Gerd Harmful

Gerd Harmful
2008
Personalia
birthday	December 30, 1952
place of birth	Rodewisch ,  GDR
date of death	January 29, 2022
size	176 cm
position	midfield
juniors
years	station
1960-1968	TSG Rodewisch
1968-1971	FC Karl Marx Stadt
Men's
years	station	Games (goals) 1
1971-1976	FC Karl Marx Stadt II	at least 38 (2)
1972-1978	FC Karl Marx Stadt	25 (1)
stations as a coach
years	station
1978-1981	BSG Motor Scharfenstein
1981	SC tractor Niederwiesa
1982-1985	BSG construction Krumhermersdorf
1985-1986	FC Karl Marx Stadt II
1986-1987	BSG activist Black Pump
1987-1990	Dkk Scharfenstein Krumhermersdorf
1990-1991	FC Stahl Riesa
1991-1996	FSV Zwickau
1997	FC Sachsen Leipzig
1998-1999	FSV Hoyerswerda
1999-2007	FC Erzgebirge Aue
2008-2013	Chemnitz FC
1 Only league games are shown.

Gerd Schädlich ( December 30, 1952 in Rodewisch – January 29, 2022 ) was a German football player and coach . He became known in the GDR as a coach of the BSG Aufbau Krumhermersdorf from one of the smallest towns that were ever represented in the second-rate GDR league . As a coach, he helped the clubs FSV Zwickau and FC Erzgebirge Aue to gain promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga for the first time .

Career

As a player

Gerd Schädlich started playing football at TSG Rodewisch in 1960 and switched to FC Karl-Marx-Stadt as a youth in 1968 . From the 1971/72 season he belonged to the squad of the second team of the Karl-Marx-Städter, with which in the summer of 1972 the promotion from the district league to the second highest division, the league , was reached.

On March 18, 1972, Schädlich made his debut in the Oberliga after coming on as a substitute in the 78th minute of the game in the 2-0 defeat of the "Himmelblauen" at BFC Dynamo . Schädlich played a total of 25 Oberliga games for FC Karl-Marx-Stadt between 1972 and 1976, scoring one goal. He achieved this in the 1972/73 season on matchday 16 in a 3-0 home win against FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt . He played his last competitive game on June 19, 1976 in a 4-4 draw against BSG Stahl Riesa on Matchday 5 of the DFV Toto special round 1975/76 , before a long-term injury forced him to end his active career at the age of 25 years to end prematurely.

As a coach

First merits in the Erzgebirge

Schädlich then worked as a qualified sports teacher at a municipal vocational school in Karl-Marx-Stadt and later as a DTSB trainer. He had already acquired the diploma during his time as a player at the Karl-Marx-Städter branch of the DHfK Leipzig . At the same time, Schädlich was the first team to train the district class representative of BSG Motor Scharfenstein, which knew that the refrigerator manufacturer VEB dkk Scharfenstein had a powerful support company behind it. Schädlich took over the team for the 1978/79 season and immediately achieved second place in the corresponding district class season. In the following season, 1979/80, the Erzgebirge team were just winners of the season and were promoted to the third-rate district league of Karl-Marx-Stadt. In addition, they made it into the final of the FDGB district cup, where they narrowly lost 2-1 to the representation of BSG Motor Oberfrohna. On the way to the final, the local neighbors BSG Aufbau Krumhermersdorf had been defeated 3:1 in the quarter-finals away from home. In the first district league season, Schädlich initially managed the fortunes in Scharfenstein. He probably switched to BSG Traktor Niederwiesa in the second half of the 80/81 season, which, as a district class newcomer under his management, was able to celebrate a surprising third place at the end of the season.

With the BSG from the village in the GDR league

During the winter break of the 1981/82 season, Schädlich received a call from Krumhermersdorf. The relegation- threatened DDR-Liga representative had obviously remembered the former, quite successful Scharfensteiner coach and now hoped to be able to keep the class under his leadership. Although the performance curve pointed upwards, at the end of the season the Erzgebirge team had to say goodbye to BSG Motor Werdau from the second division with a one-point difference. However, this industrial accident was quickly remedied. In the 82/83 season, the Krumhermersdorfer dominated their district league season at will, with only one defeat and a draw at the local neighbors Scharfenstein, they qualified for the elimination games for the district championship. In the two games against BSG Motor Wema/Aufbau Plauen, they easily won the district championship title with a total score of 9:0 goals. In addition, the Schädlich troupe also won the district cup, in the final the ASGwarts Marienberg was swept away 6:1. Thus, after a year in the district league, the village club was back in the second division. At the end of the 1983/84 season , Schädlich and his players achieved third place, the best league placement in the club's history. Bernd Sachse was once again the top scorer in the league, and the third-best goal-getter in the league. The highlight was the 1-0 home win against the former Oberliga side BSG Sachsenring Zwickau . In the following season 1984/85 , however, the grapes hung too high for the Erzgebirge. After a league reform, in which the five league seasons were reduced to two, you found yourself in a season of 18, which included well-known teams such as Zwickau, HFC , Chemie Böhlen and Wismut Gera . Although they came back to the obligatory home win against Zwickau, in the end the playful class was no longer enough to ensure that they stayed in the class. With the descent, Schädlich also ended his involvement in Krumhermersdorf. He initially took over for the 85/86 season the reserve team of the Oberliga FC Karl-Marx-Stadt, which were district runners-up in the third-rate district league behind Krumhermersdorf.

