with 19 goals. This led the league coaches, in a survey by the newspaper Deutsches Sportecho, to nominate Ducke as the best striker of the 1962/63 season. His league career would have been more successful had it not been for serious leg injuries in 1966 and a meniscus injury in 1974. A ten-week suspension for his outburst during the 1–2 loss to SC Magdeburg during the 1965 Cup Final contributed to the fact that Ducke, with 352 league games, only ranks in twelfth place on the list of Oberliga games played. Otherwise he could have made it to the top 10. His emotional temperament brought a large number of game ejections and match suspensions. Despite his skill, his spectacular play and despite being a fan favorite in the GDR he was given the nickname Schwarzer Peter (). In 1965 he was an athlete of the year award, in 1971 as a footballer of the year. He ended his Oberliga career at the conclusion of the 1976–77 season. References Further reading External links 1941 births Living people People from Benešov nad Ploučnicí People from Sudetenland Sudeten German people German footballers East German footballers 1974 FIFA World Cup players Footballers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers of East Germany Olympic bronze medalists for East Germany FC Carl Zeiss Jena players East Germany international footballers Olympic medalists in football DDR-Oberliga players Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Association football forwards