Gerhard Polland

Gerhard Polland (* March 7, 1920 ; † May 11, 2006 ) was a soccer player in Leipzig and played there between 1949 and 1959 in the Oberliga , the top division in the GDR . With Chemie Leipzig he was GDR champion, with SC Lok Leipzig cup winner. Later he worked as a soccer coach in the lower class and youth field.

Polland was a member of the Spielvereinigung 1899 Leipzig until 1943, with which he last played in the second-rate district class Leipzig. After the Second World War, his name only reappeared in connection with the formation of the ZSG Industrie Leipzig in March 1949, when he joined their football section. At the Saxony Championship in May 1949, he took part as a right runner in four of the five games played. For the 1949/50 season, the ZSG was one of the founding teams of the Oberliga, newly created by the German Sports Committee , which was henceforth the highest soccer league in East Germany. The 29-year-old Polland played 23 of the 26 games played as a midfielder. With 32 appearances in 34 league games, he was also a midfield regular in the Leipzig team in 1950/51, who have since taken on the role of BSG Chemie, and at the end of the season he was GDR champions with his team. Polland continued to play for Chemie Leipzig until 1954 and was also the team captain at times. After 121 league games with one goal, Polland moved to local rivals SC Lokomotive Leipzig in the summer of 1954. Here, too, he continued to play in the major league and twice reached the final of the GDR soccer cup. On December 22, 1957, he was the right runner with the Lok-Elf after a 2-1 win in extra time over Empor Rostock cup winner, on December 14, 1958 the now 38-year-old was in the Lok team, which the SC unit Dresden lost with 1: 2 after extra time. Shortly after moving to SC Lok, he played an international match with the B national team in Poland on September 26, 1954. After the 1959 season, Polland ended his career as a football player. With his 87 first division games for SC Lokomotive, his league record had grown to 208 games. As for chemistry, Polland only scored one top division for Lok.

Then Polland struck a career as a football coach and worked mainly with lower-class teams. In 1961 he trained the Leipzig district league team Stahl Lippendorf and took over activist Böhlen in the same district league for the 1963/64 season . With the Böhlener he rose in 1964 for a year in the second-rate GDR league and then looked after the team for another year in the district league. In the 1965/66 season Polland was coach of the Berlin district league climber Chemie Schmöckwitz . In the 1970s he worked as a junior coach at 1. FC Lok Leipzig .

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 .
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .