Hermann Lindemann (soccer coach)

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Hermann Lindemann (born October 29, 1910 in Philippsthal , † July 23, 2002 ) was a German football player and coach. As a player for Eintracht Frankfurt , he won the championship in the Gauliga Südwest in 1938 and then played six games in the final round of the German soccer championship . With the student national team, he won the world championships in 1937 and 1939. As a coach he reached the DFB Cup final three times with Alemannia Aachen ( 1953 ) and Fortuna Düsseldorf ( 1957 , 1958 ).

Career as a player and coach

player

Lindemann, who comes from Philippsthal in East Hesse , gained experience in the Gauliga Südwest for the first time in 1935/36 as a player for Kickers Offenbach after having played at FSV Frankfurt and VfB Leipzig. In April 1937, the student Eintracht Frankfurt, who mostly acted as an outside runner or middle runner, joined in to take over the place of ex-national player Hugo Mantel . In its first full season, 1937/38, Eintracht succeeded in winning the championship in the Gauliga Südwest. With players like Hans Stubb , Rudolf Gramlich , Emil Arheilger , Karl Röll , Albert Wirsching , August Möbs and Adam Schmitt , he made it to the final round of the German championship. Lindemann played all six group games against Hamburger SV, Stettiner Sport-Club and York Boyen Insterburg. Equally on points - both clubs showed 10: 2 points - Eintracht failed because of the poorer goal difference at Hamburger SV. After interruptions from October 1939 at Germania 94 and the BSG IG Farben, Lindemann again belonged to Eintracht Frankfurt from 1942 and was also a "guest player" at WTSV Schweinfurt on the ball in 1943/44. Matheja records this time phase, "about the growing number To compensate for the drafts in the Wehrmacht to some extent, the old warriors Hermann Lindemann (31), Hans Stubb and Theodor Trumpler (both 34) were reactivated in the summer of 1941. “As a result of a great lack of players, Eintracht and the FSV formed a war sports community from November 1944 (KSG ), which first went into action on November 19th. The last game of the combined Bornheimer and Riederwald team took place on January 7, 1945 in Eckenheim; KSG won 16-0. Lindemann was one of the players known by name on that day.

After the end of the Second World War, Lindemann also belonged to the first Eintracht post-war team on August 26, 1945 on the Sandhöfer Wiesen against SG (Union) Niederrad in a 3: 3. When Eintracht reached a 2-2 draw at Phoenix Karlsruhe on November 4, 1945 on the debut day of the new Oberliga Süd , Herman Lindemann was the middle runner and was supported by Erwin Schädler as the right runner. At the end of the round, Eintracht finished 11th with 25:35 points and the 35-year-old Lindemann had played 26 games in the major league. From October 1946, Lindemann ended his career as a player at Union Niederrad in the amateur area.

Trainer

After the first short mission in 1939 with Fram Reykjavik, Lindemann was continuously coaching from his engagement with Viktoria Aschaffenburg (1947/48 in the Oberliga Süd). In the two seasons (1949/50, 1950/51) at FSV Frankfurt he finished 5th with the team from Bornheim in the first-class Oberliga Süd at the time, ahead of their big rivals Eintracht Frankfurt. He achieved this with players like goalkeeper Willi Rado , Otto Dehm , Philipp Nold , Werner Niebel , Heinrich Schuchardt , Hans Schwarz and the outstanding attacker Richard Herrmann . After the two years on the Bornheimer Hang , his coaching position led him to the Oberliga West, and he took over Alemannia Aachen for the 1951/52 season.

With players like Jupp Derwall , Erich Dziwoki , Heinrich Gärtner and Michael Pfeiffer , he immediately reached 3rd place in the Oberliga West in 1951/52 . When Lindemann and the Tivolistadion team finished fifth in the Oberliga West in the second year, 1952/53, the season was outshone by the entry into the final of the DFB Cup. In his third and fourth round at Alemannia he did not come with the yellow-black team beyond lower midfield positions and signed a new coaching contract with Meidericher SV for the 1955/56 season.

Lindemann led the blue and white "Zebras", the league relegated from the 1954/55 round, straight away with players like Heinz Bohnes , Kurt Nolden , Kurt Küppers and Erich Neumann as runners-up in the 2nd West League in 1955/56 back to the first class of the league . He stabilized the league returnee in 1956/57 on the 7th place and then followed the call from the state capital ; for the 1957/58 season he took over the coaching position at Fortuna Düsseldorf and became the successor of Kuno Klötzer .

In the first half of his work at Fortuna, after a 1-0 semi-final win on November 24, 1957 in Hanover against Hamburger SV, he moved into the cup final on December 29 in Augsburg against FC Bayern Munich. With Matthias Mauritz , Erich Juskowiak , Bernhard Steffen , Hans Neuschäfer and the Gramminger twins Karl and Martin , he had players in his ranks with whom a triumph in the DFB Cup seemed conceivable. Fortuna went into the final as the favorite, but shortly before the start of the game it began to snow and the signs changed in favor of Bayern. On the snow-covered field, the Munich team got along much better with the round leather and also benefited from the routine of their Karlsruhe newcomer Kurt Sommerlatt , who had previously won the KSC Cup twice in a row. With a goal in the 77th minute, the Munich team decided the final 1-0 and brought the trophy to Munich.

