Michael Polywka

Michael Polywka
Michael Polywka
Personnel
birthday	January 6, 1944
place of birth	Gleiwitz ,  German Empire
date of death	January 12, 2009
Place of death	Vienna ,  Austria
size	174 cm
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
	BSG Motor Raguhn
19 ?? - 1964	BSG Chemie Wolfen
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1962-1966	SC Motor / FC Carl Zeiss Jena	27 (3)
1966-1971	Eintracht Braunschweig	91 (9)
1971-1972	Hannover 96	8 (0)
1972-1976	FC Admira	69 (3)
1976-1988	ASK Marienthal
1978-1979	ASC Leobersdorf
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
196? –1963	GDR U-18	5 (?)
196? –1968	DDR U-23	2 (?)
1 Only league games are given.

Michael Polywka (born January 6, 1944 in Gliwice ( Silesia ), † January 12, 2009 in Vienna ) was a German football player of Polish origin.

Escape from the GDR

After a relative made contact with him at Eintracht Braunschweig in 1966 , he wanted to flee the GDR . But his coach at the time, Georg Buschner , wouldn't let him go, so Michael Polywka fled after the International Football Cup match against AIK Solna . The club hid him on the island of Helgoland for two weeks before Polywka was introduced as a new player after Braunschweig's second leg against FC Carl Zeiss Jena . Nevertheless, he was banned from FIFA for the 1966/67 season .

Club career

Pre-career

Polywka began his career with the youth clubs of BSG Motor Raguhn before he went to BSG Chemie Wolfen . In 1962 he moved to SC Motor Jena , later FC Carl Zeiss Jena , where he scored three goals in 27 games.

Eintracht Braunschweig

Michael Polywka made his debut in the Bundesliga under the coach Helmuth Johannsen on the first match day of the 1967/68 season against TSV 1860 Munich , which was lost 1-0. He was substituted in the 82nd minute for Wolfgang Grzyb . He scored his first goal on April 20, 1968 to make it 2-0 in a 4-2 win against Borussia Neunkirchen .

Michael Polywka made a total of 91 games for Eintracht Braunschweig in the Bundesliga and scored nine goals.

In 1971 he was involved in the Bundesliga scandal and was sentenced by the DFB to pay a fine of 4,400 German marks .

Hannover 96

For the 1971/72 season he moved to the Bundesliga and archenemy of his ex-club Braunschweig, Hannover 96 . Polywka made his debut for the new club on the first day of the season on August 14, 1971 in a 1: 5 against FC Schalke 04 , when he came on for Horst Berg in the 76th minute . He made eight games for Hannover 96, but stopped playing from day ten.

Later career

Then Michael Polywka played from 1972 to 1976 for FC Admira in the Austrian soccer league and scored three goals in 69 games. He later played in the small-town clubs ASK Marienthal and ASC Leobersdorf .

National team

By 1963, Polywka had five international matches for the GDR U-18 team, and by 1968 he had two games for the U-23s.

death

Polywka died on January 12, 2009 in a Viennese hospital, probably as a result of a leg amputation, just a few days after his 65th birthday.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1962–1966. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 365.
• Andreas Baingo , Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 322.

Web links

• Michael Polywka in the database of the German Football Association
• Michael Polywka in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Michael Polywka in the database of weltfussball.de
• Michael Polywka in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Michael Polywka on hannover96online.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eintracht hid it on Heligoland , January 16, 2009
2. ↑ Match report TSV 1860 Munich - Eintracht Braunschweig, August 19, 1967
3. ^ Match report Eintracht Braunschweig - Borussia Neunkirchen, April 20, 1968