Gerd Weber
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1976 Montreal | Team |
Gerd Weber (born 31 May 1956 in Dresden) is a former German soccer player.
Weber began his career in 1973 with SG Dynamo Dresden in the DDR-Oberliga.[1] Between 1975 and 1980 he played 33 times as a midfielder for the East German national team, scoring 5 goals.[2] He won the gold medal at the football tournament of the 1976 Summer Olympics with the East Germany Olympic team. He was a Stasi informer from 1975 onward.[3]
In 1981, he along with two teammates (Peter Kotte and Matthias Müller), were arrested by the Stasi, just as they were to travel to Argentina for an international match.[4] Weber had contacts to West German side 1. FC Köln, and had solicited escape plans, intending to flee to the West. Weber was sentenced to seven years and seven months' imprisonment. After eleven months he was released. However, he was banned from returning to professional football.[4] In the summer of 1989 he fled to the West before the fall of the Berlin Wall with his family.
References[]
- ^ Arnhold, Matthias (4 January 2018). "Gerd Weber - Matches and Goals in Oberliga". RSSSF. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
- ^ Arnhold, Matthias (4 January 2018). "Gerd Weber - Goals in International Matches". RSSSF. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
- ^ Ingolf Pleil: Mielke, Macht und Meisterschaft: Die „Bearbeitung“ der Sportgemeinschaft Dynamo Dresden durch das MfS 1978 - 1989. Ch.Links Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-86153-235-2, page 67
- ^ Jump up to: a b Petrossian, Shahan. "Tales of Defection: The Cold War's Impact on the Game". theantiquefootball.com. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
External links[]
- Gerd Weber at WorldFootball.net
- Gerd Weber at fussballdaten.de (in German)
- Gerd Weber at National-Football-Teams.com
- Gerd Weber at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- 1956 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Dresden
- People from Bezirk Dresden
- German footballers
- East German footballers
- Olympic footballers of East Germany
- East Germany international footballers
- Dynamo Dresden players
- DDR-Oberliga players
- Association football midfielders
- Footballers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for East Germany
- Olympic medalists in football
- Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
- People of the Stasi
- German football midfielder stubs
- German Olympic medalist stubs