Gertrud Regus

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Gertrud Regus
Personal
Surname Gertrud Regus
birthday May 28, 1962
Club information
society SV Hallstadt
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Gertrud Gebhard , née Regus (born May 28, 1962 ) is a former German soccer referee .

Regus is considered a pioneer of refereeing in German football. She was the first woman to lead an international women's match (1991) and a women's DFB Cup final (1992), and she took part in the 1991 Women's World Cup and the 1993 Women's European Championship . She was also active in men's football, among other things, she was used as the first woman in the Bundesliga and in the men's DFB Cup as a linesman.

Career

Regus comes from Hallstadt in Upper Franconia . She played soccer herself as a teenager and was active for RSV Drosendorf and then for SV Hallstadt. Her greatest success was the Bavarian runner-up.

At first she whistled school and youth games parallel to her active career, then there were also lower class matches in the men's area. From the district class it went for them over the district league and district league from 1989 in the state league . In 1992 she was used as the first woman in the Bayern League .

Regus was the first woman to lead an international match in women's football; she whistled the match between Germany and Switzerland on August 28, 1991. At the first official staging of the Women's World Cup in China in November 1991, she was appointed as a line judge, also in the final between the USA and Norway she stood on the line. In 1992 she was the first woman to lead the women's DFB Cup final between FSV Frankfurt and TSV Siegen . She was also at the 1993 European Women's Championship .

Her rapid rise also continued in the men's division, she whistled games in the third division regional league at the beginning of the 1990s and was employed as linesman in the 2nd Bundesliga and in the men's DFB Cup in the 1993/94 season , which attracted a lot of media attention pulled. In October 1995 she was nominated for the first time as linesman for the Bundesliga for the game FC Schalke 04 against 1. FC Kaiserslautern in Helmut Fleischer's team . Her second and last Bundesliga appearance followed on March 19, 1996 in the Bayer 04 Leverkusen game against Hansa Rostock .

Her career ended abruptly shortly thereafter. She fell out with the officials and resigned completely in 1997. Nevertheless, she is still active in the amateur area in the Bamberg referee group. In 2010 she was awarded the gold association badge by the Bavarian Football Association.

Private

Regus worked as an administrative clerk. She married at the end of 1994 and has had the surname Gebhard ever since.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralf Riemke: Gertrud Gebhard: Happy 50th birthday , article on anpfiff.info from May 28, 2012
  2. ↑ Andreas Bock: Referee pioneer Gertrud Gebhard: "Back to the cooking pot" , article on 11freunde.de from September 10, 2017
  3. ^ Ronny Galczynski: Women's football from A - Z: The Lexicon of German Women's Football , Schlütersche, 2011.
  4. ↑ Markus Schütz: Pioneer as one of the first women at the pipe , article on infranken.de from May 14, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Regus, Gertrud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gebhard, Gertrude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer referee
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1962