Horst Franke (soccer player)

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Horst Franke (1953)

Horst Franke , called "Hotta", (born January 23, 1929 in Grube Marga / Briesker Colony in Brandenburg ; † November 14, 2006 ) was a German football player from BSG activist Brieske-Ost and SC activist Brieske-Senftenberg , who from 1949 to 1962 scored 73 goals in 294 games for the "Briesker Knappen" in the GDR Oberliga .

Career

Youth and beginnings after the Second World War, 1945 to 1949

At the age of 16 Horst Franke started at SG Marga in the 1st youth soccer team. At this age he already had a basic technical education thanks to the daily soccer game with classmates and village children. He was also actively acquainted with handball. In the 1st youth team of Grube Marga, the scaffolding of the later league team was built. In 1946 Horst Franke joined the SG Marga league team. He benefited from the experience of the older players Hermann Fischer and Erich Lehmann, who had played with SV Marga in the Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg during the war years from 1941 to 1943 . When the Brandenburg state championship was held for the first time in the 1946/47 season after the Second World War, the Marga village club was still not sporty enough to qualify for the finals. In the 1947/48 season, Horst Franke celebrated the championship with SG Grube Marga in the Westlausitz football district. The personal as well as the further development of the team continued in the 1948/49 season. On October 31, 1948 Franke was appointed to the Brandenburg state selection. The team with left winger Horst Franke, renamed Franz-Mehring Marga during the season, first won the championship in the regional league, Staffel Ost, ahead of RW Cottbus and ZSG Großräschen . In all three final games against the champions of the western season, SG Babelsberg , the 20-year-old acted as left winger. In the play-off on April 24, 1949 in Eberswalde, he brought his team 1-0 lead in the 18th minute of the game. However, the state champion of Brandenburg was Babelsberg with a 2-1 victory. As runner-up Marga took part in the Eastern Zone Championship , which was held for the second time , where the team was eliminated in the quarter-finals after a 4-0 defeat against Eintracht Stendal . The selection trainer for the eastern zone, Helmut Schön , summoned Horst Franke to a test game on June 6, 1949 in Leipzig against Saxony; Franke felt it was an "honor ... to be able to train and play under the direction of Helmut Schön". The round was successfully concluded by winning the Brandenburg State Cup with a 4-0 win against SG Babelsberg. The material and financial support that the team received from the company of the same name after it was renamed BSG Franz-Mehring Marga contributed to the improvement of the entire team.

GDR Oberliga, 1949/50 to 1961/62

Horst Franke before the 1952/53 season

In the championship of the zone league, which was held for the first time in 1949/50, Franz-Mehring Marga reached sixth place in the table. At the side of player-coach Hermann Fischer and veteran Erich Lehmann, Horst Franke played 26 games and scored three goals. In the home games, a positive score of 20: 6 was achieved, the average attendance of 5,310 exceeded the population of the 3,500 town of Brieske-Ost. In August and September 1949 Horst Franke played two games in the Brandenburg state selection, and in April 1950 the third game followed. On New Year's Eve 1949 Horst Franke was in the GDR selection for the game against SG Dresden-Friedrichstadt . In the 2-0 defeat, the selection was clearly inferior to Helmut Schön's club team in technical terms. In the second league year, the team, renamed BSG Aktivist Brieske-Ost in August 1950, continued to improve. Equally on points - with 43:25 points each - Motor Zwickau , Brieske and VP Dresden were third to fifth in the final table 1950/51. "Hotta" played 34 games and scored 15 goals. He was next to Heinz Satrapa as the best left winger in the GDR league . One of his advantages, in addition to his quick acceleration with and without the ball, was his left-footed shooting power. In November 1950 and May 1951 he was used as a representative in the Brandenburg selection. Horst Franke was fixed on left wing and half left by his convincing appearances in the all-start team of the rounds 1951 and 1952. With 18 goals, Horst Franke reached his personal record in the league in the 1951/52 round. From the round 1952/53 he grew into the role of playmaker on half left and was also used as an offensive left wing runner. As a result, Horst Franke no longer appeared as an exposed goalscorer for Brieske. With an average of 6,685 spectators, the team from Niederlausitz had twice as many spectators as residents. In the rounds of 1952/53 and 1953/54 Horst Franke was scheduled for the reserve in the Allstart team. When Heinz Lemanczyk, a technician and striker, pushed into the team in the 1953/54 season , Horst Franke had found a playing partner with whom he harmonized well. In October 1954, the league team was delegated to SC activist Brieske-Senftenberg and came in sixth at the end of the round in 1954/55. In the FDGB Cup , Horst Franke and his teammates reached the semifinals against SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt after a 9-0 success in the quarter-finals against SC Progress Weissenfels . Horst Franke scored three goals. The later cup winner from Aue won with 4-2 goals. In Brieske, Horst Franke celebrated the runner-up with his teammates after 25 missions with five goals. "Hotta" was nominated again as a substitute runner for the Allstart team. On November 4th, championship rivals Brieske-Senftenberg and SC Wismut Aue parted in a 0-0 draw in front of 32,000 spectators in the local Glückauf-Kampfbahn. The mining town of Brieske, which is three kilometers from Senftenberg's gates , had 3,500 inhabitants and an average of 9,000 spectators in this successful year. The last round match was won by Brieske with 1-0 goals against SC Einheit Dresden. The simultaneous 0: 1 defeat of SC Lokomotive Leipzig in Aue made the runner-up championship possible for the team of technician Horst Franke. At the age of 33, he completed his last round in 1961/62 in the league for Brieske again 29 games and scored six goals. In 1963, the first men's team of the SC activist Brieske-Senftenberg rose from the league and was relocated to the district capital to SC Cottbus . Horst Franke, who started on the left wing with final quality and developed into a half-striker and offensive wing runner, played again for the BSG activist Brieske-Ost in the second-class league in the 1964/65 season . Not least because of his playful ability, the "Briesker Knappen" became a trademark. Apart from Brieske, no “village club” managed to assert itself in the major league for over a decade.

