Helmut Jacob

Helmut Jacob (born August 13, 1921 ; † July 1988 in Potsdam ) was a German football player who played first division football in the GDR Oberliga for Unity Pankow and Unity East Leipzig . He later worked in various positions as a football coach.

Athletic career

Jacob became known in national football in the GDR when he played in the 1950/51 season for the company sports community (BSG) Chemie Zeitz in the second-rate GDR league . In the 18 league games he was called up 15 times and was the top scorer of his team with his eleven goals.

That made him interesting for the East Berlin BSG unit Pankow, whose football section, founded in the summer of 1951, was able to take over some of the assets of VfB Pankow , who had previously been relegated from the DS-Oberliga , but needed more players to supplement the squad. Without any athletic qualifications, the BSG unit was also integrated into the league for the 1951/51 season at the instigation of the GDR leadership so that the "capital of the GDR" could demonstrate its athletic potential with a second team alongside Motor Oberschöneweide . Jacob was from the beginning a regular player of the Pankower and was mainly used as a left wing runner . Of the 36 played point games, Jacob played 28 games in which he scored twice. The team of the BSG unit proved the season 1951/52 as not suitable for the first division and rose as bottom of the table from the league.

After a stopover at GDR league club BSG Chemie Wolfen , where he played 14 point games in the 1952/53 season and scored four goals, Jacob returned to the GDR major league for the 1953/54 season. He joined the BSG Einheit Ost Leipzig , where he was used for the first time on the 10th match day. Then he played all the point games with one exception until the end of the season, scored a goal and played mainly as a right wing runner. Jacob then ended his career as a soccer player and became a soccer coach.

Jacob's first coaching station was the soccer section of the SC DHfK Leipzig . Two new football teams were founded there in the summer of 1954, which were to serve as a training center for young talented football players within the sports university. Both teams were integrated into two seasons of the 1954/55 three-part GDR league without sporting qualifications, Jacob took over the SC DHfK II team. Since neither team achieved the performance they had hoped for and after the first half of the first half of the GDR league were in midfield, the project was seen as a failure and the teams disbanded. Jacob received a post in the coaching staff of the upper division SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt .

With the beginning of the 1956 season (until 1960 the seasons were aligned with the calendar year) Jacob took over the coaching of the league team of Rotation Babelsberg . For three years he managed to keep the company sports club in the GDR's upper league, and he developed Willi Marquardt into a national player. Jacob also looked after the BSG rotation for two more seasons in the GDR league. From 1961 to 1975 he was the district trainer in East Berlin and was also part of the coaching staff of the GDR junior national team. He held his last coaching position from 1976 to 1985 in the youth soccer division of the Potsdam district .

literature

• German sport echo : born 1950–1988. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 234.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 329, 335.
• DFSF (ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949 - 1991 (Volume 8). Berlin 2010, p. 210.

Web links

• Helmut Jacob in the database of weltfussball.de