Harry Zedler

Harry Zedler (born July 3, 1946 in Teltow ) is a former German soccer player who was active in the GDR . For three years he played for 1. FC Union Berlin in the top league of the GDR football league and in 1968 won the GDR football cup with the Berliners .

Athletic career

The first of the many stations on Zedler's path through the GDR football scene was the local company sports club Motor Teltow , where he received his first football training as a student. After completing school, he took up an apprenticeship as a locksmith. Having become eligible to play in the men's division, Zedler was part of the squad of the second-class SC Potsdam . Previously, in May 1965, he had completed a brief assignment in the GDR junior national team. In the fall of 1965, Zedler suffered a serious injury that put him out of action for months. It was not operational again until February 1966. At the beginning of the same year, the football section of the club had been transferred to BSG Motor Babelsberg , and Zedler played the season for them, but then moved to league competitor Motor Hennigsdorf . He stayed there for two years before moving to the Berlin top division 1. FC Union before the end of the 1967/68 season.

In the same season, the 1.69 m tall offensive midfielder played four competitive games for the Berlin team. His first use took place on May 22, 1968 in the GDR Cup semi-finals, which Union won 2-1 over local rivals FC Vorwärts Berlin and thus moved into the final. Before the final, Zedler played the last two league point games of the season. In the cup final against FC Carl Zeiss Jena he was initially not in the starting line-up, but was substituted on in the 67th minute after defender Hillmann was injured and was able to win after the Unioner's surprising 2-1 victory over the actual favorites Let cup winners celebrate. In the following seasons Zedler was part of the regular squad of the Berliners, who had to spend a year in the second-rate GDR league after their relegation in 1969. In April 1971 Zedler was drafted into the army. Most recently, he had played on March 31, 1971 in the league match 1. FC Union Berlin - FC Vorwärts Berlin (1: 1). Since Zedler did not return to Union, his balance sheet with the Berliners looks like this:

• 38 games in the big leagues
• 24 games in the GDR league
• 7 cup games
• a total of 11 goals

Since Zedler no longer played in the league after his time in Berlin, he had ended his high-performance sports career at the age of 25. During his military service he played for the army sports community Vorwärts Neubrandenburg . After his release, he rejoined his former Motor Hennigsdorf community for the 1972/73 season and then ended his footballing career in the Potsdam district league at BSG Stahl Oranienburg . There he later worked as a masseur.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 537.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 297.

Web links

• Harry Zedler in the database of the German Football Association
• Harry Zedler on immerunioner.de