Helmut Kronsbein

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Helmut "Fiffi" ​​Kronsbein (born December 25, 1914 in Danzig ; † March 27, 1991 in Berlin ) was a German football player and coach . In 1954 he won the German championship with Hannover 96 . He worked as a coach until 1980, including in the Bundesliga, which was founded in 1963 .

The soccerplayer

As a football player, Kronsbein was active with Arminia Bielefeld , Eintracht Osnabrück , Hindenburg Allenstein and Prussia Danzig . In the 1948/49 season he was used in two games for 1. FC Köln in the Rheinbezirksliga, Group 2. The team won the championship that year and rose to the Oberliga West; in it also played Hennes Weisweiler and the later world champion from 1954 Hans Schaefer .

German championship 1954

In the summer of 1952 Helmut Kronsbein was the 11th of the 1951/52 season of the Oberliga Nord , SV Hannover 96 , new coach . He started his second job as a soccer teacher in Hanover. At TSG Ulm 1846 , he made his debut as a coach from 1949 to 1952, when he was promoted to the Oberliga Süd in 1952. From the Landesliga Württemberg, through the 2nd league, he had led the "Spatzen" into the Oberliga Süd. The training to become a soccer teacher with national coach Sepp Herberger in Cologne in 1949 had paid off.

In the first round in 1952/53, Hanover came 7th with 30:30 points. In the next season 1953/54, however, the team sat immediately superior to the top of the table. At the end of the round they were still seven points ahead of runner-up FC St. Pauli .

As early as May 2, 1954, the new northern champions had to compete in the final round of the German championship, which was shortened due to the soccer world championship in Switzerland (only the five upper league champions and the second from the south take part without a second leg!) play the first game in the final round.

With 2: 1 goals, the Berliner SV 1892 is beaten in front of 60,000 spectators in the Olympic Stadium . A fortnight later, the decisive game for participation in the final takes place in the Düsseldorf Rheinstadion against VfB Stuttgart . The German champion of 1952 and finalist from 1953, had confidently eliminated the Berliners with 3-0 goals on May 9th. The protégés of trainer Georg Wurzer wanted the third time in a row in the final. Hannover 96 prevailed with 3-1 goals. Hanover was thus drawn into the final of the German soccer championship in 1954. The opponent was the defending champion and also the clear favorite, 1. FC Kaiserslautern . After an own goal by Kohlmeyer in the 48th minute to the 2-1 lead of Hannover 96, the game tipped over emotionally. At Lautern nothing came together and Hanover increased by the minute. The result was a completely unexpected 5-1 victory for Helmut Kronsbein's team.

The second engagement at Hannover 96, 1963–1966

After not being nominated for the Bundesliga, Helmut Kronsbein returned from VfR Mannheim to Hannover 96 as a coach in 1963 . This time, however, in the Regionalliga Nord , the upper leagues no longer existed from the 1963/64 round, five regional leagues had been installed as the foundation of the Bundesliga. FC St. Pauli won the championship, after all, Hanover came in second, so they were also qualified for the promotion to the Bundesliga. There, Otto Laszig's players were able to leave the favored champions from the south and west behind. Before KSV Hessen Kassel , Alemannia Aachen and FK Pirmasens , Hannover 96 moved into the Bundesliga in June 1964. This vigor was then maintained in the first year of the Bundesliga, with 33:27 points they took a good 5th place. Center forward Walter Rodekamp even became a national player .

In the second year, however, things went backwards, on April 28, 1966, the presidium pronounced the coach's dismissal. This could also be attributed to the performances in the “Fair Cup”, the forerunner of the UEFA Cup , at the games against FC Porto and FC Barcelona - the Catalans were unluckyly eliminated on March 2, 1966 after a 1-1 draw by drawing lots - and also the successful debut round of midfielder Hans Siemensmeyer , he had been brought to Hannover by Rot-Weiß Oberhausen before the round, with his 15 goals in 30 games, nothing changed.

The expectations were too high before the round, so 12th place could no longer be enough.

Hertha BSC, 1966–1974

Helmut Kronsbein went off the leash to the Spree in the summer of 1966 . The Herthaners absolutely wanted to return to the Bundesliga, from which they were relocated in 1965 due to license violations. In the Bundesliga promotion round in 1968, they were promoted to Rot-Weiss Essen , SV Alsenborn , Göttingen 05 and FC Bayern Hof . In the first round in 1968/69 the league was managed and then twice in 1970 and 1971 the third place was achieved. Also in the UEFA Cup, Hertha BSC showed the increased class in these rounds in the games against the top European teams from Juventus Turin , Inter Milan and AC Milan .

Since the high could not continue in the next few rounds and Hannover 96 threatened relegation, the coach was given notice on March 13, 1974. After eight years as a coach at Hertha BSC , Helmut Kronsbein was allowed to try to save his "old love" Hannover 96 from relegation, he immediately moved to Hannover.

He later returned to Hertha BSC for a brief engagement.

Others

In 1984, Kronsbein was suspected of having killed his wife Gerda. He was charged with bodily harm resulting in death before the Hanover Regional Court. The court proceedings, which initially resulted in a conviction, came to a turning point after two months of negotiations in September 1984 when the Berlin forensic doctor Prof. Volkmar Schneider Kronsbein's version of Gerda Kronsbein's current suicide was credible.

Helmut Kronsbein died in Berlin at the age of 76 and was buried in the Heerstraße cemetery in Berlin (grave location: 16-J / 24–43).

Career as a player

societies

Career as a coach

successes

  • 1954 German champion with Hannover 96
  • 1952 Promotion to the Oberliga Süd, TSG Ulm 1846
  • 1964 Promotion to the Bundesliga, Hannover 96
  • 1968 Promotion to the Bundesliga, Hertha BSC
  • 1975 Promotion to the Bundesliga, Hannover 96
  • 1970, 1971 3rd place in the Bundesliga, Hertha BSC

Coaching stations

swell

  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's football. The encyclopedia. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00857-8 .
  • Matthias Kropp: Triumphs in the European Cup. All games of the German clubs since 1955 (= "AGON Sportverlag statistics." Volume 20). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-75-4 .
  • Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 3: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 1. The founding years 1963–1975. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-132-0 .
  • Matthias Weinrich: 25 years 2nd division. The second division almanac. All players. All clubs. All results. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-145-2 .
  • Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-463-1 .
  • Klaus Querengässer: The German football championship. Part 2: 1948–1963 (= AGON Sportverlag statistics. Vol. 29). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-107-7 .
  • The history of the advancement rounds to BL, Klartext, 1990, ISBN 3-88474-346-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung Archive - passage through the room with sergeant
  2. ^ On April 2, 1949 against VfL Köln 99 and on April 24, 1949 against Tura Bonn. See Thomas Hardt; Dirk Innschuld: In the sign of the billy goat, Verlag Die Werkstatt, ISBN 978-3-89533-628-7 .
  3. ↑ Berliner Morgenpost Archive - The "Fiffi" ​​Kronsbein case
personal data
SURNAME Kronsbein, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kronsbein, Fiffi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1991
Place of death Berlin