Fritz Gödicke (21 October 1919 – 28 April 2009) was an East German

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 ...

and manager. In 1951 Gödicke was the shared winner (together with fellow footballer Werner Oberländer) in a poll conducted by the East German sports daily ''

Deutsches Sportecho ''Deutsches Sportecho'' was an East Germany, East German daily sports newspaper of the Deutscher Turn- und Sportbund (DTSB). History ''Deutsches Sportecho'' was first published on 5 May 1947. The paper had a circulation of 185,000 copies. The pa ...

'' to determine East Germany's most popular sportsman.

Honours

''As player:'' *

DDR-Oberliga The DDR-Oberliga (English: ''East German Premier League'' or ''GDR Premier League'') was the top-level association football league in East Germany. Overview Following World War II, separate sports competitions emerged in the Allied-occupied G ...

champion: 1950–51 ''As manager:'' *

champion:

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, E ...

1957 Events January * January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be Dismissal (cricke ...

References

1919 births 2009 deaths Sportspeople from Zeitz Sportspeople from the Province of Saxony Footballers from Saxony-Anhalt Men's association football defenders East German men's footballers East German football managers FC Sachsen Leipzig players DDR-Oberliga players FC Erzgebirge Aue managers East Germany national football team managers Berliner FC Dynamo managers 1. FC Union Berlin managers {{Germany-footy-defender-1910s-stub