Siegmund Mewes

Siegmund Mewes ( born February 26, 1951) was football player in the DDR - Oberliga for the SC structure / 1 FC Magdeburg and several junior - and B -National player.

Mewes began his career as a football player at the age of seven years at the BSG Rotation in Magdeburg. In 1961 he moved to BSG same building and in 1965 the Oberliga SC Magdeburg building, later 1.FC Magdeburg, delegated. There he went through the youth teams and was also once used during this time in the junior national team of East Germany. After school he started an apprenticeship as an automotive locksmith. From 1971, the 1.85 m wide Mewes belonged to the league squads of the FCM. With 21 league operations he was in the 1971/72 season immediately team regular and won as a freshman with the East German championship also equal to his first title. 1973 Cup Winners' Cup, in 1974 and 1975 additional championships: After more titles in clock came. 1978, 1979 and 1983, he got three more times in the victorious Magdeburg Cup team. The most valuable title of Magdeburg, the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1974, he missed, because he did not play in the final. When he ended his career as a football player at the 1 FC Magdeburg at the age of 34, he had played 296 league games for his team and scored 56 goals. In addition, it was used in 40 European games in which he scored six goals. Other international games he played with the East German youth election in which he was called up five times. Either for a short time was Mewes, who was also trained as a mechanical engineer, working as a trainer at the 1 FC Magdeburg, in the 1985/86 season as an assistant coach at the gambling in the third-class district league 2nd team, and in the season 1990 / 91 head coach of the league team, succeeding Joachim Streich. Under his leadership, the FCM dismounted in the camp of the third-tier Oberliga Nordost amateur. Mewes was released before the end of the season as a coach.