Hans Siegert (soccer coach)

Johannes "Hans" Siegert , (born August 10, 1914 in Dresden ; † October 25, 1966 there ) was the second official coach of the GDR national soccer team .

career

Player and selection coach

The 35-year-old Hans Siegert came in the 1949/50 round at BSG Vorwärts Schwerin in the DS-Liga (later Oberliga ) to 21 missions and scored one goal. When coach Walter Böhme was dismissed in April 1950, the defense veteran "Hans" Siegert stepped in as a player-coach. This measure could not prevent the descent.

As a selection trainer for Mecklenburg, Siegert had already gained experience as a trainer from 1948. Also in the test match, which took place on February 26, 1950 in Rostock against the east zone selection of coach Helmut Schön , he supervised the state selection of Mecklenburg in the 1: 4 defeat.

National coach, 1954

In March 1953, the football section filled the coaching council. Now he included: Kurt Fritzsche (Chemie Bitterfeld), Walter Fritzsch (Empor Lauter), Kurt Vorkauf (Sports Association Forward), Alfred Kunze (Forward Leipzig / DHfK) and as chairman and new national coach Hans Siegert (Sports Association Unit).

A single international match was played in the 1953/54 season. In the run-up to the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland from June 16 to July 4, the GDR national team played a friendly against Romania on May 8, 1954 in Berlin's Walter Ulbricht Stadium in front of 70,000 spectators. Romania failed to qualify for the World Cup against Czechoslovakia. In the fourth official international match, coach Siegert made six debutants: Günter Busch in goal; Erhard Bauer in defense; Karl-Heinz Holze II , Karl Wolf , Günther Wirth and Horst Assmy in the attack. The fact that Motor Oberschöneweide from the GDR league, season 1, from the table sixth of the round 1953/54, three strikers from the second division came into play, was astonishing in terms of sport. The game was lost 0-1.

On September 26th, Johannes Siegert looked after the national team for the second time. The A-country eleven received Poland in Rostock. On the same day, the B representations of both countries played their game in Krakow. The team supervised by coach Alfred Kunze won 2-1 goals. With Horst Scherbaum , Rudolf Krause and Willy Tröger , high-performance players from the upper league were used. In Rostock, on the other hand, three players from the second division played in the A-Eleven and the current bottom of the league table - Motor Zwickau was at the bottom of the table after four points games in the 1954/55 round with 0: 8 points - with Günter Schneider , Erhard Meinhold , Siegfried Kaiser and Siegfried Meier four players for the team of national coach Siegert. The second international match directed by Siegert was lost, Poland won 1-0.

Four weeks later, on October 24th in Sofia, there was the third defeat for the hapless national coach. Bulgaria won the game against the GDR with 3-1 goals. The debut of center forward Willy Tröger and the first international appearance of Manfred Kaiser in the B-Elf on the same day in Erfurt were positive . Hans Siegert's national coaching activities ended with the game in Sofia. János Gyarmati was appointed his successor .

Club coach

As early as January 25, 1955, "Hans" Siegert took over the position of coach at SC Einheit Dresden in the GDR league. He worked with the successor club of SG Mickten, BSG Sachsenverlag and BSG Rotation Dresden until August 5, 1959. The highlight was undoubtedly winning the FDGB Cup in 1958. In the league, Siegert and his team landed behind the new master ASK Vorwärts Berlin , SC Motor Jena, SC activist Brieske-Senftenberg and SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt (Aue) in fifth place in the table. In the cup, the sensational away win with 3-1 goals against the new champions ASK Vorwärts Berlin was achieved in the semi-finals on December 6, 1958. Goalkeeper Wolfgang Großstück was the hero of the day. In the final on December 14, 1958 in Cottbus, the table ninth SC Lok Leipzig with coach Alfred Kunze was the opponent. With 2-1 goals, the trophy was brought to Dresden in extra time. 1960-62 he then trained the BSG Aufbau Meißen in the 2nd GDR League. Then Johannes Siegert concentrated on his work as a physical education teacher at the Aleksander-Zawadzki-Oberschule (11th OS) in Dresden until he died of a heart attack in 1966 at the age of 52. The demise of the former selection coach was not worth reporting to the GDR media.

literature

• Michael Horn, Gottfried Weise : The great lexicon of GDR football. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-536-8 .
• Cabin whispers, AGON, 1997, ISBN 3-89784-124-X .
• Football Lexicon, Copress Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-7679-0829-8 .
• Altendorfer, Otto, The GDR national soccer coach between SED and State Security - A biographical documentation, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-86583-848-3 .