Gerd Weber

Gerd Weber ( born May 31, 1956 in Dresden) was soccer player in the DDR - Oberliga, the highest East German football class. He played there for the sports community Dynamo Dresden, with whom he once champion and cup winner was three times. Weber is 37- times national player and 1976 Olympic champion.

Football career

Youth

Weber grew up in difficult family circumstances on, his father was an alcoholic, at times he was brought up in the home. At age six, he was inducted into the junior section of the FSV Lok Dresden and ran there until 1970, compulsory junior teams. To the beginning of the season 1970/71 he was delegated to the Oberliga side Dynamo Dresden, where he was first employed in the youth team. In 1971 he played for Dynamo in the junior league. In the same year he was included in the squad of the East German junior national team. On September 26, 1971 he played in the Czech Decin in the encounter Czechoslovakia - German Democratic Republic ( 2:2 ) as the defender his first Junior National team. By 1974, Weber maintained 51 matches with the youth team, setting a record unbroken GDR. Immediately thereafter, he was inducted into the junior national team, with whom he performed in 13 internationals.

DDR - Oberliga

At its first use in the GDR Oberliga came Weber on August 25, 1973 In the game of the third game day of the season in 1973/74 Dynamo -. Stahl Riesa ( 5:2 ), he was in the 83rd minute for the left winger Klaus Lichtenberger loaded. Up to 12 Matchday he was still employed in a further three league games, each by substituting another player. In the season 1974/75 of 1.80 m large Weber benefited from the protracted breach of the Dresden director Hans -Jürgen Kreische, for which he was regularly used mainly eleventh Gameday as a midfielder in the league team. However, the game had a bitter year financial statements for Weber. Dynamo had reached the East German Cup final, but lost Sachsenring Zwickau to a 3:4 on penalties. Weber missed alongside Hans -Jürgen Dörner a Dresdner penalty. In the season 1975/76 Weber finally became a regular player, he completed 24 of 26 league games point and was at right-back a place in the team structure. At the end of the season he celebrated with his team that had won the championship, his first title victory. Other championships were added in 1977 and 1978. On 28 May 1977 he also won the East German Cup with a 3-2 victory over 1.FC Lok Leipzig. With his goal to make it 2-2 in the 85th minute after a 1:2 residue he made the preparatory work for the 3-2 victory of Dresden. Weber kept his place until 1980, where his assignments varied between defense and midfield. In the season 1979/80 he was charged with 16 -goal top scorer of the Dynamos and landed on third place in the premier league top scorer, although he had never played in a storm. At the beginning of the 1980/81 season he first fell out due to injury and came only eight games by at until the winter break again regularly in the big leagues for use. On January 24, 1981 Weber was arrested before the departure of the national team to tour South America for attempting to flee the republic along with his teammates Peter Kotte and Dresden Matthias Müller. Was preceded by a Abwerbeversuch of Bundesliga 1 FC Cologne. Then all three were excluded from the SG Dynamo Dresden, Weber received lifelong game ban in the entire East German football match operation, Kotte and Müller were life-long disabled for the league and the second-rate DDR -Liga. Weber was condemned as a prime suspect to a prison sentence of two years and three months for " treasonable activities of agents and attempted to flee the republic ". His record at Dynamo Dresden from 1973 to 1980 has made ​​145 league games with 44 goals and 25 European games with two goals.

A-team

After Weber had excelled as a junior and junior national team and had become in the big leagues for a regular player, he was appointed in the summer of 1975 in the levy of the senior team. At his first international match he came on September 3, 1975 in the encounter Soviet Union - East Germany (0-0 ) when he came on in the 54th minute for the right midfielder Wolfgang Seguin. After that, he had, with the exception of the year 1976 ( only two inserts ) a permanent place in the GDR selection. With the East German Olympic team Weber played six games official international matches, including two finals matches at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal ( Canada). He also contributed to winning the gold medal, which the GDR selection after a 3-1 victory - won over Poland - without the injured Weber. In the qualifying matches for the European Football Championship 1980 in Group 4, he completed, as well as Hans -Jürgen Dörner, Reinhard Häfner and Martin Hoffmann under coach George Buschner, all eight games against the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland and Iceland. In the deciding 2:3 defeat on November 21, 1979 in Leipzig against the Netherlands he made with Rüdiger Schnuphase and Reinhard Häfner the midfield. After a 2-0 lead, the " Oranje " prevailed with a goal from Rene van de Kerkhof in the 67th minute. The last of his 35 A- internationals Weber graduated two months before his arrest on 19 November 1980 Friendly Match GDR - Hungary (2-0).

State Security

Dynamo Dresden was as prominent sports community of the East German security forces specially monitored by the Ministry of State Security. This made ​​use of it many informants outside and inside the league team. Gerd Weber in 1975 enlisted as informer and proved with more than 70 reports on his team to be a rich source. He had the task was assigned to observe his teammates at the Olympic Games in 1976 and in operations in the West. In 1979, he got himself in connection with the escape of prominent East German football player ( Lutz own village) in the State Security under suspicion. This ultimately led to the fact that in 1981 his own escape plans were revealed.

Life without power football

From his prison sentence Weber had to serve eleven months. His 1978 begun physical education teacher degree he was not allowed to continue. He began working in an auto repair shop and trained as a car mechanic. Visiting a champions course was denied. Four times his pardon Ask the GDR football association were rejected. On August 12, 1989 he with his wife and six -year-old daughter managed to escape to Hungary in the Federal Republic. Here he trained as an industrial clerk and then worked as an automotive expert. For three years he was free time footballers at SV Oberweier, then he trained for a short time the national league team of the SV Haslach. Recently, Weber was in Baden Friesenheim down ( district Heiligenzell ).

Achievements

• Olympic champion in 1976
• East German champion in 1976, 1977, 1978
• East German Cup winner 1977
• Most-capped player in the GDR Junior