Gerhard Hoppe
Gerhard Hoppe (born August 3, 1950 in Gera ) was a football player in the GDR . In the top soccer class of the GDR soccer association Oberliga , he played for FC Carl Zeiss Jena and BSG Wismut Gera . Hoppe won the GDR soccer cup twice with Jena , and he played three international matches with the young national team. In 1981 he was in the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup with Jena .
Soccer career
Hoppe started to play football organized at BSG Motor Gera-Süd / Pforten. In 1958 he moved to BSG Wismut Gera, which delegated him to FC Carl Zeiss Jena in 1971. At the club he was immediately used in the league, in which he completed 15 games during his first season in Jena and was mainly used as a right defender. On May 14, 1972 he was in the final of the GDR soccer cup with FC Carl Zeiss and won his first title after a 2-1 win over Dynamo Dresden. The position of right defender had the 1.83 m tall Hoppe, called "Faden" by his teammates, also in the following season 1972/73 and developed there to the regular player. In the summer of 1972 he was appointed to the squad of the GDR youth team and played three international matches with her. After the international match Romania - GDR on May 26, 1973 (1: 2), Hoppe was convicted of "foreign exchange smuggling". This ended Hoppe's career in the youth national team, and he was expelled from FC Carl Zeiss Jena.
Hoppe then rejoined the BSG Wismut Gera, with whom he played in the second-rate GDR league from the summer of 1973 . 1976/77 he was involved with 29 point games in the rise of the bismuth team in the league. In the subsequent league season 1977/78 Hoppe played up to April 22, 1978 all 21 point games, both as a midfielder and as a defender.
After exactly five years, Hoppe was "pardoned" by FC Carl Zeiss Jena and already on May 6, 1978 used again in its league team, for which he played all other point games for the rest of the season. Until 1983 Hoppe took his regular place in the league team of FC Carl Zeiss, mainly in defense. On May 17, 1980, he and his team won the GDR soccer cup for the second time after a 3-1 victory over FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt. In the 1980/81 season Hoppe reached the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup with FC Carl Zeiss , which the Jena team lost 2-1 against Dinamo Tbilisi . Hoppe had shot his team in the 63rd minute with a goal scored with the hoe in the lead. The most point games within a season he played in 1982/83, when he was used as a right defender or pre-stopper 25 times. Hoppe played his last league season in 1983/84. Between the 1st and 18th matchday he played again, mainly playing on the right defender, in 18 point games, of which he mastered seven over the full distance.
In total, Hoppe completed 176 GDR league games (155 for FC Carl Zeiss Jena, 21 for Wismut Gera) and scored four goals (3/1). For Jena he played 205 competitive games (5 goals), including 26 (1) European Cup and 24 (1) GDR Cup games.
After the end of his senior league career, Hoppe went back to BSG Wismut Gera in the GDR league for a year in 1984. At the end of his career, he moved to BSG Rotasym Pößneck in 1985 , where he played in the third-class district league Gera and was a coach in Pößneck. Then Hoppe was also a coach at the Thuringian national league club SC 1903 Weimar , which he left after two years after a serious traffic accident.
Footnotes
- ↑ GDR citizens were only allowed to export GDR marks abroad to a limited extent at that time
literature
- Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 224.
- Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 . Pp. 316, 321.
- Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .
Web links
- Gerhard Hoppe in the database of the German Football Association
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoppe, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 3, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gera |