Interlude Black pump

For the 1986/87 season , Schädlich was signed by the East German league activist Schwarze Pumpe . With the Hoyerswerdaern , who had switched from the north to the stronger south squadron, he managed a respectable fourth place, the best placement of the season for the activists in the two-track East German league.

Krumhermersdorf again

Schädlich then moved back to Krumhermersdorf in the Ore Mountains. The BSG from the 2,000-inhabitant village, which was incorporated into Zschopau in 1999, tried again to advance to the GDR league. In the first season of Schädlich's second term in office, 1987/88, this still failed, the team from BSG Motor "Fritz Heckert" Karl-Marx-Stadt was just one point ahead at the end of the season. However, they managed to win the district cup. The coup then succeeded in the following season. Schädd became district champion with Krumhermersdorf and his team was also unscathed in the promotion round to the GDR league. Already after the third day of the ascent round, the resurgence was successful. In the 1989/90 league season, which was subject to enormous political changes due to the reunification in the GDR , the league with heavyweights such as Chemie Böhlen , Chemie Leipzig , Stahl Riesa or Sachsenring Zwickau ultimately proved to be one size too big, albeit only three points missing a non-relegation zone. The home win against Zwickau, which had become almost mandatory, was also successful again.

At the Steel Elf

However, Schädlich was able to continue working in the second division of the DFV, the traditional club and former Oberliga club Stahl Riesa secured his services. It was not easy for Schädlich to hold office there, as the previous sponsor, Stahlwerk Riesa, increasingly failed to provide financial support. Nevertheless, Schädlich was able to keep the Stahlelf in seventh place in the table until the winter break.

Zwickau and the 2nd Bundesliga

At the turn of the year 1990/91 a call from Zwickau followed. At FSV Zwickau , successor to the traditional club BSG Sachsenring, the players had withdrawn their trust from their coach Harald Irmscher , so he was dismissed. Schädlich initially achieved the minimum goal of winning the relay, albeit very narrowly, with the same number of points and only one goal ahead of arch-rival Wismut Aue . In addition, the second leg in Zwickau against the Erzgebirge was marked by serious riots, so that the Zwickau club management waived their home rights in the qualifiers for the 2nd Bundesliga. In the end, this handicap was too great, the Zwickau team only finished third in their qualifying group. In the following season, 1991/92 , Schädlich and his team first achieved the minimum goal of winning the season, now in the southern season of the third-rate amateur league Northeast. In the promotion games to the 2nd Bundesliga, it was ultimately the opening defeat against Union Berlin that set the course early on. The Schädlich squad took second place behind promoted VfL Wolfsburg . In the 92/93 season, the West Saxons were among the favorites again, but this time under Schädlich they clearly missed the relay victory with fifth place in the end. Nevertheless, the club management held on to the now no longer undisputed coach. He was offered a new, performance-related one-year contract, and Schädlich also took on the role of manager. He was advised by the Zwickau legend Alois Glaubitz . Schädlich struck lucky with the return of André Barylla and the reactivation of Steffen Kubatzky . Together with libero Bernd Tipold , the defensive trio only conceded 16 goals and the FSV was able to celebrate the relay victory with a four-point lead. Due to a separate relegation group of the Oberliga Nordost, in which financially strong western clubs were missing, Zwickau was able to qualify for the 2nd Bundesliga with 3 wins and a draw against the teams from Brandenburg and Cottbus . After being able to keep the class in the first second division season only because of the withdrawal of licenses from Dynamo Dresden and 1. FC Saarbrücken, Schädlich surprisingly led the Zwickauers to fifth place in the table in their second second division season. Because Zwickau had to spend the winter in an unsatisfactory 13th place in the table, Schädlich was released during the winter break and replaced by legendary striker Joachim Streich .

Stopover in Leipzig and Hoyerswerda

Schädlich was then initially committed by the then regional league team FC Sachsen Leipzig for the 1997/98 season. But after just six days of play, Schädlich was released again in early September 1997. He had not complied with the wish of a sponsor to immediately set up a newcomer who had only recently signed up.

