Hermann Eppenhoff

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Hermann Eppenhoff (born May 19, 1919 in Wanne ; † April 10, 1992 in Gelsenkirchen ) was a German football player and coach . As a player of FC Schalke 04, he won the German championship in 1939, 1940 and 1942 and played three times for the national team. As coach of Borussia Dortmund , he also won the German championship in 1963 and the DFB Cup in 1965 .

Player career

In 1938 the young Hermann Eppenhoff moved from SpVgg Röhlinghausen initially to TuS Tiefenbach, but shortly afterwards to the championship club FC Schalke 04 . He was intended as the successor to Ernst Poertgen . The technically well-trained, nimble striker could be used on the right wing as well as in the center of the storm. In his first Schalke season, he helped bring the championship trophy back to Schalke. This was achieved on June 18, 1939 with a 9-0 victory over Admira Vienna . As a right wing he was involved in the five goals of center forward Ernst Kalwitzki through wing runs and flanks (Adolf Urban did this on the left wing). The two strategists Fritz Szepan and Ernst Kuzorra steered the game out of the right and left connection. In 1940 they defended their title against Dresdner SC with a narrow 1-0 win thanks to Ernst Kalwitzki's goal in the 27th minute of the game. The triple was prevented by SK Rapid Wien on June 22, 1941 with a 4-3 win after a 3-0 lead by Schalke. In this 1940/41 season, Eppenhoff set a club record that was to last until 2012. He scored 42 goals in the competitive games of the season, including 28 in 19 Gauliga games, 13 in the championship finals and one in the cup competition. On July 5, 1942, Vienna was beaten 2-0 goals in the next final of the German championship . It was the third title that Hermann Eppenhoff was able to win as a player within four rounds.

In the national team , he made his debut on September 15, 1940 in a 1-0 win against Slovakia. In his second use on October 5, 1941 in Helsinki against Finland, he scored three goals in a 6-0 win, Ernst Willimowski managed the same number of hits. In the 1: 2 defeat against Switzerland on February 1, 1942 in Vienna, he played his third and last international match. The young Fritz Walter was his strike partner.

During the war he played in the famous soldier elf " Rote Jäger " of the aviator commodore Hermann Graf . The most prominent players were Fritz Walter, Alfons Moog and Franz Hanreiter . The nickname "Friedrich" for Fritz Walter comes from this time. In the late autumn of 1944 Graf was transferred to Krakow , whereupon he had his red hunters follow him. In Kraków, Eppenhoff and his team defeated an air force club 14-0 in front of 3,000 spectators, with the future Bundesliga player scoring five goals. In 1945, Eppenhoff and his Schalke club mate Walter Zwickhofer were taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which they did not return until the end of March 1949 and were directly included in the Schalke league team.

In the Oberliga West, Schalke 04 won the title in the 1950/51 season and Eppenhoff played in all six games in the final round of the German championship, including a 3-2 home win on June 10, 1951 - he scored the winning goal in the 88th minute - against the upcoming champions 1. FC Kaiserslautern . In the 1951/52 season they were runner-up in the west and could therefore play other games in the finals. In 1955/56 he ended his career at Schalke after two meniscus operations. His last big appearance as a player was the final of the DFB Cup in 1955 , which his team lost 3-2 to Karlsruher SC .

Coaching career

Borussia Dortmund 1961–1965

After three years of work in the 2nd League West at Sportfreunde Gladbeck, Borussia Dortmund brought the ex-Schalke player to Borsigplatz as a successor to Max Merkel who had migrated to TSV 1860 Munich in the summer of 1961. He successfully built the two newcomers Wolfgang Paul (VfL Schwerte) and Wilhelm Sturm (Union Günnigfeld) , who had been brought out of the amateur camp, into the regular formation, but only reached 8th place in the final table with Borussia. In the second season as a BVB coach, the runner-up behind 1. FC Köln succeeded . The right winger Reinhold Wosab , who had been added by SpVg Marl, was a very good addition to “Aki” Schmidt, Jürgen Schütz , Timo Konietzka and Gerd Cyliax and the coach had a dangerous storm at his disposal. Since the defensive with the two goalkeepers Heinrich Kwiatkowski and Bernhard Wessel, the defenders Lothar Geisler and Wilhelm Burgsmüller and the runners Dieter Kurrat , Wolfgang Paul, Wilhelm Sturm and Helmut Bracht , they were prepared for the 1963 finals. On June 29th, with a 3-1 victory in the final against 1. FC Köln, they actually won the German championship. The coach Eppenhoff made a significant contribution to this, especially with the successful form control during the final round and the final as the summit. In terms of player potential, 1. FC Köln was a league team well above the average. The title defense was practically mandatory for the Domstadters. After 90 minutes, however, the well-deserved champions were confirmed in Borussia Dortmund.

Since the championship was held in the Bundesliga for the first time from the new 1963/64 season and the striker Jürgen Schütz who had migrated to Italy had to be replaced, this time the newcomers did not just come from the amateur camp. Center forward Franz Brungs came from Mönchengladbach and national goalkeeper Hans Tilkowski came from Herne for the goal . Burghard Rylewicz from VfB Oldenburg completed the new additions. In the Bundesliga, things didn't go according to plan for BVB. All three goalkeepers were used in goal. It was only enough for fourth place. In the European Cup , however, the Eppenhoff protégés set highlights in this round. The clear 5-0 and 4-0 successes against Benfica Lisbon and Dukla Prague , together with the clash with Inter Milan in the semi-finals, were the highlights.

