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Germany's first master of the heart
Planitzer The SC was one of the Zwickau south before the Second World War to Saxony's best football teams. For the inauguration of the West Saxons fight Railways (now Südkampfbahn), a training ground for the time up to 30,000 (!) Viewers Planitz defeated in 1938 in a friendly match multiple German champion Schalke 04 3-2. In 1942 the club moved into the quarter finals as a champion of Saxony to the all-German championship, losing in Vienna Vienna to 2-0 lead with 2:3. Which was after the war as SG Planitz newly formed company in 1948 Saxony champion. In the subsequent Ostzonenfinale Planitz beat out 40,000 fans in Leipzig 1-0 SG Freiimfelder hall, the master Saxony-Anhalt.
should be in the quarter final of the all-German championship in 1948 in Stuttgart Planitzer against 1 FC Nuremberg, champions of the American occupation zone compete. But the player from the Soviet authorities did not receive permission to travel to the West. The outsider was thus deprived of his big chance and therefore almost Germany's first master of the heart. The Franks moved to the semifinals without a fight and ultimately to the final against Kaiserslautern, champion of the French occupation zone,. Nuremberg won the championship. After that there was not until 1991 all-German football championship more.
A player who later became Planitzer Meisterelf from 1948 to of the most successful football coaches in Europe. Heinz Krüger (1921-2008) won with 1 FC Magdeburg 1972, 1974 and 1975 the East German Cup in 1969 and 1973 the East German Cup. 1974 managed Krügel the sensation: his "1 FCM defeated "in the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup AC Milan 2-0. Such a coup was no other East German football club. Top clubs like Juventus are said to have lured Kruegel, but the native of Oberplanitzer remained in the GDR. His loyalty was not rewarded. From flimsy reasons he was banned from working: Before a European Cup game against Bayern Munich, was the Magdeburg coach refused to let the bug car of the opponent. Krüger was only after the turn of rehabilitated and honored for his achievements.
- first football champion of the GDR
Planitzer The successor organization ZSG (Central Sport Community) Horch Zwickau continued its triumphal march. In 1950, the team's first East German champion. On the final day before 60 000 spectators Zwickau won 5-1 in the first-placed to date SG Dresden-Friedrichstadt, German champion in 1943 and 1944 (as Dresdner SC). The referee was accused of favoring the Zwickau. The present later in the game State Walter Ulbricht said to have exerted pressure so that the outsider Zwickau - the team of state-owned Horch car plants - as against the existing bourgeois Dresdner Eleven wins. The police had to protect it from political notables applied viewers. Dresdner Several players left after the bitter defeat of the land to the west - including Helmut Schön, who led West Germany in 1974 as coach to win the World Cup. The German second world title is so with the Zwickau masterpiece together in 1950, at least indirectly.
As a reward for the biggest national success, the Zwickau footballer ever won, the Horch heroes received include a picture of the East German president Wilhelm Pieck, a miner's lamp with engraving, a pair of new shoes and a shirt. Siegfried Meier and Guenter Schneider, master players of 1948 and 1950, nor later talked about. Meier was transformed in 1954 the first international match penalty of the GDR. Schneider From 1976 to 1983 president of the German Football Association of the DDR (DFV) and became the opponent of his former team-mate Heinz Krüger. This convicted in 1990 on a DFV-session, the eavesdropping and figured it off especially with the hard-liner cutter.
Zwickau, David among Goliaths in the East German Oberliga
Zwickau, a non-government-sponsored company sports club (BSG), claimed over three decades in the East German Oberliga next privileged football clubs such as Berlin, Dresden and Karl-Marx-Stadt. In the games went against the current as a Stasi club Berliner FC Dynamo is not always above board. Ran it for the duration champion BFC will not always round, referee the games attracted disproportionate in length, including 1980 in Zwickau. The referee did enact just under eight minutes, but the outsider Zwickau saved his 2-1 lead over time. In the mid-1950s, when motor came with Zwickau, bismuth Aue, progress and rise Meerane volume four of 14 league teams from the metropolitan area Zwickau, mingled with the politics in play activities. Almost overnight, the players from the Erzgebirgsstädtchen volume in the previously under-represented North of the country delegates. The SC rise Rostock, who had previously has no competitive football department, took the league now a place of sounds.
The 25-year anniversary Sachsenring Zwickau league finished in the alltime list of the top spot. Until 1983 for the first time the league was missed. In the eternal DDR-Oberliga Table Zwickau ranks with 336 victories, 218 draws, 395 defeats and 1.310:1.489 gates to eighth. Away took home three of the highest Zwickau defeats League history: 0:10 at the BFC Dynamo (1978/79 season) and 0:9 respectively at ASK Vorwärts Berlin (season 1957) and 1 FC Magdeburg (1982/83 season). Zwickau Heinz Satrapa in 1950 with 23 goals first DDR-scorer. This feat repeated in 1967 Hartmut Renton with 17 goals. Alois Glaubitz is with 428 games 1956-1973, the player with the second-most league operations. Jürgen Croy is located at 372 point games between 1965-1981 at the ninth place. Glaubitz said to have been replaced only twice, and warned once in his career.
