Klaus-Peter Kirchrath
Klaus-Peter Kirchrath (born February 10, 1927 in Sterkrade ) is a former German soccer coach . In the 1950s he mainly worked as a club trainer in northern Germany, including with the upper division Altona 93 . He then worked as a coach for the Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony football associations for two decades . In the course of his teaching activities on three continents, in the same decade he earned the reputation of “father of Turkish coaches”.
Youth and education
Klaus-Peter Kirchrath, who was born in the then independent Sterkrade, moved with his parents to Altona / Elbe in 1935 , where he played for Ottensen 07 , Altona 93 and Hamburger SV as a teenager . Shortly before the end of the war , he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . After being released from prisoner-of-war captivity, he passed the school-leaving exam at the Christianeum in 1947 , where his father also taught, and then began studying at the Sport University in Cologne , which he graduated with a diploma in 1950. Before that, he had already passed his exams as a state-certified football teacher in 1949 in the so-called “ Herberger course” alongside well-known coaches such as Herbert Burdenski , Georg Gawliczek , Emil Izsó , Kuno Klötzer , Helmut Kronsbein and Martin Wilke . In addition, he laced his boots for TSV Rodenkirchen .
Coaching activities
In 1950 he returned to the Lower Elbe and coached TSV Brunsbüttelkoog until 1952 and Bergedorf 85 and Eidelstedter SV for one year each ; with Bergedorf he failed only in the promotion round to the Oberliga Nord at Eintracht Braunschweig , Eidelstedt he led as a league champion in the amateur league Hamburg, then the second highest division. In the 1954/55 season Kirchrath looked after - as successor to Herbert Panse - the Oberligaelf von Altona 93. The team around Heinz Bung bottle , Dieter Seeler and Werner Erb finished the championship in fourth place and reached in the DFB Cup after successes over the 1. FC Saarbrücken , Eintracht Frankfurt and Alemannia Aachen even made it to the semi-finals, where they only had to bow to the eventual winner Karlsruher SC after a replay in the Gelsenkirchen Glückauf-Kampfbahn .
Then, on the recommendation of national coach Sepp Herberger - with whom he was in regular professional and personal contact - Kirchrath accepted the offer of the Schleswig-Holstein Football Association as SHFV trainer and head of the Malente sports school , where he worked until 1970; his successor was Hans Merkle . With the association selection he reached the final in the DFB country cup in 1961 , which he lost 2-1 to the Hamburg selection trained by Martin Wilke. From 1962 to 1970, parallel to his work in Schleswig-Holstein, he also worked as a coach for the North German Football Association , whose selection teams regularly play games from. a. fought against Danish and Dutch teams. Between 1970 and 1975 he headed the Barsinghausen sports school as sports director of the Lower Saxony regional association .
In retrospect, Kirchrath describes himself as a typical authoritarian trainer who, for example, sent players home who were late when returning to sports school with the words "Contact your boss, I have already spoken to him on the phone." Association and club officials who put their street shoes in front of the room door in the evening - as was common in hotels at the time - found them unchanged the next morning and had to clean them themselves. Altona's striker Werner Erb describes him in retrospect as “good, but a little too much teacher, not a footballer”.
Training and teaching activities
In 1975 Klaus-Peter Kirchrath moved back to Schleswig-Holstein, where he taught football and tennis at the sports science institute of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel until 1991 . In 1977 he was appointed to Pennsylvania State University for a semester .
Kirchrath has also held a large number of seminars and courses in Europe, America and Africa since the early 1960s. He paid particular attention to trainer training in Turkey , where he trained, tested and licensed over a hundred trainers in the 1st and 2nd divisions in the 1960s alone and is therefore considered the "father of Turkish trainers". In 2005 the Turkish Football Association (TFF) awarded him the “Ehrenschild” for his services there over more than four decades, which until today (2009) only two former TFF presidents, Hasan Cemal Polat and Sahir Gürkan , apart from Kirchrath , have received.
After his retirement, Klaus-Peter Kirchrath continues to live in the Altona district of Ottensen , just a stone's throw from his former place of work on the Adolf-Jäger-Kampfbahn . When he was 80 years old, he was swinging the tennis racket himself.
literature
- Norbert Carsten: Altona 93. 111 league years in ups and downs. The workshop, Göttingen 2003 ISBN 3-89533-437-5
- Reinhard Gusner: "Isn't that there ...?" A portrait of Klaus-Peter Kirchrath. In: SHFV-Magazin III / 2007 ( PDF of the issue )
- Ralf Hohmann / German Sports Club for Football Statistics eV: Football in Hamburg 1945 to 1963. All leagues, all tables, all results. AGON, Kassel 2007 ISBN 3-89784-333-1
- Bernd Jankowski, Harald Pistorius, Jens Reimer Prüß : Football in the North. 100 years of the North German Football Association. History, chronicle, names, dates, facts, figures. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-270-X .
- Christian Jessen: Sepp Herberger's husband in Malente. Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag, 2013 ( [1] Link to the article on shz.de)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carsten, p. 187; Gero Bisanz / DSHS: 40 years of football teacher training. Cologne 1988
- ↑ Gusner's assertion (p. 26) that Kirchrath won the first Schleswig-Holstein Cup competition with Brunsbüttelkoog in 1954 is not true, according to Kirchrath.
- ↑ Hohmann, pp. 83/84 and 100
- ↑ Gusner, pp. 26f., And Kirchrath's communication to the main author of this article.
- ↑ Carsten, p. 158
- ↑ Article on the website of the Turkish trainer association TÜFAD ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Gusner, p. 27
- ↑ based on personal information from Kirchrath to the main author of this article
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kirchrath, Klaus-Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sterkrade |