Ulrich Prüfke

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Prüfke (left) with Ralph Quest after winning the cup in 1968

Ulrich Prüfke (born October 2, 1940 in Berlin ) was a football player in East Berlin from 1954 . He played for ASK Vorwärts Berlin and 1. FC Union Berlin in the highest GDR football class, the league . With 1. FC Union he won the GDR Cup in 1968 .

Athletic career

Prüfke began in 1950 with the West Berlin club Alemannia 90 with club football. In 1954, via the East Berlin children's and youth sports school, he joined the student team of the GDR armed forces ' focus club , the ASK Vorwärts Berlin . There he won the GDR Youth Cup in 1957 and was also GDR Cup winner in 1959 with the juniors. In June of the same year he played a game with the GDR junior national team. It was not until the age of 21 when Prüfke, 1.71 m tall and a midfielder, was used in the ASK league team in the 1961/62 season. This season, which ran over 39 games due to the transition from the calendar year to the autumn-summer rhythm, the ASK won its third championship. However, between March and November 1961, Prüfke only had six assignments. In the three European Cup games in 1961, Prüfke only played one encounter. Because of this unsatisfactory development, he was "delegated" at the end of November 1961.

Prüfke then joined the neighboring club TSC Oberschöneweide , where he was used in the second team for the rest of the season. At the beginning of the 1962/63 season he was part of the squad of the first team that had just been promoted to the second-rate GDR league . During the season, in February 1963, the club was converted into TSC Berlin. Prüfke experienced another restructuring when the football section was spun off from the TSC in January 1966 and re-established as 1. FC Union Berlin . As a football club, the Berliners were promoted to the league in the summer of 1966 . Prüfke played a key role in this success, as he played almost all the point games of the season. He celebrated a far greater success in 1968 when 1. FC Union surprisingly won the GDR soccer cup after a 2-1 victory over FC Carl Zeiss Jena . The following season 1968/69 was Prüfke's last league season, because Union was relegated to the GDR league. Prüfke played there for another year, played 29 of the 30 point games and ended his active career at 1. FC on May 31, 1970 in the last game of the season, with which his team made it back to promotion with a 3-0 win at Lok Stendal Union. There he had completed 76 league games and came with the six appearances at ASK on a total of 82 first division appearances. For several years, Prüfke was the Unioner's team captain.

After his active career, Prüfke remained a member of 1. FC Union and, as a qualified sports teacher, took over the post of head coach between 1972 and 1974. He then worked as a research assistant at the GDR sports association DTSB and also played for the Berlin SG Schulzendorf. In later years, Prüfke trained the soccer teams of Eintracht Südring , FSV Eintracht Königs Wusterhausen, Eintracht Miersdorf / Zeuthen, Berolina Stralau and Phönix Wildau.

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SURNAME Prüfke, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin