List of East Germany international footballers
The line-up of East Germany's last game, against Belgium in 1990.
Below is a list of the 273 players who played for the East Germany national team from its foundation in 1952, until 1990 when it was merged with the West Germany team after German reunification.
List of players[]
Played in East Germany's first official game, against Poland in 1952.
Member of East Germany's squad at the 1974 FIFA World Cup, the only major tournament the team ever qualified for.
Played in East Germany's last game, against Belgium in 1990.
Played for the Germany national team, after reunification.
| Name | Position | Appearances | Goals | First appearance | Last appearance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jens Adler | GK | 1 | 0 | 1990 | 1990 |
| Horst Assmy | FW | 12 | 4 | 1954 | 1959 |
| Gerd Backhaus | FW | 3 | 2 | 1963 | 1966 |
| Christian Backs | DF | 9 | 1 | 1983 | 1985 |
| Jürgen Bähringer | FW | 1 | 0 | 1980 | 1980 |
| Wolfgang Barthels | FW | 2 | 2 | 1963 | 1964 |
| Bernd Bauchspieß | FW | 1 | 0 | 1959 | 1959 |
| Erhard Bauer | DF | 3 | 0 | 1954 | 1954 |
| Frank Baum | DF | 17 | 0 | 1979 | 1984 |
| Rainer Baumann | FW | 2 | 0 | 1956 | 1956 |
| Wolfgang Benkert | GK | 1 | 0 | 1984 | 1984 |
| Arthur Bialas | FW | 1 | 0 | 1961 | 1961 |
| Andreas Bielau | MF | 9 | 0 | 1981 | 1985 |
| Hermann Bley | MF | 1 | 0 | 1961 | 1961 |
| Wolfgang Blochwitz | GK | 19 | 0 | 1966 | 1974 |
| Stefan Böger | DF | 4 | 0 | 1990 | 1990 |
| Heiko Bonan | MF | 2 | 0 | 1989 | 1990 |
| FW | 1 | 0 | 1982 | 1982 | |
| Perry Bräutigam | GK | 3 | 0 | 1989 | 1990 |
| Bernd Bransch | DF | 72 | 3 | 1967 | 1976 |
| Gert Brauer | DF | 4 | 0 | 1979 | 1980 |
| Steffen Büttner | DF | 3 | 0 | 1990 | 1990 |
| Günter Busch | GK | 2 | 0 | 1954 | 1957 |
| Georg Buschner | DF | 6 | 0 | 1954 | 1957 |
| Martin Busse | FW | 3 | 1 | 1983 | 1983 |
| Jochen Carow | DF | 1 | 0 | 1972 | 1972 |
| Jürgen Croy | GK | 94 | 0 | 1967 | 1981 |
| Klaus Decker | DF | 3 | 0 | 1974 | 1974 |
| DF | 1 | 0 | 1983 | 1983 | |
| DF | 2 | 0 | 1969 | 1969 | |
| Hans-Jürgen Dörner | MF | 100 | 9 | 1969 | 1985 |
| Matthias Döschner | DF | 40 | 2 | 1982 | 1988 |
| Thomas Doll | MF | 29 | 7 | 1986 | 1990 |
| DF | 2 | 0 | 1958 | 1958 | |
| FW | 2 | 0 | 1961 | 1962 | |
| Peter Ducke | FW | 66 | 15 | 1960 | 1975 |
| Roland Ducke | FW | 37 | 5 | 1958 | 1967 |
| Lutz Eigendorf | MF | 6 | 3 | 1978 | 1979 |
| DF | 8 | 0 | 1952 | 1956 | |
| Dieter Engelhardt | FW | 3 | 1 | 1966 | 1966 |
| Dieter Erler | MF | 47 | 12 | 1959 | 1968 |
| Rainer Ernst | FW | 56 | 20 | 1981 | 1990 |
| Michael Faber | DF | 1 | 0 | 1963 | 1963 |
| MF | 4 | 0 | 1958 | 1960 | |
| Otto Fräßdorf | FW | 33 | 4 | 1963 | 1970 |
| DF | 5 | 0 | 1958 | 1959 | |
| FW | 2 | 0 | 1953 | 1954 | |
| FW | 5 | 2 | 1956 | 1960 | |
| FW | 1 | 0 | 1957 | 1957 | |
| Henning Frenzel | FW | 56 | 19 | 1961 | 1974 |
| Joachim Fritsche | DF | 14 | 0 | 1973 | 1977 |
| GK | 8 | 0 | 1962 | 1964 | |
| FW | 2 | 0 | 1955 | 1955 | |
| FW | 2 | 0 | 1952 | 1952 | |
| Frank Ganzera | DF | 13 | 0 | 1969 | 1973 |
| Manfred Geisler | DF | 15 | 1 | 1965 | 1967 |
| Michael Glowatzky | FW | 9 | 1 | 1984 | 1986 |
| Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin | GK | 21 | 0 | 1975 | 1981 |
| Wilfried Gröbner | DF | 8 | 0 | 1976 | 1979 |
| GK | 1 | 0 | 1958 | 1958 | |
| Torsten Gütschow | FW | 3 | 2 | 1984 | 1989 |
| FW | 1 | 0 | 1961 | 1961 | |
| MF | 1 | 0 | 1953 | 1953 | |
| Reinhard Häfner | MF | 58 | 5 | 1971 | 1984 |
| Damian Halata | MF | 4 | 1 | 1984 | 1989 |
| Erich Hamann | MF | 3 | 0 | 1969 | 1974 |
| Ralf Hauptmann | MF | 4 | 0 | 1989 | 1990 |
| Lothar Hause | DF | 9 | 1 | 1978 | 1982 |
| Gert Heidler | FW | 12 | 2 | 1975 | 1978 |
| Steffen Heidrich | MF | 1 | 0 | 1990 | 1990 |
| Werner Heine | DF | 29 | 2 | 1958 | 1964 |
| Jürgen Heinsch | GK | 7 | 0 | 1963 | 1965 |
| DF | 1 | 0 | 1962 | 1962 | |
| Hendrik Herzog | DF | 7 | 0 | 1989 | 1990 |
| Jürgen Heun | FW | 17 | 4 | 1980 | 1985 |
| Dirk Heyne | GK | 9 | 0 | 1979 | 1990 |
| Günter Hirschmann | MF | 1 | 0 | 1961 | 1961 |
| Martin Hoffmann | FW | 66 | 16 | 1973 | 1981 |
| Günter Hoge | FW | 6 | 0 | 1961 | 1968 |
| Karl-Heinz Holze | MF | 1 | 0 | 1954 | 1954 |
| Willy Holzmüller | MF | 1 | 0 | 1957 | 1957 |
| FW | 1 | 0 | 1953 | 1953 | |
| FW | 2 | 0 | 1952 | 1952 | |
| Harald Irmscher | MF | 41 | 4 | 1966 | 1974 |
| Rolf Jahn | GK | 1 | 0 | 1957 | 1957 |
| Eberhard Janotta | MF | 1 | 0 | 1986 | 1986 |
| Rainer Jarohs | FW | 3 | 1 | 1982 | 1982 |
| Manfred Kaiser | MF | 31 | 1 | 1955 | 1964 |
| FW | 1 | 0 | 1954 | 1954 | |
| Peter Kalinke | DF | 7 | 0 | 1960 | 1961 |
| Ulf Kirsten | FW | 49 | 14 | 1985 | 1990 |
| Gerd Kische | DF | 63 | 0 | 1971 | 1980 |
| MF | 1 | 0 | 1961 | 1961 | |
| GK | 3 | 0 | 1952 | 1953 | |
| Heino Kleiminger | FW | 4 | 5 | 1963 | 1964 |
| Wilfried Klingbiel | FW | 6 | 1 | 1958 | 1961 |
| Sven Köhler | DF | 2 | 0 | 1989 | 1989 |
| Gerhard Körner | MF | 33 | 4 | 1962 | 1969 |
| Horst Kohle | FW | 1 | 1 | 1959 | 1959 |
| DF | 1 | 0 | 1984 | 1984 | |
| Peter Kotte | FW | 21 | 3 | 1976 | 1980 |
| Torsten Kracht | DF | 2 | 0 | 1988 | 1990 |
| Hans-Dieter Krampe | DF | 28 | 0 | 1959 | 1965 |
| Andreas Krause | MF | 4 | 2 | 1981 | 1985 |
| Rudolf Krause | FW | 2 | 0 | 1953 | 1956 |
| MF | 2 | 0 | 1985 | 1985 | |
| DF | 1 | 0 | 1975 | 1975 | |
| Ronald Kreer | DF | 65 | 2 | 1982 | 1989 |
| Hans-Jürgen Kreische | FW | 50 | 25 | 1968 | 1975 |
| DF | 1 | 0 | 1957 | 1957 | |
| Waldemar Ksienzyk | MF | 1 | 0 | 1987 | 1987 |
| Günter Kubisch | DF | 1 | 0 | 1961 | 1961 |
| Dieter Kühn | FW | 13 | 5 | 1978 | 1983 |
| Lothar Kurbjuweit | DF | 66 | 4 | 1970 | 1981 |
| Reinhard Lauck | MF | 33 | 3 | 1973 | 1977 |
| FW | 2 | 0 | 1955 | 1958 | |
| Henry Lesser | MF | 4 | 0 | 1986 | 1986 |
| Frank Lieberam | DF | 1 | 0 | 1989 | 1989 |
| Matthias Liebers | DF | 59 | 3 | 1980 | 1988 |
| Kurt Liebrecht | MF | 16 | 1 | 1960 | 1965 |
| Werner Lihsa | GK | 1 | 0 | 1972 | 1972 |
| Lutz Lindemann | DF | 21 | 2 | 1977 | 1980 |
| Ernst Lindner | FW | 6 | 0 | 1959 | 1962 |
| Matthias Lindner | DF | 22 | 0 | 1987 | 1990 |
| FW | 2 | 0 | 1962 | 1962 | |
| Wolfram Löwe | FW | 43 | 12 | 1967 | 1977 |
| Heiko März | DF | 1 | 0 | 1989 | 1989 |
| DF | 1 | 0 | 1955 | 1955 | |
| GK | 1 | 0 | 1956 | 1956 | |
| Olaf Marschall | FW | 4 | 0 | 1987 | 1989 |
| Herbert Maschke | MF | 7 | 0 | 1959 | 1962 |
| Hans-Bert Matoul | FW | 3 | 1 | 1974 | 1974 |
| Johannes Matzen | FW | 2 | 0 | 1952 | 1954 |
| Matthias Maucksch | MF | 1 | 0 | 1990 | 1990 |
| FW | 3 | 1 | 1952 | 1954 | |
| FW | 2 | 0 | 1954 | 1954 | |
| Lothar Meyer | FW | 16 | 2 | 1954 | 1961 |
| Ralf Minge | FW | 36 | 8 | 1983 | 1989 |
| Stefan Minkwitz | MF | 2 | 0 | 1990 | 1990 |
| MF | 1 | 0 | 1969 | 1969 | |
| Harald Mothes | FW | 1 | 0 | 1984 | 1984 |
| Waldemar Mühlbächer | MF | 17 | 1 | 1958 | 1965 |
| Bringfried Müller | MF | 18 | 0 | 1955 | 1960 |
| FW | 13 | 5 | 1957 | 1962 | |
| Joachim Müller | MF | 5 | 0 | 1977 | 1978 |
| MF | 3 | 0 | 1953 | 1954 | |
| DF | 2 | 0 | 1976 | 1976 | |
| Matthias Müller | DF | 4 | 0 | 1980 | 1980 |
| René Müller | GK | 46 | 0 | 1984 | 1989 |
| FW | 11 | 2 | 1960 | 1965 | |
| Hans-Jürgen Naumann | DF | 1 | 0 | 1968 | 1968 |
| Wolf-Rüdiger Netz | MF | 2 | 0 | 1978 | 1981 |
| MF | 1 | 0 | 1984 | 1984 | |
| DF | 2 | 0 | 1979 | 1981 | |
| Jürgen Nöldner | FW | 30 | 16 | 1960 | 1969 |
| DF | 3 | 0 | 1953 | 1954 | |
| Herbert Pankau | MF | 25 | 4 | 1962 | 1967 |
| Frank Pastor | FW | 7 | 0 | 1983 | 1987 |
| Heiko Peschke | DF | 5 | 1 | 1990 | 1990 |
| Werner Peter | FW | 9 | 1 | 1978 | 1979 |
| Wolfgang Pfeifer | FW | 2 | 0 | 1958 | 1959 |
