Günter Schneider (soccer player)

Günter Schneider (born July 3, 1924 in Planitz ; † November 29, 2000 in Berlin ) was a football player and football official in the GDR.

youth

Schneider grew up in what would later become the Zwickau district of Planitz and graduated from high school in 1942. He was then drafted into the German armed forces for military service. After Leske, he joined the NSDAP in 1942 .

Soccer player

Günter Schneider first appeared in football annals in 1948. He was a right midfielder in the SG Planitz soccer team , which won the 1st East Zone Championship on July 4, 1948 with a 1-0 victory over SG Freiimfelde Halle . With the successor team ZSG Horch Zwickau, Schneider also won the 1st GDR soccer championship. Of the total of 26 point games, he played 15 games and scored eight goals. On September 26, 1954, he played in the 5th international game of the GDR national soccer team . In the 0: 1 defeat against Poland in Rostock, he came on in the 75th minute for Johannes Schöne . It remained with this one short international assignment. After the top division season in 1956, Schneider ended his active football career at Motor Zwickau .

Football official

After the end of the war, Schneider initially worked as a new teacher , and in 1947 he joined the SED . He trained as an industrial economist and then worked as a sales manager at the Sachsenring car factory in Zwickau . In 1961 he was appointed vice-president of the GDR football association DFV . In 1968 he became General Secretary of the DFV and from 1976 to 1983 he was its President. After winning the gold medal in the football competition of the Olympic Games in 1976 by the GDR team, he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. On February 5, 1983, he was voted out of office by Günter Erbach in an extraordinary board meeting . Schneider took over the post of Vice President again.

After the social changes triggered by the political change in 1989 , the DFV also had to reorient itself. On February 10, 1990, Erbach resigned as DFV President and Günter Schneider took over his function on a temporary basis. At the DFV Association Day on March 31, 1990, there was a split into two camps, the previous officials wanted to keep the old structures as long as possible, the base camp, led by the former Magdeburg goalkeeper Hans-Georg Moldenhauer , pushed for fundamental reforms and quick connection to the German football association DFB . In a voting for the presidential election, Schneider Moldenhauer lost 44:55 percent. Schneider then withdrew into private life and died at the age of 76 in 2000 in Berlin.

In a radio interview in August 1990, the popular GDR selection striker Peter Ducke Schneider accused of having worked for the GDR state security service for many years. O-Ton Ducke: “He always appeared where it was necessary to spy on footballers. We were shadowed at every turn. It was horrible and disgusting. "

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR Football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 (Of all relevant reference works, this is the only source in which membership of the NSDAP is mentioned).
2. ↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. In: New Germany . September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (online at ZEFYS - newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , free registration required). 
3. ^ "Secrets of GDR Sports" , Jutta Braun, University of Potsdam, undated.