Karl Schnieke

Karl Schnieke (born August 24, 1919 in Apolda , † June 13, 1974 in Jena ) was a German football player.

Career

At the age of 14, Schnieke began playing club football in his hometown of Apolda (Thuringia). Even after the Second World War he stayed in Apolda and most recently played in the third-class Thuringia regional league with the company sports association (BSG) Metall Apolda . Between 1949 and 1951 he was used in five games of the Thuringia state selection and scored four goals. After a short interlude at the North German first division club Bremer SV, where he played 15 games in the autumn series of 1951/52, scored 6 goals and was part of the NFV team, Schnieke went to BSG Motor Jena , which was in the second-class GDR at the time -Liga played. The GDR soccer newspaper Neue Fußball-Woche presented him in January 1952 as an example of a soccer player who briefly succumbed to the lure of professional sport, but then realized that he and other athletes were only being exploited there. The question remained open as to why he was able to terminate his contract in Bremen in the middle of the season .

At the end of the 1951/52 season Schnieke rose with the Jena team in the GDR league . Already in his first league game (August 28, 1952 in Brieske 1: 3) he scored his first league goal. In the first league games he drew so much attention to himself that he was called to the squad of the GDR national team for the game against Romania (1: 3) played on October 26, 1952. He was used as a half-right striker and scored the first goal in GDR international history in the 26th minute. In 1954, now at the age of 35, he was used twice in the national team. After the end of the football season in 1958, Karl Schnieke moved to BSG Motor Zeiss Jena as a player-coach . Until the end of 1962 he exercised this double function, with Schnieke and his team at the end of the 1961/62 season, the promotion to the II. GDR league succeeded. The exceptional footballer headed the training of the company sports association Motor Zeiss Jena until 1973 , which became the second team of the upper league collective after the establishment of FC Carl Zeiss Jena . In his active career, he played 164 point games in the Oberliga (68) and the GDR League (96). There are also six games in the GDR Cup with five goals.

Karl Schnieke's trademark was his excellent handling of the ball and his inimitable way of feeding his neighbors with precise templates. He played a major role in the integration of new players (e.g. Roland Ducke , Peter Ducke , Helmut Müller ) into the Jenens team. Karl Schnieke's greatest successes were the GDR runner-up (1958) and the league promotion in 1952 and 1956.

In 1974 he succumbed to cancer. Since 1987, the FC Carl Zeiss has organized the "Karl Schnieke Memorial Tournament" for indoor soccer for the juniors.

Teams overview

• 1946–1951: SG / Olympia / Metall Apolda
• 1951: Bremen SV
• 1952–1958: BSG / SC Motor Jena

Point game overview

season	DDR-Oberliga games / goals	DDR-League games / goals	Oberliga / Nord games / goals
1951			15/5
1952		10/4
1952/53	26/11
1953/54		26/12
1954/55		25/12
1955		13/6
1956		22/8
1957	26/5
1958	16/5
all in all:	68/21	96/42	15/5	179 games / 68 goals

International match overview

• October 26, 1952: Romania 3-1 GDR
• September 26, 1954: GDR 0-1 Poland
• October 24, 1954: Bulgaria 3-1 GDR

literature

• German sport echo : born 1952–1958. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 444.
• Andreas Baingo , Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 322.

Web links

• Karl Schnieke in the database of the German Football Association
• Karl Schnieke in the database of weltfussball.de
• Karl Schnieke at fcc-supporters.org