Kuno Klötzer

Kuno Klötzer
Kuno Klötzer (1977)
Personnel
birthday	April 19, 1922
place of birth	Geyer ,  Germany
date of death	August 6, 2011
Place of death	Norderstedt , Germany
position	Middle runner
Juniors
Years	station
	VfB Geyer
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1946-1949	Helmstedter SV
1949-1952	Werder Bremen	29 (2)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1949	Helmstedter SV
1953	NFV
1953	SV Arminia Hanover
1953-1957	Fortuna Dusseldorf
1957-1958	Hannover 96
1958-1961	Prussia Munster
1961-1963	Black and white food
1963-1967	Fortuna Dusseldorf
1967-1968	Wuppertal SV
1968-1969	Red and white food
1969-1970	1. FC Nuremberg
1971-1972	Kickers Offenbach
1973-1977	Hamburger SV
1977-1979	Hertha BSC
1980-1981	Werder Bremen
1981-1982	MSV Duisburg
1 Only league games are given.

Kuno Klötzer (born April 19, 1922 in Geyer ; † August 6, 2011 in Norderstedt ) was a German football player and coach who won the European Cup Winners' Cup with Hamburger SV in 1977 . In total, he coached 15 teams in 30 years, including Fortuna Düsseldorf twice .

career

Player, 1932 to 1952

Kuno Klötzer experienced his youth in the western part of the Ore Mountains . At home with VfB Geyer he used to play football in the summer, and skied and jumped in the winter. At the age of 18 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and wounded three times on the Eastern Front during five years of the war . At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the British. After staying in the camp in Stade , he came to Helmstedt . There he started again with football and joined the Helmstedter SV . With the "HSV" he made it into the Braunschweig Association League in 1947. When the man from Saxony had achieved qualification for the newly created Amateur Oberliga Ost as a player-coach with the team from Bötschenberg in 1949 , he accepted Werder Bremen's offer for the 1949/50 round and became a contract player in the Oberliga Nord . In Helmstedt he had earned his living as a groundskeeper and as an employee in the driving service of the district administration.

Klötzer made his debut in the league on the first match day of the 1949/50 round, on September 4, 1949, in the 3-0 away win at Göttingen 05 . Together with goalkeeper Dragomir Ilic and defender couple Herbert Burdenski and Richard Ackerschott , the middle runner kept the 05er attack in check. Because of a knee injury, Klötzer ended his playing career prematurely and therefore only made 29 appearances with two goals at Werder Bremen from 1949 to 1952. As early as 1949, under the direction of Sepp Herberger at the Sports University in Cologne, he had successfully completed the coach training in the second course after the Second World War. On June 1, 1952, he took up a position as an association coach at the Lower Saxony Football Association and took over the sporting management of the NFV sports school in Barsinghausen on August 1 .

Trainer, 1952 to 1982

Association work, Oberliga, Regionalliga, Bundesliga, until 1972

With the new association coach, the selection of Lower Saxony played in the regional cup competition of the 1952/53 season with successes against Berlin, Bremen and in the semifinals against Hessen in the final. On April 25, 1953, the host, Heinz Conradi von Eintracht Nordhorn and the two Braunschweig players Heinz Senftleben and Werner Thamm, lost 2: 5 against the superior team from Bavaria, which was led by Fritz Semmelmann and Johann Zeitler .

From February 1953, in addition to his work at the association, Klötzer had saved Arminia Hannover as an interim trainer from relegation from the Oberliga Nord . After the end of the season he was finally drawn to the club and he therefore accepted the offer from Fortuna Düsseldorf from the Oberliga West for the round in 1953/54.

He looked after the Flinger Broich team for four rounds. From 1955 to 1957 he took sixth place with the Fortuna in the West German upper house. Then in 1957/58 a season at Hannover 96 followed in the Oberliga Nord before he moved back to the West. He was responsible for three rounds from 1958 to 1961 Prussia Münster . When he took over the newcomers to the league, Schwarz-Weiß Essen , in 1961/62 , he led the Uhlenkrug team around Theo Klöckner , Manfred Rummel , Heinz Steinmann and Horst Trimhold to fourth place. At the start of the West Regional Football League in 1963/64 , he returned to Fortuna Düsseldorf. In the first two rounds, Klötzer took third place. In 1966, the year of the soccer world championship, he won the championship with Fortuna Dusseldorf ahead of Rot-Weiss Essen and Alemannia Aachen , also prevailed in the promotion round and thus moved into the Bundesliga . But Klötzer could not keep the climber with the top performers Werner Biskup , Waldemar Gerhardt , Hans-Josef Hellingrath and Peter Meyer in the upper house and was relegated as the penultimate in 1967.

