Rolf Dohmen

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Rolf Dohmen
Personnel
Surname Rolf Dohmen
birthday April 4th 1952
place of birth Kreuzau ,  Germany
position Defense
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
SC Kreuzau
SG Düren 99
TuS 08 Langerwehe
1975-1988 SC Fortuna Cologne 72 (8)
1978-1982 Karlsruher SC 141 (7)
1982-1985 SV Darmstadt 98 94 (7)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2001 Eintracht Frankfurt
1 Only league games are given.

Rolf Dohmen (born April 4, 1952 in Kreuzau ) is a former German soccer player and was the manager of Karlsruher SC from 2002 to 2009 .

Career

Career as a player

Dohmen played as a defender for SC Fortuna Köln (1975-78, 72 games), Karlsruher SC (1978-82, 141 games) and SV Darmstadt 98 (1982-85, 94 games). He played 59 games in the Bundesliga , scored one goal, saw ten yellow and one red cards. In the 2nd Bundesliga he played 94 games and scored seven goals.

Career as a sports manager

After Dohmen had finished his professional career in Darmstadt in 1985, he turned his back on football for eleven years and from then on worked in the management of the German branch of Nike . In April 1999 Dohmen founded Pro Profil Sportmarketing + Entertainment GmbH, Neu-Isenburg , together with Thomas Kroth , as a subsidiary of Pro Profil Gesellschaft für individuales Karrieremanagement mbH, Dortmund, which Kroth managed alone. In the entertainment company, Dohmen was responsible for acquiring sponsors for athletes and artists until June 2000.

In July 2000, he took up his new position as sports director at the then first division club Eintracht Frankfurt . On February 27, 2001, after a 1: 5 home defeat against 1. FC Köln , the then Frankfurt coach Felix Magath was dismissed and Dohmen took over as interim coach of the club for lack of a successor. With Friedel Rausch , a new coach was only found after ten games. After Eintracht Frankfurt could not hold the class at the end of the season, Dohmen was dismissed as sports director in May 2001.

In May 2002 Dohmen was hired as a manager at Karlsruher SC, where he was previously active as a player. Together with President Hubert H. Raase , he was able to initiate an economic upswing and successfully reorganize the club: While the licensing procedure for the 2003/04 and 2004/05 seasons required enormous financial feats, the Karlsruhe team only got the license for the 2005/06 season still with limited editions. After promotion to the 1st Bundesliga , the club received the license for the 2007/08 season for the first time since relegation to the Regionalliga Süd in 2000 without any conditions.

Dohmen's public image got the first scratches after Lorenz-Günther Köstner's dismissal as the head coach of Karlsruher SC at the time. In January 2005 the club found a replacement with Reinhold Fanz . The chairman of the board of the KSC main sponsor EnBW - Utz Claassen - was against the choice of coach due to incidents between Fanz and him during their time together at Hannover 96 . The KSC was forced to dismiss Fanz after seven days in order not to lose the sponsorship contract with EnBW. Dohmen was said to have known about the history between Claassen and Fanz, as one of the people responsible for the search for a coach, even before Fanz was committed. Dohmen, on the other hand, explained in the ZDF program Das current Sportstudio that he was not aware of any legal dispute between the two at the time. Another scandal occurred in March 2009 when Dohmen threatened honorary board member Lepore with killing him. Lepore asked for more detailed information about the recently concluded contract with the new KSC supplier Nike, Dohmen's former employer. Dohmen was suspected of having received bribes.

After the election of the new KSC presidium around Paul Metzger in autumn 2009, Rolf Dohmen announced that he no longer wanted to extend his employment contract, which ran until June 2010. In December 2009, Dohmen was released from Karlsruher SC. A few months later, Rolf Dohmen sued the labor court for point and victory bonuses, the payment of which was suspended for the period of his release. The court saw a corresponding clause in Dohmen's contract as unreasonable disadvantage and upheld Dohmen's lawsuit.

successes

Success as a player

  • 10th place in the 1st Bundesliga - 1980/81 with Karlsruher SC
  • 7th place in the 2nd Bundesliga - 1982/83 with SV Darmstadt 98

Success as a manager

  • Promotion to the 1st Bundesliga with Karlsruher SC
  • Receipt of the license without conditions

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personal data
SURNAME Dohmen, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player, coach and official
DATE OF BIRTH April 4th 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Kreuzau