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Frank Lippmann (born 23 April 1961) is a German former
footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...
who played as a
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. He
defected In politics, a defector is a person who gives up allegiance to one state in exchange for allegiance to another, changing sides in a way which is considered illegitimate by the first state. More broadly, defection involves abandoning a person, ca ...
from
East Germany East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from Foundation of East Germany, its formation on 7 October 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on ...
to
West Germany West Germany was the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. It is sometimes known as the Bonn Republi ...
after playing for
Dynamo Dresden Sportgemeinschaft Dynamo Dresden e.V., commonly known as SG Dynamo Dresden or Dynamo Dresden, is a German association football club based in Dresden, Saxony.Grüne, Hardy (2001). Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs 7. Vereinslexikon. Kasse ...
against
Bayer Uerdingen KFC Uerdingen 05 was a German football club in the Uerdingen district of the city of Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia. The former Bundesliga side, which had its greatest successes in the 1980s, plays in the fourth-level Regionalliga. In 2025, th ...
in a 1986 UEFA Cup match.


See also

* List of Soviet and Eastern Bloc defectors


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* 1961 births Living people Footballers from Bezirk Dresden Footballers from Dresden German men's footballers East German men's footballers Defecting sportspeople from East Germany Men's association football forwards Bundesliga players DDR-Oberliga players Dynamo Dresden players 1. FC Nürnberg players SV Waldhof Mannheim players LASK players SK Vorwärts Steyr players Dresdner SC players Dynamo Dresden non-playing staff East German emigrants to West Germany West German expatriate men's footballers West German expatriate sportspeople in Austria Expatriate men's footballers in Austria West German expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland West German men's footballers {{Germany-footy-forward-1960s-stub