Hans Pilz

Hans Pilz (born December 11, 1915 , † September 28, 2007 in Munich ) was a German football teacher. Between 1949 and 1972 he coached teams from the two top German football leagues.

career

Hans Pilz was a participant in the 2nd course to become a soccer teacher at the German Sport University Cologne under course leader Sepp Herberger . Well-known course colleagues were Herbert Burdenski , Georg Gawliczek , Kuno Klötzer , Willibald Kreß and Helmut Kronsbein . He started his first coaching position in 1949 at VfB Oldenburg , which had just been promoted to what was then the top division, the Oberliga Nord. In the following year, VfB took a middle place and the team was certified in the press as having good physical condition. Nevertheless, Pilz Team had to relegate in 1951. This was followed by an engagement with TuRa Ludwigshafen in the Oberliga Südwest.

It was here that the neighboring club VfR Mannheim became aware of him, which, four years after winning the German soccer championship in 1949 , was looking for a qualified soccer teacher. Between 1953 and 1959, Hans Pilz took 10th place twice with VfR in the Oberliga Süd and third place once behind Karlsruher SC and VfB Stuttgart , which narrowly missed participation in the final round of the German championship. He reached the final round after working in Mannheim with 1. FC Saarbrücken , second in the Oberliga Südwest in the 1956/57 game year. With a draw against 1. FC Nürnberg and two defeats against Duisburger SpV and Hamburger SV , 1. FC Saarbrücken retired early. He stayed in Saarland for another year before moving back to the Oberliga Süd to TSG Ulm in 1846 . In 1962 he took over Borussia Neunkirchen from his predecessor Alfred Preißler and led them to the vice championship Southwest behind 1. FC Kaiserslautern . Although the club had qualified in terms of sport, 1. FC Saarbrücken was preferred to it when the Bundesliga was founded.

Hans Pilz then hired again in 1963 at VfR Mannheim, which after the founding of the Bundesliga now only played in the second highest class, the Regionalliga Süd. After one season, Hans Pilz moved across the Rhine to neighboring Frankenthal to look after the VfR Frankenthal team in the Regionalliga Südwest for two years , with whom he finished 7th and 12th in the final table.

The TSV 1860 Munich , a year earlier become German soccer champion, was looking for a renowned coach for the youth department and opted for Hans Pilz. After the professional coach Albert Sing was dismissed at the end of October 1968 , the club promoted Hans Pilz to head coach. So he made his debut as a Bundesliga coach at the age of almost 53. The team, weakened in attack by the departure of Rudi Brunnenmeier and Hans Küppers , led coach Pilz to 10th place. His successor at the end of the 1968/69 season was Fritz Langner . When in January 1970 Zlatko Čajkovski , equipped with a top Bundesliga coach wage, had to leave Hannover 96 after seven defeats , the club brought Hans Pilz for the rescue operation. The league succeeded with reaching the 13th place in the table. Nevertheless, at the end of the 1970 season, Hans Pilz was replaced by Helmuth Johannsen . Two coaching positions followed in the Regionalliga Süd, 1970/71 at FC Freiburg and 1971/72 at ESV Ingolstadt . Like the first engagement in Oldenburg, the last one in Ingolstadt also ended with the team's relegation.

Private

Hans Pilz lived with his wife Inge in Munich and was buried in the Ostfriedhof there. He also left a son and family.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wiki Waldhof: [1] ; accessed on October 2, 2014
2. ↑ The movement player: - ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on September 30, 2014 
3. ^ Wikipedia: Football Bundesliga ; accessed on September 30, 2014
4. ^ Claudius Mayer in tz: [2] ; accessed on October 1, 2014
5. ↑ Der Spiegel: [3] ; accessed on October 1, 2014
6. ↑ Münchner Merkur: [4] ; accessed on October 1, 2014