Gerald Cramer

Gerald Cramer (born November 24, 1960 ) was a soccer player for the GDR upper division club 1. FC Magdeburg and a multiple GDR junior national player.

Athletic career

Cramer became a member of 1. FC Magdeburg in 1974, after he had previously started playing soccer at BSG Einheit / Empor Zerbst . In the junior team of the FCM he performed remarkably well as a defender, so that he was accepted into the junior national team of the GDR. There he completed 17 games with the U-18 and eleven games with the U-21 team. From 1978 to 1981 Cramer was in the squad of the junior league team of the FCM. Already on April 19, 1980 he was used in the league point game 1. FCM - 1. FC Lok Leipzig (2: 1) as a substitute for defender Klaus Decker in the first men's team of the club. Although still registered for the team of the junior league, Cramer played 21 point games in the GDR league in the 1980/81 season and rose as a 20-year-old 1.70 m tall defender to become a regular player within a year. But he lost this status again just as quickly, and so he also missed the GDR Cup final in 1983 , because he was not in the final when Magdeburg won the seventh cup. As mediocre as his point play rate was, Cramer was so successful in the appearances in the European Cups of the FCM. Between 1980 and 1983 he was used in nine of the ten European cup games that took place during this period. Although still listed in the league squad, Cramer was no longer used in the league in the 1984/85 and 1985/86 seasons. He played his last league game on February 25, 1984 in the encounter between FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt and 1. FCM (3-1 defeat). From this he drew the consequences in the summer of 1986 and withdrew from competitive football at the age of 26. From April 19, 1980 to February 25, 1984 Cramer played 77 competitive games with the Magdeburg league team. As a regular defender, he only managed one goal.

• Overview of the GDR Oberliga point games
  • 1979/80: 03
  • 1980/81: 21
  • 1981/82: 08
  • 1982/83: 14
  • 1983/84: 15 = a total of 61

literature

• German sport echo : born 1978–1984. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 98.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 332.

Web links

• Gerald Cramer in the database of the German Football Association