Herbert Schoen

Herbert Schoen ( born May 18, 1929 in Luckenwalde ) is a former German football player and one of the first football national team of East Germany.

At the age of ten years Schoen began playing football at a sports club of his home town of Luckenwalde. For this club, the sports community Luckenwalde, which until 1948 held Schoen loyalty after the Second World War. Meanwhile, in East Germany, the German People's Police in many cities own sports teams ( SG) had been launched to them was the SG People's Police Potsdam. Here sat Schoen his footballer career from 1949 on. In the summer of 1950, more than 40 players of the existing VP- communities were concentrated in forestry, to compile them from the squad for the future priority community in Dresden. Among the selected was also Herbert Schoen, who thus had the opportunity to play from the season 1950/51 with the SG VP Dresden in the highest DDR - Oberliga league. He did this apparently with success, because until 1951 it was used twice in games the country selection Saxony.

In September 1952 Schoen was able to record two successes for themselves. On 14 September, he was with his team Dresden East German Cup winner (3-0 on unit Pankow ) and a week later, on September 21, 1952, he was mustered in the first game of the East German national team. The match took place in Warsaw on Poland and was lost with 0:3. Both in the cup final and in the international game Schoen was used on its common position center half. Similarly successful was also the year 1953. By the end of the season Schoen had participated in another two international matches, and on 5 July 1953, he won with his home team, now under the name SG Dynamo Dresden playing in a playoff against the same number of points team bismuth Aue 3-2 after extra time, the East German championship. Herbert Schoen had been used in all 33 games of the Dresden. Also in the season 1953/54, Dresden was one of the top teams in the East German football and finished at the end of the third.

In the following season just 11 Championship games were completed, as due to a transfer of the GDR security organs subordinate Sports Association Dynamo had to move in November 1954 after the Berlin Dynamo Dresden players. On 21 November 1954, the team has already appeared as SC Dynamo Berlin in the league against rotation Babelsberg. Very successful, this step was not initially, because after a moderate 7th place at the end of the season, the Berlin Dynamos had 1956 descend from the league. The now seven-time national player and captain of the national team Herbert Schoen played now in a second-rate DDR -Liga. However, he denied all the matches of the year 1957. According to the re-emergence of the SC Dynamo Schoen still played a league season, after which he took the end of 29- year departure from the high-performance sports. He had completed 167 championship games in the league and 12 A- internationals. 1959 Schoen helped the team of Dynamo Hohenschonhausen to the rise in the East German league and finished there in 1962 finally his active career. Subsequently he was for a long time at Dynamo Berlin working as a youth coach.