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Place of Birth: Borne, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
About Hermann Stöcker
- Hermann Stöcker (born 6 January 1938) is a former East German football player. Stöcker grew up in Borne, 10 miles south of Magdeburg.
- He began to play football in the local BSG Traktor and in 1953 joined BSG Traktor Heyrothsberge.
- Three years later, in 1956, Stöcker joined BSG Motor Mitte Magdeburg and played in his first competitive match on 8 January 1956 against Motor Nordhausen West, winning 2–1.
- From 1960 onwards his team – renamed SC Aufbau Magdeburg, after 22 December 1.
- FC Magdeburg – played in East Germany's top flight, the DDR-Oberliga.
- Stöcker won three titles with the team, winning the 1964, 1965 and 1969 FDGB-Pokal competitions.
- Altogether, Stöcker played in 342 competitive matches for the club, 185 of which in the Oberliga and 8 in the European competitions.
- Mostly playing as an outside forward, Stöcker scored 41 Oberliga and 2 in the European cups.
- Stöcker was regarded as an exceptionally fair player and has never been sent off in his career. On 4 September 1963 Stöcker played in his first A international match as an outside left when East Germany drew 1–1 against Bulgaria in Magdeburg.
- He scored his four international goals on East Germany's Asian tour in the winter 1963–64.
- Here he scored in the 5–1 victory over Birma and three goals in the 12–1 win against Ceylon.
- His last appearance was in the World Cup qualifier against Austria in Vienna on 25 April 1965.
- Of the 13 matches that the United Team of Germany played for the 1964 Summer Olympics, Stöcker appeared in 11.
- In the finals in Tokyo Stöcker played in three matches, winning the bronze medal.Stöcker ended his career in the Oberliga team with the 4–0 victory over FC Karl-Marx-Stadt in the FDGB-Pokal final on 31 May 1969, due to an injury.
- After helping the reserve team win promotion to the DDR-Liga by scoring two goals in the decisive play-off match, Stöcker was given an official farewell before the kickoff to a friendly against Barada SC on 26 July 1969.
- He worked as a youth coach for 1.
- FC Magdeburg later, and was assistant manager of the Oberliga team between 1976 and 1982.
- Since 1990 Stöcker has been living in Vechta, Lower Saxony.
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