Günter Usemann

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Günter Usemann (born April 6, 1925 in Laubusch ; † September 16, 2016 ) was a German football player. With the SG Volkspolizei / Dynamo Dresden he became East German champion and cup winner in the early 1950s.

Athletic career

In the summer of 1950, the GDR sports association, the German People's Police in Dresden , decided to form a new top team for the sports association. In Dresden there was already an SG Volkspolizei, which only played in the lower class city league. 21-year-old Günter Usemann was one of their players. The Dresden SG was reinforced with players from several people's police game communities from all over the GDR and incorporated into the DS-Oberliga (later GDR-Oberliga ) without athletic qualifications for the 1950/51 season .

Usemann was part of the team's player base from the first day of the game and was used in his first league season either in midfield or in attack. He played 32 of the 34 point games and scored six goals. In the second year of their membership in the upper league, the SG Volkspolizei was runner-up. Usemann had to complain about several interruptions due to injuries this season and only made 21 goalless appearances in a total of 36 championship games. However, he was there when he won the GDR soccer cup in 1952 . Dresden won 3-0 over Einheit Pankow , and Usemann was the left wing runner in the team. In 1952/53 the team, which had been renamed SG Dynamo Dresden during the season, became East German champions. Usemann played all 32 point games, as well as the playoff for the championship against Wismut Aue (3: 2 n.V.), in which he was continuously used as a left midfielder. Also in the following season he was used in all 28 point games in the usual position.

In the first games of the league season 1954/55 Usemann initially continued to play in the left midfield, but from October as a left defender. In November 1954 the Dynamo Dresden team was surprisingly relocated to East Berlin , where they had to compete as SC Dynamo Berlin from November 21st . After eight league games for Dresden Usemann completed another 15 league games for Dynamo Berlin, in which he was continuously left midfielder at the end. In between, he returned to Dresden for four match days in January and February 1955, where he competed in the second-rate GDR league for the newly created SG Dynamo Dresden at the beginning of the year (after the DHfK teams were dissolved ) . In the summer / autumn of 1955, a transition round was played in GDR football in order to align the football season with the calendar year from 1956 onwards. Of the 13 games played, Usemann only played two games. Then his career as a league player was over.

Günter Usemann died on September 16, 2016 after a serious illness.

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Usemann is also given in the above sources for the 1949/50 season as a top division player at the ZSG Altenburg , but with different dates of birth (April 4, 1925 / April 9, 1929) and usage figures. Because of these inconsistencies and the unresolved question of why an Altenburg top division player switched to the lower class Dresden city league, the Altenburg fact was not included in the main text.

In addition, various sources give Usemann's first names in the spelling Günther. The birthday and first name given in this article corresponds to the information from Usemann's obituary, published on October 1, 2016 in the Wolfsburger Nachrichten

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Usemann: Obituary notice. July 3, 2019, accessed July 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Usemann, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Leaf bush
DATE OF DEATH 16th September 2016