Kurt Fritzsche

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Kurt Fritzsche (born December 6, 1919 in Leipzig-Wiederitzsch ; † December 2005 ) was a German soccer player and soccer coach. With the ZSG Union Halle (Saale) he became a master of the East Zone as a player in 1949 , and he led the ASK Vorwärts Berlin as a coach to the GDR championship in 1958 .

Athletic career

Soccer player

Kurt Fritzsche began his football career at the age of seven at ATSV Wiederitzsch. Between 1930 and 1933 he was a member of the ATSV Halle (Saale). When the ATSV clubs were dissolved by the National Socialists in 1933 , Fritzsche joined VfL Halle in 1896 , with whom he played in the Gauliga Mitte from 1938 to 1944 . After the Second World War he started at SG Halle-Glaucha , which from 1948 appeared as SG Freiimfelde Halle. At the 1st soccer east zone championship in 1948 the SG Freiimfelde reached the final, but lost to SG Planitz with 0: 1. Fritzsche was called up as a left wing runner . A year later, at the 2nd Eastern Zone Championship in 1949 , the Halle residents were again in the final under the name ZSG Union Halle. This time with Fritzsche on the right side of the runner, the ZSG won against Fortuna Erfurt 4: 1. As the East Zone Master, Halle was given a starting place in the newly established soccer zone league (later GDR Oberliga ), which determined the East German soccer champions from the 1949/50 season onwards. Kurt Fritzsche, now 29 years old, was part of the Halle squad for the first zone league season. He was used from the first day of play and fell out only once until the ninth round. His eighth league game was also his last game in a higher class league.

coach

Immediately after his career as a soccer player, Fritzsche started working as a soccer coach. His first position in the 1950/51 season was the fourth-class company sports association (BSG) Chemie Leuna . This was followed by a year as an association trainer for the GDR-wide chemistry sports association. At the beginning of the 1952/53 season, Fritzsche took over the third-rate district division BSG Chemie Bitterfeld , which he coached until the summer of 1954. In September 1954, two teams (I, II) of the SC DHfK Leipzig were integrated into the second-rate GDR league . Fritzsche became the coach of DHfK I. Both DHfK teams were intended to be the squad of future national players, but the selected players could not meet expectations. After both teams had only reached midfield positions at the end of the first half of the season, they were dissolved again in early 1955 and players and coaches were distributed to other teams. Fritzsche was appointed association trainer of the Army Sports Association Forward (ASV). He held this position with interruptions until 1981. In the seasons 1956 to 1958 he headed the training of the league team of the ASV top club ASK Vorwärts Berlin . Although he led the ASK to the GDR championship in 1958, Fritzsche moved in 1959 to the ASK offshoot ASG Vorwärts Neubrandenburg in the third-class II GDR league at the time . In 1960 he made promotion to the first GDR league with the Neubrandenburg team. For the 1963/64 season he returned to Vorwärts Berlin. By December 1964 he trained there again for the league team, after which he was promoted to the post of administrative head coach for the entire club. He still had an indirect share in winning the title in 1964/65. At the beginning of 1965 Fritzsche became section head of the ASK. As an active coach, he appeared between 1969 and 1974 with the second teams of the successor club FC Vorwärts Berlin and after moving to FC Vorwärts Frankfurt (Oder) II, each of which played in the GDR league.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ from 1956 to 1960 GDR football was played according to the calendar year mode

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SURNAME Fritzsche, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiederitzsch , Germany
DATE OF DEATH December 2005