Ralf Hübner (soccer player)

Ralf "Antek" Hübner (born October 14, 1933 ; † 2009 ) was a soccer player in Chemnitz and Karl-Marx-Stadt . For the BSG Chemie Karl-Marx-Stadt and the SC Motor Karl-Marx-Stadt , he played in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of the GDR Football Association .

Soccer career

Beginnings

His teammates gave the joker Hübner the nickname "Antek" in reference to the Silesian-Rhenish cult figures Antek and Franzek, whose jokes were popular in Germany in the 1940s and 50s. Hübner began playing football as a ten-year-old at FC Preussen Chemnitz , initially as a goalkeeper and later as a striker. After the end of the Second World War , he played as a teenager at the sports club Chemnitz West, which later became the company sports club (BSG) Stahl West Chemnitz , with whom Hübner was last active in the third-class state league of Saxony in 1951/52. During this time, Hübner was also used in the Chemnitz city selection and the Saxony state selection.

1. Promotion to the GDR league

For the 1952/53 season, Hübner moved to the second-rate GDR league club BSG Chemie Chemnitz . There he was regularly used as a striker on the left side with only two interruptions from the 6th matchday on and was the BSG's second-best goalscorer with seven goals. In 1953/54, Hübner was the undisputed regular player in his team, which, after the city was renamed, took on the role of BSG Chemie Karl-Marx-Stadt. Regularly playing as a center forward, he completed all 26 point games and was top scorer in the GDR league with his 22 goals. He was one of the guarantors for promotion to the GDR league. In the elite league of GDR football, Hübner had no difficulty adapting. He was only missing in two league games and with his nine goals was again BSG Chemie's top scorer.

Surprisingly, he returned for the 1956 season, in which the calendar year rhythm was played for the first time, to his former company sports club, which was now called Motor West Karl-Marx-Stadt and played in the third-class, 2nd GDR league . In 1957 he again played his scoring qualities to the full and was again top scorer in the southern season of the 2nd GDR league. After a third season in the third division, BSG Motor West was affiliated with SC Motor Karl-Marx-Stadt, successor to BSG Chemie, where it acted as the 2nd team.

When there was a change of coach after eight match days in the first team, which was relegated to the first GDR league , the new coach Hans Höfer made sure that Hübner, as a former league player, was transferred to the first team of SC Motor . By the end of the season he had eight second division games, but in which he only scored two goals. Within one season, the sports club was passed through to the third division, and so in 1959 Hübner found himself in the second GDR league. With 15 goals, Huebner was again top scorer of his team and was thus significantly involved in the immediate return to the first GDR league.

2nd league promotion

In the following two second division seasons, Hübner had to sit out from August 1960 to October 1961. Since the summer-spring season was switched back to after 1960, the 1961/62 season lasted 39 rounds. In the total of 65 match days, Hübner only appeared in 30 games, but still scored 15 goals. With eleven goals alone, he was involved again in the promotion to the GDR league in 1962. At the beginning of his second league season in 1962/63, Hübner was now 28 years old. He only got eight league games, in which he scored two more goals. The match on the last day of the season between Dynamo Dresden and SC Motor (1: 1) on May 5, 1963 was Hübner's last competitive game for the first team of the Karl-Marx-Städter Club. It was his 32nd league game. In addition to his eleven first division goals, he scored a further 46 goals in 81 second division games. In total, Hübner played 137 competitive games for BSG Chemie and SC Motor Karl-Marx-Stadt, in which he scored 71 goals.

Career end

As a hobby footballer, Hübner played for some time for the fourth division club BSG Motor Germania Karl-Marx-Stadt . From 1968 until 1985 he worked as a junior coach at FC Karl-Marx-Stadt , the successor club of SC Motor. Its successor, Chemnitzer FC, made Huebner honorary membership for life. Hübner died in 2009 at the age of 75.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 225.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 324.
• Gerhard Claus: 100 years of football in Chemnitz . Chemnitzer Verlag, ISBN 3-928678-58-2

Web links

• Ralf Huebner in the database of the German Football Association
• Ralf Hübner obituary at www.cfc-fanpage.de