Heinz Joerk

Heinz Joerk (born October 17, 1919 in Zeitz ) was a football coach in the GDR . He trained u. a. in the Oberliga , the highest GDR soccer class, 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig and BSG Chemie Böhlen .

Life

At the age of 13, Joerk began playing football for his home club Rot-Weiß Zeitz. During the Second World War he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and suffered a serious leg injury. This prevented the continuation of his career as an active footballer, but he became a committed organizer of the rebuilding of the sport in his hometown. In 1951 he began training as a soccer coach at the Leipzig Sports University DHfK .

Joerk's first coaching station was the upper division Motor Dessau , where he gained his first experience under the later master coach Walter Fritzsch . In the summer of 1955, Joerk moved to BSG Motor Mitte Magdeburg , with whom he reached seventh place in the second-rate GDR league in the fall of 1955 in an intermediate round to change the football season to the calendar year . When it became apparent in the following season in 1956 after the 16th matchday that the desired league promotion was in danger, Joerk was dismissed after the 4-0 defeat in Jena on September 23, 1956.

After an interlude with the fourth-class district division club Lok Ost Leipzig , which he helped advance to the 2nd GDR league in 1957 , Joerk became a junior coach at Motor Jena in 1958 . There he helped the future national player Rainer Schlutter to a successful career. In 1959, SC Rotation Leipzig , the predecessor of 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig , which was founded in 1966 , hired Joerk as a junior coach. He had his most successful time in this position, with the 1. FC Lok juniors he was four times GDR champion between 1971 and 1977. At the same time the performance of the league team stagnated, in the past three years three coaches had tried in vain to bring 1. FC Lok to the top of the league. In the 1978/79 season Heinz Joerk should try it. In the 1978 Sportecho special edition, he announced the following:

“If we want to achieve our goal of finishing in the top three, we have to find a good synthesis of fight and game. Young players like Eichhorn, Liebers or Kreer will get their chance, the selected players should distinguish themselves more than before. "

At the end of the 1978/79 season 1. FC Lok was in 5th place, a rank lower than in the previous season. Joerk had to resign his post to Harro Miller and returned to the juniors of the club. In 1982 he took over a league team again at Chemie Böhlen. With the newcomer, he could not achieve the goal of relegation again, so that it was only a one-year guest appearance in the elite class of GDR football. He retired in the summer of 1983 at the age of 63.