In the second Bundesliga year 64/65 the points account and the rank could be improved, but 36:24 points were only enough for 3rd place. Rudi Assauer from SpVgg Herten and Hermann Straschitz from Fortuna Düsseldorf had been signed for the midfield , as a very big reinforcement but none turned out. But the triumph in the DFB Cup succeeded . On May 22, 1965, BVB won the final in Hanover with 2-0 goals (1-0 Schmidt, 2-0 Emmerich) against the regional division Alemannia Aachen . The title win was a confirmation of his work for the coach Hermann Eppenhoff, who had been dismissed by the then emergency board on May 4, 1964.

MSV Duisburg 1965-1967

In the Bundesliga season 1965/66 he then took over the runner-up of the starting year, Meidericher SV (the name was changed to MSV Duisburg on January 1, 1966). With 70:48 goals you came to 36:32 points and ranked 8th. In the 1966 DFB Cup , they reached the final against FC Bayern Munich . After a very good game - the young center forward Rüdiger Mielke took the 1-0 lead for the "Zebras" in the 28th minute - the men around Franz Beckenbauer deservedly won 4: 2.

In the second season in Meiderich the level could no longer be maintained, with 33:35 points they placed 11th. However, the successful integration of MSV talents Michael Bella , Rüdiger Mielke and Detlef Pirsig spoke in favor of Eppenhoff's work . Tragic for the storm talent Mielke (he scored 14 league goals in 13 appearances in the 65/66 round and scored three times in the cup) - as a result of an injury he was never able to play for MSV again.

VfL Bochum 1967–1972

The President Ottokar Wüst wanted to go to the Bundesliga with his VfL. The continuous development trainer Eppenhoff seemed just right for him. Initially, the man from Schalke's skills paid off in the 1968 DFB Cup . Via the Bundesliga clubs Karlsruher SC , VfB Stuttgart , Borussia Mönchengladbach and FC Bayern Munich, he moved into the 1968 Cup final with the VfL players. The final on June 9, 1968 in Ludwigshafen against 1. FC Köln was then lost quite clearly with 1: 4 goals, but it still didn't detract from the success of the regional league team in this competition. In the second year they moved up to 3rd place, and then in 1970 they brought the longed-for championship to Castroper Strasse. In the promotion round, however, they failed due to the class team of Offenbacher Kickers. Also in the 1970/71 round you won the championship in the Regionalliga-West and now the promotion round has been successfully completed. The long-hoped-for promotion to the Bundesliga was achieved with 14: 2 points. In the Bundesliga, the newcomer did very well in the 1971/72 round. With the balanced points account of 34:34, they ranked 9th in the final table. In the second half of the season they scored 20:14 points with 32:29 goals and the crowd favorite Hans Walitza had contributed 22 goals. Coach Eppenhoff had also worked in Bochum without the financially spectacular transfers, had built in talents or incited old hands to new deeds and still let combined football play with heart.

VfB Stuttgart

From that season on, the man from the coal pot then worked in Swabia at VfB Stuttgart. There the master coach Branko Zebec had not had the hoped-for success in rounds 70/71 and 71/72. In order to move forward in the table, the new coach was also given these new players:

Eppenhoff led VfB in 6th place in the Europa Cup . But now the VfB Presidium, headed by Senator Hans Weitpert, has stepped on the brakes. The successful storm of the 1972/73 season with Dieter Schwemmle (33 games, 6 goals), Wolfgang Frank (26 games, 11 goals) and Horst Köppel (29 games, 11 goals) completely turned its back on VfB Stuttgart in the summer of 1973. This was a blatant sporting step backwards. Now the card of inexpensive young talents has been relied on with the help of a capable coach. There came:

The round went well, especially in the UEFA Cup . But in the Bundesliga things went down, they only got 31:37 points and ended up in 9th place. In the UEFA Cup, the young players even reached the semi-finals. Nicosia, Tatran Prešov , Dynamo Kiev and Vitória Setúbal played for the two games against Feyenoord Rotterdam . In the first leg in Rotterdam there was a narrow 1: 2 defeat, in the second leg the Dutch were able to save a 2: 2 over time; Eppenhoff and his men had just failed to reach the final. The performance in the European competition was nevertheless a remarkable achievement by the coach and team. Hermann Ohlicher started straight into the Bundesliga from FV Ravensburg in 33 appearances with 17 goals, but this was a very good development. In the summer of 1974, the talented midfielder Karl-Heinz Handschuh was also able to move away from the Neckar and it went down in the table in the season 74/75. On December 1, 1974, the coach was dismissed. The old international Albert Sing , who was chosen as the savior, could not stop the trend in the second half of the season and VfB was relegated from the Bundesliga in the end.

Trainer stations in data

  • 1956–1958 TuRa Bergkamen (Association League)
  • 1958–1961 Sportfreunde Gladbeck (2nd League West)
  • 1961–1965 Borussia Dortmund (Oberliga West / Bundesliga)
  • 1965–1967 Meidericher SV / MSV Duisburg (Bundesliga)
  • 1967–1972 VfL Bochum (Regionalliga West / Bundesliga)
  • 1972-1. December 1974 VfB Stuttgart (Bundesliga)
  • November 1976 - March 1977 Union Solingen (2nd Bundesliga)

swell

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Goals for the national team debut , Schalker Kreisel, 2011/12 season, No. 24 of April 28, 2012, p. 37.

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personal data
SURNAME Eppenhoff, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Tub
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1992
Place of death Gelsenkirchen