The Fortuna Presidium wanted to fill the coaching position because of the planned reorganization. Klötzer went to the 1967/68 round for Wuppertaler SV in the Regionalliga West. After twelve months, he traveled from Mittelberg to Rot-Weiss on Essen's Hafenstrasse. When the reigning German champions 1. FC Nürnberg believed in April 1969 that they could only ward off the impending relegation by changing their coach, the intrepid fighter Klötzer signed with the Franks on April 12, 1969. Due to the 3-0 defeat at 1. FC Köln on the final day , Nuremberg was relegated from the Bundesliga. Klötzer took third place with the "Club" in the Regionalliga Süd in 1969/70 and was then able to rest for seven months, only to try his hand at a threatened Bundesliga club again from February 24, 1971: Kickers Offenbach rose in the " Scandal Round "1970/71. Again the 34th matchday decided. Klötzer's team lost 2: 4 at 1. FC Köln, Rot-Weiß Oberhausen scored a point with a 1: 1 in Braunschweig and Arminia Bielefeld won 1: 0 at Hertha BSC . The Hessen slipped back to 17th place and thus out of the Bundesliga; Oberhausen and Bielefeld saved their stay in the Bundesliga with manipulated game outcomes. Klötzer immediately led the OFC to the championship unbeaten in the Regionalliga Süd in 1971/72 and to an immediate return to the Bundesliga in the promotion round. In future, however, President Canellas relied on Gyula Lóránt ; the promotion coach Klötzer could calmly consider how a coach can secure the favor of a presidium.

Hamburger SV, 1973 to 1977

In 1973/74, the 51-year-old Kuno Klötzer took over as coach from Klaus-Dieter Ochs at Hamburger SV. In the league, the consistent worker could not achieve success quickly, the HSV finished twelfth at the end of the round. In the DFB Cup , however, Klötzer moved with his new team into the final on August 17, 1974 against Eintracht Frankfurt . In the second season - they had shown the right nose with the newcomers with Horst Bertl , Willi Reimann and Hans-Jürgen Sperlich - the improvement was already clearly successful when they achieved fourth place. In the third year, 1975/76, only the champions Borussia Mönchengladbach were placed ahead of the Hamburg team. On June 26, 1976, the Klötzer troop won the DFB Cup of 1976 with a 2-0 win against 1. FC Kaiserslautern. HSV started its fourth year with the newcomers Ferdinand Keller , Felix Magath and Arno Steffenhagen with coach Klötzer. The desired success did not materialize in the league - Hamburg took sixth place - and General Manager Peter Krohn also criticized more and more Knight Kuno in public . Despite these obvious tensions, coach Klötzer's team won the European Cup Winners' Cup on May 11, 1977 in the Amsterdam Olympic Stadium with a 2-0 win against RSC Anderlecht . The gnarled specialist from Saxony, in his many years of wandering through the leagues, he was always a preacher of "honest work" in his numerous stations, and was thus at the peak of his athletic creativity. Krohn signed Rudi Gutendorf as Klötzer's successor for the 1977/78 round , as well as the star of Liverpool FC , Kevin Keegan , and the establishment on the European football sky seemed to be certain. Gutendorf's activities in Hamburg ended on October 27, 1977, HSV came tenth in the Bundesliga, were eliminated in the round of 16 of the European Cup against Anderlecht and Klötzer and Hertha BSC were third in the 1977/78 Bundesliga .

