Hans-Jürgen Dörner (soccer player)

Hans Jürgen Dorner
Thorns (2017)
Personalia
birthday	January 25, 1951
place of birth	Gorlitz ,  GDR
date of death	January 19, 2022
place of death	Dresden ,  Germany
size	177 cm
position	Libero
juniors
years	station
0000–1965	BSG Energy Goerlitz
1965-1967	Engine WAMA Gorlitz
1967-1968	Dynamo Dresden
Men's
years	station	Games (goals) 1
1968-1986	Dynamo Dresden	392 (65)
National team
years	selection	games (goals)
	GDR junior selection	17 0(?)
	GDR junior selection	14 0(?)
1972-1976	East German Olympic team	10 0(?)
1969-1985	GDR	100 0(9)
stations as a coach
years	station
1986-1988	Dynamo Dresden (youth)
0000–1996	DFB youth
1996-1997	Werder Bremen
1998-1999	FSV Zwickau
2000-2001	al Ahly SC
2001-2003	VfB Leipzig
2007-2009	Radebeuler BC 08
2013-2017	SG unit Dresden-Mitte
1 Only league games are shown.

Hans-Jürgen "Dixie" Dörner ( January 25, 1951 in Görlitz – January 19, 2022 in Dresden ) was a German football player and coach . For the SG Dynamo Dresden he played in the DDR-Oberliga , the top division of the GDR. He was five times football champion and four times cup winner. He played 100 international matches with the senior national team and won the gold medal in 1976 with the Olympic team . He was nicknamed the " Beckenbauer des Ostens " .

football career

junior player

Dorner (1976)

Dörner grew up in his native town of Görlitz and attended school there for ten years. Already as a student he got his nickname "Dixie". His father was a trainer at the Energie Görlitz company sports club, and his three brothers, who played football, were his first role models. In 1960 his father registered the nine-year-old for the children's football team at BSG Energie and became his first coach. At the age of 14, Hans-Jürgen Dörner moved to the neighboring community Motor WAMA Görlitz , where he played until 1967. In the summer of the same year, he was delegated to the region's football academy, SG Dynamo Dresden. He took up an apprenticeship as a lathe operator, initially played in the Dynamo junior team and won the junior football tournament at the Children's and Youth Spartakiade with the Dresden district selection . This earned him the inclusion in the squad of the GDR junior national team, with which he played his first international junior match on May 1, 1968. He came on as a midfielder in the 1-0 away win against Sweden. In 1969 he was one of the participants in the UEFA youth tournament, the forerunner of what later became the European Junior Championship. At the event taking place in the GDR, he was used as a defender in all five games, the GDR team became unofficial vice European champions after a 1-1 draw in the final against Bulgaria. By 1969, Dörner had played 17 international matches with the junior team. He was then used in 15 international matches for the youth national team until 1974, with which he was also vice-European champion in 1974. In the two finals against Hungary (3:2 and 0:4) he played Libero .

GDR Oberliga player

Farewell to Dörner (front right) at the end of his active career in 1986

Since Dynamo Dresden was relegated from the Oberliga in 1968, Dörner's debut as a first division player was delayed by a year. He made his debut in the GDR league on September 8, 1968 in a 4-0 home win against Kali Werra Tiefenort  - it was Dynamo Dresden's first game in the club colors black and yellow after more than 15 years in wine-red and white uniforms. The 18-year-old Dörner was involved in the immediate resurgence of Dresden with eight of 30 league games and had a very good goal quota with five goals. At the start of the 1969/70 Oberliga season, Dörner was immediately involved and, thanks to his marksmanship in the previous year, was called up as a center forward. In his very first outing, he made it 2-0 at home against Hansa Rostock. When defender Wolfgang Haustein dropped out during the season, the 1.75 m tall Dörner was ordered back to defence, which remained his playing area until the end of his career. Already in his first season, Dörner had secured a regular place in the premier league team with 19 out of 26 possible league appearances. With the exception of the 1972/73 (15 league games) and 1976/77 (16) seasons, he always played in most of the premier league games. Of the 17 seasons of his Oberliga career, he played all 26 league games eight times. From 1973 he was the standard libero for Dresden. Dörner experienced his most successful Oberliga season in 1970/71 when he won the double championship and cup with Dynamo Dresden. He was also involved in the championships in 1973, 1976, 1977 and 1978, as well as in the other cup wins in 1977, 1984 and 1985. In the cup final in 1984 against FC Dynamo in Berlin, he led the 2-1 win with the goal to make it 1-0 one. Despite his position in defence, he showed his scoring instincts again and again. In all his seasons he entered the top league goalscorers list, in 1975/76 he was the most successful with eight goals. Dörner played his last league season in 1985/86, in which he played 25 league games despite his 35 years and scored two more goals. With the 2-1 victory in front of his own audience over 1. FC Union Berlin on May 24, 1986, the last day of the season, Dörner said goodbye to competitive football. He had played 392 of 442 Oberliga point games (89 percent) and scored 65 goals. This means that Dörner has scored the most GDR Oberliga games for Dynamo Dresden and is fourth in the GDR record list. Of Dynamo's 76 European games during his playing days, Dörner made 68 appearances and scored six goals. For many years until the end of his career, Dörner was team captain of Dynamo Dresden. In 1977, 1984 and 1985 he was named GDR footballer of the year, and in 1989 he was voted into the "Traumelf 40 Jahre Oberliga" by the readers of the GDR magazine Fußballwoche .

