Gerd Weber

German footballer (born 1956)

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Gerd Weber

Weber in 1975

Personal information

Date of birth

(1956-05-31) 31 May 1956 (age 67)

Place of birth

Dresden, East Germany

Height

1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)^[1]

Position(s)

Right midfielder, right-back

Youth career

Dynamo Dresden

Senior career*

Years

Team

Apps

(Gls)

1972–1975

Dynamo Dresden II

1973–1981

Dynamo Dresden

International career

1975–1980

East Germany

(5)

Medal record

Representing East Germany

Men’s Football
	1976 Montreal	Team

*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Gerd Weber (born 31 May 1956) is a German former footballer who played as a right midfielder or right-back for Dynamo Dresden.^[1]

Career

Born in Dresden, Weber began his career in 1973 with Dynamo Dresden in the DDR-Oberliga.^[2] Between 1975 and 1980 he played 33 times as a midfielder for the East Germany national team, scoring 5 goals.^[3] 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.^[4]

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.^[5] 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.^[5] In the summer of 1989 he fled to the West before the fall of the Berlin Wall with his family.

References

^ ^a ^b Gerd Weber at WorldFootball.net
^ 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
^ ^a ^b Petrossian, Shahan. "Tales of Defection: The Cold War's Impact on the Game". theantiquefootball.com. Retrieved 2 April 2019.