Hans Speth (soccer player)

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Hans Speth
Personnel
birthday July 6, 1934
place of birth Halberstadt ,  German Empire
date of death August 31, 2016
Place of death Zwickau ,  Germany
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1946-1952 BSG Empor Halberstadt
1952 BSG upstairs hall
1952 BSG turbine hall 7 0(0)
1953-1954 BSG Stahl Thale 27 0(4)
1955-1959 SC Empor Rostock 103 (30)
1960-1965 BSG Motor Zwickau 121 (27)
1965-1966 Motor Eisenach 4 0(0)
1966-1967 BSG Motor WEMA Plauen 36 (10)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1956 DDR U-23 1 (1)
1955 GDR B 5 (2)
1952-1958 GDR 2 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1967-1971 SG Blau-Weiß Reichenbach
1971-1972 BSG Sachsenring Zwickau II
1976-1988 BSG Sachsenring Zwickau
1978-1979 FC Karl-Marx-Stadt (Juniors)
1979-1981 BSG Chemie Böhlen
1981-1984 BSG Wismut Gera
1984-1986 BSG Sachsenring Zwickau (youngsters)
1986-1988 BSG Wismut Aue
1 Only league games are given.

Hans Speth (born July 6, 1934 in Halberstadt ; † August 31, 2016 in Zwickau ) was a German football player and coach . In the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football , the national player was active in Halle , Thale , Rostock and Zwickau. In Zwickau and Aue he was the coach of the league teams.

Athletic career

National league operation, cup

Hans Speth began playing football as a teenager in his home town of Halberstadt with the company sports association Empor. At the age of 18, he went to Halle (Saale) in 1952 and joined the BSG Empor Halle there in October, which played in the third-rate Halle district league . After playing in two league games, he moved to the current GDR soccer champion BSG Turbine Halle after just one month and played seven league games there as a left winger . At the beginning of the 2nd half series of the league season 1952/53 Speth made another change and went to the district rivals BSG Stahl Thale , who also played in the league. Here, however, he was no longer used in the current season. In the season 1953/54 Speth took the position of the half-left striker, played 27 of the 28 played league point games and scored five goals. Since Stahl Thale had to relegate at the end of the season, Speth played for half a year in the second-rate GDR league . He then stayed in Germany for several months, but did not play in high-class football there.

With the beginning of the transition round to change the game year to the calendar year in autumn 1955, Speth joined the GDR upper division SC Empor Rostock as a regular player and was used in all 13 games. He had already enjoyed the league air for the first time for the Hanseatic League on the 26th matchday in the 1954/55 season , when SC Empor won 1-0 at home against SC Einheit Dresden . By the end of 1956 , Speth played all 39 point games in which he was used as an attacker on the left as before. At the end of 1956 he experienced relegation from the GDR league for the second time. Within a year the Rostockers managed to return to the league, and Speth played a key role in all of the league games and 14 goals. Surprisingly, SC Empor reached the final of the GDR soccer cup as a second division team . In the game on December 22, 1957 , Speth was a left winger in the final team, but could not prevent the 1: 2 defeat against SC Lok Leipzig . By October 1959, Speth was a member of the Rostock senior league team and was missing in only six point games. In the fall of 1959 he was officially expelled from the SC up because of disciplinary misconduct in the club and in his job. The DFV actually blocked Speth due to his wish to move to Zwickau, initially from November 1, 1959 to March 28, 1960 for all gaming traffic and even until December 31 for missions in the Oberliga, GDR League and a club team. By this time he had played 103 point games with 30 goals for Rostock, 16 of them in 77 games in the league.

Cup final 1963 in Altenburg

After his suspension, which was ultimately shortened, Speth played from August 1960 until the end of the 1964/65 season for the upper division BSG Motor Zwickau . Speth played his first league game for the Zwickau on the 14th league match day of the 1960 season against SC Rotation Leipzig (August 7, 2-0). What he did not succeed in 1957, he achieved six years later by winning the cup on May 1, 1963 in Altenburg with a 3-0 victory over Chemie Zeitz . With two goals he contributed significantly to this success himself. In the following European Cup participation , round 1 is the end of the line for the Motor-Elf. In the two games of EC II in 1963/64 against MTK Budapest (1-0 at home, 0-2 in Hungary) he could not score.

In Zwickau Speth completed his most league games with 121 appearances and was most successful here with 27 goals. He then ended his active career for a year with the second-rate teams of Motor Eisenach (1965/66) and WEMA Plauen (1966/67). From 1952 to 1965 Speth came to 232 games in the top division of the GDR, in which he scored 48 goals.

Selection bets

Hans Speth went down in the history of the GDR national soccer team as the youngest and only third-rate player. When he was appointed to the international match against Romania on October 26, 1952, he was 18 years and three months old and had so far only completed two district league games in the men's division. Against Romania, he played as a left winger and was defeated 3-1. His second international match took place on June 29, 1958 against Poland (1: 1) in the home Baltic Stadium in Rostock. Here, however, he was not the starting eleven, but was used in the 38th minute for Tröger, who was eliminated with a tear, first in the center forward position, later as the left winger. Between 1953 and 1959 Speth was used five times in the B national team .

Coaching career

His coaching career began in 1967 in Reichenbach, West Saxony, with Blau-Weiß in the third-class district league Karl-Marx-Stadt. After four years of activity, he returned to his former place of work in Zwickau in 1971, where BSG Motor had since been renamed BSG Sachsenring. For a year he looked after the reserve team playing in the second-rate GDR league before he was appointed head coach of the first team for the 1976/77 season . With places 8 and 10, Speth was able to hold Zwickau as the best BSG team in the league, but at the end of the 1977/78 season he had to surrender his position to Gerhard Bäßler . Then he trained the juniors of FC Karl-Marx-Stadt for one season .

In July 1979 Speth became a trainer at BSG Chemie Böhlen, which had just been relegated from the major league . Within a year he led the team back to the top division, but in 1981 could not prevent relegation. The next coaching station was the BSG Wismut Gera , with which he reached places between 5 and 9 in the GDR league between 1981 and 1984. After a year-long interlude as a junior coach in Zwickau, Speth took over on January 1, 1986, the head coach of the top division team at BSG Wismut Aue . He led the team from 13th place to the end of the season on a secured rank 11. In the following season 1986/87 Speth achieved his greatest coaching success with Wismut Aue with a 4th Oberliga place - and thus the qualification for the UEFA Cup . In the following year, the second round ended after four games. The 1987/88 season was also disappointing at the national level . After bismuth landed on the 12th place after the 21st match day on April 16, 1988 after a 2: 5 defeat at Stahl Brandenburg, Speth was dismissed as Auer coach. This ended his career in competitive sports at the age of 53. Later, Speth worked as a soccer coach in lower-class soccer in Helmbrechts , Plauen and Werdau .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Advertisement by Hans Speth. In: Gedenken.freipresse.de. Freie Presse , September 17, 2016, accessed on September 18, 2016 (obituary notice).
  2. ↑ a b Andreas Baingo : Speth, the stand-up man. In: Football Week . February 3, 2020, page 32.
personal data
SURNAME Speth, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and soccer coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Halberstadt
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 2016
Place of death Zwickau