The Miracle of Berlin and the conquest of Europe
Zwickau footballers were four times in the final of the Cup of the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB). 1954 were subject to forward Berlin 1-2. It was followed by three victories: 1963 on Chemie Zeitz (3-0), 1967 against Hansa Rostock (3-0) and 1975 against the top club Dynamo Dresden. 55 000 people watched in Berlin, the most exciting cup final of GDR history. Sachsenring Zwickau was in the penultimate minute of extra compensation of 2-2 and then won the team a penalty shootout 4-3 against Dresden. Converted the crucial penalty kick just goalkeeper Croy. The Sachsenring Trabant manufacturers donated their players a trip to Bulgaria and a leather wallet and drew them as "the best workers in gold, silver or bronze.
Thanks to the success in the national cup Zwickau GDR represented three times at the European level. The association at that time was on par with Hamburg SV, Bayern Munich and Eintracht Frankfurt, in the European Cup for Germany started. After a play-free round of Motor Zwickau difference in the 1963-64 season in the second round against MTK Budapest (1-0 in Zwickau, 0-2 away). 1967/68 was also right after the kick-off final again, this time against Torpedo Moscow (away 0-0, 0-1 in Zwickau).
In season 1975/76 penetrated Sachsenring Zwickau sensational start in the third before the semi-finals. The sports officials had initially considered whether to register the outsiders in general to European competition. Croy and Co. taught them a lesson: Sachsenring won against Panathinaikos Athens (away 0-0, 2-0 in Zwickau), the outwardly Fiorentina ( 0:1, 1:0 / 5:4 on penalties in Zwickau) and Celtic (away 1-1, 1-0 by in Zwickau). Florence again turned against Jürgen Croy the last penalty. Louis Blank, who scored both goals against Glasgow, was given the nickname "Schottentod. In the semi-finals after a grueling season exhausted Zwickau in the late Cup-winning RSC Anderlecht (0-3 at Zwickau, 0-2 away) failed. At the home games brought up to 40,000 euphoric Zwickau - some had provided extra work, children were off school - the Georgi-Dimitrov Stadium (now West Saxony Stadium) to the quake - the Myth of "heap" was born.
World-class keeper Jürgen Croy: the retention of Zwickau and the GDR
is in the best list of the GDR's most capped player, the native of Croy Planitzer third. In 94 internationals, including Olympia, he guarded the gate. His record: 47 wins, 29 draws and 18 defeats. The away games of the national team led him to Western, and thus for East German citizens actually unreachable states. His first try had Croy 1967 with 1-0 win in Sweden, the last in 1981 in the 5-0 home win against Cuba. In 1976 he won Olympic gold in Montreal 1972 Munich Olympic bronze. 1972, 1976 and 1978, the Zwickau "Player of the Year" in the GDR. The magazine "New Football Week chose him in 1989 the best soccer player ever GDR.
1974 faced each other in the preliminary round of the soccer World Cup hosting the FRG and the GDR. It was the only one ever held international between the two German states. Croy and his team won 1-0 in Hamburg - a historic triumph for the underdog, and a propaganda coup for the SED. In the stadium were hand-picked "fans" cheer mainly officials and party members. "For the unexpected victory of the World Cup qualifying round, we received a total of 5,000 marks. This also included the victory against West Germany. For this sum makes today so hardly anyone on the shoes, "said Jürgen Croy 11freunde.de to the online magazine. The game winning in Hamburg, he called the "SUPERillu" had him as his most important success, "because we were able to show the world that we are good footballers." Before the meeting, the Bild newspaper, which certainly no friend of the DDR-Eleven had been, in terms of performance rated better than Sepp Maier.
Croy's fans expect him to this day high that he never joined an East German giants, although company sports teams such as Zwickau served as a talent scout. An offer from Dresden to have been present. Moreover, also from the West, but "it was clear that I had discontinued, I had my wife and my family never saw her again, "said Croy for" SUPERillu.
Faithful Croy since 1976 Honorary Citizen of his hometown. After the end of the playing career of trained physical education teachers trained in the mid 1980s Zwickau league team. After the turn he was mayor of Education, Culture and Sport in Zwickau. Since 2000, the goalkeeper legend works as managing director of culture, tourism and trade fair companies Zwickau GmbH, which markets including the town hall.
provincial Posse at Zwickau young talent fungus
After Jürgen Croy's era was Hans-Uwe Pilz is one of the most promising young talents at Sachsenring Zwickau. The exchange of talent to Dynamo Dresden employed in winter 1981/1982, the Saxon football scene. The Vice Mayor of Karl-Marx-Stadt and some local enterprise directors had seen fungus rather play in the district capital and are therefore the Council of State have written to Honecker. In Zwickau wanted one that fungus developed in the BSG Sachsenring, Croy modeled after the national team. City Hall chief fishermen tried to "his" Star to keep up with building a house offer. In vain - the young players went to Dresden, which was ultimately the Zwick Auer rather than a transfer to district rival Karl-Marx-Stadt. Fungus came to 1989 on 35 missions in the East German national team and returned to the 1990 return as a player and coach to FSV Zwickau.
Sources:
- football state GDR. Offense Played On, Off. Edited by Frank Willmann (Eulenspiegel Verlag)
- Norbert Peschke: 100 years of football in the Zwickau region (Zschiesche-Verlag)
- Jutta Braun, Hans Joachim Teichler (ed.): Sport City of Berlin during the Cold War. Prestige system struggles and competition (Ch. Links Verlag)
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