Robert Gerngroß

Robert Gerngroß (born August 20, 1913 ; † unknown) was a German football player. For BSG Waggonbau Dessau he played in 1949 in the DS-Oberliga , the top division in GDR football . With BSG Waggonbau he also won the first competition for the FDGB Cup in 1949 .

Athletic career

The Betriebsportgemeinschaft (BSG) Waggonbau Dessau won the first competition for the Soviet-zonal FDGB soccer cup on August 28, 1949 . In the final, which Dessau won 1-0 over Gera-Süd , 36-year-old Robert Gerngroß took the position of right wing runner . Gerngroß was one of the group of players who got football going again in Dessau after the end of the Second World War . With the BSG forerunner SG Dessau-Nord, he contested the regional championships approved by the occupying forces at the end of the 1940s. As second in the state class south in Saxony-Anhalt , he and his team missed the participation in the first east zonal soccer championship in 1948, as the state cup finalist, Dessau, meanwhile converted to BSG Waggonbau, qualified for the FDGB cup competition in 1949.

By winning the cup, the wagon builders also qualified for the newly created East German Zone League (later DS-Oberliga, GDR-Oberliga ), which should serve to determine an East Zone soccer champion. The first season ran in 1949/50, in the course of which the GDR was founded, and thus in the end, ZSG Horch Zwickau, the first GDR football champion was chosen. BSG Waggonbau Dessau, whose line-up also included Robert Gerngroß, landed in third place. However, he was only used in the first seven league games. Then he ended his career as a football player in high-performance sports at the age of 36.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 155.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 22, 304.

Web links

• Robert Gerngroß in the weltfussball.de database