In the West German Cup in 1958, Lindemann moved into the final again with Dusseldorf with a 6-0 semi-final victory against FC Schalke 04 on June 7th. On June 27, he and his team won the final in Wuppertal 4-1 against 1. FC Köln. After a 3-2 home win on October 19 in the Oberliga against Alemannia Aachen - Fortuna finished second with 12: 6 points - Düsseldorf won the DFB semi-finals on October 26 in the away game with 2: 1 against Tasmania 1900 Berlin and was again in the final of the DFB Cup. The final took place on November 16 in Kassel Auestadion against VfB Stuttgart. The dress rehearsal in the top division points round on November 9th brought a 3-1 home win against RW Essen with their top performers Fritz Herkenrath , Heinz Wewers , Helmut Rahn and Franz Islacker . The final turned into a dramatic match, with one overtime and seven goals. The 28,000 spectators got their money's worth. The team of coach Georg Wurzer , VfB Stuttgart, prevailed 4-3 after extra time. Fortuna coach Lindemann is quoted in the cup book after the game with the following comment: “We had victory in our hands in the first half. Even after the 2-1 win, it still looked good for us. But then the injuries of my eleven broke my backbone and we lost team cohesion. ”Düsseldorf's ailing international Juskowiak had only been able to continue as an extra after the break, and the outnumbered Düsseldorfers had hardly turned their deficit into a 2-1 lead , Kalli Hoffmann , to date the strongest Düsseldorf player, was also out. The top division round 1958/59 ended Lindemann with Düsseldorf on April 22, 1959 with a 5-0 away win at Meidericher SV. Equal on points with 39:21 each, Fortuna only reached the ungrateful 3rd place behind 1. FC Köln with the poorer goal quotient. After 19 matchdays in 1959/60, the tenure of coach Lindemann ended prematurely with only eleven points. The interesting trip to Ghana in the summer of 1959 also had a negative side: “Too many games, commitments, humidity, etc. did not allow a targeted training program. From my point of view, the decisive factor for the bad form in the 1959/60 season was the trip to Africa intended as preparation for the season, ”Berni Steffen later judged. Fortuna rose in the summer of 1960 from the 2nd League West and Lindemann took over for the 1960/61 season in the Oberliga Nord Eintracht Braunschweig.

With the Blue-Yellows he reached 9th place, but the working relationship only lasted a year and Lindemann returned to the West; from 1961 he made a two-year stint at VfL Bochum in the 2nd League West. With the start of the Bundesliga in 1963/64, he was active in the second -rate regional football league at Duisburg SpV. In the second year he trained the new fusion club Eintracht Duisburg, before he joined Young Fellows Zurich for a year in Switzerland in 1965/66. In the 1966/67 season Lindemann reached 5th place in the Regionalliga West with Hamborn 07 with players like Ferdinand Heidkamp , Horst Heese , Werner Scholz and Heinz Versteeg . After Hamborn he coached SV Waldhof Mannheim in the Regionalliga Süd from 1967 to March 1969. The later Waldhof legend Günter Sebert took the first steps of his long and successful career.

From March 21, 1969, Lindemann was Bundesliga coach at Borussia Dortmund. With Oswald Pfau , Helmut Schneider and interim coach Helmut Bracht , the relegation battle at the black and yellow had already worn out three coaches. Lindemann opened his mission on March 22nd with a 2-1 home win against Eintracht Braunschweig and achieved a 2-2 draw at VfB Stuttgart in his first away game with Dortmund. The two following defeats against Bayern Munich (0: 1) and Werder Bremen (1: 2) did not throw the men around Sigfried Held and Lothar Emmerich off course, on May 16 the second home win against Alemannia Aachen. On the 34th round match day, June 7, 1969, they managed to stay up with a 3-0 home win against Kickers Offenbach. Dortmund took 16th place with 30:38 points, 1. FC Nürnberg (29:39 points) and Offenbach with 28:40 points were relegated from the Bundesliga. Schulze-Marmeling states: "Lindemann, a shrewd tactician and passionate card player, took over the team in a hopeless situation, and it was largely thanks to him that the league finally succeeded."

Lindemann led Borussia without Emmerich in 1969/70 with 36:32 points to an unexpected 5th place. The BVB board decided to change coach anyway. Lindemann took over Alemannia Aachen in the Regionalliga West for the 1970/71 season, but was dismissed after 17 games and then ended his coaching career.

Stations as a player

Stations as a trainer

successes

With Alemannia Aachen (1953) and Fortuna Düsseldorf (1957 and 1958) he was three times with a team in the DFB Cup final without ever winning it. In the Bundesliga he only worked as a coach for Borussia Dortmund (1970: 5th place).

literature

  • Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 234 .
  • Ulrich Matheja: Schlappekicker and sky striker. The story of Eintracht Frankfurt. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2004. ISBN 3-89533-427-8 . Pp. 358/359.
  • Michael Bolten, Marco Langer: Everything else is just football. The story of Fortuna Düsseldorf. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2005. ISBN 978-3-89533-711-6 .
  • Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: The fame, the dream and the passion. The story of Borussia Dortmund. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2011. ISBN 978-3-89533-810-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. The encyclopedia. Sports publisher. Berlin 2000. ISBN 3-328-00857-8 . P. 392
  2. ↑ Ulrich Matheja: Schlappekicker and Himmelsstürmer. P. 125
  3. ↑ Ulrich Matheja: Schlappekicker and Himmelsstürmer. P. 130
  4. ^ Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Green: German Cup History since 1935. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2000. ISBN 3-89784-146-0 . P. 145
  5. ^ Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Green: German Cup History since 1935. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2000. ISBN 3-89784-146-0 . P. 151
  6. ↑ Michael Bolten, Marco Langer: Everything else is just football. P. 126
  7. ↑ Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: The fame, the dream and the passion. P. 143

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personal data
SURNAME Lindemann, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer coach
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Philippsthal (Werra)
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 2002