Herbert Schoen

The defender played internationally with the East Germany national team in the 1950s. On club level he appeared in 179 Oberliga matches.

Herbert Schoen continued as youth coach at SC Dynamo Berlin and then BFC Dynamo after retiring as a player. He would train players such as Werner Voigt and Frank Terletzki. Schoen was a tough-as-nails defender during his playing career. Voigt remembers how Schoen forced the players to throw snowballs at each other, but the players were not allowed to fend them off with their hands, they were only allowed to dodge, to increase the ability to react. Schoen was also the first coach of Frank Terletzki. Teletzki has described Schoen as a "tough dog". He claims that learned virtues such as discipline and hardness towards oneself from Schoen. Terletzki said: "It didn't matter to us whether it was pouring rain or snowing, we always trained." Schoen coached the Junior team of BFC Dynamo in the 1965-66 season. The junior team under Schoen won the East German Junior Cup in 1966 (German: Junge Welt Pokal) (de), defeating the previous winner FC Karl-Marx-Stadt 5-1 in the final. Schoen then coached the youth team of BFC Dynamo in the 1966-67 season. Under Schoen, the youth team became East German Youth Champion (de) in 1967, defeating SG Dynamo Eisleben 2-0 in the replay of the final on 15 July 1967. The team included future DDR-Oberliga players such as Frank Terletzki, Bernd Brillat, Wolfgang Filohn, Rainer Rohde and Gerald Schwierske. The youth team of BFC Dynamo under Schoen also won the East German Youth Cup (Youth FDGB-Pokal) (German: FDGB-Pokal der Jugend) in 1968 seas. Schoen then…

Schoen remained involved in BFC Dynamo and an active member of the club into old age. Schoen died in 2014 at the age of 84.