Winfried Herbs

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Winfried Kräuter (born October 23, 1956 in Neuruppin ) is a former German soccer player. He was active from 1984 to 1987 for BSG Stahl Brandenburg in the GDR league .

Athletic career

Herbs was born in Neuruppin , but grew up in Fehrbellin . He began playing football on the street and only joined the local football club Progress Fehrbellin at the age of 13 . From 1973 he received his football training at the company sports association Stahl Brandenburg, while he completed an apprenticeship as a metallurgist at the supporting company Stahl- und Walzwerk Brandenburg . After serving in the army, Kräuter joined the second division team Stahl Hennigsdorf in 1978 at the age of 21 . There he was active for four seasons, in which he played 86 point games and scored six goals. When the management of the higher-level steel combine moved its headquarters from Hennigsdorf to Brandenburg an der Havel , the best Hennigsdorf football players were delegated to the BSG Stahl Brandenburg in 1982, which at that time also played in the second-rate GDR league . In Brandenburg, the 1.85 m tall herb initially completed two seasons in the GDR league. In 1983 his team failed in the promotion games to the GDR upper league, but made it to the top class a year later. By then, Kräuter had played 43 GDR league games for Brandenburg in which he scored eight goals. In each of the eight promotion games he was involved with seven (1983) and eight (1984, 2 goals) appearances.

In his first league season in 1984/85, Kräuter was part of the player base and was usually used as a left defender in 25 of the 26 point games. On the eighth day of the season he scored his first league goal when he scored the 1-0 with a penalty kick in the match between Stahl Brandenburg and Motor Suhl (3-0). When Peter Kohl became a coach at Stahl Brandenburg in the 1985/86 season, Kräuter lost his status as a regular player. He was only used in twelve point games, where he was only six times in the starting line-up. Also in 1986/87 he was only a substitute and only played nine point games. Of the four games in the 1986/87 UEFA Cup , for which BSG Stahl qualified with fifth place in the previous season, Kräuter played two encounters: Stahl Brandenburg - Coleraine FC (1: 1) and Stahl Brandenburg - IFK Göteborg (0: 2).

Although Kräuter had been nominated for the top division squad for the seasons 1987/88 and 1988/89, he was no longer used as a top division player. He was already missing from the official team photos from 1987 and 1988. He was no longer listed in the 1989/90 BSG Stahl line-up without giving a reason. At that time, the almost 33-year-old Kräuter had already joined the second division relegated Motor Babelsberg .

Herbs later returned to Brandenburg as a coach, where he coached BSV Brandenburg in the fourth-class Oberliga Nordost from September 1995 to June 1996 and FC Stahl Brandenburg in the fifth-class Brandenburg Association League from January 2002 to June 2004 .

literature

  • Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 300.
  • German sport echo , born 1983–1990

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Winfried Kräuter: From the district league in the European Cup , sportbuzzer.de , August 12, 2015, accessed on May 31, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Herbs, Winfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuruppin