Peter Giessner

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Peter Giessner
Personnel
birthday September 12, 1941
place of birth Leipzig ,  German Empire
date of death September 12, 2003
Place of death Germany
size 186 cm
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
1949-1954 ZSG Industrie / BSG Chemie Leipzig
1954-1956 BSG Chemie Leipzig West
1956-1959 SC Lokomotive Leipzig
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1960-1963 SC Lokomotive Leipzig 69 (9)
1963-1975 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 274 (7)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1959-1960 DDR Juniors 7 (0)
1962 GDR offspring 1 (0)
1963 GDR B 2 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Peter Giessner (born September 12, 1941 in Leipzig ; † September 12, 2003 ) was a German football player. After his playing career, he worked as an official at 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig and VfB Leipzig .

Athletic career

Club career

Peter Giessner played until 1963 for the BSG-Chemie-Leipzig-predecessor SC Lokomotive Leipzig in the league as a defender . There the KJS pupil and trained fitter, after stints at BSG Chemie Leipzig and BSG Chemie Leipzig West, made the leap into the top division of GDR football in 1960 from the offspring he had belonged to since 1956 .

For 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig and its predecessor, the soccer section of SC Leipzig , he was active for twelve seasons - one of them in the second-class league , in which the Leipzig soccer club achieved immediate promotion back to the upper house in 1969/70 .

He reached the semi-finals of the 1973/74 UEFA Cup with the trade fair townspeople . Gießner played a total of 27 European Cup games (1 goal) for 1. FC Lok and ten more for the Leipzig city team in the trade fair cup . In 1970 he and his club reached the final of the FDGB Cup competition , but had to admit defeat to FC Vorwärts Berlin (1: 4) and hit their own net. In 1973 1. FC Lok reached the final of the GDR national soccer cup again , but Pit Gießner, who was absent only once in the first round of the league , was suspended in the 2-3 defeat against 1 due to a yellow card suspension . FC Magdeburg not on the pitch.

In December 1974, the 1.86 meter tall stopper played his 313rd and last match in the GDR Oberliga in the 1: 2 away defeat at SG Dynamo Dresden on the 12th match day of the 1974/75 season . Only 31 players were used more frequently in the history of the top division of GDR football . Overall he was on the ball in "569 point, cup and international games in the blue and yellow colors" .

Selection bets

In 1963 Gießner recorded two missions for the B national team of the GDR. In the Nachwuchself of communications of the SC-Lok defenders in previously once a ball.

Between November 1959 and July 1960 he was called up seven times in the junior selection, with which he failed in the preliminary round in a group with the DFB representation at the semi-finals in the 1960 UEFA youth tournament in Austria.

Further career

From March 1, 1975, as successor to Horst Kühn, until 1990, the DHfK graduate was club chairman at 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig and from 1998 to 2002 sports director at its successor VfB Leipzig. In his first term of office, the Lok-Elf entered the final of the 1986/87 European Cup Winners' Cup . Giessner was a member of the SED and in this role, among other things, delegate of the IX. Congress in May 1976. He died at the age of 62.

Trivia

Peter Gießner was married to a member of the People's Chamber. The couple raised their daughter Caren and their older son Jens.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Klaus Schlegel: From the will and from the way. In: fuwo - The new football week . April 27, 1976, pages 8/9.
  2. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Peter Giessner - Matches and Goals in Oberliga . RSSSF . February 15, 2013. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
  3. ^ Matthias Arnhold: East Germany - All-Time Most Matches Played in Oberliga . RSSSF . June 22, 2017. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
  4. ↑ Peter Giessner died . Berlin newspaper. September 17, 2003. Retrieved March 5, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Giessner, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and soccer official
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 2003