Dieter Fuchs

Dieter Fuchs began his senior career with BSG Chemie Weisswasser (de) from Weisswasser in Bezirk Cottbus.{{cite magazine |author= |date=15 February 1983 |title=Chefverbandstrainer Dr. Dieter Fuchs |url=https://www.fcc-supporters.org/fuwo/files/FUWO%201983/FUWO%201983%2007.pdf |magazine=Die neue Fußballwoche (FuWo) (de) |language=de |location=Berlin |publisher=DFV der DDR |volume=1983 |issue=7 |page=3 |issn=0323-8407 |access-date=22 February 2025 }} BSG Chemie Weisswasser played the in lower-tiers of the East German football league system.{{cite web |url=http://www.f-archiv.de/ |title=Deutschen Fußball-Archiv - Bezirksliga Cottbus 1960 |author= |date=n.d. |website=f-archiv.de |language=German |access-date=16 August 2020 }}

Fuchs was allowed to join sports club SC Dynamo Berlin in 1959. Fuchs made his first appearance for SC Dynamo Belin as a midfielder in the first-tier DDR-Oberliga against SC Einheit Dresden at home on the eight matchday of the 1960 DDR-Oberliga on 25 May 1960.

Fuchs was transferred to SG Dynamo Hohenschönhausen in 1961. He played two seasons for SG Dynamo Hohenschönhausen in the second-tier DDR-Liga. In 1963, he returned to SC Dynamo Berlin. Fuchs played as a midfielder and defender för SC Dynamo Berlin, and then BFC Dynamo, in the DDR-Oberliga until 1967.

BFC Dynamo was relegated to the second-tier DDR-Liga after the 1966-67 DDR-Oberliga. Fuchs made eight appearances for BFC Dynamo in the 1967-68 DDR-Liga Nord.{{cite book |last=Karas |first=Steffen |date=2022 |title=66 Jahre BFC Dynamo – Auswärts mit 'nem Bus |location=Berlin |edition=2nd |publisher=CULTURCON medien, Sole trader: Bernd Oeljeschläger |pages=328–332 |isbn=978-3-944068-95-4}}

Alongside football, Fuchs trained as a certified sports teacher ({{langx|de|Diplomsportlehrer}}). He then completed a doctorate at the German Central Pedagogical Institute in Berlin ({{langx|de|Deutsches Pädagogisches Zentralinstitut}} (DPZI) (de) in 1970. The title of his dissertation was "The territorial planning of vocational preparatory polytechnic teaching in grades 9 and 10". His work was awarded magna cum laude.

Fuchs was employed as a group leader in the competitive sports department ({{langx|de|Abteilung Leistungssport}}) of the SV Dynamo sports association. Fuchs became head coach ({{langx|de|Cheftrainer}}) at BFC Dynamo in 1977.{{cite magazine |author= |date=August 1977 |title=Visitenkarte |url=https://www.fcc-supporters.org/fuwo/files/FUWO%20Sonderausgabe/FUWO%201977%20Sonderausgabe.%20Saison%201977-78.pdf |magazine=Deutsches Sportecho/Die neue Fußballwoche |language=de |location=Berlin |volume=1977 |issue=Sonderausgabe |page=8 |issn=0323-6420 |access-date=4 December 2021 }} Head coach was a managerial position in East German football.{{cite news |last=Stolz |first=Sascha |date=7 August 2006 |title=Interview mit Jürgen Bogs |url=http://home.snafu.de/erich.mielke/HTMLPresse/2006_08_07_2.html |language=de |newspaper=Fußball-Woche (de) |location=Berlin |publisher=Fußball-Woche Verlags GmbH |access-date=1 July 2021 }}{{refn|group=nb|The position of head coach should not be confused with first team coach. Fuchs succeeded Jürgen Bogs as head coach in 1977.{{cite magazine |author= |date=August 1976 |title=Visitenkarte |url=https://www.fcc-supporters.org/fuwo/files/FUWO%20Sonderausgabe/FUWO%201976%20Sonderausgabe.%20Saison%201976-77.pdf |magazine=Deutsches Sportecho/Die neue Fußballwoche |language=de |location=Berlin |volume=1976 |issue=Sonderausgabe |page=6 |issn=0323-6420 |access-date=3 December 2023 }} Bogs instead became the new coach of first team of BFC Dynamo. In an interview with Der Spiegel in 1994, Fuchs compared his role as head coach at BFC Dynamo to that of Uli Hoeness at FC Bayern Munich.{{cite news |author= |date=15 May 1994 |title=LAUBENPIEPER MIT STADION |url=https://www.spiegel.de/sport/laubenpieper-mit-stadion-a-543df7e5-0002-0001-0000-000013690073 |language=de |volume=1994 |issue=20 |newspaper=Spiegel |publisher=DER SPIEGEL GmbH & Co. KG |location=Hamburg |access-date=22 February 2025 }}}}

