Herbert Pankau
Herbert Pankau ( born October 4, 1941 in Blank Witt Flatow, Pomerania ) is a former German football player (DDR ).
Pankau grew up in westmecklenburgischen Greve mills and began as a teenager in 1950 at the Sports Association unit Grevesmühlen playing football. In 1960, he was 18 years old at that SC Empor Rostock, later the FC Hansa Rostock emerged from the. In the previous season the club had landed in the GDR Oberliga to Rank 4. Pankau was used as an attacking in midfield and won immediately a regular place in the team. The same time he studied at the Rostock School of Engineering. Started the " silver series" of Rostock, which were within seven years runner-up four times and twice in the GDR Cup final ( fdgb Cup ) stood with Pankau. That Pankau it played a major role, proven by the fact that he scored in 1963 and 1966 in the points classification of the football magazine " Fuwo " the best value. The league coaches chose Pankau 1963 in a survey conducted by the newspaper " German Sports Echo" as the best " rights runner" (Midfield) last season. For several years he was the team captain of FC Hansa.
His football skills paved Pankau also the way to an international career. Already at the age of 19 he was employed in a B- countries game, he enters his first senior international match on 9 December 1962 in Bamako against Mali, who won the East German national team 2-1. In addition, Pankau was used in 17 games of the GDR Olympic team, 1964, he was in the team that won the bronze medal in Tokyo. His international career he finished with his 25th 'A' game on December 6, 1967 in Bucharest with a 1-0 victory over Romania.
After Pankau had completed 257 league games for the SC Empor and FC Hansa Rostock and scored a total of 30 goals in the process, he finished at the end of the season 1970/71 his career as a premier league footballer. In the chronicle of FC Hansa puts it, the 30 -year-old would then want to protest with his untimely departure league against political interference in the GDR football. From 1971 to 1975 he played in the BSG navigation / port of Rostock, he already helped in its first year to rise in the second highest division DDR -Liga. At the end of his athletic career Pankau played some time at his old home team unit Greve mills.
After his playing days Pankau worked as an engineer at the Rostock Seereederei and other businesses in a managerial position and went after the political changes of 1989 to independence. 1991 voted him the Rostock Sports Clubs President of the City Sports Federation.