Heinz Krügel

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Heinz Krügel
Personnel
birthday April 24, 1921
place of birth Oberplanitz ,  Germany
date of death October 27, 2008
Place of death Magdeburg ,  Germany
Juniors
Years station
Planitzer SC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1948-1949 SG Planitz
1949-1950 BSG progress
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1951 State coach Saxony
1951-1954 SV People's Police Forward Leipzig
1954-1956 Unit East Leipzig / SC Rotation Leipzig
1956-1959 SC Empor Rostock
1959-1961 GDR national team
1961-1966 SC Chemistry Hall
1966-1976 1. FC Magdeburg
1 Only league games are given.
Heinz-Krügel-Platz
Heinz Krügel memorial

Heinz Krügel (born April 24, 1921 in Oberplanitz ; † October 27, 2008 in Magdeburg ) was one of the most successful football coaches in the GDR . He won the European Cup Winners' Cup with 1. FC Magdeburg in 1974 .

Career

At the age of six, Krügel began playing soccer at Planitzer SC . During the Second World War he was injured as a soldier on the Eastern Front, then fought in the Balkans and was taken prisoner there, from which he returned in 1946. In 1948 he was part of the SG Planitz team , which won the first Eastern Zone Championship in 1948 , but was not in the final against SG Freiimfelde Halle (1-0). In 1949 he moved to Crimmitschau for BSG Progress, where he had to end his active career in 1950 due to a serious knee injury at the age of 29, in which he was mostly called up as a central defender. Until 1951, however, he was available as a volunteer coach for his team.

Krügel took over the office of regional trainer in Saxony in 1951. A little later he took over as the youngest coach of the GDR upper league, the newly founded sports association Volkspolizei Vorwärts Leipzig . With the troop thrown together from numerous other forward teams, Krügel managed to stay up in the 1951/52 season. When the team had to move to Berlin during the 1952/53 season, Krügel stayed in Leipzig, completed a coaching course at the Leipzig Sport University DHfK and in 1954 became a coach at the BSG Einheit Ost Leipzig , which later became the SC Rotation Leipzig , a forerunner of the 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig , was. With rotation, Krügel was third in the league in 1955, but could not repeat the success in the 1956 season and was dismissed before the end of the season. He was accused of failing to find the right tone with the players and of asking too much of them. In 1955 and 1956, Krügel also looked after the Leipzig city selection in the trade fair cup games .

In 1956, SC Empor Rostock was relegated from the league , had dismissed three coaches within a year and now hired Krügel with the task of returning the team to the league. In the book Der Meistermacher (see below literature) the first team meeting with Krügel is described as follows:

“ Kurt Zapf can still remember the first team meeting very well. With full conviction, Krügel said, 'We'll get up again immediately.' That convinced us. The trainer didn't say a lot. At Krügel, there were never long meetings, there were clear, short tactical instructions in preparation for the game, most of which were placed on a beer mat. He asked a lot of us. But he was also fun for everyone. "

With second place behind Dynamo Berlin , SC Empor managed to rise again in 1957 and came 7th in the league the next season. In 1959 the Rostockers reached fourth place. On August 12, 1959, Krügel took over the training of the GDR national team , which he supervised in a total of eight games. Although he achieved four wins, but lost the World Cup qualifying game against Hungary 2-0 on April 16, 1961 and was then replaced by Károly Sós . Then Krügel secured relegation to the relegation-threatened Oberliga climber SC Chemie Halle . In 1962 Krügel won his first title as a coach in Halle by winning the FDGB Cup , but also suffered a bitter defeat in 1964 when his team was relegated. As in Rostock, however, he managed to rise again immediately. After he had secured the league newcomer for the second time, Krügel left Halle at the end of the 1965/66 season.

Again he took on the task of helping a relegated league to rise again, this time it was 1. FC Magdeburg. This project also succeeded, and with it began Krügel's most successful time as a coach. As a resurgence, the Magdeburg team immediately took third place and won the FDGB Cup in 1969. In 1972 Magdeburg celebrated the first soccer championship, which was followed by two further titles in 1974 and 1975 under the direction of Heinz Krügel. In 1973 1. FCM also won the GDR Cup for the second time. However, all these successes were outshone by winning the European Cup Winners' Cup. On May 8, 1974, 1. FC Magdeburg won 2-0 in Rotterdam over AC Milan . Under Krügel's aegis, seven players became national players, including Martin Hoffmann (66 games), Jürgen Pommerenke (57) and Jürgen Sparwasser (53).

In 1976 Krügel was banned from the GDR Football Association as a coach for life on the grounds that he had insufficiently promoted the performance development of the 1. FC Magdeburg Olympic squad. As Krügel later reported, in a conversation with association officials he was also told that he was unsustainable as a football coach because he was an "East-West compromiser". The real reason can be assumed that Krügel did not allow the SED district management to influence his work, among other things, and did not use the instructions from Bayern coach Udo Lattek , which the Stasi listened to during the half-time break, in the round of 16 European Cup match against FC Bayern Munich in 1974 wanted to. Krügel was deported as "property manager" to the lower-class BSG Motor Mitte Magdeburg and only rehabilitated in 1996 by the DFB .

Even in his retirement, Heinz Krügel remained connected to 1. FC Magdeburg as a temporary sporting director and a member of the honorary council .

In 2009 - the year after Krügel's death - the Magdeburg city council decided to name the square in front of the Magdeburg stadium after him. In 2013 the FanRat e. V. of 1. FC Magdeburg launched an initiative to honor its former successful coach by erecting a memorial in front of the stadium on Heinz-Krügel-Platz. By buying a symbolic share worth 19.74 euros, based on the year of the European Cup victory, 25,000 euros should be collected. In the end, over 27,000 euros were raised and the life-size statue as a posthumous tribute to Heinz-Krügel was unveiled on August 17, 2014.

Heinz Krügel Stadium

The fans of 1. FC Magdeburg are committed to renaming the MDCC arena , which opened in 2006, to the Heinz-Krügel-Stadion ( HKS for short ). This name is already well established in parlance.

successes

  • 1974 European Cup Winners' Cup
  • GDR champion 1972, 1974, 1975
  • GDR cup winners 1962, 1969, 1973
  • Promotion to the league in 1957, 1965, 1967

literature

Movie

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Monument dedicated to Heinz Krügel, www.volksstimme.de August 18, 2014.
  2. ↑ The stadium of 1. FC Magdeburg , volksstimme.de, November 14, 2017, accessed on July 13, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Krügel, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberplanitz , now part of Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 2008
Place of death Magdeburg