Paul Breitmann

Paul Breitmann (born December 30, 1923 in Dessau , † June 3, 2013 in Gera ) was a German football player. His career began at the age of 13 with SV Tannenheger Dessau (today SG Abus Dessau), where he made the jump into the first men's team without any problems. For Motor Dessau he played from 1949 to 1954 in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football .

Career

In 1942, 19-year-old Paul Breitmann was sent to Africa as a soldier via France. There he was taken prisoner by the Americans in April 1943, which he spent in the USA until the beginning of 1947 and then in Scotland until the end of 1947. This enabled him to play football again for the first time in Scotland for a club team in which other German prisoners were also active. He quickly became one of the audience favorites and was able to shine again and again with strong performances. After returning home, he joined the Dessau-Törten team and was quickly appointed to the city selection. In 1948, Paul Breitmann, who worked as a police officer, was transferred to Altmark and from then on played for the Salzwedel Ost team and the police selection. He came back to Dessau at the beginning of 1949 through the Dessau police chief and responsible person for football at BSG Waggonbau , Eberhard Reinhardt. With BSG Waggonbau Dessau he achieved the greatest sporting success of a Dessau football team in 1949. With the 1-0 victory of BSG Waggonbau Dessau against BSG Gera-Süd, Dessau became the first winner of the FDGB Cup . Until 1950 he played in the top division team of BSG Waggonbau. Together with his teammate, Franz Kusmierek , he moved to West Berlin in 1950 , where he immediately became the great Berlin stopper hope. He also celebrated great sporting successes in Berlin. With Wacker 04 Berlin he was able to prevail 2-1 afterwards against Tennis Borussia Berlin in June 1950 and celebrated victory in the cup final for the RIAS Cup after the game . Although he was employed as a contract player in Berlin, he moved back to Dessau in September for professional reasons. After a six-month ban he played with Motor Dessau (formerly BSG Waggonbau) until 1954. The coach Walter Fritzsch , who switched to Motor in 1953 , advised him and other players over 30 years to leave BSG Motor. After a dispute with Fritzsch, Breitmann switched to BSG Motor Polysius Dessau (today DSV97) as a player-coach in 1954, with whom he made a triumphant advance into the fourth-class district league. Even a broken knee in 1959 could not persuade him to hang up his football boots. He only ended his football career in 1974 as the coach of the first team and a player in the old men's team at Motor Polysius Dessau, as he moved to Gera for personal reasons .

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 87.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 304.

Web links

• Paul Breitmann in the database of the German Football Association