Gerd Weber

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Gerd Weber
Bundesarchiv Bild 183-P1017-303, soccer player Gerd Weber.jpg
Gerd Weber before an
international match in October 1975
Personnel
birthday May 31, 1956
place of birth Dresden ,  GDR
size 180 cm
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
1962-1970 SC unit Dresden /
FSV locomotive Dresden
1970-1973 SG Dynamo Dresden
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1973-1975 SG Dynamo Dresden II 18 (1) 00
1973-1981 SG Dynamo Dresden 145 0(43)
1989-1992 SV Oberweier
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1971-1974 GDR U-18 51 0(4)
1974-1975 DDR U-23 9 0(0)
1978-1980 DDR U-21 3 0(0)
1975-1976 DDR Olympia 6 0(0)
1975-1980 GDR 35 0(5)
1 Only league games are given.

Gerd Weber (born May 31, 1956 in Dresden ) was a football player in the GDR Oberliga , the highest East German football class. He played there for the Dynamo Dresden sports club , with which he was three times champion and one cup winner. Weber is a 35-time national player and was Olympic champion in 1976. After an attempted escape in 1981 and subsequent imprisonment, he fled the GDR in 1989.

Soccer career

youth

Weber grew up under difficult family circumstances, his father was an alcoholic, and at times he was brought up in a home. At the age of six he was accepted into the offspring of the soccer department of SC Einheit Dresden , which became independent in 1966 as FSV Lokomotive Dresden , and worked there through the individual teams until 1970. At the beginning of the 1970/71 season he was delegated to the upper division Dynamo Dresden, where he was initially used in the youth team. From 1971 he played for Dynamo in the junior league . In the same year he was appointed to the squad of the GDR junior national team. On September 26, 1971, he played in the Czech Děčín in the encounter Czechoslovakia - GDR (2-2), since used as a defender, his first junior international game. By 1974 Weber had 51 international matches with the junior selection, setting a record that lasted until the end of the GDR. Immediately afterwards he was accepted into the youth national team, with which he played twelve international matches.

DDR-Oberliga

Weber came to his first use in the GDR league on August 25, 1973. In the game of the 3rd match day of the 1973/74 season Dynamo - Stahl Riesa (5-2) he was in the 83rd minute for left winger Claus Lichtenberger substituted in. Up to the 12th matchday he was used in another three league games, again as a substitute. In the 1974/75 season, the 1.80 m tall Weber benefited from the protracted injury to the Dresden director Hans-Jürgen Kreische , for whom he was regularly used as a midfielder in the league team from the eleventh game day on. However, the game year had a bitter end for Weber. Dynamo had reached the GDR Cup final, but lost to Sachsenring Zwickau after a 3: 4 on penalties. Weber missed one of the Dresden penalties alongside Hans-Jürgen Dörner . In the 1975/76 season Weber was finally a regular player, he completed 24 of the 26 league point games and found a permanent place in the team as a right defender. At the end of the season he celebrated his first title win with his team that had won the championship. Further championships were added in 1977 and 1978. On May 28, 1977 he also won the GDR Cup after a 3-2 victory over 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig . With his goal to 2: 2 in the 85th minute after a 1: 2 deficit, he did the preparatory work for the 3: 2 victory of Dresden. Weber kept his regular place until 1980, with his missions varying between defense and midfield. In the 1979/80 season he was the top scorer of the Dynamos with 16 goals and landed third on the Oberliga top scorer list, although he had never played in the storm. At the beginning of the 1980/81 season he was initially out due to injury and was only used regularly in the league from the eighth day of the game until the winter break. On January 24, 1981 Weber was arrested together with his Dresden team- mates Peter Kotte and Matthias Müller before the national team left for a tour of South America because of attempted " illegal border crossing " . This was preceded by an attempt to poach the Bundesliga club 1. FC Köln . Then all three were excluded from SG Dynamo Dresden, Weber was banned from playing in the entire GDR football game operation for life, Kotte and Müller were banned for life from the Oberliga and the second-rate GDR league . Weber was sentenced as the main suspect to two years and three months' imprisonment for "treasonous agent activity" and "attempted illegal border crossing". His record at Dynamo Dresden from 1973 to 1980 shows 145 league games with 43 goals and 35 European Cup games with five goals. In the six seasons between 1974/75 and 1979/80, in which Weber always played at least 19 or more of the 26 top division season games, the Dresden Dynamos always came in on the medal ranks and with 3rd place in 1974/75 were only once not champion or runner-up.

A national team

After Weber had distinguished himself as a junior and young national player and had become a regular player in the major league, he was appointed to the squad of the senior national team in the summer of 1975 . For his first international match he came on September 3, 1975 in the encounter between the Soviet Union and GDR (0-0), when he came on for right midfielder Wolfgang Seguin in the 54th minute . After that, with the exception of 1976 (only two missions), he had a permanent place in the GDR selection. With the GDR Olympic selection Weber played six official international games, including two finals at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal (Canada). He thus contributed to winning the gold medal, which the GDR selection won after a 3-1 victory - without the injured Weber - over Poland . For this success he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. In the qualifying games for the 1980 European Football Championship in Group 4, he completed all eight games against the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland and Iceland , as did Hans-Jürgen Dörner , Reinhard Häfner and Martin Hoffmann under coach Georg Buschner . In the decisive 2: 3 defeat on November 21, 1979 in Leipzig against the Netherlands, he formed the midfield with Rüdiger Schnuphase and Reinhard Häfner. After a 2-0 lead, the "Oranjes" prevailed with a goal from René van de Kerkhof in the 67th minute. Weber completed the last of his 35 or, according to FIFA reading, 33 A international matches two months before his arrest on November 19, 1980 in a friendly between the GDR and Hungary (2-0).

Unofficial employee of the State Security

As a prominent sports community of the GDR security organs, Dynamo Dresden was under special observation by the Ministry for State Security . This made use of numerous informants outside and within the league team. Gerd Weber was recruited as an unofficial employee in 1975 and proved to be an abundant source with more than 70 reports about his team. He had been assigned the task of observing his teammates at the 1976 Olympic Games and on missions in western countries.

Escape from the GDR

In 1979 he came under suspicion of the state security in connection with the flight of prominent GDR soccer players ( Lutz Eigendorf ). In 1981 his escape plans were revealed. Weber had to serve eleven months of his sentence. He was not allowed to continue his sports teacher studies, which he began in 1978. He took up a job in a car repair shop and trained as a car mechanic. He was not allowed to attend a master’s course. His request for a pardon was rejected four times by the GDR football association . On August 12, 1989, he managed to escape to West Germany via Hungary with his wife and six-year-old daughter . Here he trained as an industrial clerk and then worked as a motor vehicle expert. He was a recreational footballer at SV Oberweier for three years , after which he briefly coached the SV Haslach regional league team . Weber recently settled in Friesenheim in Baden (Heiligenzell district).

successes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerd Weber , Internationales Sportarchiv, 34/03, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  2. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Gerd Weber - Matches and Goals in Oberliga . RSSSF . January 4, 2018. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
  3. ↑ 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).
  4. ^ German Sports Club for Football Statistics (DSFS): 50 years of the European Football Championship. Volume 1 - 1960 to 1996, page 96
  5. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Gerd Weber - Goals in International Matches . RSSSF . January 4, 2018. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
  6. ↑ Ingolf Pleil: Mielke, power and mastery: The "processing" of the Dynamo Dresden sports community by the MfS 1978 - 1989. Ch.Links Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-86153-235-2 , page 67 ff.
  7. ↑ Prison instead of football. Badische Zeitung, May 9, 2009

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personal data
SURNAME Weber, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden