Rugby Union national team of the GDR

GDR

Association	German Rugby Sports Association of the GDR
Most internationals Gerhard Schubert and Ralf Stieg : 41 internationals
First international match Romania 64:26 German Democratic Republic (July 1, 1951)
Biggest victory Sweden 0:28 German Democratic Republic (August 16, 1964)
Biggest defeat Poland 73-0 German Democratic Republic (1975)
World Championship participations: none

The rugby union national team of the GDR was the selection team of the German Rugby Sports Association of the GDR and competed for international matches between 1951 and 1990 against teams from other national associations.

history

The first official international match of the national team took place on July 1, 1951 in Bucharest against the selection of Romania . Romania clearly won the game with 64:26. The GDR won their first victory exactly seven years later in their sixth international match on July 1, 1958 in Ostend against the Netherlands . Three months later, on October 12, 1958, a home game against Romania took place in Brandenburg an der Havel on the Werner-Seelenbinder sports field in front of more than 3000 spectators, which ended 5-5. This was the only draw in international history against a Romanian selection. The GDR's highest victory in their international history was achieved on August 16, 1964 against the Swedish team when they won 28-0 in Malmö . The biggest defeat was a game against Poland on October 12, 1975 in Piła, which the GDR lost 0:73.

Most of the players in history were made by the record champions BSG Stahl Hennigsdorf . In the decades of its existence, the selection mostly competed against the teams of Romania, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria. International matches against teams from western countries were the exception. The GDR had positive international match results against the teams of Sweden, Denmark and Hungary. Although the German Rugby Sports Association had been a member since 1956, the GDR did not take part in either the European Cup or the European championships of the European association FIRA-AER . However, she participated repeatedly in international tournaments. The national team's last international match was a 9-17 defeat on September 15, 1990 against the Luxembourg team in Luxembourg. With the end of the GDR, the national team was dissolved.

statistics

The individual games of the national team are listed in the list of international matches of the rugby union national team of the GDR . In addition to A national teams, B or U23 teams from other national associations took part in several tournaments. Games against such teams were not included in the statistics.

Rugby - international matches (GDR)

country	First game	total	Won	Indecisive	Lost
Romania	1951	13	0	1	12
Czechoslovakia	1954	14th	1	0	13
Netherlands	1958	1	1	0	0
Poland	1958	21st	4th	1	16
Bulgaria	1963	22nd	10	0	12
Sweden	1964	3	3	0	0
Denmark	1964	2	2	0	0
Soviet Union	1977	3	0	0	3
Hungary	1990	1	1	0	0
Luxembourg	1990	1	0	0	1
Overall balance		81	22nd	2	57

Player and coach

The national coach

The first coach of the national team for over two decades was the successful Hennigsdorf coach and former German national player Erwin Thiesies . He coached the team from 1951 to 1972. His successor until 1983 was Detlef Krüger, who later became a sports lecturer at the University of Potsdam . Record national player Gerhard Schubert took over the team in 1983 and trained them for two years until 1985. He was replaced by Rüdiger Tanke . In 1990 Peter Gellert was the last coach of the national team.

• Erwin Thiesies 1951 to 1972
• Detlef Krüger 1972 to 1983
• Gerhard Schubert 1983 to 1985
• Rüdiger Tanke 1985 to 1990
• Peter Gellert 1990

National player

Over the decades, 239 players were used in the national team. By far, most of the players came from record champions BSG Stahl Hennigsdorf (104). 31 players came from the BSG Lokomotive Wahren-Leipzig , 27 from the SG Dynamo Potsdam , 25 from the HSG DHfK Leipzig , 15 from the ASK Vorwärts Berlin and 13 from the BSG Post Berlin . Other clubs that stopped players were: BSG Stahl Brandenburg (6), BSG Lokomotive Falkensee (5), BSG Chemie Leipzig (5), BSG Empor Velten (4), BSG Lokomotive Berlin and BSG Lokomotive Berlin Mitte (4), BSG Lokomotive Oranienburg (3), BSG Lokomotive Dessau (1), BSG Rotation Leipzig-Süd (1), BSG Lokomotive Leipzig-Ost (1) and BSG Grün-Weiß Birkenwerder (1). Seven national players played for two different clubs in the course of their national team career. From BSG Stahl Leegebruch , a top team of the second half of the 1960s and first half of the 1970s and champions in 1972, not a single player was appointed to the national team.

• Gerhard Schubert (DHfK Leipzig and Lok Wahren-Leipzig) - 41 international matches (record)
• Ralf Stieg (Stahl Hennigsdorf) - 41 international matches (record)
• Helmut Busse (Stahl Brandenburg) - 34 international matches
• Torsten Busse (Stahl Brandenburg) - 22 international matches
• Wolfgang Götsch (Stahl Hennigsdorf) - 20 international matches
• Frank Pilger (Dynamo Potsdam) - 13 international matches
• Silvio Wicht (Stahl Brandenburg) - 4 international matches
• Detlef Krüger (Dynamo Potsdam) - 1 international match
• Jens Riechers (Dynamo Potsdam) - 1 or 2 internationals

See also

• Rugby Union in Germany

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rugby Data Games played by East Germany . Retrieved June 10, 2014.
2. ^ History of the Rugby Department. Retrieved January 3, 2014
3. ↑ espnscrum.com Sweden v East Germany at Malmo . Retrieved June 10, 2014.
4. ^ Rugby GDR national team . accessed on December 29, 2014.
5. ↑ Claus-Peter Bach (Ed.): 100 Years of the German Rugby Association , p. 173, 2000, Heidelberg.
6. ↑ Claus-Peter Bach (Ed.): 100 Years of the German Rugby Association , pp. 171 f, 2000, Heidelberg.