Heinz Lucas

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Heinz Lucas (born August 10, 1920 in Berlin ; † July 18, 2016 in Erkrath ) was a German football coach . Since October 2009 he has lived in the senior citizens' residence “Rosenhof” in Erkrath.

career

player

Heinz Lucas learned the ABC of football in Berlin at the Charlottenburg FC Hertha in 1906 . After the Second World War he was active as a player in southern Germany for the clubs Bayern Kitzingen, Ulm 1846 and FV Würzburg 04 for a few years. In 1951 he returned to Berlin and played two years as a contract player with Berliner SV from 1892 and completed 22 games in the Berlin City League . At the same time, he began his coaching career at CFC Hertha 06 in 1951.

Trainer, 1953 to 1981

From 1953 to 1956, Lucas coached the Berlin upper division Wacker 04 Berlin . In 1955 he had successfully completed his training as a football teacher. This was followed by two rounds at Minerva 93 Berlin , before he was active as a coach from the 1958/59 round in the Football Oberliga Nord . The first stop was the VfR Neumünster , where he looked after the purple-whites from the VfR stadium in the city park for four rounds until 1962. In the last year of the old, first-class league system, 1962/63, the football teacher at Hannover 96 tried in vain to lead the “Reds” into the new Bundesliga from the 1963/64 season through an outstanding final round. In the Association of German Football Teachers , he held the office of chairman of the Association Group North from 1961 to 1964.

At the beginning of the new Bundesliga era and also the new league substructure by the regional leagues, 1963/64, he was initially without a contract. From February 15, 1964, he took over VfB Lübeck , which was fighting relegation in the regional football league North, and looked after the green and whites from Lohmühle until 1968. After that, his career took him to southern Germany; he took over the 1968/69 round of SV Darmstadt 98 in the South Regional Football League . With the lilies from the stadium at Böllenfalltor , he was relegated to the Hessian amateur camp in 1970, but remained with his move to Fortuna Düsseldorf as a coach in the regional league. On July 1, 1970, he took over Fortuna Düsseldorf in the West Regional Football League and rose to the Bundesliga a year later with Fortuna. At Fortuna, led by President Bruno Recht , he succeeded Otto Knefler , who had achieved fourth place in the West in 1969 and 1970.

The time in Düsseldorf was the most successful of his coaching career. In the first year 1970/71 his Fortuna, the VfL Bochum with coach Hermann Eppenhoff and the Wuppertaler SV with coach Horst Buhtz delivered an exciting three-way battle at the top of the table for a place in the Bundesliga promotion round. Bochum was equal on points in front of the Lucas-Elf champions and the team from the Stadion am Zoo , the WSV, had to wait a year before the Bergische in 1972 with 60: 8 points in the league and 16: 0 points in the promotion round perfect the Bundesliga promotion could do. With the attackers Reiner Geye (34-25) and Dieter Herzog (34-13), Lucas had two trump cards for the offensive in the squad. In the promotion round, the competition from Neunkirchen, St. Pauli, Nuremberg and Wacker 04 Berlin had no chance. With the BL newcomer, Lucas managed to stay in the league in 1971/72 in 13th place. When Gerd Zewe and Wolfgang Seel also strengthened his team, he climbed third place in the Bundesliga twice with Fortuna in 1973 and 1974 . His activity in Düsseldorf ended on April 22, 1975. On April 18, he said goodbye to Fortuna with a 2-0 home win against 1. FC Kaiserslautern, with 32:24 points placed in eighth place. In the evening, Lucas, who was one of the few stars among the many Fortuna coaches, celebrated his departure together with the board and players in the Benrather Hof. In the same month he took up his new position at TSV 1860 Munich from the southern season of the 2nd Bundesliga as the successor to Max Merkel . With the "Löwen" in 1977 he also achieved promotion to the Bundesliga with three playoffs against Arminia Bielefeld (0: 4; 4: 0; 2: 0). After relegation in 1977/78 failed and the mission resurgence failed, his coaching in Munich ended on December 31, 1978. As coach of Eintracht Braunschweig (from March 27, 1979) he said goodbye on October 8, 1979 finally out of the Bundesliga. He then coached Wuppertaler SV (January 1, 1980– April 30 , 1980) and SpVgg Fürth (March 1, 1981– June 30, 1981) in the 2nd Bundesliga .

literature

  • Hardy Greens : hired, hailed, fired. The 250 premature coach changes in the history of the Bundesliga since 1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-104-5 .
  • Kicker sports magazine. Special issue 1979/80, p. 67.

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. Axel Strötker: Heinz Lucas dead! Fortuna Düsseldorf mourns the legend of the coach. In: Express.de . July 18, 2016, accessed July 18, 2016 .
  2. A sixteen-year-old hero turns 90: Silent celebration in the nursing home . In: Munich evening newspaper . August 9, 2010  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de
  3. ^ Jürgen Bitter : Germany's football. The Lexicon , p. 401.
  4. Knieriem / Greens: Player Lexicon 1890-1963 . AGON Sportverlag, p. 239.
  5. Coach statistics from Fortuna Düsseldorf ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.fortuna-duesseldorf.de
  6. Bolten / Langer: "Everything else is just football". The story of Fortuna Düsseldorf . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 978-3-89533-711-6 , page 167