| Hans-Uwe Pilz | MF | 35 | 0 | 1982 | 1989 |
| Jürgen Pommerenke | MF | 57 | 3 | 1972 | 1983 |
| DF | 1 | 0 | 1978 | 1978 | |
| Jürgen Raab | MF | 20 | 2 | 1982 | 1988 |
| Detlef Raugust | MF | 3 | 0 | 1978 | 1979 |
| Burkhard Reich | DF | 6 | 0 | 1987 | 1990 |
| MF | 1 | 0 | 1953 | 1953 | |
| Frank Richter | FW | 7 | 1 | 1971 | 1973 |
| Hans Richter | FW | 15 | 4 | 1982 | 1987 |
| Dieter Riedel | FW | 4 | 0 | 1974 | 1978 |
| Hans-Jürgen Riediger | FW | 41 | 6 | 1975 | 1982 |
| Peter Rock | FW | 11 | 1 | 1967 | 1971 |
| Mario Röser | DF | 1 | 0 | 1988 | 1988 |
| Uwe Rösler | FW | 5 | 0 | 1990 | 1990 |
| Frank Rohde | DF | 42 | 1 | 1984 | 1989 |
| MF | 1 | 0 | 1984 | 1984 | |
| MF | 2 | 0 | 1952 | 1952 | |
| MF | 1 | 0 | 1984 | 1984 | |
| Bodo Rudwaleit | GK | 33 | 0 | 1979 | 1988 |
| Rainer Sachse | FW | 2 | 0 | 1977 | 1977 |
| Carsten Sänger | DF | 16 | 0 | 1984 | 1987 |
| Klaus Sammer | MF | 17 | 0 | 1970 | 1973 |
| Matthias Sammer | MF | 23 | 6 | 1986 | 1990 |
| Hartmut Schade | MF | 31 | 5 | 1975 | 1980 |
| DF | 5 | 0 | 1955 | 1956 | |
| FW | 3 | 0 | 1974 | 1974 | |
| MF | 5 | 0 | 1952 | 1958 | |
| Rainer Schlutter | MF | 5 | 0 | 1970 | 1971 |
| Jens Schmidt | GK | 1 | 0 | 1990 | 1990 |
| Udo Schmuck | DF | 7 | 1 | 1976 | 1981 |
| Dieter Schneider | GK | 3 | 0 | 1969 | 1973 |
| MF | 1 | 0 | 1954 | 1954 | |
| FW | 3 | 1 | 1952 | 1954 | |
| Rüdiger Schnuphase | MF | 45 | 6 | 1973 | 1983 |
| Herbert Schoen | MF | 12 | 0 | 1952 | 1957 |
| MF | 3 | 0 | 1954 | 1954 | |
| Detlef Schößler | DF | 18 | 0 | 1986 | 1990 |
| Heiko Scholz | MF | 7 | 0 | 1987 | 1990 |
| Günter Schröter | FW | 39 | 13 | 1952 | 1962 |
| MF | 1 | 0 | 1969 | 1969 | |
| Ralf Schulenberg | FW | 3 | 0 | 1972 | 1972 |
| Axel Schulz | MF | 3 | 0 | 1984 | 1985 |
| Bernd Schulz | DF | 3 | 1 | 1984 | 1985 |
| Ulrich Schulze | GK | 1 | 0 | 1974 | 1974 |
| Dirk Schuster | DF | 4 | 0 | 1990 | 1990 |
| Jörg Schwanke | MF | 1 | 0 | 1990 | 1990 |
| Klaus-Dieter Seehaus | DF | 10 | 0 | 1963 | 1969 |
| Wolfgang Seguin | MF | 21 | 0 | 1972 | 1975 |
| MF | 1 | 0 | 1980 | 1980 | |
| Martin Skaba | DF | 7 | 0 | 1958 | 1963 |
| Jürgen Sparwasser | FW | 53 | 15 | 1969 | 1977 |
| FW | 2 | 0 | 1952 | 1958 | |
| Karl-Heinz Spickenagel | GK | 29 | 0 | 1954 | 1962 |
| Dirk Stahmann | DF | 46 | 2 | 1982 | 1989 |
| Helmut Stein | FW | 22 | 2 | 1962 | 1973 |
| Wolfgang Steinbach | MF | 28 | 1 | 1978 | 1985 |
| Rico Steinmann | MF | 23 | 3 | 1986 | 1990 |
| Hermann Stöcker | FW | 6 | 4 | 1963 | 1965 |
| Ralf Sträßer | MF | 4 | 0 | 1982 | 1986 |
| Joachim Streich | FW | 104 | 55 | 1969 | 1984 |
