Christoph Franke

Christopher Franke (born 20 December 1944 Muelsen St. Jacob ) is a former German football player and current coach.

Football career

Soccer player

As an active player, he completed 224 DDR - Oberliga inserts, where he scored 23 goals ( SC / 1.FC Leipzig 72/3, FC Karl- Marx-Stadt 152/20 ). He also came for the GDR to three junior internationals, five junior internationals and a B international.

His football career began as a 13 -year-old at the BSG activist Martin Hoop Muelsen, the sports community of his hometown. In 1959 he moved to the youth department of the BSG Motor Zwickau, where he was the junior national team. His three junior internationals he graduated in the years 1962 and 1963. Beginning of the season 1963/64, the SC Leipzig took the talented defender. On March 28, 1965 Franke was used for the first time in a game of DDR - Oberliga. In the encounter of the 14th game day SC Leipzig - SC Magdeburg structure ( 6:2 ), he stood as a central defender on the field and was thereafter used regularly for this position, so that he could already point to nine league inserts at the end of the season. In May 1965 he was appointed to his first junior international match. Franke remained until 1969 in Leipzig and was taken over by the newly formed 1st FC locomotive after the spin-off of the football section of the SC Leipzig 1966. The breakthrough for regular players he managed, however, only in the 1967/68 season, when he played in all 26 league - point games. During his time in Leipzig, he also acquired at the local Sport University DHfK his degree in Physical Education.

In the summer of 1969, Franke moved to Oberliga FC Karl- Marx-Stadt, where he was also in the defense immediately for regular players. At the end of the season, however, the FCK dismounted in the DDR -Liga, so that Franke had to play up to the chances of promotion to the second division for one year. In the GDR league he came eleven times used. After the resurgence Franke played another six years for the FCK in the big leagues. In his last season 1977/78 he played only the first encounter of the game day FCK - Vorwärts Frankfurt (3:1), was mustered in again as a defender. Then Franke belonged for a year in the squad of the GDR division motor Fritz Heckert Karl- Marx-Stadt.

Football coach

Immediately after the end of his active career Christoph Franke began working as a youth coach at FC Karl- Marx-Stadt. From 1983 to 1986 he was responsible for the junior league team FCK, which he led to the GDR Cup 1986. In 1988, he was assistant coach of the East German Oberliga team under Hans Meyer. Only in 1996 he received after the dismissal of Reinhard Häfner his first job as head coach at FC Chemnitz and climbed a short time later with the team from the 2nd Bundesliga from, but managed the 1999 revival. On 7 September 2000, the club parted due to persistent failures from him. Under Franke's work as a trainer, he developed among others, Michael Ballack from youth players to professional football player in the 2nd Bundesliga.

In 2001, Franke was a coach offer the traditional club Dynamo Dresden, where he started work on 1 July 2001. With Dynamo Dresden he abolished in 2001 two climbs in three years (from the league in the 2nd Bundesliga) and 2005 in the league and eighth place in the second- highest German league. In the season 2005/2006 he survived despite repeated failures an ultimatum to resign when his club Dynamo Dresden nine consecutive games could not win. Massive Fanproteste against his dismissal, which were in their proportions unprecedented in Germany, Christoph Franke assured his job as manager in Dresden. After 12 games without a win he was but then released on 15 December 2005 from his office. After he was traded in March 2008 even as the successor of Eduard Geyer again at Dynamo Dresden, he entered on 21 April 2008 to the post as head coach of FC Chemnitz, sparking Tino bird from. By the end of the season Franke promotion to the Regionalliga as well as winning the Saxony- Cup. Subsequently, he was, however, redeemed by Gerd Harmful.

Swell

• Hanns Leske: Encyclopedia of the GDR football. The workshop, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of DDR - Oberliga. Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-428-3.