In addition to his work for SV Dynamo, Fuchs eventually became Deputy General Secretary of the East German Football Association (DFV) and the Chairman of the DFV Trainer Council ({{langx|de|DFV-Trainerrates}}).{{cite magazine |author= |date=8 February 1983 |title=Erfolge sind nur durch harte Arbeit zu erreichen |url=https://www.fcc-supporters.org/fuwo/files/FUWO%201983/FUWO%201983%2006.pdf |magazine=Die neue Fußballwoche (FuWo) (de) |language=de |location=Berlin |publisher=DFV der DDR |volume=1983 |issue=6 |page=8 |issn=0323-8407 |access-date= 29 November 2023}}{{cite magazine |author= |date=1 March 1983 |title=Mehr Verantwortung den Klubs |url=https://fcc-supporters.org/fuwo/files/FUWO%201983/FUWO%201983%2009.pdf |magazine=Die neue Fußballwoche (FuWo) (de) |language=de |location=Berlin |publisher=DFV der DDR |volume=1983 |issue=9 |page=13 |issn=0323-8407 |access-date=24 March 2022 }}{{cite journal |last=Fiedler |first=Anke |year=2013 |title=Deutschland Archiv 2013 |url=https://www.bpb.de/system/files/dokument_pdf/Deutschland_Archiv_2013.pdf |journal=Deutschand Archiv |issue=2013 |location=Bonn |publisher=Federal Agency for Civic Education |page=151 |access-date=22 February 2025 |isbn= 978-3-8389-0387-3}} He then became the head coach at the DFV ({{langx|de|Chefverbandstrainer}}) in 1983.{{cite news |author= |date=26 June 1986 |title=„DDR“ löste Cheftrainer ab. |url=https://redirecter.toolforge.org/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abendblatt.de%2Farchive%2F1986%2Fpdf%2F19860626.pdf%2FASV_HAB_19860626_HA_016.pdf |work=Hamburger Abendblatt |language=de |location=Hamburg |publisher=FUNKE Medien Hamburg GmbH |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129205908/https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1986/pdf/19860626.pdf/ASV_HAB_19860626_HA_016.pdf |archive-date=29 November 2023 |access-date=30 April 2022 }} He served as head coach at the DFV until June 1986. According to an article in Der Spiegel, Fuchs was eventually punished after being caught

drinking whisky with a "class enemy" in Mexico.

Fuchs then beame coach at BSG Rotation Berlin in 1987.{{cite magazine |author= |date=August 1987 |title=Rotation Berlin |url=https://fcc-supporters.org/fuwo/files/FUWO%20Sonderausgabe/FUWO%201987%20Sonderausgabe.%20Saison%201987-88.pdf |magazine=Deutsches Sportecho/Die neue Fußballwoche (FuWo) (de) |language=de |location=Berlin |volume=1987 |issue=Sonderausgabe |page=23 |issn=0323-6420 |access-date=22 February 2025 }} He coached BSG Rotation Berlin in the second-tier DDR-Liga until 1988.{{cite magazine |last=Thiemann |first=Klaus |date=August 1988 |title=Rotation Berlin |url=https://www.fcc-supporters.org/fuwo/files/FUWO%20Sonderausgabe/FUWO%201988%20Sonderausgabe.%20Saison%201988-89.pdf |magazine=Deutsches Sportecho/Die neue Fußballwoche |language=de |location=Berlin |volume=1988 |issue=Sonderausgabe |page=21 |issn=0323-6420 |access-date=12 June 2020 }} After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Fuchs was able to regain a top position. Fuchs became the Manager ({{langx|de|Manager}}) and managing director ({{langx|de|Geschäftsführer}}) at FC Berlin in August 1990.{{cite news |last=Jahn |first=Michael |date=24 December 2001 |title=Dynamischer Ausverkauf |url=https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/archiv/beim-einst-gut-betuchten-bfc-dynamo-regiert-nun-der-insolvenzverwalter-dynamischer-ausverkauf-li.1003222 |language=de |newspaper=Berliner Zeitung |publisher=Berliner Verlag GmbH |location=Berlin |access-date=6 March 2024}}

