Bernd Schröder (soccer coach)

Bernd Schröder
Bernd Schröder (2015)
Personnel
birthday	July 22, 1942
place of birth	Lübeck ,  German Empire
size	195 cm
position	goalkeeper
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1960s	1. FC Lok Leipzig Res.
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1971-1992	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam
1989-1990	GDR women
1997-2016	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam
1 Only league games are given.

Bernd Schröder (born July 22, 1942 in Lübeck - Travemünde ) is a former German soccer coach and engineer . From its founding in 1971 to 2016 - with a five-year break as a manager (1992 to 1997) - Schröder coached the women's club 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam for 40 years and was one of two equal national coaches for the short-lived women's national team of the GDR .

After German reunification , Turbine Potsdam managed to celebrate successes in the Federal Republic of Germany as the only cross-gender association of the former GDR. With twelve championship titles, three cup wins and two European Cup wins, he is the most successful women's football coach in Germany and one of the most successful football coaches in the world.

Career

Schröder grew up in the Ore Mountains . He studied mining science at the Bergakademie Freiberg and worked for three decades in a managerial position as a department head at VEB Energieversorgung Potsdam (EVP) (after 1990 Märkische Energieversorgung AG (MEVAG), today at E.ON ). At times he managed 200 employees.

When a section for women's football was founded in the BSG Turbine Potsdam , whose sponsoring company was the EVP, he was asked - actually only because of a dinner in the clubhouse - to take on the role of coach alongside his work. He hadn't coached a team up to that point. In the 1960s, Bernd Schröder was active as a goalkeeper in the reserve teams of 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig .

Between 1981 and 1989 he won the title of GDR champion six times with the team (1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1989), and twice he was runner-up (1984, 1988). In the summer of 1989 Schröder was also coach of the newly founded GDR women's national soccer team , which only played one international game, which was lost 3-0 against Czechoslovakia on May 9, 1990 .

Between 1992 and 1997 Schröder worked for Turbine Potsdam as a manager before he took over the coaching position again. In the 2003/04 season he led the club, now under the name of 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam , for the first time after German reunification to win the German championship and the DFB Cup and thus achieved the double for the first time . In the following season he moved with the club in the final of the UEFA Women's Cup , which was won on May 21, 2005 in Potsdam against the Swedish club Djurgården Damfotboll . In addition, the title in the DFB Cup was successfully defended this year. In the following 2005/06 season, under Schröder, Potsdam won the championship and DFB Cup for the second time in one season, but lost in the final of the European Cup against 1. FFC Frankfurt. After a few years of transition, Turbine Potsdam advanced to become the only football club in the former GDR to date, which was able to confirm its success even after the fall of the Wall .

Two untitled years followed before Turbine and Bernd Schröder advanced to series championship and won the Bundesliga four times in a row between 2009 and 2012. In 2009, as in 2011 and 2013, the club returned to the DFB Cup final, but lost each of these finals. On May 20, 2010 in Getafe , Potsdam was able to repeat its 2005 victory in addition to the championship title in the European Cup competition, which has now been transformed into the Champions League , by defeating Olympique Lyon on penalties in the final . Also in 2011, the team was in London against the same opponent in the final. This time, however, the team lost 2-0.

For his services as a football coach, Schröder received the Order of Merit of the State of Brandenburg in 2005 , the Crystal Football of the Brandenburg State Football Association in 2008 and the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon in 2011 . Today, Bernd Schröder is the last GDR soccer coach who, with a short interruption, still looks after the same club. Schröder and his team of coaches from the 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam got involved in the 2011 Women's World Cup for the team home advantage at the Discover Football Tournament in Berlin . In December 2016, the President of the Brandenburg Regional Football Association, Siegfried Kirschen, presented him with the DFB's Silver Badge of Honor , even though Schröder never worked for the DFB.

In the meantime, Schröder has also become interesting for companies and gives lectures on his management philosophy. Since May 2013 he and his club 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam have been a member of the ECA Women's Football Committee (WFC) of the European Club Association .

On June 30, 2016, he left Turbine Potsdam after a total of 45 years. As part of a ceremony in Gravenbruch on the occasion of the closing event of the 63rd football teacher course, Schröder was the seventh German coach to receive the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the DFB on March 20, 2017 . In July 2017, Bernd Schröder's autobiography about his life as a coach was published by Steffen Verlag .

Success as a trainer

UEFA Women's Cup / Champions League winners : 2

• 2005 , 2010

GDR champion : 6

• 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1989

German champion : 6

• 2004 , 2006 , 2009 , 2010 , 2011 , 2012

DFB Cup winners : 3rd

• 2004 , 2005 , 2006

Honors

• 2005: Order of Merit of the State of Brandenburg
• 2008: Crystal football from the Brandenburg State Football Association
• 2011: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 2016: Silver badge of honor from the DFB
• 2017: Lifetime Achievement Award of the DFB

literature

• Bernd Schröder , in: Internationales Sportarchiv 50/2009 from December 8th, 2009, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Bernd Schröder: A coach's life for women's football . Steffen Verlag, Berlin 2017. ISBN 978-3-95799-043-3 .

Web links

Commons : Bernd Schröder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• RBB documentation about Bernd Schröder
• WDR documentary about Bernd Schröder
• Films from GDR television a. a. Interviews with Bernd Schröder
• Interview on Deutschlandfunk with Bernd Schröder
• Biography of Bernd Schröder

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Frank Hellmann: This coach was with the same club for 45 years. Süddeutsche.de, May 18, 2016, accessed on May 26, 2016 . 
2. ^ Ronny Galczynski: Women's football from A - Z. The lexicon for German women's football. Players, clubs and records. Many background stories, Hannover 2010, p. 261.
3. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung of March 13, 2011, p. 20.
4. ^ ^{A b} Peter Könnicke: Turbine and Bernd Schröder: Schröders Welt. Potsdam Latest News, May 13, 2016, accessed May 26, 2016 . 
5. ↑ "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", in: Märkische Allgemeine from July 21, 2007
6. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung of March 13, 2011, p. 20.
7. ↑ Women's Football Committee - European Club Association ( Memento from July 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ aha: Trainer legend: Schröder says goodbye to Turbine after 45 years. Spiegel online, May 16, 2016, accessed May 26, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Turbine says goodbye to Schröder coach with an away win. (No longer available online.) Rbb online, May 16, 2016, archived from the original on June 25, 2016 ; accessed on May 26, 2016 . 
10. ↑ sl: DFB awards "Lifetime Achievement Prize" to Bernd Schröder. DFB, March 20, 2017, accessed on March 20, 2017 . 
11. ^ Steffen Publisher: Bernd Schröder | New releases | Steffen Publishing House. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 12, 2017 ; Retrieved April 12, 2017 .