Matthias Sammer is a German football official and former player and coach. He played as a defensive midfielder and later in his career as a sweeper.
Olaf Marschall is a German former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Jürgen Sparwasser is a retired German football player and later briefly a football manager.
Andreas Thom is a German former professional footballer who played as a forward for BFC Dynamo, Bayer Leverkusen, Celtic and Hertha BSC. He played 51 times for East Germany throughout the 1980s and played ten times for the unified Germany national team in the early 1990s. He is now retired from playing and works as a youth coach at Hertha BSC.
Torsten Gütschow is a German football manager and former player who played as a striker. He is most associated with Dynamo Dresden, with whom he had two successful spells, playing top level football in East Germany and after reunification. In between these he played for three other German clubs, and spent six months with Galatasaray of the Turkish Süper Lig. A strong and instinctive goalscorer, Gütschow was top scorer in each of the last three seasons of the DDR-Oberliga, and was the last East German Footballer of the Year. He won three international caps for East Germany, scoring two goals between 1984 and 1989. Since retiring he has taken up coaching, and has been manager of TuS Heeslingen.
Hans-Jürgen "Dixie" Dörner was a German football player and coach. He distinguished himself during his career by being named East Germany's player of the year three times – the only East German player to do this besides goalkeeper Jürgen Croy.
Siegmar Wätzlich was a German footballer.
Norbert Trieloff is a German former football player.
Dirk Stahmann is a former East German football player. He spent his entire career with 1. FC Magdeburg.
Dieter Erler was a German footballer.
Sven Kmetsch is a German former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He is the assistant manager of Schalke 04 II.
Matthias Maucksch is a German former footballer who played as midfielder or defender and worked as a manager in different Teams of Germanys 4th and 3rd leagues.
Andreas Trautmann is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Trautmann spent much of his career with Dynamo Dresden, for whom he played 270 games in the DDR-Oberliga. During this time he earned 14 caps for East Germany, and won the silver medal at the 1980 Olympics. After reunification, Trautmann moved west, joining Fortuna Köln alongside teammates Matthias Döschner and Hans-Uwe Pilz, but it did not work out, and he was back at Dynamo Dresden within six months. He played out his career across town with Dresdner SC, before retiring in 1994.
René Müller is a German football coach and former player who played as a goalkeeper.
Axel Tyll is a German former footballer.
Andreas Wagenhaus is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender.
Günter Schröter, often nicknamed Moppel, was a German football player and coach who appeared in 39 matches for East Germany.
Herbert Pankau is a German former footballer.
Claus Boden was a goalkeeper in the Oberliga, East Germany's top division. He played there for Dynamo Dresden and Stahl Riesa. Boden appeared 16 times for the East German under-23 national team.
Waldemar Mühlbächer was a German footballer.
