brandenburg in the 2nd Bundesliga . At BSV he was already the third coach of the current season and only worked there from the 15th to the 22nd matchday. After the BSV had only reached the relegation round, Reinke was released on January 9, 1992.

After a short interlude until the end of the 1991/92 season at FC Anhalt Dessau in the third-class Oberliga Nordost , Reinke only trained lower-class teams in the Magdeburg area. In 2009 he took over the city league club BSV 79 Magdeburg, which he led into the seventh-class state class of Saxony-Anhalt after a year. Today he trains the SV Aufbau / Empor Ost Magdeburg in the city league.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 .
• Baingo / Horn: History of the GDR Oberliga . Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-428-3
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .
• GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho : Issue of December 10, 1987 with a short biography