Frank Lippmann


Frank Lippmann is a German former footballer.

Career

Born in 1961, Lippmann started his career at Dynamo Dresden.
In the 1985–86 season, Dresden reached the quarter-finals of the European Cup Winners Cup, with Lippmann having scored thrice in earlier rounds. Dynamo played Bayer Uerdingen in the quarter finals, winning the first leg at home 2–0, with Lippmann scoring the opening goal. However, in a match dubbed 'The Miracle of the Grotenburg', Dynamo Dresden led 5–1 on aggregate at half-time before, in the space of 30 second half minutes, Uerdingen scored six goals to win 7–5 on aggregate. Following the match in Krefeld, Lippmann escaped from the team's hotel, committing the act of Republikflucht. Lippmann was handed a one-year suspension from football. Despite Dynamo Dresden's elimination in the quarter-finals, Lippmann was the joint top scorer in the European Cup Winners Cup.
Following his emigration to West Germany, Lippmann played for a range of clubs, including 1. FC Nürnberg and SV Waldhof Mannheim.