Hertha BSC, Werder Bremen and MSV Duisburg, until 1982

After his involvement with Hamburger SV, Klötzer found a new job at Hertha BSC. Hertha had finished tenth in the 1976/77 season with 34:34 points. Surprisingly, Klötzer led the league table with Hertha behind the two championship rivals 1. FC Köln and Borussia Mönchengladbach and finished third at the end of the round. In the second year on the Spree, the Bundesliga went down, but the Berliners did well in the cup competitions. In the 1978/79 UEFA Cup, Hertha only narrowly failed in the semifinals against Red Star Belgrade . The DFB Cup final on June 23, 1979 in Hanover against Fortuna Düsseldorf lost Klötzer's team 1-0 in extra time. After the tenth round of the 1979/80 round, Kuno Klötzer was released on October 27, 1979 at the financially troubled Hertha. At that time, Hertha was in penultimate place in the league and was relegated at the end; Another change of coach didn't help either.

In Bremen, after relegation to the Bundesliga in 1980, a coach was urgently sought for immediate promotion. President Franz Böhmert and manager Rudi Assauer trusted the experienced specialist Klötzer and went with him into the 1980/81 round in the 2nd Bundesliga North . For the newcomers, Assauer and Klötzer opted for the two oldies Klaus Fichtel and Erwin Kostedde and the talent of Bergedorf 85 , Norbert Meier . In fact, Klötzer got Werder going right away, the mix in the team was right, his speech was authentic and success was immediate.

On February 8, 1981, Kuno Klötzer suffered a serious traffic accident on the B 214 between Celle and Braunschweig on an icy road, in which he suffered a broken rib, lacerations and a concussion. Because of a boring headache, he could not continue his coaching job. From April Otto Rehhagel continued his mission, rose to the Bundesliga with Bremen and surprisingly developed into a successful long-term coach over the next few years.

Beginning December 1981 turned the now 59-year-old once in the Bundesliga back when the stand in last place MSV Duisburg him after the 15th matchday to succeed Friedhelm Wenzlaff took that after a defeat at relegation rivals SV Darmstadt 98 completely out of favor had fallen. Klötzer blasphemed after four more defeats in a row: "Sometimes I think my young predecessor only held recitals with the team." In the end, Klötzer's statistics were a bit worse than Wenzlaffs and the team with the aging stars Bernard Dietz and Rudi Seliger rose from. For the first time since 1956, the MSV was second class again.

From then on, Klötzer lived with his wife Anneliese in Norderstedt in the south of Schleswig-Holstein at the gates of Hamburg, one kilometer from the Hamburger SV training center, with which he remained connected to the end and whose games he still regularly attended. In the spring of 2011 he suffered a heart attack. He was unable to recover and died on August 6, 2011 at the age of 89.

Success as a trainer

• Final in the national cup of 1953 as association coach of Lower Saxony
• Champion 1965/66 in the Regionalliga West with Fortuna Düsseldorf and promotion to the Bundesliga
• Champion 1971/72 in the Regionalliga Süd with Kickers Offenbach and promotion to the Bundesliga
• Cup finalist 1974 with Hamburger SV
• Cup winner and runner-up in 1976 with Hamburger SV
• Victory in the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1977 with Hamburger SV
• Semi-final participation in the 1978/79 UEFA Cup with Hertha BSC
• 1979 DFB Cup final with Hertha BSC
• Champion in the 2nd Bundesliga 1980/81 and promotion to the Bundesliga with Werder Bremen

literature

• Football in Lower Saxony, 50 years of the Lower Saxony Football Association , 1996
• Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-463-1 .
• Jürgen Bitter : The master makers. wero press, Pfaffenweiler 2004, ISBN 3-937588-02-7 .
• Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. The encyclopedia. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00857-8 .
• Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 6: German Cup history since 1935. Pictures, statistics, stories, constellations. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-146-0 .
• 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 .
• Matthias Kropp: Triumphs in the European Cup. All games of the German clubs since 1955 (= AGON Sportverlag statistics. Volume 20). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-75-4 .
• Hardy Grüne, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Web links

• Kuno Klötzer in the database of fussballdaten.de (with photo)
• Kuno Klötzer in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ex-Bundesliga coach: Kuno Klötzer is dead. Retrieved on August 6, 2011 . 
2. ↑ Hans-Otto Busche / Heinz Fricke, Das Große Werderbuch, Football History and Stories, page 31
3. ↑ The last attack, Der Spiegel, 7/1982