The early 1990s was a very difficult time for FC Berlin. The club lost most of its top players in transfers.{{cite news |last=Bardow |first=Dominik |date=17 January 2010 |title=Fußballer auf der Flucht |url=https://www.tagesspiegel.de/sport/geschichte-fussballer-auf-der-flucht/1665774.html |language=de |newspaper=Der Tagesspiegel |publisher=Verlag Der Tagesspiegel GmbH |location=Berlin |access-date=20 August 2021}}{{cite news |last=Gartenschläger |first=Lars |date=15 January 2016 |title=50 Jahre BFC Dynamo: Der tiefe Fall des verhassten Stasi-Klubs |url=https://www.welt.de/sport/fussball/article151020667/Der-tiefe-Fall-des-verhassten-Stasi-Klubs.html |language=de |newspaper=Die Welt |location=Berlin |publisher=WeltN24 GmbH |access-date=24 August 2021}}{{cite news |last=Krause |first=Thomas |date=19 January 2022 |title="Der BFC Dynamo wird immer mein Club sein" |url=https://www.nordkurier.de/sport/%22der-bfc-dynamo-wird-immer-mein-club-sein%22-1138366 |work=Nordkurier |language=de |location=Neubrandenburg |publisher=Nordkurier Mediengruppe GmbH & Co. KG |access-date=23 February 2025 }} Attendance figures were only a couple of hundred. The club's reputation as a former Stasi club made it difficult to find new sponsors.{{cite news |last=Jahn |first=Michael |date=10 May 1997 |title=Millionen eingenommen – nichts auf dem Konto |url=https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/archiv/regionalligist-fc-berlin-nachfolger-des-ddr-serienmeisters-bfc-dynamo-sucht-nach-geld-und-einem-neuen-image-millionen-eingenommen-nichts-auf-dem-konto-li.848364 |language=de |newspaper=Berliner Zeitung |publisher=Berliner Verlag GmbH |location=Berlin |access-date=6 March 2024}}{{cite news |last=Quednau |first=Frank |date=5 May 1999 |title=Zurück in die Zukunft |url=https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article571072/Zurueck-in-die-Zukunft.html |language=de |newspaper=Die Welt |location=Berlin |publisher=WeltN24 GmbH |access-date=1 November 2020}}{{cite news |last=Koch |first=Matthias |date=12 June 2009 |title=BFC Dynamo: Umstrittenes neues Logo |url=https://www.tagesspiegel.de/sport/berliner-fussball-bfc-dynamo-umstrittenes-neues-logo/1534064.html |language=de |newspaper=Der Tagesspiegel |location=Berlin |publisher=Verlag Der Tagesspiegel GmbH |access-date=1 November 2020}} And the club was also plagued by hooliganism, which repeatedly caused negative headlines.{{cite news |date=17 October 2000 |title=BFC Dynamo: Rot-Weinrot bei Mielkes Lieblingsklub |url=https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/bfc-dynamo-rot-weinrot-bei-mielkes-lieblingsklub/172664.html |language=de |newspaper=Der Tagesspiegel |location=Berlin |publisher=Verlag Der Tagesspiegel GmbH |access-date=24 August 2021}}

As the manager and managing director, Fuchs skillfully handled the numerous player transfers at FC Berlin in the early 1990s, but was not successful in the search of new sponsors for the club and the reorientation of the club.{{cite book |last=Karas |first=Steffen |date=2022 |title=66 Jahre BFC Dynamo – Auswärts mit 'nem Bus |location=Berlin |edition=2nd |publisher=CULTURCON medien, Sole trader: Bernd Oeljeschläger |page=146 |isbn=978-3-944068-95-4}} The club management at FC Berlin also failed to seek legal protection for the club's traditional crest, after BFC Dynamo had been rebranded as FC Berlin in 1990.{{cite news |last=Heinke |first=Lothar |date=30 January 2001 |title=BFC Dynamo: Der Fußballverein muss für die Verwendung des eigenen Logos zahlen |url=https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/bfc-dynamo-der-fussballverein-muss-fuer-die-verwendung-des-eigenen-logos-zahlen/198638.html |language=de |newspaper=Der Tagesspiegel |location=Berlin |publisher=Verlag Der Tagesspiegel GmbH |access-date=1 November 2020}} This led to the rights to the crest ending up in the hands of people outside the club in 1992.

Fuchs served as manager and managing director of FC Berlin until June 1995. He then continued to work for the club on a voluntary basis for another year. When coach Helmut Koch was dismissed in October 1995, Fuchs took over as interim coach, until new coach Werner Voigt was able to take over. As interim coach, Fuchs led FC Berlin in the derby against 1. FC Union Berlin at home on the 13th matchday of the 1995–96 Regionalliga Nordost on 21 October 1995. FC Berlin lost the match 1–3.{{cite news |last=Burghause |first=Hans Günter |date=23 October 1995 |title=Rehmer stand richtig als Boer flankte |url=https://home.snafu.de/erich.mielke/HTMLLiga/199596ST13.html |language=de |work=Kicker |location=Nuremberg |publisher=Olympia Verlag GmbH |access-date=16 January 2022 }} Fuchs was succeeded as manager and managing director at FC Berlin by Wolfgang Levin. At that time, Fuchs was the last official of the "old era" left in the club.

File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-C1125-0015-001, SC Dynamo Berlin - Dynamo Dresden 1-0.jpg|Fuchs (left) in a duel with Wolfgang Pfeifer of SG Dynamo Dresden (right) during the match between SC Dynamo Berlin and SG Dynamo Dresden at the Dynamo-Stadion im Sportforum on 25 November 1964.

File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-U0529-0306, BFC Dynamo - Dynamo Dresden 3-1, Mannschaftsfoto.jpg|Fuchs (first from the right in the top row) with the team of BFC Dynamo at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark on 26 May 1979.

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• {{cite book |last=Karas |first=Steffen |title=66 Jahre BFC Dynamo – Auswärts mit 'nem Bus |location=Berlin |edition=2nd |publisher=CULTURCON medien, Sole trader: Bernd Oeljeschläger |year=2022 |isbn=978-3-944068-95-4}}

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• {{Worldfootball.net|dr-dieter-fuchs}}
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOZxCYLSy-Q&t=20s YouTube, Panorama digital: Interview with DFV-Head coach Dr. Dieter Fuchs in September 1984.] {{in lang|de}}

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