Klaus-Dieter Ochs

Klaus-Dieter Ochs (born October 31, 1939 - † June 13, 2015 in Bochum ) was a German football coach .

career

Beginning

The son Klaus-Dieter had the from his father Walter , a proven player at Spielverein Höntrop and from Victoria and LSV Hamburg during the Second World War , later coach at Sodingen, Wattenscheid 09 , Eintracht Osnabrück and for many years as an association trainer in Westphalia at the Kaiserau sports school Getting a connection to football in the cradle. At SV Höntrop, the high school graduate went through all player stations from school to youth to the first team. In 1966 he acquired the football teacher license at the Sports University in Cologne under course leader Hennes Weisweiler . Then he started his first coaching position in the youth department of Borussia Dortmund . In 1968 he followed the call of Hamburger SV; he took over the amateur team under the experienced Bundesliga coach Georg Knöpfle .

Bundesliga coach, 1970 to 1973

After two years of “apprenticeship” with the amateurs, the almost 31-year-old Ochs became the successor of the outgoing coach Knöpfle on May 1, 1970 at the Bundesliga club Hamburger SV. Uwe Seeler was three years older, Willi Schulz one year and Gert Dörfel was the same age as the new coach. That was the starting position of the former amateur player from Höntrop in 1970 on the Alster. In addition there was the changing of the guard in the team. The presidium trusted the young trainer, in cooperation with Gerhard Heid , who had been in the office of youth manager and talent inspector from autumn 1970 , to bring the young talent urgently needed to the team of licensed players. In the first season 1970/71, Ochs led HSV to 5th place in the Bundesliga. In the second season 1971/72 it went down in the table, the round ended in 10th place. Promoted by Gerhard Heid's flair for talents, Rudi Kargus , Manfred Kaltz and Caspar Memering, the first three talents under coach Klaus-Dieter Ochs, found their way into the Bundesliga team of Hamburger SV. After the retirement of Uwe Seeler and Jürgen Kurbjuhn in the summer of 1972, the team and the coach lacked experienced and stabilizing player personalities. With the negative point account of 28:40 points you landed on 14th place in the table and could just secure the relegation. In his third year as head coach, Ochs built two more talents into the team: Peter Hidien and Peter Krobbach . On June 6, 1973, the 4-0 victory in the final of the DFB League Cup against Borussia Mönchengladbach was a conciliatory conclusion. For the 1973/74 round, Kuno Klötzer replaced him at HSV and the man from Höntrop moved to VfL Osnabrück .

VfL Osnabrück , 1973 to 1975

In 1973 the Bundesliga moved to the Regionalliga Nord. As the successor to Erwin Türk , Klaus-Dieter Ochs took over VfL Osnabrück in the last round of the Regionalliga in 1973/74. With the third place in the table, VfL and its new coach missed the leap into the Bundesliga promotion round for the first time in five years. Championship in the north and immediate resurgence succeeded Eintracht Braunschweig . FC St. Pauli Hamburg caught the Ochs team from second place despite their 15 unbeaten games at the beginning of the round in the second half. In the 2. Bundesliga Group North in the 1974/75 season, Osnabrück landed in 8th place in the 20-team season. During the round, the financially justified departure from full profitability had already led to disagreements in the cooperation between the presidium, coach and team. Ochs' assistant coach at the time, later VfL manager Helmut Kalthoff , succeeded him after his dismissal in April 1975. Around 1975/76 Reinhold Ertel took over the coaching position at the Bremer Brücke .

After football

Klaus-Dieter Ochs ticked the football chapter after the Osnabrück station, resumed his studies and later worked as a teacher in his hometown of Wattenscheid. From the beginning of the 80s Klaus-Dieter Ochs worked as a sports and religion teacher first at the Albrecht Dürer Realschule in Dortmund-Aplerbeck and then at the Albert Schweitzer Realschule in Dortmund-Nette. At the end of the 2002 school year, Klaus-Dieter Ochs retired. He lived very withdrawn until his death on June 13, 2015.

literature

• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's football. The encyclopedia. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00857-8 .
• 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 .
• Jürgen Bitter: Purple and white. The football history of VfL Osnabrück. Self-published, Osnabrück 1991.