Rüdiger Kaschke

Rüdiger Kaschke (born April 24, 1954 in Stralsund ) was a football player in the GDR Oberliga , the highest football class in the GDR . He played there for both Vorwärts Stralsund and FC Hansa Rostock .

Soccer career

ASG forward Stralsund

When Vorwärts Stralsund managed the feat for the second time after 1971 in the 1973/74 season , as the only army sports community alongside the Vorwärts Frankfurt / O army focus club . To move up to the league, the 20-year-old Kaschke was still playing with the 2nd team in the third-class Rostock district league . This continued when the first team played their second league season ( GDR football league 1974/75 ). It was only on the 20th matchday of the Oberliga that Kaschke played his first first division game when he was substituted on in the match Vorwärts Stralsund - FC Vorwärts Frankfurt (1: 1) on May 3, 1975 in the 72nd minute of the game. It was Kaschke's only league appearance for Stralsund, also because the team had to relegate at the end of the season. In the 1976/77 GDR league season , Kaschke drew attention to himself in the first team when he was the top scorer of his team with 15 goals.

FC Hansa Rostock

As a member of an army sports community, Kaschke was also a member of the GDR army. Since his service obligation ended in October 1977, he made use of the opportunity to make a team change and joined FC Hansa Rostock, who played together with Stralsund in the GDR league after his relegation last season , but as clear favorite for promotion. The Rostockers lived up to their role as favorites and rose again to the top league in the summer of 1978 . Kaschke was involved with 16 point games and five goals. In the league season 1978/79 he was a regular as a right winger from the start, completed 24 of the 26 league point games and scored four goals. However, Hansa could not hold in the league and was relegated again. Again Kaschke was instrumental in the immediate return to the top league with 21 point games and eight goals. In the following years, FC Hansa asserted itself in the league, but Kaschke did not succeed in asserting himself as a regular player there. In the years 1980 to 1984 he was used in only 45 of 104 point games. Kaschke played his last league game as a striker on March 31, 1984 when FC Hansa beat FC Carl Zeiss Jena 2-1 .

BSG Shipping / Rostock Port

At the beginning of the 1984/85 season , Kaschke joined the GDR league club BSG Schiffahrt / Hafen Rostock , who continued to name him as a striker in the official squad. In the following years the BSG developed into an elevator team and constantly commuted between the GDR and the district league. Until his final retirement from competitive sports in 1988, Kaschke played in the district league in 1985/86, in the GDR league again in 1986/87 and again in the district league in his last season in 1987/88.

Kaschke remained a member of BSG Schiffahrt / Hafen, which was transformed into SV Hafen Rostock 61 in 1990. Between 2001 and 2004 he trained the club's association league team, and he was also active in the over-40 team. In 2008 he was their team captain and, with 30 goals, a successful scorer for the team.

Further career

Today Rüdiger Kaschke works for ITZ Rostock GmbH and looks after customers in the IT area.

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The following sources were used for the first version of the article:

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 .
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .
• Deutsches Sportecho , born 1973 to 1988