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Dieter Fuchs
Personal information
Date of birth (1940-10-19) 19 October 1940 (age 84)
Place of birth Weißwasser, Saxony, Germany
Position(s) Midfielder
Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
-1959 BSG Chemie Weißwasser
1959-1961 SC Dynamo Berlin 1 (0)
1961-1963 SG Dynamo Hohenschönhausen
1963-1968 BFC Dynamo 27 (5)
Managerial career
1987-1988 BSG Rotation Berlin
1995 FC Berlin
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Dieter Fuchs (19 October 1940) is a German former footballer, football manager and coach. Fuchs played for SC Dynamo Berlin and BFC Dynamo from 1959 to 1961 and then again from 1963 to 1968. He later served as a manager in the East German Football Association (DVF) and at BFC Dynamo.

Playing career

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Dieter Fuchs began his senior career with BSG Chemie Weisswasser (de) from Weisswasser in Bezirk Cottbus.[1] BSG Chemie Weisswasser played the in lower-tiers of the East German football league system.[2]

Fuchs was allowed to join sports club SC Dynamo Berlin in 1959.[1] Fuchs made his first appearance for SC Dynamo Belin as a midfielder in the first-tier DDR-Oberliga against SC Einheit Dresden at home on the eight matchday of the 1960 DDR-Oberliga on 25 May 1960.

Fuchs was transferred to SG Dynamo Hohenschönhausen in 1961. He played two seasons for SG Dynamo Hohenschönhausen in the second-tier DDR-Liga. In 1963, he returned to SC Dynamo Berlin. Fuchs playes as a midfielder and defender för SC Dynamo Berlin, and then BFC Dynamo, in the DDR-Oberliga until 1967.

BFC Dynamo was relegated to the second-tier DDR-Liga after the 1966-67 DDR-Oberliga. Fuchs made eight appearances for BFC Dynamo in the 1967-68 DDR-Liga Nord.[3]

Managerial career

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Alongside football, Fuchs trained as a certified sports teacher (German: Diplomsportlehrer).[1] He then completed a doctorate at the German Central Pedagogical Institute in Berlin (German: Deutsches Pädagogisches Zentralinstitut (DPZI) (de) in 1970. The title of his dissertation was "The territorial planning of vocational preparatory polytechnic teaching in grades 9 and 10". His work was awarded magna cum laude.[1]

Fuchs was employed as a group leader in the competitive sports department (German: Abteilung Leistungssport) of the SV Dynamo sports association. Fuchs became head coach (German: Cheftrainer) at BFC Dynamo in 1977.[4][1] Head coach was a managerial position in East German football.[5][nb 1]

In addition to his work for SV Dynamo, Fuchs eventually became Deputy General Secretary of the East German Football Association (DFV) and the Chairman of the DFV Trainer Council (German: DFV-Trainerrates).[8][9][10] He then became the head coach at the DFV (German: Chefverbandstrainer) in 1983.[11][10] He served as head coach at the DFV until June 1986.[11] According to an article in Der Spiegel, Fuchs was eventually punished after being caught drinking whisky with a "class enemy" in Mexico.[7]

Fuchs then beame coach at BSG Rotation Berlin in 1987.[12] He coached BSG Rotation Berlin in the second-tier DDR-Liga until 1988.[13] After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Fuchs was able to regain a top position.[7] Fuchs became the Manager (German: Manager) and managing director (German: Geschäftsführer) at FC Berlin in August 1990.[7][14]

The early 1990s was a very difficult time for FC Berlin. The club lost most of its top players in transfers.[15][16][17] Attendance figures were only a couple of hundred.[14][15] The club's reputation as a former Stasi club made it difficult to find new sponsors.[18][19][20][14] And the club was also plagued by hooliganism, which repeatedly caused negative headlines.[21][14]

As the manager and managing director, Fuchs skillfully handled the numerous player transfers at FC Berlin in the early 1990s, but was not successful in the search of new sponsors for the club and the reorientation of the club.[18][22] The club management at FC Berlin also failed to seek legal protection for the club's traditional crest, after BFC Dynamo had been rebranded as FC Berlin in 1990.[23] This led to the rights to the crest ending up in the hands of people outside the club in 1992.[19]

Fuchs served as manager and managing director of FC Berlin until June 1995.[7][14] He then continued to work for the club on a voluntary basis for another year.[14] When coach Helmut Koch was dismissed in October 1995, Fuchs took over as interim coach, until new coach Werner Voigt was able to take over. As interim coach, Fuchs led FC Berlin in the derby against 1. FC Union Berlin at home on the 13th matchday of the 1995–96 Regionalliga Nordost on 21 October 1995. FC Berlin lost the match 1–3.[24] Fuchs was succeeded at FC Berlin by Wolfgang Levin. At that time, Fuchs was the last official of the "old era" left in the club.[18]

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Explanatory notes

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  1. ^ The position of head coach should not be confused with first team coach.[5] Fuchs suceeded Jürgen Bogs as head coach in 1977.[6] Bogs instead became the new coach of first team of BFC Dynamo. In an interview with Der Spiegel in 1994, Fuchs compared his role as head coach at BFC Dynamo to that of Uli Hoeness at FC Bayern Munich.[7]

References

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General

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  • Karas, Steffen (2022). 66 Jahre BFC Dynamo – Auswärts mit 'nem Bus (2nd ed.). Berlin: CULTURCON medien, Sole trader: Bernd Oeljeschläger. ISBN 978-3-944068-95-4.

