Günter Schröter

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Schröter (left) 1956

Günter Schröter (called "Moppel"; born May 3, 1927 in Brandenburg an der Havel ; † February 10, 2016 in Berlin ) was a German football player who played 39 international matches for the GDR national team from 1952 to 1962 , including 13 Goals scored.

National career

Beginning

At the age of 10, Günter Schröter began playing football in a club as a youth at the Brandenburger Sport-Club 05 . In 1944 - before his 17th birthday - he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and in 1945 he was taken prisoner of war . In captivity from 1945 to November 1948 in Poland, where he was deployed underground in coal mining, he had absolutely no opportunity to do sports.

After returning to Brandenburg, he played for SG Brandenburg-Nord until the spring of 1949. From May 1, 1949, the 1.68 m tall offensive player played for the SG Volkspolizei Potsdam . In the 3-1 success on July 17, 1949 in the FDGB Cup final in Brandenburg against ZSG Welzow , he scored the goal to 3-1. In the championship he and his team took third place in the regional league behind Textil Cottbus and ZSG Großräschen . In the zone league, Horch Zwickau won the championship played for the first time in the 1949/50 round before SG Dresden-Friedrichstadt . Around 1950/51, the People's Police team was transplanted to Dresden as a replacement for the SG Friedrichstadt. The extremely tricky, versatile and strong-shot Schröter thus came into the DS-Oberliga , the top division in GDR football.

Oberliga, 1950-63

People's Police Dresden / Dynamo Dresden, 1950–54

The place of the dissolved and later emigrated SG Friedrichstadt Dresden was taken in the 1950/51 round in the DS-Oberliga by a new people's police team with great care, including VP Potsdam. The popularity of the Helmut Schön troupe, the successor to the Dresdner SC in the Saxony metropolis, is documented by the unrivaled average attendance of 28,230 compared to the league average of 10,100 in the 1949/50 season. But also the “local” Dresden rotation , the Mickten newspaper people, competed with the “foreign” people's police in Dresden. From a sporting point of view, the result with the fifth place in the VP was satisfactory. Günter Schröter came second on the list of goalscorers with 32 goals and was also included as a right winger in the all-start team in the 1950/51 round. In terms of audience response, neither of the two Dresden soccer teams could follow in the footsteps of the Friedrichstadters. With 14,175 spectators, Günter Schröter's team, who had played 33 of 34 possible games, came fourth in the home games. Schröter immediately gained sympathy in "Florence on the Elbe" through his tricky, technically shaped game with scoring qualities. After a year in the league, he was the best right winger in the GDR. The development of the men around the brilliant goalkeeper Heinz Klemm , the captain and outstanding defender Herbert Schoen and the outstanding attacking players Günter Schröter, Rudolf Möbius, Gerhard Hänsicke and Johannes Matzen continued successfully in 1951/52. In the league it was enough to runner-up behind Turbine Halle and on September 14, 1952 they won the GDR Cup with 3-0 goals against the bottom line unit, Einheit Pankow . In the third year in Dresden, the People's Police, renamed Dynamo Dresden on April 1, 1953 , won the GDR championship. After a tie of 38:26 points with Wismut Aue , the decision game on July 5, 1953 in Berlin with a 3-2 win after extra time brought the decision for Günter Schröter's team. In the 88th minute of the game, he equalized the score 2-2 and thus sent Willy Tröger's men into extra time. Günter Schröter had played all 32 games in the top division and scored 15 goals. As the defending champion it was enough in the round 1953/54 behind the master Turbine Erfurt and the runner-up chemistry Leipzig to place third.

SC Dynamo Berlin, 1954-63

The 1954/55 season was marked by serious upheavals in GDR football. The sports club formation dictated by the GDR sports leadership was usually against the will of the players and communities. In the major league, nine of the 14 communities were re-profiled into sports clubs during the 1954/55 season. Empor Lauter , the team from the small town of Lauter near Aue in the Ore Mountains, was transplanted to the Baltic Sea, in November 1954 it ran under the name SC Empor Rostock . Large sponsoring companies were selected in which the club footballers were given an employment contract and also received their corresponding salary, but were usually unable to carry out their work because they had to train in the mornings and afternoons.

