Martin Schwendler

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Martin Schwendler (born September 19, 1919 in Halle (Saale) ) was a football player from 1931 to 1948, mainly in East Germany and then a football coach in the GDR.

Schwendler started as a goalkeeper at Askania in Ballenstedt in 1931 . When he moved to LSV in Halberstadt in 1937 , he had already been converted into a defensive player. Until 1939 he played for LSV in Celle and LSV in the Wittingen district of Lüben. After the war he started over with the sports community in Neumark, Thuringia , and in 1947 he became the player-coach of the BSG activist Geiseltal . There he ended his career as an active soccer player in 1948.

Until 1951 he worked as a trainer in Geiseltal, after which he became a trainer for the BSG activist Bleicherode for the 1952/53 season . With this team he became the first district champion in the newly established district league Erfurt . In 1954 he was employed as head coach of the central sports association activist and completed a ten-month coaching course at the Leipzig sports university DHfK . In the seasons 1955 and 1956 Schwendler took over the coaching position at the league club SC activist Brieske-Senftenberg . In 1956 he and his team were runner-up in the GDR behind SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt . In 1957 Schwendler left the SC activist and became a coach at Motor Eisenach in the third-class II. DDR -Liga , where he achieved the best result in the 1958 season with second place. From 1961 to 1963 Schwendler was again head coach in the GDR league at SC Rotation Leipzig . From 1963 to 1966 he coached the upper division Lok Stendal . With this team he achieved his greatest personal success when he made it to the final of the GDR soccer cup . The Stendal team only lost 1-0 against Chemie Leipzig. In 1966 he was the successor of Helmut Nordhaus at the league relegated FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt . He immediately led the club back into the league and always reached a safe midfield position until the end of his tenure with the Red-Whites in 1970. His successor to the post of head coach of Erfurt was Gerhard Bäßler , who had been employed as assistant trainer until then . At the end of his coaching career, Schwendler was again a coach at BSG Motor Eisenach from 1970 to 1975, which he led in the second-rate GDR league for a year in 1973 .