| MF | 15 | 1 | 1970 | 1971 | |
| Dieter Strozniak | DF | 6 | 0 | 1980 | 1982 |
| Jörg Stübner | MF | 47 | 1 | 1984 | 1990 |
| Frank Terletzki | MF | 4 | 1 | 1975 | 1980 |
| Ronny Teuber | GK | 1 | 0 | 1990 | 1990 |
| GK | 4 | 0 | 1958 | 1959 | |
| Andreas Thom | FW | 51 | 16 | 1984 | 1990 |
| Günter Thorhauer | FW | 1 | 0 | 1952 | 1952 |
| Andreas Trautmann | MF | 14 | 1 | 1983 | 1989 |
| Norbert Trieloff | DF | 18 | 0 | 1980 | 1984 |
| Martin Trocha | FW | 8 | 1 | 1980 | 1982 |
| Willy Tröger | FW | 15 | 11 | 1954 | 1959 |
| Rainer Troppa | DF | 17 | 0 | 1981 | 1984 |
| Axel Tyll | DF | 4 | 0 | 1973 | 1975 |
| Frank Uhlig | DF | 1 | 0 | 1980 | 1980 |
| Artur Ullrich | DF | 13 | 0 | 1980 | 1983 |
| Werner Unger | MF | 7 | 0 | 1954 | 1964 |
| Klaus Urbanczyk | DF | 34 | 0 | 1961 | 1969 |
| DF | 1 | 0 | 1982 | 1982 | |
| FW | 1 | 0 | 1953 | 1953 | |
| Eberhard Vogel | FW | 75 | 25 | 1962 | 1976 |
| FW | 4 | 1 | 1959 | 1959 | |
| Siegmar Wätzlich | DF | 24 | 0 | 1972 | 1975 |
| Andreas Wagenhaus | DF | 3 | 0 | 1990 | 1990 |
| DF | 4 | 0 | 1959 | 1963 | |
| Jens Wahl | DF | 1 | 0 | 1989 | 1989 |
| Horst Walter | FW | 1 | 0 | 1962 | 1962 |
| Manfred Walter | MF | 16 | 0 | 1965 | 1967 |
| Gerd Weber | MF | 35 | 5 | 1975 | 1980 |
| FW | 1 | 0 | 1961 | 1961 | |
| Uwe Weidemann | FW | 10 | 0 | 1985 | 1990 |
| Horst Weigang | GK | 12 | 0 | 1962 | 1968 |
| Hilmar Weilandt | MF | 2 | 0 | 1990 | 1990 |
| Konrad Weise | DF | 86 | 2 | 1970 | 1981 |
| Jörg Weißflog | GK | 15 | 0 | 1984 | 1989 |
| FW | 1 | 0 | 1952 | 1952 | |
| DF | 1 | 0 | 1970 | 1970 | |
| Günther Wirth | FW | 28 | 10 | 1954 | 1962 |
| DF | 2 | 0 | 1952 | 1952 | |
| DF | 1 | 0 | 1961 | 1961 | |
| Karl Wolf | MF | 10 | 0 | 1955 | 1957 |
| Siegfried Wolf | MF | 17 | 0 | 1955 | 1959 |
| Dariusz Wosz | MF | 7 | 0 | 1989 | 1990 |
| MF | 1 | 0 | 1969 | 1969 | |
| DF | 6 | 0 | 1967 | 1968 | |
| Markus Wuckel | FW | 4 | 2 | 1987 | 1990 |
| DF | 1 | 0 | 1984 | 1984 | |
| Kurt Zapf | DF | 4 | 0 | 1957 | 1958 |
| Manfred Zapf | DF | 16 | 0 | 1969 | 1975 |
| FW | 1 | 0 | 1961 | 1961 | |
| Uwe Zötzsche | MF | 38 | 5 | 1982 | 1988 |
| Alfred Zulkowski | GK | 1 | 0 | 1962 | 1962 |
See also[]
- List of Germany international footballers
- List of Germany international footballers 1908–1942
References[]
- Kicker Sportmagazin. Kicker Edition: 100 Jahre Deutsche Länderspiele (in German).
- "1974 FIFA World Cup - Teams - GDR". FIFA. Archived from the original on September 21, 2007. Retrieved 2008-08-13.
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