Dieter Fuchs

Dieter Fuchs (19 October 1940) is a German former footballer, football manager and coach. Fuchs played for SC Dynamo Berlin and BFC Dynamo from 1959 to 1961 and then again from 1963 to 1968. He later served as a manager in the East German Football Association (DVF) and at BFC Dynamo.

Playing career Dieter Fuchs began his senior career with BSG Chemie Weisswasser (de) from Weisswasser in Bezirk Cottbus. BSG Chemie Weisswasser played the in lower-tiers of the East German football league system.

Fuchs was allowed to join sports club SC Dynamo Berlin in 1959.

Managerial career Alongside football, Fuchs trained as a certified sports teacher .

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 . He then became the head coach at the DFV in 1983. He coached BSG Rotation Berlin in the second-tier DDR-Liga until 1988. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Fuchs was able to regain a top position.

The early 1990s was a very difficult time for FC Berlin. The club lost most of its top players in transfers. Attendance figures were only a couple of hundred.

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 and the reorientation of the club. 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. This led to the rights to the crest ending up in the hands of people outside the club in 1992. Fuchs was succeeded as manager and managing director at FC Berlin by former Hertha BSC manager Wolfgang Levin. At that time, Fuchs was the last official of the "old era" left in the club.

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