Gerhard Prautzsch

Gerhard Prautzsch
Personnel
birthday	September 25, 1941
place of birth	Rochlitz ,  German Empire
position	Defense
Juniors
Years	station
	BSG Motor Rochlitz
0000-1958	BSG structure Klingenthal
1958–1962	SG Dynamo Dresden
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1960-1969	SG Dynamo Dresden	163 (5)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1959-1960	GDR U-18	7 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1969-1973	SG Dynamo Dresden (Juniors)
1973-1978	SG Dynamo Dresden (assistant coach)
1978-1983	SG Dynamo Dresden
1984-1985	SG Dynamo Eisleben
1985-1989	Estrela Vermelha de Maputo
1990-1996	1. FC Dynamo Dresden (fitness and goalkeeping coach)
1996-1998	Eintracht Schwerin
1 Only league games are given.

Gerhard Prautzsch (born September 25, 1941 in Rochlitz ) is a former German soccer player and later soccer coach .

Athletic career

Soccer player

Prautzsch began playing soccer at his home country BSG Motor Rochlitz and came to SG Dynamo Dresden as a junior player via BSG Aufbau in Klingenthal . He remained loyal to his sports community until the end of his active career. From November 1959 to July 1960 he was used in seven international matches of the GDR junior national team . At the 1960 UEFA youth tournament in Austria , the unofficial European championship of this age group, he did not make it to the semi-finals with the East German U-18s as the last of the preliminary round group C.

In 1962 he played a league game for the first time with the men's team from Dresden . At this time, Dynamo Dresden set out to get out of the lows of GDR football, but the quality in the 1962/63 season was not yet enough for relegation in the GDR league . Therefore, Prautzsch, who had completed 24 of the 26 possible league appearances as a left full-back this season, had to spend another year in the second division . It was not until 1964 that the Dynamos managed to establish themselves in the major league for several years. After another year in the second-rate GDR league in 1968/69, Dynamo Dresden rose to a top team in GDR football . Because of this development, Prautzsch was not allowed to win a title as an active player. As a success he was able to celebrate the three league promotions in 1962, 1964 and 1969. With the conclusion of the 1968/69 season, in which Prautzsch only completed four league matches in the GDR league, he ended his active career as a football player. In his five league seasons he had always played as a defender, scoring four goals in 92 of 130 point games played for Dynamo Dresden.

coach

At the beginning of the 1969/70 football season, Prautzsch, who has meanwhile been trained as a qualified sports teacher at the Leipzig Sports University (DHfK), began working as a junior coach at Dynamo Dresden. In 1973 he became assistant coach to Walter Fritzsch , whom he replaced as head coach for the 1978/79 season. Prautzsch took over the team as GDR football champion, but did not manage to repeat this success over five seasons. He won his only title in 1982 in the final of the GDR Football Cup , when his team defeated the then series champions BFC Dynamo on penalties. A year earlier he was discredited by the sports officials in Dresden and Berlin when his three players Peter Kotte , Matthias Müller and Gerd Weber were excluded from the team in connection with Weber's plans to escape the Republic. When Dynamo Dresden only reached a disappointing 7th place in the 1982/83 season and had previously been eliminated in the 1st round of the European Cup Winners' Cup against the Danish team from B.93 Copenhagen , Prautzsch was dismissed on June 30, 1983 and to the second-rate SG Dynamo Eisleben . There he took over the training of the first men's team in the 1984/85 season and handed over his office to Jürgen Grzega in March 1985, when the team was sixth in the table. From June 1985 he was in charge of the Mozambican first division club Estrela Vermelha de Maputo and until 1989 he always achieved placings from third to seventh in the final table. In 1987 he also took part in the Cup Winners Africa Cup with the capital club. After the end of the GDR, Prautzsch returned to Dresden, where he worked temporarily at Dynamo Dresden as a fitness and goalkeeper trainer. At the end of the 1990s he was a coach at FC Eintracht Schwerin in the fourth-class Oberliga Nordost .

literature

• Andreas Baingo , Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 .
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .
• Hanns Leske : The GDR league players. A lexicon . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-392-9 , page 383/384.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview with Gerhard Prautzsch