"We are Marganers, we learned to play football here and that's where we stop" . In keeping with his own principle, Horst Franke never changed his club. He turned down offers from VP Dresden, Turbine Erfurt and FC St. Pauli.

National soccer team of the GDR, 1953 to 1956

The first official international match of the GDR national soccer team took place on September 21, 1952 in Warsaw against Poland. Under the direction of coach Helmut Schön, training games of the selection were held in 1949 and 1950, including the game on December 31, 1949 in Dresden against SG Friedrichstadt-Dresden. Here Helmut Schön was still active as a half-forward in the 2-0 victory of his club team. The 20-year-old Horst Franke played on the left wing in the GDR team. Without their coach Helmut Schön, the GDR selection stayed at the World Festival in Budapest at the end of August 1949. Horst Franke was there too. Despite the 5-0 defeat, the game on May 18, 1952 in Budapest against the Puskás team was a special sporting experience . Horst Franke's official first appearance in the national team was on June 14, 1953 in Dresden in a 0-0 draw against Bulgaria. In front of 55,000 spectators in the Heinz Steyer Stadium, he was substituted on for Rudolf Krause from Vorwärts KVP Berlin to half-left in the 46th minute. It was the first game under the direction of the Hungarian coach Janos Gyarmati. On July 9, 1953, Horst Franke stormed in the GDR selection on the left wing in a 2-2 draw against the Leipzig district. In the only international A match of the 1953/54 season, on May 8, 1954 in Berlin against Romania, he was in the left wing position from the start. In the 46th minute Johannes Schöne replaced him from BSG Rotation Babelsberg . The game was lost with 0-1 goals and Franke only got one point from his two international matches. On September 18, coach Oswald Pfau appointed him to the B-country team at the game in Magdeburg against Romania. He steered the game to the half-left and the GDR won 3-0 goals. In the 27th minute he had made it 2-0. Horst Franke had his international farewell in his third international B match on April 22, 1956 in Karl-Marx-Stadt against the CSR . In the build-up game, coach Richard Hofmann relied on the two half-strikers of SC activist Brieske-Senftenberg, on Heinz Lemanczyk and Horst Franke. The match was lost with 0-1 goals.

After the playing career

Horst Franke in 1979

After the club formation to become an SC activist in 1954, the players had the opportunity to study for a master's degree at the mining engineering school in Senftenberg as an opportunity for further professional development. Horst Franke later worked in the Senftenberg lignite works in the innovator's office. In 1990 he retired.

Horst Franke was a trainer at Motor Ruhland for two years, and for one year with activist Knappenrode. Horst Franke played with his old comrades for many years in the old boys' league of the Cottbus district.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Briesker veteran «Hotta» Franke is dead
personal data
SURNAME Franke, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Marga mine, Briesk colony in Brandenburg
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 2006