Wolfgang Gehrke (soccer player)

Wolfgang Gehrke (born November 7, 1957 ) is a former German football goalkeeper who played in 1983 for 1. FC Union Berlin in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football . Gehrke is a multiple GDR junior national player.

Athletic career

At the age of 16, Wolfgang Gehrke was in the goal of the district league team 1. FC Union Berlin II in the 1974/75 season and was with them East Berlin district league champion. In early 1975 he was appointed to the squad of the GDR junior national team, for which he played his first of eleven junior internationals in June 1975. In the 1975/76 season Gehrke played four point games with the first team from Union in the second-rate GDR league and was thus involved in the rise of the Berliners to the GDR league. However, he was not used in the league in 1976/77, but was designated goalkeeper of 1. FC Union in the newly introduced junior league . In November 1978 Gehrke began an 18-month military service.

After his release from the National People's Army , Gehrke joined the GDR league club BSG Kabelwerk Oberspree Berlin for the 1980/81 season , the local rival of 1. FC Union, which had previously been relegated from the league. In the 22 game season, Gehrke was in goal for BSG KWO 16 times. He stayed with KWO until the 1982/83 season, where he played 43 GDR league games within four seasons. When the cable workers were relegated in 1983, Gehrke returned to 1. FC Union Berlin, which was now back in the major league. He was classified as the third goalkeeper for the 1983/84 season and was only used in the first two league games.

Already after the first half of the championship Gehrke left Union again and joined the GDR league club Rotation Berlin . There he did not get past the regular goalkeeper Rainer Ignaczak and was only substituted on in a point game. In the following three seasons Gehrke remained reserve goalkeeper, only in the 1987/88 season he managed to overtake his rivals and played 63 of the 102 point games played by the end of the 1989/90 season. In total, he came in rotation to 122 second division games.

After the political change in 1989/90 , the BSG was converted into the BSV rotation and played in 1990/91 without Wolfgang Gehrke. As BSV Spindlersfeld the club rose in 1991/92 with the 34-year-old Gehrke in the fourth league.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1974–1990. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 152.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 296.
• DFSF (Ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 8). Berlin 2011, p. 175.

Web links

• Wolfgang Gehrke in the database of the German Football Association