The club formation had a demoralizing effect on the players of the remaining five league teams and on the communities of the subsequent divisions. The sports clubs could take whatever they wanted from them at any time. The "not" clubs were exposed to this activity almost defenseless. Dynamo Dresden was renamed SC Dynamo Berlin in November 1954 and was delegated to the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in Berlin. In sporting terms, it didn't pay off for the 1953 champion. SC Dynamo Berlin came in seventh with 26:26 points in the middle of the table. When the fans were encouraged, it was very hard for Günter Schröter and his comrades. With an average of 9653, the usual support from Dresden times was not comparable. After the successful start with 8-0 points, the move to Berlin was soon over with good form. In January 1955 they achieved a yield of 0:10 points and thus set a negative record.

The lack of a traditional effect and the fact that SC Dynamo Berlin had become, so to speak, the operational team of the State Security, led to this sporting dilemma. In the 1955 transition period, GDR football was technically and organizationally changed from the autumn / spring cycle to the calendar year, following the Soviet model. In this round, the East Berlin fans accepted the Dynamos with the worst average attendance even less, with 10: 2 points and 22: 7 goals in the home games. Schröter scored eleven goals in the 13 games of the transition round. The Dynamo-Elf lived from the ideas, playing skills and goals of their outstanding player Günter Schröter.

In 1956 the class of the half-striker Schröter did not help either, the SC Dynamo rose from the league . With 5:21 points they had the worst away record and with 7308 spectators the least popularity at the home games. Nevertheless, the relegation decision was brought about at the "green table". On the last day of the match it was decided in the meeting between SC Dynamo Berlin and SC Motor Karl-Marx-Stadt who would have to leave the league as the second relegated team alongside Empor Rostock. The relegation duel, won with 2-1 goals, was subsequently awarded to the Saxons because of the unauthorized participation of the player Dieter Legler and SC Dynamo had to relegate. Schröter had played 25 games and scored eight goals.

In the GDR league in 1957, director Schröter led his team to the championship and thus to immediate resurgence. SC Empor Rostock was runner-up and co-promoted. The solidarity of the fans with the club is documented by the audience figures for the round. The runner-up in Rostock had an average of 13,769 in the home games and the third place in the table, SC Aufbau Magdeburg, had an average of 10,000 spectators. The champions and promoted SC Dynamo Berlin had to be content with an average of 3358 fans in their home games. The negative record was the 150 steadfast on December 1, 1957 in the 3-2 home win against Chemie Zeitz in the Walter Ulbricht Stadium in Berlin. Captain Günter Schröter took sixth place with the newcomer in the 1958 round, the championship was won by ZASK Vorwärts Berlin . Once again, the Dynamos team came last in the table in terms of audience response: only 4985 wanted to watch their home games on average. The new master ZASK came to 12,385 spectators. With a home balance of 22: 4 points - with an average attendance of 5731 - the team around captain Günter Schröter took third place in the 1959 season. Schröter had played all 26 competitive games and scored 13 goals. On May 10, 1959, he scored all five goals in a 5-0 home win against SC Lokomotive Leipzig . In the GDR Cup 1959 (FDGB-Pokal) succeeded in the replay on December 13, 1959 in the Bruno-Plache-Stadion in Leipzig against the champions SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt with a 3-2 victory of the cup.

In the 1960 season, Captain Schröter and his team came second in the major league. He had played all 26 competitive games and scored 11 goals. At his side the young striker Emil Poklitar made a name for himself in this round, scoring 14 goals in 19 appearances. Poklitar then played for Freiburg FC and 1. FC Saarbrücken in the Regionalliga Süd in the mid-1960s .

