Siegfried Fettke

Siegfried Fettke (born April 20, 1928 in Leipzig ; † September 20, 2012 there ) was a German football player. In the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football , he played from 1953 to 1963 for Einheit Ost / Rotation Leipzig .

Athletic career

At the age of ten, Siegfried Fettke began playing football for Sportfreunde Markranstädt in 1938. After participating in the war and imprisonment, he was able to continue his career from 1946 at ZSG Glückauf Markranstädt . In 1948 he became district champion in Leipzig with the people of Markranstadt. When the second-class state class of Saxony was founded for the 1949/50 season , Fettke moved to league competitor SG Probstheida, who restructured in October 1949 to the company sports association (BSG) Erich Zeigner Leipzig . With the BSG Fettke managed to qualify for the new second-rate GDR league from 1950/51 . There the BSG competed under the name Einheit Ost, Fettke was impaired by injuries but could only play four league games. Also in the following seasons 1951/52 (one game) and 1952/53 (2) he hardly got a chance.

Even when the unit east rose to the league in 1953, Fettke played only eight point games in his first league season 1953/54. It was not until the 1954/55 season, when Heinz Krügel, a new coach, took over the team and this was transferred to the newly founded SC Rotation Leipzig after the 10th matchday , that he was able to gain a foothold in the league with 17 appearances. From the 9th match day up to the end of the season, he was used as a left winger in all point games . After that, Fettke was a regular player and team captain for eight years until the end of his career. Only in the season of 1958 (calendar year season) did he fail for ten game days due to another injury.

In September 1955 Fettke was used in a test match against SC Motor Jena in the B national team. Because of alleged political unreliability, it was later no longer considered in the GDR selection teams. On the other hand, he came to international assignments with the Leipzig city selection in the European Cup competition of the trade fair cities . There he played four games between 1956 and 1959 and scored one goal.

Fettke played his last season in the league in 1962/63, in which he again completed all 26 point games. In his last league appearance he scored his 19th championship goal for the SC Rotation in the away game against SC Chemie Halle in a 2-1 victory for Leipzig. These included numerous penalty goals with which he earned the reputation of a penalty specialist. In his nine league seasons he had come to 198 point games. For the 1963/64 season, the soccer sections of the SC Rotation and the Leipzig upper division competitor SC Lokomotive Leipzig were dissolved, and their players were to be divided between the new upper division teams of SC Leipzig and BSG Chemie Leipzig . The 35-year-old Fettke took this as an opportunity to end his career as a professional footballer. In 1970 he reappeared as a volunteer coach of the third-rate district league team of the BSG LW Rackwitz.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1950–1963. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 133.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 329.
• DFSF (Ed.): DDR Chronicle - DDR Football 1949–1991 (Volumes 1–3). Berlin 2007/11.

Web links

• Siegfried Fettke in the database of the German Football Association
• Portrait at altelok.lok-leipzig.com