Hans-Josef Kretschmann

Hans-Josef Kretschmann (* March 21, 1902 , † after 1959), called Sepp Kretschmann and Josef Kretschmann , more rarely: Hans Kretschmann , was a German soccer player and soccer coach . He came from East Prussia , was an active player in tennis Borussia and SC Charlottenburg and was also successful as a track and field athlete .

Coaching career

Kretschmann began his coaching career as early as the mid-1920s as a player- coach at Prussia Duisburg . His numerous later positions in the 1932/33 season included VfB Bottrop , with whom he ended up in sixth place in the table at the end of the season in the then first-class Niederrhein Oberliga (Season B) and thus promoted to the 1933/34 season newly founded Gauliga missed. Kretschmann himself made the leap, however, he was Gauliga coach at VfL Benrath (1933-35), Dresdner SC (then until January 1937), 1. SV Jena and other clubs, including RW Frankfurt. He returned there after the end of the war, he coached the team in 1947/48 in the Oberliga Süd . As a full-time football teacher, Kretschmann sometimes took over two or more clubs in the same region, so he is said to have coached four clubs at the same time in the west .

At the beginning of the 1948/49 season, Sepp Kretschmann took over the Holstein Kiel club , which played in the Oberliga Nord , which ended the so-called "coachless time of Holstein". After only a few game days, Holstein was suspended from playing in the Oberliga due to an offense from the previous season until the beginning of the following season, so that Kretschmann only had to play cup and friendship games with the “Storks” team. Therefore, during this time, he also took over the training of the regional division Eckernförder SV (second class, 6th place). Six game days before the end of the major league season 1949/50, Kretschmann von Holstein was released for the western league club Borussia Dortmund , where he started work in early April. He successfully finished the league season with Borussia, which moved into the finals as West champions before they ended up in third place in the table together in 1950/51. From 1951 to 1953 Sepp Kretschmann then trained in Werder Bremen in the Oberliga Nord (7th place in 1951/52, 3rd place in 1952/53) and then from 1953 to 1956 Bayer 04 Leverkusen , where one of the later successful German coaches was part of his team: Udo Lattek . Seventh place at the end of the 1953/54 season and third place in the following season was followed by 15th place in the 1955/56 season and thus relegation for Bayer from the Oberliga West - and for Kretschmann the move again to the north: this time to VfL Wolfsburg for the short period from 1956 to April 1957; VfL Wolfsburg only narrowly escaped relegation at the end of the season in 14th place. Kretschmann's last known coaching station is at 1. FSV Mainz 05 from 1957 to 1959. In 1957/58, sixth place in the Oberliga Südwest was achieved here, and eleventh place in 1958/59.

Web links

• German Football Archive
• Profile at weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Legendary district teams: VfB Bottrop, RevierSport online from June 24, 2008
2. ↑ [1]
3. ↑ Jens Reimer Prüß: All coaches of the Oberliga Nord 1947 - 1963 ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Patrick Nawe, 100 years of Holstein Kiel: Kieler SV Holstein from 1900, Berliner Sportverlag, 2000, ISBN 3-328-00891-8
5. ^ Association chronicle of Eckernförder SV ( Memento from November 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Sport-Magazin from April 12, 1950; see. also Nawe
7. ^ The forgotten years part 3: The seasons 1949/50 and 1950/51 (Borussia Dortmund), Schwatzgelb.de of November 8, 2008
8. ^ All coaches at Bayer 04 Leverkusen
9. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: game SpVgg Greuther Fürth against Bayer Leverkusen on June 2, 1956 )
10. Jump up ↑ Mainz 05 season 1957/58