national player

Even before his first game in the DDR-Oberliga Dörner was used on June 22, 1969 for the first time in the senior national team. In the GDR international match against Chile (0-1), he came on as a substitute in the 59th minute for striker Henning Frenzel . He then had to wait almost two years for his next international appearance. Dörner only became a regular in the GDR selection after the 1974 World Cup, in which he was unable to take part due to jaundice. From 1975 he was the undisputed libero of the team and captained 60 international matches. Dörner celebrated his greatest success as a selection player at the 1976 Olympic football tournament in Canada, when the East German Olympic team won the gold medal after a 3-1 victory over Poland with Dörner as libero. For this success he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. With the Olympic selection, Dörner played ten official international matches between 1971 and 1976. He played his last international match with the senior national team on May 18, 1985 in the East German encounter against Luxembourg (3-1). It was his 100th game and that puts him in second place behind Joachim Streich (102) in the ranking of East German national players.

Trainer

Dörner had held the sports teacher diploma from the Leipzig Sports University DHfK since 1981 . After the end of his career as a soccer player, he was taken on by Dynamo Dresden as a youth coach from 1986. He held this position until 1988, after which he became coach of the East German Olympic squad until the East German football association was dissolved in 1990. Dörner was then youth coach at the DFB until 1996 .

After nine years as an association coach, Dörner was looking for new challenges and accepted the offer from Werder Bremen to take over the training of the Bundesliga team at the beginning of 1996 as one of the first former GDR coaches in the Bundesliga. However, Dörner did not succeed in significantly improving Werder's table situation. He took over the team in fifteenth place after the club sacked Aad de Mos and ended the season in 9th place. When Werder were at the bottom of the table after three games without a win at the beginning of the 1997/98 season, Dörner was released on August 20, 1997.

At his next station, the second division relegated FSV Zwickau , his engagement lasted only one season in 1998/99. He only reached fourth place in the regional league, thus missing the target of promotion and was released in August 1999.

After a one-year intermezzo at the traditional Egyptian club al Ahly Cairo between 2000 and 2001, Dörner became head coach of the fourth-rate Oberliga side VfB Leipzig in July 2001 . In his first season he reached fourth place with his new team in the Oberliga Nordost Staffel Süd. When on the 25th matchday of the 2002/03 season after the 0-1 defeat at VFC Plauen and seven points behind the top of the table again promotion seemed lost, Dörner was released on March 26, 2003 in Leipzig. In 2004 he opened "Dixie Dörner's football school" in Dresden. In October 2006, Dörner took over the district league club Radebeuler BC 08 , which he led to the sixth-rate state league in Saxony in 2009 .

Most recently, from July 2013 to 2017, he coached the SG Unit Dresden-Mitte e. V. from the Stadtliga A Dresden. In addition, Hans-Jürgen Dörner was a member of the Supervisory Board of Dynamo Dresden from November 16, 2013 until the end of his life.

successes

• GDR champion 1971 , 1973 , 1976 , 1977 , 1978
• GDR Cup Winner 1971 , 1977 , 1982 , 1984 , 1985
• GDR Footballer of the Year 1977, 1984, 1985
• 100 A internationals
• Olympic Gold Medal 1976

private

Dörner lived with his partner Annett. He died at the age of 70 on the night of January 19, 2022, six days before his 71st birthday, after a long, serious illness in his apartment in Dresden. He leaves behind three children.

See also

• List of football players with at least 100 caps

Movie

• SG Dynamo Dresden e. V.: Dixie Dörner – documentary , production: Dynamo TV, 79:11 min.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of East German Football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Goettingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 .
• Michael Horn, Gottfried Weise : The big encyclopedia of East German football. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-536-8 .
• Andreas Baingo , Michael Horn: The history of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Goettingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .
• Munzinger Archives: International Sports Archives , 14/96
• Uwe Nuttelmann (ed.): DDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .
• Jens Genschmar, Veit Pätzug: The conductor: Hans-Jürgen "Dixie" Dörner - a German football career ; Publisher Die Werkstatt Göttingen 2007; ISBN 978-3-89533-575-4
• Short biography of:  Dörner, Hans-Jürgen . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

web links

Commons : Hans-Jürgen Dörner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Dixie Dörner's football school
• Hans-Jürgen Dörner in the fussballdaten.de database
• Hans-Jürgen Dörner in the weltfussball.de database
• Hans-Jürgen Dörner in the database of the German Football Association
• Hans-Jürgen Dörner's senior internationals and goals in the RSSSF archive as read by FIFA . Retrieved 4 July 2013.
• Hans-Jürgen Dörner's league games and goals season by season at RSSSF Archives , retrieved 4 July 2013.

itemizations

1. ↑ ^{a b} Dynamo legend Hans-Jürgen "Dixie" Dörner dies. In: mdr.de. MDR , January 19, 2022, retrieved January 19, 2022 . 
2. ↑ Yahoo Sport October 21, 2010: You've had your nickname "Dixie" since you were a child... ( Memento of March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Of the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. High state awards given. Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver. In: New Germany . September 10, 1976, p. 4 , retrieved on April 10, 2018 (online at ZEFYS – newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , free registration required). 
4. ↑ Dixie Dörner on the Dynamo Supervisory Board (kicker.de, retrieved on November 19, 2013)
5. ↑ "Dixie" Dorner is no longer alive. Sports community mourns the loss of their record player and honorary captain. Retrieved January 19, 2022.
6. ↑ Dynamo TV: Dixie Dörner – Documentary. ( web video ) In: youtube.com . SG Dynamo Dresden e. V., April 20, 2021, accessed January 19, 2022 .