Harry Frey

Harry Frey (born April 30, 1926 ) is a former German soccer player. In Gera , Pirmasens and Duisburg he played first division football between 1949 and 1959.

Athletic career

Soccer player in Gera

Frey first became known nationwide when he played the first final of the East German FDGB soccer cup with SG Gera-Süd in 1949 at the age of 23 . In the encounter on August 28 against Waggonbau Dessau he played in the position of the half right striker. The Geraer lost the final with 0: 1, but qualified as a cup finalist for the first season of the newly founded football zone league (later DS-Oberliga, GDR-Oberliga ), in which the East German football champions were determined in the future. Harry Frey was nominated for the Gera squad and used in the point games of the zone league from the start. He played all 26 games and scored five goals. In the 1950/51 season he was the only player in the Gera team who initially appeared as BSG Mechanik, later as BSG Motor, who played all 34 point games. In the 1951/52 season, Frey missed only one game up to the 25th league game, but was not used after that. His last DS-Oberliga game was the encounter Motor Gera - Motor Zwickau (0-0) on April 6, 1952, in which he had been set up as a half-left attacker as in the previous games. In his three first division seasons he played 91 of 96 played point games and scored 22 goals. 1950 Frey was in the squad of the soccer team Thuringia , for which he played a game.

Further career

The further course of Harry Frey's football career is shown according to the information from Leske's encyclopedia of GDR football (see literature), which is not supported by weltfussball.de (see web links).

After his departure from Gera, Frey played for FK Pirmasens in the Oberliga Südwest until 1954 , at that time one of the five top divisions of the German Football Association . In Pirmasens he came in two rounds to a total of 53 league games and scored 17 goals. In his second season, 1953/54 , he finished one point behind champions 1. FC Kaiserslautern, second place in the southwest league. He scored twelve goals in 27 games. In the final round of the German football championship , he could not take part with the FKP as runner-up, as the number of participants was reduced to six teams in May 1954 by the World Cup in Switzerland. He then moved to the Duisburg game club in the Oberliga West . There he belonged to the player base from 1954 to 1956, as he played 57 of the 60 league games played. At the beginning of his third season in Duisburg, he was 30 years old and had passed his performance peak. In 1956/57 he made twelve league stakes, in the season 1957/58 he was only called up nine times in the league team. 1958/59 was Frey's last first division season, he only played twice for Duisburger SV in the major league. In his four seasons for the DSV, he scored eight championship goals. In 1959 Frey moved to the amateur league team Duisburg 08 and thus ended his career as a professional footballer.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 144.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 22, 316.

Web links

• Harry Frey in the database of the German Football Association
• Harry Frey in the database of weltfussball.de
• Harry Frey at /duisburger-spielverein.multipurpose.de (section 1946-56)