Peter Ducke

Ducke in 1974

Personal information

Date of birth

14 October 1941 (age 75)

Place of birth

Bensen, Germany

Playing position

Forward

Youth career

1950–1959

BSG Motor Schönebeck

Senior career*

Years

Team

Apps

(Gls)

1959–1977

FC Carl Zeiss Jena

352

(153)

National team

1962–1975

East Germany

(15)

Honours

Representing East Germany
Men’s Football
	Munich 1972	Team Competition

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Peter Ducke (born 14 October 1941) is a Sudeten German and a former East German football player. He was born in Bensen, Sudetenland, Germany during World War II. His older brother Roland was also a successful footballer.

Ducke played most of his career for FC Carl Zeiss Jena (1959–1977). On the national level he played for East Germany national team (68 matches/15 goals), and was a participant at the 1974 FIFA World Cup. In 1971 he won the award for the GDR Footballer of the Year.

Peter Ducke and his brother Roland were both born in Bensen but Roland was born there in 1934, while it was part of Czechoslovakia, but Peter was born there while it was part of Sudetenland, Germany during World War II. Their hometown is now, however, known as Benešov nad Ploučnicí, Czech Republic. After the Second World War Ducke's family left their home in Sudetenland to settle in Schönebeck near Magdeburg, Germany.

Following both his father and his three brothers into football Ducke began his career in 1950 for a Betriebssportgemeinschaft (English: Company sports community) Schönebecker SV 1861 whose first Men's team played in the Saxony-Anhalt league.

In 1957, his older brother Roland went to play for DDR-Oberliga in the FC Carl Zeiss Jena league and was able to take his 16-year-old brother Peter with him. Ducke failed to impress the team during training camp and was sent home.

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