Reinhard Lauck

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Reinhard Lauck
Reinhard Lauck World Cup 1974.jpg
Personnel
Surname Reinhard Lauck
birthday September 16, 1946
place of birth SielowGermany
date of death October 22, 1997
Place of death BerlinGermany
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
1958-1960 SG Sielow
1960-1963 ASG forward Cottbus
1963-1965 SC Cottbus
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1965-1966 SC Cottbus 19 0(8)
1966-1967 Forward Neubrandenburg 32 0(5)
1967-1968 Energy Cottbus 17 0(3)
1968-1973 1. FC Union Berlin 131 (21)
1973-1981 BFC Dynamo 152 (29)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1964-1965 GDR U-18 5 0(0)
1967-1969 DDR U-23 3 0(0)
1975-1976 DDR Olympia 7 0(0)
1973-1977 GDR 33 0(3)
1 Only league games are given.

Reinhard Lauck (born September 16, 1946 in Sielow , † October 22, 1997 in Berlin ), nicknamed "Mäcki", was a German football player. In his playing career he was active for 1. FC Union Berlin and BFC Dynamo and was also a national player of the GDR . With the national team he took part in the 1974 World Cup and won the gold medal at the 1976 Olympic Games .

Career as a player

National

Lauck's football career began in 1958 at SG Sielow, from which he moved two years later to the Vorwärts Cottbus army sports community , before joining SC Cottbus in 1963 at the age of 17 . After he had become eligible to play for the men's area, he first played for the 2nd team in the Cottbus district league and was able to offer himself there for the SCC's league team . Initially, in 1965/66 there were four more games in the under the old name, from the start of the second half of the season there were 15 point games with 8 hits under the new name BSG Energie Cottbus , since the soccer section of the sports club was converted into a company sports community in February 1966 . In May 1966 Lauck was drafted into the army, but was able to continue playing football with the GDR league team ASG Vorwärts Neubrandenburg during this time . In November 1967 Lauck returned to Cottbus, but moved to the first division club 1. FC Union Berlin before the end of the season . He played his last match for the Lausitzer on May 19, 1968 as part of the 30th and last match day of the 1967/68 season , in which he was second in the table with the Cottbussers in the northern relay of the league behind his later club BFC Dynamo. Already 21 days later, Lauck played for 1. FC Union Berlin in the ongoing FDGB cup competition .

He made his debut with the Berliners in the FDGB Cup final against the high favorites FC Carl Zeiss Jena on June 9, 1968. Even for his teammates, coach Werner Schwenzfeier's line-up of the 22-year-old was a surprise, for example his teammate Günter Hoge : “Nobody knew Lauck […]. And you won't think it's possible, the coach makes the line-up, and Mäcki Lauck is in there ”. Nevertheless, the "Iron" surprisingly won the trophy - the only big title for the club to this day. Lauck stayed with Union until 1973 and became a regular player and a great pillar of the team. In a total of 145 league and cup games for Union Berlin, he scored 23 goals and matured to become a GDR national player.

After the relegation of the Unioners in 1973, however, the shock followed for many fans when Lauck switched to local rivals BFC Dynamo . FC Union fans are said to have begged for his return in front of his apartment door. To this day it is controversial whether and to what extent Lauck was pushed to change by officials. For many Union fans, his move is considered to be forced, while others are of the opinion that Lauck moved on his own initiative so as not to endanger his status as a national player.

Lauck celebrated great successes with Dynamo. In 1979 and 1980 he was twice GDR champion. Born in Sielower, he was able to score 29 goals in 152 league appearances for the Weinroten. In the summer of 1981 he had to end his career due to knee problems and was previously no longer involved in the 1980/81 season in the 3rd championship title of the BFC in a row.

International

1964 and 1965 Lauck completed five games in the junior national team . After three games with the GDR youth team at the end of the 1960s, Lauck made his first appearance in the GDR national soccer team on May 16, 1973, when the GDR beat Hungary 2-1 in Karl-Marx-Stadt . In qualifying for the 1974 World Cup in the Federal Republic of Germany, Lauck played four games and played a key role in the successful qualification. During the World Cup finals, Lauck played three games, including the legendary 1-0 win against the German national team . In what was probably his best game for the national team, he managed to control his opponent - Wolfgang Overath , the game designer of the West Germans - and thus stop the offensive game of the FRG.

Two years later, at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal , Lauck won his most valuable title. He was placed in all five finals of the Olympic football tournament and won the gold medal with the selection of the GDR . For this success he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. A year later Lauck played his last international match against Argentina (0-2) in Buenos Aires . In total, he came to 33 A-internationals during his career (five of them during his time at 1. FC Union, the others as a BFC player) or 30 according to FIFA's interpretation and scored three goals. In addition, Lauck played seven missions in the Olympic team, in which he remained without a goal.

Of the 14 European Cup games the BFC played after his move from Union and before his retirement in the summer of 1981, Lauck was used in six matches. He came the furthest with his team in the European Cup 1979/80, when the quarter-finals were reached. In the first leg against English champions Nottingham Forest (1-0), Lauck played his last European Cup game, as the BFC then lost 3-1 at home without him and was eliminated, and injury problems in the following season made it impossible to play in either the major league or the European Cup.

After retirement

Lauck was less successful in private life than on the pitch. After his football days he worked, among other things, in his learned profession as a locksmith, construction worker and coal hauler and had increasing problems with alcohol. When the German-German game of the 1974 World Cup was reissued in 1994 in Steinach (Thuringia) , Lauck could no longer play. In October 1997, he was found lying on the street with alcohol in his blood and severe head injuries. After two weeks in a coma, Reinhard Lauck died at the age of only 51.

After death

Reinhard Lauck 's life was filmed in the ORB production Rise and Fall of Football Star Reinhard Lauck. Even Alexander Osang had in the Berliner Zeitung wrote in 1993 a portrait of Lauck and dedicated to him an obituary.

In honor of Lauck, a plaque of honor was unveiled on September 16, 2006 in his place of birth Sielow at his first community SG Sielow. Many former companions such as the former GDR national coach Georg Buschner , Lauck's coach at BFC Jürgen Bogs and the GDR national team Lothar Kurbjuweit and Peter Ducke were guests of honor.

literature

Web links

Commons : Reinhard Lauck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Reinhard Lauck - Matches and Goals in Oberliga . RSSSF . February 1, 2018. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
  2. a b Jörg Luther, Frank Willmann: And never forget - Iron Union! ; 2000; Page 68 f.
  3. "Many Saxon construction workers were happy ..." Interview with Andreas Gläser and Frank Willmann on www.satt.org from January 2004.
  4. ↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In: New Germany . September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (online at ZEFYS - newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , free registration required).
  5. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Reinhard Lauck - International Appearances . RSSSF . February 1, 2018. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
  6. ^ Rudolf Neuland: Companions and friends honor “Mäcki” Lauck ; Article in the Lausitzer Rundschau from September 18, 2006.