In terms of audience response, the same picture: With 4469 average visitors, the Dynamos landed in 13th place in the ranking. Günter Schröter confirmed again as an outstanding game designer. The football people at least partially respected the footballing achievements of the two Berlin top division teams. But much sympathy was shown neither to the army team nor to the “Stasi operating team”.

On June 10, 1962 - significantly for the sports strategists of GDR football, the quarter-finals of the 1962 World Cup took place in Chile on that day - Günter Schröter was once again in a cup final. Cup winner was SC Chemie Halle with a 3-1 success. At the age of 36, he completed another 25 games in the league in 1962/63 and scored twelve goals. After the season he ended his playing career. His last league game was the encounter on April 28, 1963 at the game in Magdeburg. Statistically, Günter Schröter has 335 league games and 154 league gates. From the 1957 season he added 26 games and 16 goals in the first division.

International, 1952-62

Günter Schröter, who had developed from winger to playmaker in the half-forward position, was unable to build on the championship successes in the GDR national team . The causes were varied. The directives and interventions of the sports politicians in the management structure, the squad composition, the league operations and the training process were mostly not conducive to the sporting upward development of the national team. The fight against the grown tradition with all means was one of the most serious undesirable developments. The selection and de-selection of the national coach also contributed to the failure of the national team. Starting with Willi Oelgardt (1952–53), through Hans Siegert (1954), János Gyarmati (1955–57), Fritz Gödicke (1958–60) and Heinz Krügel (1960–61) to Károly Sós (1961–67) Günter Schröter experienced six selection coaches in ten years with the national team. There could be no question of a continuous expansion. Schröter is said to have believed in the way the Hungarian trainers Gyarmati and Sós worked. At the first international match on September 21, 1952 in Warsaw against Poland, Schröter made his debut on half right in the national team. There was a sobering 3-0 defeat. Three years later, as captain, he experienced the first victory of the selection in a 3-2 win in Bucharest against Romania. He also took part in three unsuccessful qualifications for World and European Championships. The qualification for the World Championships in Sweden in 1958 and in Chile in 1962 as well as for the 1960 European Championships were not crowned with success. Schröter, who was the outstanding attacking player in the first decade of the 1962/6 league season, played his last international game on November 18, 1962 in Berlin in a 2-1 home win against vice world champions Czechoslovakia. Once again he determined the rhythm and playing culture of the national team. On the left half-forward position - between Peter and Roland Ducke - he acted in his 39th international match.

In 1962 Schröter had the rank of captain of the VP in the German People's Police .

Stations as a trainer, 1963–90

  • 1963–1965: Senior league assistant coach at SC Dynamo Berlin
  • 1965–1968: Student trainer at SC / BFC Dynamo
  • 1969–1972: Senior league assistant coach at BFC Dynamo
  • 1972–1981: League assistant coach at BFC Dynamo
  • 1981–1990: Youth coach at BFC Dynamo

National successes

  • GDR champion 1952/53 with Dynamo Dresden
  • GDR runner-up in 1951/52, 1959/60
  • GDR Cup winner in 1952 with VP Dresden and 1959 with SC Dynamo Berlin
  • GDR cup finalist 1962
  • Relay winner of the 1st GDR league in 1957
  • FDGB cup winner in Brandenburg 1949 with VP Potsdam

Nickname

According to his own statement, this is how he got his nickname “Moppel”: “Since I was very small and had occupied myself with the ball a lot, it was said that someone“ pugs ”the ball too much. Hence the name 'Moppel'. "

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Web links

Commons : Günter Schröter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sven Geisler: The Dribbelkönig is dead. In: saechsische.de. February 24, 2016, accessed April 13, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Jürgen Babenschneider about Günter "Moppel" Schröter in the football week of January 12, 2009
  3. ↑ Some things about Günter Schröter . In: Neues Deutschland , May 28, 1962, p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Schröter, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Brandenburg on the Havel
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 2016
Place of death Berlin