Fritz Thelen (soccer player)

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Fritz Thelen
Personnel
birthday April 28, 1903
place of birth Germany
date of death October 11, 1965
position Storm
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1926-1928 FC Schalke 04
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1935-1936 Borussia Dortmund
1946 SpVgg Erkenschwick
1946-1947 Borussia Dortmund
1 Only league games are given.

Fritz "Spölle" Thelen (born April 28, 1903 , † October 11, 1965 ) was a German football player and coach.

Act

Center forward at Schalke 04

Thelen was a center forward at FC Schalke 04 from 1926 to 1928 . His brother-in-law Ernst Kuzorra also played for Schalke.

In the seasons 1926/27 and 1927/28 Schalke was twice in a row champions of the Ruhr district class (Gauliga Ruhr) and was able to qualify twice for the German football championship. Both times the team lost the preliminary round game, in 1927 by a 1: 3 defeat against TSV 1860 Munich , in 1928 by a 2: 4 against the eventual final winner Hamburger SV .

Coach years

In the 1935/36 season, Thelen was the first professional football coach for BV Borussia Dortmund (BVB). Since Thelen was not immediately available, his brother-in-law Kuzorra temporarily headed the training for a few weeks and is therefore really the first coach of Borussia. Thelen introduced systematic training. In addition, the players received two Reichsmark expense allowance and were allowed to pick up three Mettbrötchen and two half liters of beer from the “Zum Wildschütz” inn at Oesterholzstrasse 60. In his first season he made it to the top class, the Gauliga . Thelen was the last BVB coach in World War II .

In 1946 he coached the SpVgg Erkenschwick , which in 1945 after the end of the Second World War had been accepted into the two-track Landesliga Westfalen . The team became champions of season 2 in 1946 . A final for the Westphalia Championship against the winner of the parallel season Schalke 04 was banned by the British military government .

On January 10, 1946, Thelen was presented again as BVB coach. He was not only the last BVB coach during the war, but also the first post-war BVB coach. He coached the Borussia again in the 1946/47 season, when the club won group 2 in the Landesliga Westfalen . On May 18, 1947, BVB defeated FC Schalke 04 3-2 and won the Westphalia Championship.

Later he coached the youth team at Schalke.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Thelen at Weltfussball.de, accessed on June 19, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b The BVB trainer database : Kuzorra, Ernst , schwatzgelb.de.
  3. ↑ 100 years of BVB: Where black and yellow still have true friends , Spiegel online, December 18, 2009.
  4. ^ Chronicle of the Spvgg. 1916 Erkenschwick eV , SpVgg Erkenschwick.
  5. ↑ The history of BVB - Part 5: The BVB history from 1939 to 1948 , BVB.
  6. ^ Gregor Gdawietz, Roland Leroi: German Football Route NRW: from Aachen to Bielefeld, from Tivoli to the Alm; 15 cities - 17 Bundesliga clubs , Meyer & Meyer Verlag, 2008, p. 152.
personal data
SURNAME Thelen, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spölle (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1903
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1965