Herbert Schoen

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Herbert Schoen (born May 18, 1929 in Luckenwalde ; † April 8, 2014 in Berlin ) was a German soccer player and was one of the first national soccer players in the GDR .

Career

At the age of ten, Schoen began playing football in a sports club in his hometown of Luckenwalde. After the Second World War, this club became the Luckenwalde sports club, which Schoen remained loyal to until 1948. In the meantime, the German People's Police had set up their own sports associations (SG) in numerous cities in East Germany , including the SG Volkspolizei Potsdam . Here Schoen continued his footballing career from 1949.

In the summer of 1950, over 40 players from the existing VP communities in Forst were brought together in order to put together the roster for a priority community in Dresden , which was to take the place of the popular Dresdner SC , which was regarded by the GDR functionaries as bourgeois most important players had withdrawn to West Germany. Among those selected was Herbert Schoen, who was given the opportunity to play with SG VP Dresden in the top GDR league from the 1950/51 season . He did this obviously with success, because until 1951 he was used twice in games of the state selection of Saxony.

In September 1952 Schoen was able to record two successes for himself. On September 14, he and his Dresden team won the GDR Cup (3-0 over Unity Pankow ) and a week later, on September 21, 1952, he was called up in the first game of the GDR national team. The game took place in Warsaw against Poland and was lost 3-0. Both in the cup final and in the international match, Schoen was used in his core position in the middle. The year 1953 was similarly successful. By the end of the season, Schoen had played two more international matches, and on July 5, 1953, he and his team, now playing under the name SG Dynamo Dresden, won a playoff against the tied team of Wismut Aue 3-2 after extending the GDR championship. Herbert Schoen was used in all 33 championship games of the Dresden team. Also in the 1953/54 season, Dresden was one of the top teams in GDR football and finished third in the end.

In the following season, 11 championship games had just been completed when most of the Dresden dynamo players had to move to Berlin in November 1954 due to an instruction from the Dynamo sports association, which was subordinate to the GDR security organs. On November 21, 1954, the team was already playing as SC Dynamo Berlin in the league against Rotation Babelsberg. This step was initially not very successful, because after a moderate 7th place at the end of the season, the Berliner Dynamos had to relegate from the league in 1956. The now seven-time national player and captain of the national team Herbert Schoen now played in the second-rate GDR league . Nevertheless, he played all of the international matches in 1957.

After SC Dynamo rose again, Schoen played another league season, after which he said goodbye to high-performance sport at the age of 29. He had completed 167 championship games in the major league and 12 full international matches. In 1959, Schoen helped Dynamo Hohenschönhausen's team to move up to the GDR league and finally ended his active career there in 1962.

He then worked for a long time at Dynamo Berlin and the BFC Dynamo, which emerged from this in 1966, as a youth coach and remained an active member of the club into old age. Herbert Schoen died at the age of 84 on April 8, 2014 in Berlin. During the BFC's celebrations for promotion to the Regionalliga on April 19, 2014 (match against Torgelower SV Greif ) Herbert Schoen was honored with a minute of silence and a fan choreography.

Web links

Commons : Herbert Schoen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BFC mourns Herbert Schoen. ( Memento of April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Undated message on the BFC Dynamo homepage (accessed on April 15, 2014).
personal data
SURNAME Nice, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Luckenwalde
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 2014
Place of death Berlin