Hans-Jürgen Hermann

Hans-Jürgen Hermann (born September 4, 1948 ) was a soccer player in the GDR upper league , the highest soccer class in the East German soccer game. There he played for 1. FC Magdeburg , with whom he won the GDR championship three times and the GDR soccer cup once .

Athletic career

Hermann, usually used as a striker, began with the company sports club Traktor Kläden and then played for the BSG Lokomotive Stendal until 1969 . As a teenager he already excelled with footballing qualities, so that he came into the focus of those responsible for the GDR junior national team. In the junior international game Yugoslavia - GDR on October 5, 1966, Hermann was used for the first time and also completed all of the following seven international matches up to May 1967, including the three games at XX. UEFA tournament in Turkey . As a 17-year-old, he was also used in the Stendal league team. On the 11th match day of the 1966/67 season, on November 16, 1966, he played against BFC Dynamo on the right attacking side. It stayed with a league game that season, in the season 1967/68 there were nine missions and at the end of the season relegation to the second-rate GDR league . Hermann played a season there, but when the BSG Lok missed the rise, he moved to the region’s football center, 1. FC Magdeburg .

On the 4th matchday of the 1969/70 season, on September 6, 1969, he was used for the first time in the match between Chemie Leipzig and 1. FC Magdeburg (1-0) in the league team. With 17 first division games, the 1.76 m tall Hermann immediately belonged to the extended regular squad. After mixed final placings (1970 8th, 1971 4th), Hermann won his first title in 1972 by winning the GDR championship and was one of the guarantors of this success with 25 stakes in points and six goals. A year later, on May 1, 1973, Hermann won the GDR soccer cup with the FCM . However, he was only in the final quarter of an hour in the 3-2 victory over 1. FC Lokomotive. The 1973/74 season also held a title for Hermann, this time he was again champion with the Magdeburg team and had again helped significantly with 21 league appearances and five goals. It was the golden era of 1. FC Magdeburg, because a year later he had defended the championship title. Hermann had once again contributed to the championship with 13 games and one goal.

He had played his last league game of the championship season on May 7, 1975, the 21st league game day. It was also his last first division game, and he made 114 league appearances for 1. FC Magdeburg. He was also in 24 GDR Cup and 16 European Cup games. During this time, 1. FC Magdeburg's greatest triumph came with winning the 1974 European Cup Winners' Cup . Hermann was unlucky not to be able to play in the final against AC Milan (2-0), but had played all eight previous European Cup games so that an important share in the great success can be attributed to him. In 1975/76, Hermann was still part of the second team of the FCM, after which the team was disbanded in favor of the junior league and Hermann, who was also a mechanical engineer, finally ended his football career after several knee operations.

League overview
Locomotive Stendal
season	league	Games	Gates
1966/67	Oberliga	1	0
1967/68	Oberliga	9	0
1968/69	GDR League
1. FC Magdeburg
1969/70	Oberliga	17th	2
1970/71	Oberliga	18th	6th
1971/72	Oberliga	25th	6th
1972/73	Oberliga	20th	7th
1973/74	Oberliga	21st	5
1974/75	Oberliga	13	1
1. FCM II
1975/76	GDR League
Oberliga total.		124	27

Web links

• Hans-Jürgen Hermann in the database of the German Football Association