Heinz Schwipps

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Heinz Schwipps (born August 16, 1915 in Dresden ; † November 18, 2006 there ) was a German football player and coach .

Heinz Schwipps began his football career at Cotta Dresden. In 1933 he moved to Guts Muts Dresden in the Gauliga Sachsen , where the "physically small but very energetic" player set accents as a left runner . He played "very quickly and powerfully"; "Determination, a good overview and a hard shot" characterized the game of the trained machine fitter. He was soon considered one of the best strikers in Dresden and was used in Dresden city selection teams. When the Second World War began in 1939 , Schwipps was drafted into the Wehrmacht, which ended his career as a player for SV Guts Muts.

After the Second World War and three years as a prisoner of war, Schwipps played in the regional league team of SG Cotta from 1949 to 1952 . In 1952/53 he completed the coaching course under the direction of Richard Hofmann . In the years from 1953 to 1974 he trained numerous teams such as Post Dresden , Aufbau Dresden-Mitte , the Guts-Muts successor BSG Turbine Dresden and the SV Wesenitztal in Dürrröhrsdorf .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Caption in the magazine Kampf from January 11, 1937
  2. ↑ according to the back of the picture collection Heinz Schwipps der Hinein! -Football picture series, Gau-Meister cigarettes, Cigarettenfabrik Müller & Co., Dresden 1938
  3. ↑ According to the back of the Heinz Schwipps collective picture , sports picture series "King Football", Union-Cigarettenfabrik, Dresden 1938
  4. ↑ cf. “City teams”, Dresdner Latest News from June 9, 1937
personal data
SURNAME Schwipps, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 2006
Place of death Dresden