Horst Spillecke
| Horst Spillecke | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | February 15, 1921 | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| Tennis Borussia | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1947-1949 | VfB Pankow | |
| 1950 | Tennis Borussia | |
| 1951 | VfB Pankow | |
| 1951-1954 | Minerva 93 | |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1951 | VfB Pankow | |
| 1954-1956 | BSC Rehberge | |
| 1956–? | VfB Hermsdorf | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Horst Spillecke (born February 15, 1921 ) is a former German football player and coach , whose club change in the politically and athletically divided Berlin of the post-war years was the subject of public controversy.
Athletic career, part I.
The defender, who emerged from Tennis Borussia , returned to Berlin in 1947 from captivity and played three seasons in the city league at VfB Pankow . When the city-wide game operation ended in 1950 and three clubs from the eastern part of Berlin were taken over into the upper league of the GDR , Spillecke left VfB and was a contract player with his former club "TeBe" from July to September 1950 , which won the championship in Berlin in 1950/51 . After only one league assignment, he returned during the season - October 1950 to 1951 -, played again for Pankow - he played in 10 DS top division games - and after a while even took over the coaching position of "Schnalle" Schulz .
Justification and evaluation of his return from West Berlin
Spillecke's (preliminary) failure as a contract player was interpreted in the GDR specialist press as a typical case of an athlete who “got to know the adverse conditions of contract gaming in West Berlin”; This one, however, "returned to his old Pankow community in the awareness that the democratic sports movement was on the right track". In an open letter, “which we reproduce below in an abbreviated and stylistically framed form, i. Red. ”, The footballer explained that he“ had become a victim of his old attitude ”. Spillecke had managed a Toto acceptance point in Zehlendorf , but the income fell short of his expectations: “I had to experience that the board of Tennis Borussia (...) could not do anything for me because there are more unemployed people in West Berlin than there are jobs are."
The background was that the GDR sports policy rejected paid football and at the time decided to turn completely to company-related sport. After the introduction of the contract player statute in the DFB area, in 1950 also in the city league (now limited to West Berlin), however, numerous prominent players had migrated from the East Zone , then GDR to “professional football”. Predictions that they would inevitably fail there were only fulfilled in a few cases, which were then presented as exemplary.
Athletic career, part II
Horst Spillecke's second attempt to gain a foothold as a contract player in West Berlin was more successful. After he was unable to save VfB Pankow from relegation, he played in 66 city league games for Minerva 93 from 1951 to 1954 . In the 1953/54 season he reached the runner-up behind BSV 1892 with the "Löwen" from Tiergarten under coach Günther Wuttke and teammates such as Alfred Herrmann , Helmut Tschap, Heinz Eckstein, Herbert Böhnke and Fritz Zeitz . The middle runner in the World Cup system at the time had played 20 league games. He then became a coach, first at BSC Rehberge , then at VfB Hermsdorf .
References
- ↑ cf. Berlin Football Program (Ed.): The Little Football Primer: League Players of the 1949/50 Season , Berlin 1949, page 75
- ^ Hanns Leske : The GDR league players. A lexicon. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-392-9 , pp. 449-450.
- ^ Die neue Fußball-Woche (Berlin / GDR) , Volume 3, No. 3 from February 6, 1951, page 22 (spelling at the time)
- ↑ ibid
- ↑ ibid. The amount of his earnings as a contract player was not discussed
- ↑ see for example Karl Schnieke
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spillecke, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1921 |