Günter Hirschmann is a former German

Germany

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 football player who spent almost his entire senior career at 1. FC Magdeburg

1. FC Magdeburg

1. FC Magdeburg is a German association football club playing in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt.-History:Football has been played in Magdeburg since the end of the 19th century. On 15 June 1896 SV Victoria 96 Magdeburg was founded, a club that had its best days before World War II, when it participated...

 and its predecessors.

Biography

Hirschmann began his footballing career at Einheit Burg, but in 1955 moved to BSG

Betriebssportgemeinschaft (GDR)

A Betriebssportgemeinschaft was an organizational form of sports clubs in East Germany.After World War II, the Allied Control Commission had dissolved all existing sports structures, including the dissolution of all existing sports clubs on the basis of directive 23, dated 17 December 1945. This...

 Motor Mitte Magdeburg where he soon established himself as a regular and also received his nickname Mücke (German for midge). In 1957 his team joined SC

Sport club (GDR)

Sport clubs were institutions to promote competitive sports in East Germany.They were created beginning in 1954 as part of a programme to promote excellence in East German sports. Some sportclubs were part of the Sportvereinigung Dynamo and the Armeesportvereinigung Vorwärts . The biggest sport...

 Aufbau Magdeburg and in 1965 became 1. FC Magdeburg, the first stand-alone football club

Football club (GDR)

Football club was a designation for the elite football teams in the GDR . They were formed in the mid-1960s as centers of high-level football....

 in East Germany. Until 1969 when he ended his playing career, Hirschmann appeared in 330 league matches for his club, scoring 113 goals. Of these 162 matches were in the DDR-Oberliga

DDR-Oberliga

The DDR-Oberliga was, prior to German reunification in 1990, the elite level of football competition in the DDR , being roughly equivalent to the Oberliga or Bundesliga in West Germany.-Overview:Following World...

, East Germany's top flight, where he scored 47 goals. In addition, Hirschmann played in 25 FDGB-Pokal matches, scoring 11 goals, and in 5 matches on European level.
His greatest successes were the cup wins with SC Aufbau Magdeburg in 1964 and 1965 as well as the cup victory with 1. FC Magdeburg in 1969. In the 1965 final Hirschmann scored the deciding goal, converting a penalty in the 89th minute to make it 2-1 to Magdeburg.

On 16 April 1961 Hirschmann won a call-up to the national team

East Germany national football team

The East Germany national football team was from 1952 to 1990 the football team of East Germany, playing as one of three post-war German teams, along with Saarland and West Germany....

 when manager Heinz Krügel

Heinz Krügel

Heinz Krügel was a former football player and manager.-Playing career:At age 6, Krügel began his playing career in the youth teams of then SC Planitz. He remained there until 1948 and had his biggest success as a player there, when he won the Championship of the Eastern Zone in the same year...

 used him in a match against Hungary

Hungary national football team

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. The 0-2 defeat remained his only appearance for East Germany.

After his playing career Hirschmann became a youth coach with 1. FC Magdeburg and worked as a metal worker in Magdeburg's Schwermaschinenbaukombinat Ernst Thälmann

Sket

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, a heavy engineering company. Today, he lives as a pensioner in Magdeburg.

Honors

• FDGB-Pokal: 3
  • Winner 1964
    FDGB-Pokal 1963–64
    The 13th competition for the East German national football cup, the FDGB-Pokal, was held in the 1963-64 seasonThe competition began with a qualifying round for the 65 clubs of the 2nd DDR-Liga that had been dissolved at the end of the previous season. They were joined by 17 finalists of the...
    
    , 1965
    FDGB-Pokal 1964–65
    The 1964-65 season saw the 14th competition for the FDGB-Pokal, the East German national football cup.In a qualification round played on 2 August 1964, the 32 teams of the second-tier DDR-Liga of the past season and 28 finalists of the Bezirkspokal competitions faced each other. Empor Neustrelitz...
    
    , 1969
    FDGB-Pokal 1968–69
    The 1968-69 season saw the 18th competition for the FDGB-Pokal, the East German national football cup.The first round was competed with 46 teams: 15 Bezirkspokal winners , 29 teams from the DDR-Liga and the two teams relegated from the DDR-Oberliga in the previous season. BSG Chemie Premnitz, a...