Harald Fritzsche

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Harald Fritzsche
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Fritzsche during training (1956)
Personnel
birthday September 10, 1937
place of birth Neustadt (Orla) ,  Germany
date of death May 22, 2008
Place of death Jena ,  Germany
position goalkeeper
Juniors
Years station
0000-1955 BSG progress Neustadt
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1955-1966 SC Motor / FC CZ Jena 192 0(0)
1967-1968 FC Carl Zeiss Jena II at least 2 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1955-1956 GDR juniors 9 0(0)
1956-1958 DDR U-23 6 0(0)
1960-1965 GDR B 7 0(0)
1962-1964 GDR 8 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Harald Fritzsche (born September 10, 1937 in Neustadt (Orla) , † May 22, 2008 in Jena ) was a German football player. The goalkeeper played for SC Motor Jena and its successor FC Carl Zeiss Jena as well as in the GDR national team .

Athletic career

Until 1955 Fritzsche was in the goal of the youth teams of the home BSG Progress Neustadt. Since he belonged to the squad of the GDR junior team in 1955, after the end of the 1954/55 football season he was delegated to the football department of the Motor Jena sports club, which had been newly founded a few months earlier , as there were better support opportunities for him there. In July 1955 Fritzsche played his first international junior match, which was followed by eight more appearances by 1957. He made his debut in the 1st team of SC Motor in the fall of 1955 in the transition round of the second-rate first GDR league .

Despite their prominent status as a sports club, the Jenaers played their third full season in the second division in 1956 after being relegated to the league in 1953 . However, the team had been strengthened by such talented players as Roland Ducke , Horst Kirsch and Helmut Müller and still had the ex-national player Karl Schnieke in their ranks, so that this year they were promoted to the GDR Oberliga , the highest GDR football class , succeeded. Goalkeeper Fritzsche had already played ten games this season. Motor Jena quickly established itself in the top league, becoming East German runner-up in 1958, and in 1960 Fritzsche, who had meanwhile replaced Wolfgang Brünner as the regular goalkeeper, celebrated his first title win by winning the GDR soccer cup .

In the meantime, Fritzsche had played six games in the GDR youth team and moved up to the B national team in December 1960. After he had also played six games here, national coach Károly Soos appointed him for the first time in the senior national team for the Yugoslavia-GDR encounter on May 16, 1962. Fritzsche succeeded Karl-Heinz Spickenagel and was the goalkeeper of the national team until 1964. With his last international match on February 23, 1964, he had played eight of the last 16 matches in the GDR selection.

In 1963, SC Motor Jena won its first championship title in the league. Fritzsche had participated in all 26 point games and made sure that his team, with only 22 goals against, became the best league team in this regard. In 1965 Fritzsche missed his third title when the SC Motor lost 2-1 in the cup final against SC Aufbau Magdeburg . He played his last league season in 1965/66, after which he had to end his football career due to health problems. He had been in goal in Jena in 243 competitive games, including 181 Oberliga and ten European Cup games. As a goalkeeper coach at FC Carl Zeiss Jena, which was formed from SC Motor, Fritzsche later ensured that with Wolfgang Blochwitz , Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin and Perry Bräutigam national players continued to play in the Jena goal.

Even in old age, Fritzsche remained loyal to FC Carl Zeiss and was awarded the “Gold Badge of Honor” by the Club in 1987 for his services. He died in Jena in 2008 at the age of 70.

literature

  • Andreas Baingo, Michael Hohlfeld: Soccer selection player of the GDR. The encyclopedia. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00875-6 , pp. 49-50.
  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 95.
  • Hanns Leske : The GDR league players. A lexicon. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-392-9 , pp. 119–120.
  • Hanns Leske: Magnets for leather balls. Goalkeeper of the GDR . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-368-4 , pp. 57-58.

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personal data
SURNAME Fritzsche, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player, goalkeeper of the GDR national team
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt (Orla)
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 2008
Place of death Jena