Specific

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Chefverbandstrainer Dr. Dieter Fuchs" (PDF). Die neue Fußballwoche (FuWo) (de) (in German). Vol. 1983, no. 7. Berlin: DFV der DDR. 15 February 1983. p. 3. ISSN 0323-8407. Retrieved 22 February 2025.
  2. ^ "Deutschen Fußball-Archiv - Bezirksliga Cottbus 1960". f-archiv.de (in German). n.d. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  3. ^ Karas, Steffen (2022). 66 Jahre BFC Dynamo – Auswärts mit 'nem Bus (2nd ed.). Berlin: CULTURCON medien, Sole trader: Bernd Oeljeschläger. pp. 328–332. ISBN 978-3-944068-95-4.
  4. ^ "Visitenkarte" (PDF). Deutsches Sportecho/Die neue Fußballwoche (in German). Vol. 1977, no. Sonderausgabe. Berlin. August 1977. p. 8. ISSN 0323-6420. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  5. ^ a b Stolz, Sascha (7 August 2006). "Interview mit Jürgen Bogs". Fußball-Woche (de) (in German). Berlin: Fußball-Woche Verlags GmbH. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  6. ^ "Visitenkarte" (PDF). Deutsches Sportecho/Die neue Fußballwoche (in German). Vol. 1976, no. Sonderausgabe. Berlin. August 1976. p. 6. ISSN 0323-6420. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
  7. ^ a b c d e "LAUBENPIEPER MIT STADION". Spiegel (in German). Vol. 1994, no. 20. Hamburg: DER SPIEGEL GmbH & Co. KG. 15 May 1994. Retrieved 22 February 2025.
  8. ^ "Erfolge sind nur durch harte Arbeit zu erreichen" (PDF). Die neue Fußballwoche (FuWo) (de) (in German). Vol. 1983, no. 6. Berlin: DFV der DDR. 8 February 1983. p. 8. ISSN 0323-8407. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  9. ^ "Mehr Verantwortung den Klubs" (PDF). Die neue Fußballwoche (FuWo) (de) (in German). Vol. 1983, no. 9. Berlin: DFV der DDR. 1 March 1983. p. 13. ISSN 0323-8407. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  10. ^ a b Fiedler, Anke (2013). "Deutschland Archiv 2013" (PDF). Deutschand Archiv (2013). Bonn: Federal Agency for Civic Education: 151. ISBN 978-3-8389-0387-3. Retrieved 22 February 2025.
  11. ^ a b "„DDR" löste Cheftrainer ab" (PDF). Hamburger Abendblatt (in German). Hamburg: FUNKE Medien Hamburg GmbH. 26 June 1986. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 November 2023. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
  12. ^ "Rotation Berlin" (PDF). Deutsches Sportecho/Die neue Fußballwoche (FuWo) (de) (in German). Vol. 1987, no. Sonderausgabe. Berlin. August 1987. p. 23. ISSN 0323-6420. Retrieved 22 February 2025.
  13. ^ Thiemann, Klaus (August 1988). "Rotation Berlin" (PDF). Deutsches Sportecho/Die neue Fußballwoche (in German). Vol. 1988, no. Sonderausgabe. Berlin. p. 21. ISSN 0323-6420. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  14. ^ a b c d e f Jahn, Michael (24 December 2001). "Dynamischer Ausverkauf". Berliner Zeitung (in German). Berlin: Berliner Verlag GmbH. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
  15. ^ a b Bardow, Dominik (17 January 2010). "Fußballer auf der Flucht". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Berlin: Verlag Der Tagesspiegel GmbH. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  16. ^ Gartenschläger, Lars (15 January 2016). "50 Jahre BFC Dynamo: Der tiefe Fall des verhassten Stasi-Klubs". Die Welt (in German). Berlin: WeltN24 GmbH. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  17. ^ Krause, Thomas (19 January 2022). ""Der BFC Dynamo wird immer mein Club sein"". Nordkurier (in German). Neubrandenburg: Nordkurier Mediengruppe GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  18. ^ a b c Jahn, Michael (10 May 1997). "Millionen eingenommen – nichts auf dem Konto". Berliner Zeitung (in German). Berlin: Berliner Verlag GmbH. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
  19. ^ a b Quednau, Frank (5 May 1999). "Zurück in die Zukunft". Die Welt (in German). Berlin: WeltN24 GmbH. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
  20. ^ Koch, Matthias (12 June 2009). "BFC Dynamo: Umstrittenes neues Logo". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Berlin: Verlag Der Tagesspiegel GmbH. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
  21. ^ "BFC Dynamo: Rot-Weinrot bei Mielkes Lieblingsklub". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Berlin: Verlag Der Tagesspiegel GmbH. 17 October 2000. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  22. ^ Karas, Steffen (2022). 66 Jahre BFC Dynamo – Auswärts mit 'nem Bus (2nd ed.). Berlin: CULTURCON medien, Sole trader: Bernd Oeljeschläger. p. 146. ISBN 978-3-944068-95-4.
  23. ^ Heinke, Lothar (30 January 2001). "BFC Dynamo: Der Fußballverein muss für die Verwendung des eigenen Logos zahlen". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Berlin: Verlag Der Tagesspiegel GmbH. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
  24. ^ Burghause, Hans Günter (23 October 1995). "Rehmer stand richtig als Boer flankte". Kicker (in German). Nuremberg: Olympia Verlag GmbH. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
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