Ulrich Kohn

Ulrich Kohn
Personnel
birthday	February 11, 1937
place of birth	Koenigsberg (Prussia) ,  Germany
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
	SG Homberg
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1955-1957	VfL Marburg
1957-1959	Wuppertal SV	46 (24)
1959-1964	Borussia Monchengladbach	132 (74)
1964-1966	Arminia Bielefeld	66 (31)
1966-1971	VfR Neuss	123 (39)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
	TuS Reuschenberg
	TSV Bayer Dormagen
	VfR Neuss
1 Only league games are given.

Ulrich Kohn (born February 11, 1937 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) is a former German soccer player who won the DFB Cup with Borussia Mönchengladbach in 1960 . From 1957 to 1963 he played 121 games in what was then the first-class football league West , scoring 54 goals.

career

Oberliga West, 1957 to 1963

At the end of the Second World War, the Kohn family fled across the frozen lagoon from Königsberg to Gdynia . From there it went to Denmark. The family spent three years in a refugee camp in Aalborg before they came to Germany. Since an aunt lives near Marburg in Hesse, in Homberg (Ohm) , the Kohn family is accommodated there. At the age of 12, Uli Kohn joined his first football club, SG Homberg. In the next few years he was invited to courses at the Grünberg sports school and the attacker made it into the Hessian youth team. The next step is in 1955, the change to the 1st amateur league at VfL Marburg. He also shows his head and foot scoring qualities in the amateur upper house.

On the recommendation of association trainer Jupp Kratz , he did a trial training session with the West German league club Alemannia Aachen in the spring of 1957 . Although he convinces coach Georg Knöpfle , since the Alemannic Board saw no urgency in the commitment of the young amateur, the Tivoli-Elf of Wuppertaler SV came first and the 20-year-old Ulrich Kohn moved to Wuppertaler SV in the Oberliga West in the summer of 1957 . His first contract was rewarded with a basic salary of 160 marks. Since he had completed an apprenticeship as an electrical engineer, he worked in Wuppertal in addition to contract football in this profession. At the side of Erich Haase , Erich Probst and Horst Szymaniak , he played his first round in the West League. The sturdy and strong-shooting striker made 20 appearances and scored five goals for the team from the Stadion am Zoo . As penultimate, Wuppertal rose at the end of the round in the 2nd League West. Despite 19 goals from Kohn in 26 league games, the Oberbergische only finished fifth behind Hamborn 07 , Schwarz-Weiß Essen , Eintracht Gelsenkirchen and Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the 1958/59 season and the ex-Marburger therefore took the offer from the upper division Borussia Mönchengladbach to round 1959/60 and moved to the Lower Rhine. The then Borussia coach Fritz Pliska campaigned for the center forward to gain access to the Bökelberg.

In the first league appearance for Mönchengladbach, the attacker Urich Kohn showed his best side in the 3-1 home win against Alemannia Aachen : Kohn scored all three goals on August 23, 1959 for the team of coach Fritz Pliska . In 1959/60 he played 26 games and scored 14 goals. The physically strong, robust and fast striker with a keen eye for goal was the ideal complement for VfL to the small, agile half-striker Albert Brülls , who liked to let himself fall back into the midfield in order to push forward from there. In the second year at Bökelberg , 1960/61, Borussia moved up to sixth place and Kohn had played all 30 league games and with his 21 goals made a significant contribution to the place in the front of the table for Gladbachers. Franz Brungs contributed nine and Albert Brülls one goal. The sporting climax came in 1960 with the cup games for Kohn and his colleagues. Mönchengladbach first won the West German Cup on August 24, 1960 with a 3-1 win against 1. FC Köln with two Kohn goals and thus made it to the semi-finals of the DFB Cup. The "Mönche" prevailed against the reigning German champions Hamburger SV with a 2-0 away win. In the DFB final on October 5, 1960 in Düsseldorf, the team of coach Bernd Oles met the South German champions of 1960, the Karlsruher SC . Not only did Albert Brülls win the duel between the national players on Mönchengladbach's side against Horst Szymaniak, who was the left runner at KSC, but Mönchengladbach also scored 3-2 in the final. Center forward Kohn entered the scorers list with one goal.

In the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1960/61 , the Scottish cup winner Glasgow Rangers Kohn and colleagues showed the sporting limits in November 1960. In front of 45,000 spectators in Düsseldorf's Rheinstadion, the Scots clearly prevailed with a 3-0 victory. Jim Baxter opened the scoring for the 8-0 defeat of Gladbach on November 30, 1960 at Ibrox Park in the 2nd minute . Kohn, Brungs and Brülls tried unsuccessfully to score in both games. To save the honor of the Gladbach Oberliga contract players one can cite the entry of Glasgow Rangers into the EC final against Fiorentina. In the last year of the league, Fritz Langner took over as coach in 1962, Mönchengladbach placed himself in eleventh place. Kohn had his lowest goal rate in his Gladbach time with five goals in 24 missions. Since Mönchengladbach was not included in the Bundesliga for the round 1963/64, Kohn played with the Bökelbergelf in the Regionalliga West . Here he scored 23 goals, followed internally by Rudolf Pöggeler with eleven and Herbert Lracht with nine goals.

Regional Football League West, 1963 to 1971

Two years followed for the goalscorer at the Bielefelder Alm , and in 1964 Kohn moved to Arminia Bielefeld . In the first round he shot the Arminia together with Bernd Kirchner and Gerd Roggensack to fifth place. In the year of the soccer world championship in 1966 Bielefeld fell back to midfield with coach Robert Gebhardt . After two rounds there was another club change, in 1966 Kohn joined the regional league promoted VfR Neuss . From 1964 to 1966, Kohn had scored 31 goals for Bielefeld in 66 games.

At the club for lawn sports in 1906 in the stadium on Hammer Landstrasse, the striker ended his active career in the regional league at the age of 34 after the 1970/71 season. From 1966 to 1971 he had played 123 games with 39 goals for Neuss . In the game that was memorable for the Green-Whites on August 13, 1967 against the Bundesliga relegated Fortuna Düsseldorf , he scored the winning goal for a 5-4 home win on the first matchday of the 1967/68 round.

Since Uli Kohn had already completed his training as a football teacher under the course leader Hennes Weisweiler at the Sports University in Cologne in 1969 - course colleagues included Hartwig Bleidick , Gunnar Gerisch , Heinz Höher , Hans-Hubert Vogts - he was still after his playing career worked as a trainer in the amateur field for years. He coached the clubs TuS Reuschenberg, Bayer Dormagen and VfR Neuss. Later, Kohn, who was employed in automobile sales, was still active in tennis.

literature

• Hans Dieter Baroth : Boys, Heaven is yours! The history of the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1988, ISBN 3-88474-332-5 .
• Harald Landefeld, Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Helmut, tell me dat Tor ... New stories and portraits from the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-043-1 .
• Ulrich Homann (Ed.): Farmer's heads, miners and a pascha. The history of the Regionalliga West 1963–1974. Volume 1, Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-345-7 .
• Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Fohlensturm am Katzenbusch. The history of the Regionalliga West 1963–1974. Volume 2, Klartext, Essen 1995, ISBN 3-88474-206-X .
• Aretz, Rütten, Lessenich: Borussia legends. 11 goalscorers. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2008. ISBN 978-3-89533-625-6