Gerhard Schenke

Gerhard Schenke (born January 11, 1927 ): A former German soccer player who played first division soccer in Gera in the 1950s .

Athletic career

At the age of 25, Gerhard Schenke made his debut for the company sports association (BSG) Motor Gera in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football . In the 1951/52 season, which consisted of 36 games, Schenke was used as a center forward in the last three matches. In his first game BSG Chemie Leipzig - Motor Gera (5: 2) he scored his first league goal, which he followed with both goals in the second game of Motor Gera - BSG activist Brieske Ost in the 2-0 win of Gera. In the third use, Schenke remained goalless. 1952/53, the BSG had renamed itself BSG Wismut, Schenke played two games as a left winger at the beginning of the season, then paused for 14 games and only came to twelve more missions and three goals in the second half of the season. At the end of the season, the Geraer had to relegate from the league. In the second-rate GDR league , Schenke essentially did not get beyond the status of a substitute player. 1953/54 he had only nine missions in 26 league games, in which he was only four times in the starting line-up but was only used once over the entire season. When called up as a striker, he only got two hits. His situation improved temporarily in the 1954/55 season in which he played 18 times. He owed this mainly to the fact that the BSG Wismut Gera had to surrender three of their most important players to the upper division club SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt after the first half of the GDR league . Schenke took the place of Gera's most successful striker Manfred Kaiser with 13 hits . After three games in the first half of the season, Schenke came as a center forward on eleven more missions. He scored a total of eight goals, but was his team's most successful goalscorer in the second half of the season with six goals. In the transition round, which was held in the fall of 1955 to change the rhythm of the calendar year, Schenke fell back into the role of substitute player, because in his nine of thirteen games he was only substituted five times. After he was only used three times in the GDR league in the 1956 season, Schenke ended his career in high-class football. Within six seasons he had played 17 times in the Oberliga (six goals) and 35 times in the GDR League (ten goals).

literature

• The new football week : born 1952–1956. ISSN  0323-8407
• Andreas Baingo , Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 316.
• DSFS (ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 8). Berlin 2011, p. 313.

Web links

• Gerhard Schenke in the database of the German Football Association (1952/53 wrong playlist)
• Gerhard Schenke in the database of weltfussball.de