Reinhard Franz

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Reinhard "Rainer" Franz (* 25. May 1934 in Königsfeld / Silesia; † 8. March 2015 in Zwickau ) was a German football player in the DDR-Oberliga for the Sports Association (BSG) Motor Zwickau 225 point games with 72 goals and 24 Has played FDGB Cup games with 15 goals. Franz was a five-time national player.

Soccer career

League player

About the stations BSG Empor Zwickau-Nord (1946/47), BSG mine lamp Zwickau (1947-1949) and BSG Chemie Jena (1949-1954), where he scored twelve goals in the 1953/54 season in the second-rate GDR League Season I had scored for Jena, the striker "Rainer" Franz came to BSG Motor Zwickau in 1954. Two years later, he and his brother Eberhard Franz, who was one and a half years his junior, played football in the major league for almost a decade. Already in his first league season in 1954/55 he was the second best league scorer in Zwickau with twelve goals behind Erhard Meinhold (14). With only ten goals, he became Zwickau's most successful league striker in 1957 and landed fifth in the GDR scorers list. His best league result with Motor Zwickau was fourth place in 1960. With 31 points, the team from the "Trabi town" took fourth place behind champions ASK Vorwärts Berlin , SC Dynamo Berlin and SC Lokomotive Leipzig . Coach Karl Dittes had bet on the strong offensive Franz in 21 missions. Only the weakness away from home (10:16 points) prevented a better placement. When he won the GDR soccer cup in 1963 (3-0 win over Chemie Zeitz ), Franz, unlike his brother Eberhard, was not in the final due to injury. By contrast, he played in the two games in the European Cup Winners' Cup against MTK Budapest in November 1963. In the 2-0 defeat in Budapest on November 20, he was sent off in the 60th minute. Even when he won the cup for the second time in the 1966/67 season, he was not used in the final. During this season, the now 32-year-old was only used in the first six league point games. After two league games in the first half of the season and the second half of the season, the equally strong attacker ended his playing career in the league in 1968. However, he made himself available in the next season for a few games in the second team of the newly formed Sachsenring-Elf .

Selection player

The international career of the Motor Zwickau striker began on September 18, 1955 in the national B team in Magdeburg at the international match against Romania. The GDR won 3-0 goals, and the storm sat down with Lothar Weise , Ernst Lindner , Reinhard Franz, Horst Franke and his team-mate Siegfried Kaiser . On that day, the entire attack was completed for the first time in the B national team. His debut in the senior national team took place on October 14, 1956 in Sofia during the international match against Bulgaria. In the 1: 3 defeat he was substituted on in the 53rd minute of the game. On September 16, 1959, Franz stormed in East Berlin on the left wing of the GDR team, which lost 2-0 in the German-German Olympic qualifying game against the amateur national team of the DFB. In the B-Elf he was last used on October 5, 1958 - it was his tenth B-international match. Franz played his last and fifth full international match on June 10, 1960 in Sofia. In the match between Bulgaria and GDR (2-0) he was substituted in the 64th minute. Franz was one of the strong types of players in the GDR Oberliga who were rarely able to confirm their usual performance in the national team.

After the career

As groundskeeper of the Zwickau sports field "Am Bürgerschacht", where the youngsters trained, the former league striker remained connected to football until he had to retire in 1984 as a disability pensioner.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituaries in: Freie Presse from March 21, 2015 (accessed on March 27, 2015).
personal data
SURNAME Franz, Reinhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Franz, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsfeld / Silesia
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 2015
Place of death Zwickau