Schädlich then returned to one of his former workplaces, Hoyerswerda. The Oberliga club FSV Hoyerswerda, successor to Schädlich's former station activist Black Pump, committed him for the 1998/99 season. With the East Saxons he achieved a surprising third place and took part in the promotion games to the regional league, since the season winner VFL Halle 96 and the second team of VfB Leipzig had not reported for these games. In the relegation, however, the Schädlich squad lost out twice against Tennis Borussia .

With the "Violets" for the first time in the 2nd Bundesliga

In the meantime, however, the then regional league club Erzgebirge Aue had gotten in touch and signed Schädlich on July 1, 1999. With the Erzgebirge he was able to qualify for the future two-pronged Regionalliga Nord in the first season with 3rd place in the Northeast Regional League season. This was followed by two rather mixed seasons with places 7 and 9 in the table before Schädlich was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga with the Violets champion of the Regionalliga Nord in the 2002/03 season. After Schädlich had led the "Violets" in eighth place in their first second division season, seventh in the following two seasons, 2004/05 and 2005/06, and tenth in the 2006/07 season, he resigned due to a 0:5 defeat at TSV 1860 Munich in the last game before the winter break of the 2007/08 season and the associated “overwintering” in a relegation zone on December 17, 2007.

The circle closes - with the "sky blue"

At the beginning of the 2008/09 season , Schädlich took over as coach at Chemnitzer FC . After a 1-0 home win against promotion favorites RB Leipzig on matchday 33 of the 2010/11 season , he secured the championship title in the Regionalliga Nord early with the “Himmelblauen” and was promoted to the 3rd division as a result. There, the sky blues were initially permanently in the lower half of the table in the first half of the season. However, the club was able to work its way up to the relegation place in the course of the second half of the season thanks to a series of 16 unbeaten games. However, the 3rd place in the table could not be maintained and so the team around Gerd Schädlich ended the season as the best climber in 9th place. With a 5-4 victory after extra time in the Sachsenpokal against VfL 05 Hohenstein-Ernstthal , CFC also managed to qualify for next season 's DFB-Pokal . There you lost in the first round against SG Dynamo Dresden . In April 2013, Schädlich extended his contract by a further year until 2014, but resigned on October 6, 2013 after a 4-0 league defeat by Preußen Münster with immediate effect.

More activity

In May 2014, Schädlich signed a contract with Hallesches FC as a full-time scout. His field of activity included in particular the game opponent observation and analysis for the professional team. The contract ran until the summer of 2017.

successes

• Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga with FSV Zwickau (1994) and FC Erzgebirge Aue (2003)
• Promotion to the 3rd division with Chemnitzer FC (2011)

honors

Gerd Schädlich was awarded the Chemmy for his life's work in 2014. However, he stayed away from the award because he could not understand his honor: "I find the whole thing strange and I'm not enthusiastic about it."

private life

Gerd Schädlich was married and had one daughter. He died on the night of January 29, 2022 after a long, serious illness at the age of 69.

literature

• Hanns Leske : The GDR Oberliga players. A dictionary. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-392-9 , p. 457.

web links

• Gerd Schädlich in the weltfussball.de database
• Gerd Schädlich in the fussballdaten.de database
• Gerd Schädlich in the database of the German Football Association

itemizations

1. ↑ Neue Zeit from May 11, 1994, p. 15.
2. ↑ Olaf Morgenstern: Longest-serving second division coach: Coach Schädlich resigns . sid article on n-tv.de , December 17, 2007, retrieved September 9, 2017.
3. ↑ Next newcomer: Gerd Schädlich becomes a scout at HFC . Report from Hallescher FC e. V., May 27, 2014, accessed September 9, 2017.
4. ↑ Gerd Schädlich on observation tour for the HFC until 2017 . Report from Hallescher FC e. V., March 17, 2016, accessed September 9, 2017.
   Gerd Schädlich resigns . Report from Hallescher FC e. V., May 11, 2014, accessed September 9, 2017.
5. ↑ Mario Schmidt: Forgiving tones at sports gala. (No longer available online.) Freie Presse, April 7, 2014, archived from the original on April 7, 2014 ; retrieved September 9, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Steffen Rohr: Ex-CFC coach and current HFC scout in an interview: Schäddlich: "I sleep more peacefully now" . In: kicker.de , December 6, 2014, retrieved on September 9, 2017.
7. ↑ Thomas Nahrendorf, Michael Thiele: Mourning for the legendary coach: Gerd Schädlich is dead. In: tag24.de. 29 January 2022, retrieved 29 January 2022 . 
8. ↑ Trainer legend Gerd Schädlich died. In: mdr.de , January 29, 2022, retrieved on January 29, 2022.