Karl Dittes

Karl Dittes (born August 27, 1917 in Oberplanitz ) was a soccer player in Germany and the GDR as well as a coach in the GDR Oberliga , the highest East German soccer class.

Soccer career

player

Ditte's football career began at the local workers' sports club VfL Planitz, where he played from the age of nine to thirteen. After the National Socialists banned workers' sports clubs in 1933, Dittes switched to Planitzer SC . With this team he advanced to the quarter-finals of the German soccer championship in 1942, when the Planitzers were defeated by First Vienna FC 2: 3. Dittes remained a member of Planitzer FC until it was banned by the Soviet occupation authorities in 1945.

Even after the war ended, Dittes had the opportunity to continue playing football. He joined the SG Planitz , which carried on the soccer tradition in the Zwickau district . In 1946 championship games could be held at the district level for the first time, the SG Planitz won the Zwickau district championship. When the competitions could be extended to the entire Soviet occupation zone a year later, SG Planitz reached the final of the Eastern Zone Championship on July 4, 1948 and became Eastern Zone Champion with Dittes as a half-left striker after a 1-0 victory over Freiimfelde Halle. In the 38th minute, Dittes had put his center forward Horst Weiß in shooting position to score the winning goal. When the Horch Zwickau company sports club took over the SG Planitz footballers in 1949 , Dittes was there too. However, the new BSG failed in the final round in Saxony and could not defend the Planitz title. When the first championship season of the East German league started in the summer of 1949, Horch Zwickau was one of the founding teams and ultimately became the first GDR soccer champion. The 32-year-old Dittes played 16 of the 26 point games and scored four goals. Dittes also played the following league season in 1950/51 and was in 15 of the 34 point games this time, but only got one point goal. He then ended his career as a soccer player.

Trainer

From 1952 on, Dittes worked as a football coach. His first station was the top division team of BSG Wismut Aue , which had already placed itself well in the previous season as a climber with seventh place. In his first year as a coach, Dittes led the bismuth team to runner-up. After fourth place in 1953/54, Dittes achieved his first title as a coach a year later. The team restructured into SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt , which despite the new name continued to play in Aue , won the final of the GDR soccer cup on June 19, 1955 under the direction of Dittes 3-2 after extra time over SC Empor Rostock. Despite this success, Dittes was replaced in August 1955 by Fritz Gödicke as head coach and received an insignificant role in the coaching staff of SC Wismut.

After three years, Dittes left the Wismut Club and returned to Zwickau, where he took over the training of his old team in March 1958 as the successor to Hans Höfer , which was now called BSG Motor Zwickau and still played in the major league. The team had lost their previous strength and had only landed in the lower third of the table in the past two years. After two eighth places, Dittes had improved the team so that they could finish the 1960 season in fourth place. In 1963, Dittes made it into the cup final with Motor Zwickau and won the FDGB Cup for the second time after beating Chemie Zeitz 3-0 . When Motor Zwickau had just barely escaped relegation in the 1963/64 season with twelfth place, Dittes was replaced by Horst Oettler as coach. After that, he was no longer active in higher-class football.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 .
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .

Web links

• Karl Dittes in the database of weltfussball.de