Horst Kracht

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Horst Kracht (born March 12, 1930 - March 4,  2017 ) was a German football coach .

Life

Kracht left school at the age of 13 and completed a commercial apprenticeship , he worked in human resources and accounting and worked in this area for a shipping company for a long time .

As a player, Kracht, who was used as a middle runner and in the defense, was a member of SV St. Georg from 1940 , later he played for the Eimsbütteler TV . From 1956 he played for the men's team of SC Victoria Hamburg , with which he won the Hamburg championship in 1960. He played for Victoria for five years, other clubs as a player were HSV Barmbek-Uhlenhorst and SV West-Eimsbüttel . As a senior footballer, he was still on the pitch when he was more than 80 years old.

From 1985 he was coach of SC Sperber Hamburg in the association league. In 1988 Kracht led Meiendorfer SV as a coach to win the Hamburg championship title and to triumph in the Hamburg Cup competition. In early September 1990 he took over the coaching position at SV Barmbek-Uhlenhorst. His skills as a trainer found expression in the saying "If someone does it, then Horst Kracht."

Kracht also coached SC Urania Hamburg and SC Victoria, at the age of 67 he retired from the coaching business. He then became a sporting advisor to SC Victoria, worked in this position for a long time with coach Bert Ehm and contributed to winning the championship title in the Hamburg Association of League 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and the Hamburg Cup victories in 2007 and 2010, whereby Victoria was each in the DFB Cup was represented.

Kracht was described as a veteran in Hamburg football and "one of the greatest figures in the city's amateur field". The Hamburger Abendblatt wrote  in an obituary that he was "already a legend during his lifetime" . Together with Ehm and Eugen Igel, Kracht is counted  among the great coaches of amateur football in the Hanseatic city. The saying comes from Kracht: "I'm not a good coach, because I've never been relegated". Kracht was a close friend of Rolf Mares  and a theater lover. Kracht lived for a long time in Hamburg-Winterhude and most recently in a nursing home in Hamburg-Poppenbüttel .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Roger Stilz: One life - two stages . In: THE WORLD . July 7, 2010 ( welt.de [accessed May 18, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Folke Havekost, Dirk Schneider: The amateur column: Victoria mourns the man with the hat. March 6, 2017, accessed on May 18, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ a b c Hamburger Abendblatt- Hamburg: Horst Kracht dies after a long and serious illness. March 6, 2017, accessed on May 18, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ a b HFV: Horst Kracht has died. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Yumpu.com: HFV-Info No. 43-2012 - Hamburger Fußball-Verband eV Accessed on May 18, 2020 .
  6. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1985/pdf/19850916.pdf/ASV_HAB_19850916_HA_013.pdf
  7. ↑ HAMBURG'S AMATEUR FOOTBALLERS: If someone does it, it's Horst Kracht. April 11, 2008, accessed on May 18, 2020 (German).
  8. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1990/pdf/19900903.pdf/ASV_HAB_19900903_HA_014.pdf
  9. ↑ The end of the traditional club after 104 years: Who will save Altona 93? August 27, 1997, accessed on May 18, 2020 (German).
  10. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt - Hamburg: FOOTBALL small yarn for TV Meckelfeld . ( Abendblatt.de [accessed on May 18, 2020]).
  11. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/region/stormarn/sport_141/article108133605/Ohne-mich-droht-der-Sturz-ins-Bodenlose.html
  12. ↑ https://sc-victoria.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/victoria_post_1_17_web.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Kracht, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1930
DATE OF DEATH 4th March 2017