Peter Kotte

Peter Kotte ( born December 8, 1954 in Lötzschen at Great Hain) was soccer player in the DDR - Oberliga, the top division of the East German Football Association. He played there for the SG Dynamo Dresden, with whom he once champion and cup winner was three times. Kotte is 21 times the GDR national team. In 1981 he was banned for life for political reasons.

Kotte started as a pupil at the Sports Association (SPA) in Lok Lampertswalde and moved in 1969 to the youth team of BSG Stahl Riesa. During the 1972/73 season Kotte was appointed to the first men's team, which was represented in this season in the second-rate DDR -Liga. With 18 point games and three goals of the 18 -year-old contributed to the rise in the league at. He also finished his apprenticeship as a mechanic. In the premier league 1973/74 season he was used from the start as a left winger. On 4 Season Match day he shot in the home game against FC Vorwärts Frankfurt Oberligator the first of his career when he produced the 1-1 draw after 42 minutes. Looking for a replacement for its long-term injured top scorer Hans -Jürgen Kreische the coach of the current DDR Master Dynamo Dresden Walter Fritzsch occurred in the fall of 1973 approached Kotte to persuade him to a change to the district rivals. After Kotte had received approval to be allowed to return to Riesa in case of a failure, he declared himself ready to change. This was from a game day to the other, on the 10th Round played Kotte still in Erfurt for Stahl Riesa, in the encounter of the 11th game day Dynamo Dresden -1. FC Lok Leipzig 1-0 on November 24, 1973 stood Kotte already outside left in the Dynamo team. By the end of the season he played in that position all remaining league games. During the season 1974/75 he moved to the position of center forward, which he maintained in the following years.

In early 1974 Kotte had been included in the squad of the GDR junior national team, with which he in the qualifier for the junior European Championships Italy on 27 February 1974 - played his first international match GDR ( 1:1). With the youth team he was twice in 1974 and 1978 Vice European Champion and played until 1978, a total of 27 junior internationals. In these games, he scored ten goals. Already on April 21, 1976 Kotte received his first appointment to a senior international. At GDR Friendlies - Algeria ( 5:0 ), he was employed as a legal winger and scored in his first use of two goals. By 1980, he completed 21 A- international matches in which he scored three goals. He also denied on August 17, 1977, a B- International Match (Poland - DDR 2:1).

The Oberliga 1975/76 season ended Kotte with his first title in the premier league. With 22 point game inserts and four goals he was involved in winning the championship of the East German Dresdner Dynamos. In the 1976/77 season due to injury Kotte could only play in the first round of Serie A, and was therefore only partly with 13 missions and seven goals for title defense at Dresdner. As a substitute for 17 minutes, he was also involved in the cup final on 28 May 1977 on the first FC Lok Leipzig (3:2). His most intense league season played Kotte 1977/78 when he was involved in the championship hat-trick of the Dresden with 25 games and with eleven goals scorer of his team. In addition, he was again in the cup final, but this time with the Dresden lost 0-1 against 1 FC Magdeburg. Until November 1980 Kotte remained the undisputed center forward for Dynamo Dresden. Until then, he had within seven years denied 156 league games for Dresden and scored 53 points Goals. During this time he had been used in all 36 Dresdner European games and had scored four goals.

In January 1981, Kotte should go with the national team on a tour of South America. When he left, he was arrested along with his team-mates Dresden Matthias Müller and Gerd Weber at the airport Schönefeld East Berlin for attempted " flight from the republic ". Weber was put in jail for years, Müller and Kotte after several days of detention for life closed due cognizance for the first and second football league and dismissed at Dynamo Dresden.

Kotte joined then the third-class district division progress Neustadt, with whom he won the 1982 Dresden district championship. The associated rise in the East German league had Kotte for the consequence that he had to switch to the second team, as he received no eligibility due to his suspension for the second-class league. A year later he was able to move up into the first team again, as Neustadt had dismounted immediately. In an official match Kotte suffered in 1984 a severe fibula injury. Although an impending leg amputation was averted, but the 29 -year-old footballers career was over.

Kotte had now acquired the license for the third league coach and was able to participate as a trainer in the world of football. He first took over the training of his team in Neustadt, later he was in eastern Saxony worked with unterklassigen teams in Großharthau, Dresden - Leuben, Heidenau and Freital. Kotte was rehabilitated in 1990 with Dynamo Dresden, he became an honorary member and 2002 youth coach in 2001.