Karl-Heinz Drygalsky

Karl-Heinz Drygalsky (born September 5, 1937 ) is a former fitness trainer and president of Borussia Mönchengladbach .

Career

Drygalsky was the fitness coach of Borussia Mönchengladbach from 1972 to 1992 . Immediately afterwards he was elected President in 1992, as the successor to long-time President Helmut Beyer . Drygalski gave up the office in 1997 after several arguments with the manager at the time, Rolf Rüssmann .

Drygalsky was a qualified sports teacher and since 1969 lecturer at the Institute for Athletics and Gymnastics at the German Sport University in Cologne . Before that he was from 1968 to 1972 coach for throw and push at ASV Cologne . In his youth he was a member of ASV Berlin and in 1958 and 1960 two-time German team champion in the decathlon . As a fitness trainer for Borussia Mönchengladbach, he worked with Hennes Weisweiler , Udo Lattek , Jupp Heynckes , Wolf Werner , Gerd vom Bruch and Jürgen Gelsdorf from 1972 .

He was a speaker at international and national congresses / courses for football, athletics , training theory and rehabilitation . He has published on the problem area of ​​conditioning training and rehabilitation. Together with Gerd Thissen, he also published the book “Gymnastics for Footballers of All Levels”, Training and Competition Practice, Football, Volume 1, in the Carolus Verlag in 1992.

Fonts

• Karl-Heinz Drygalsky, Gerd Thissen: Gymnastics for footballers of all levels . Carolus-Verlag, Wassenberg-Effeld, 1992, ISBN 3-927570-02-8

literature

• Holger Jenrich: The Borussia Mönchengladbach Lexicon . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-585-3

Web links

• Peter Heimerzheim: Bernd Krauss wobbles: "Should he throw me out" . Die Welt , October 17, 1996