Philipp Rohr

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Philipp "Fips" Rohr (born August 10, 1918 in Mannheim ; † September 30, 2007 there ) was a German football player and coach . As a player, he was active for VfR Mannheim before and after the Second World War . Between 1949 and 1973 he worked as a trainer at VfR and VfL Neckarau , among others .

Career

Player, 1930-1948

Philipp Rohr started the soccer game at the age of twelve in the blue-white-red school team from VfR Mannheim . Before that, he had played football almost every day on the street and in the playground of the K5 school on Luisenring. Philipp Rohr later remarked: "Back then, the ball and the street gave us boys the opportunity to spend our free time carefree."

He was born with a talent for football from his father. Before and during the First World War, he was the fast and powerful right winger of MFC Phönix Mannheim . The father's four brothers also played at Phoenix. They were good or excellent footballers. The youngest brother and thus Philip's uncle, "Ossi" Rohr , became champions with FC Bayern in 1932 and played four games in the German national soccer team from 1932 to 1933 .

After running through the various youth teams of VfR Mannheim, Philipp Rohr was a member of the first team from 1936 to 1944 and played a total of 85 games in the Gauliga Baden and scored six goals. After the Second World War he played in the Oberliga Süd until the round in 1947/48 . On March 8, 1936, Philipp Rohr played half-left in the first league game with VfR Mannheim. The game took place in the Mösle Stadium in Freiburg against the local FFC . In 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944 Philipp Rohr was actively involved in winning four championship titles in the Gauliga Baden. He celebrated these successes alongside fellow players Philipp Henninger , Kurt Langenbein , Walter Danner , Eugen Rößling and Karl Striebinger . Philipp Rohr also took part in four final rounds of the German soccer championship in these years . On April 18, 1938, the lawn athletes of VfR Mannheim celebrated a 2-1 away win over the favored defending champions Schalke 04 on the Glückauf-Kampfbahn . Schalke and VfR were tied with 8: 4 points after the group games. The "Knappen" only prevailed through a better goal difference against Mannheim. In the other finals, the games against Admira Vienna , 1. FC Nürnberg and FV Saarbrücken stood out. After their success in the Badischer Pokal, VfR Mannheim only failed in the quarter-finals of the Tschammer Cup . On October 3, 1943 he was defeated by 3: 5 goals to the Dresdner SC . Philipp Rohr tried as a middle runner to prevent the men around Helmut Schön from progressing.

Rohr, who mostly acts as an outsider , represented the Mannheim colors both in city selection comparisons and in representative games of the Baden region and southern Germany. In 1938 Philipp Rohr played with a German B selection under the direction of Karl Hohmann in Iceland. As a student national player, he was involved in winning the 1939 student world championship in Vienna. With an air force selection, Philipp Rohr went to a game in Barcelona in 1941. His playmates were u. a. Josef Fath , Willy Jürissen , Alfons Moog, Reinhold Munzenberg and Ludwig Janda . Ricardo Zamora guarded the Spanish team's goal.

In January 1945, Philipp Rohr was released from the French Pouxeux POW camp in Épinal . He returned to Mannheim and was active again for VfR Mannheim when the Oberliga Süd started in 1945/46. In the Oberliga Süd he played 47 games for VfR Mannheim from 1945 to 1948. On January 18, 1948, Philipp Rohr took part in the catch-up game against RW Frankfurt. He scored his first and last goal in the league in the 77th minute. The game was won with 5: 1 goals on the pitch at the breweries. The end of the game was also Philipp Rohr's farewell to his time as an active player.

Trainer

VfR Mannheim, 1949–1962

Since 1949 "Fips" Rohr worked as a youth coach at VfR Mannheim. His youth coaching activity at VfR culminated in winning the South German A youth championship in 1959. The training of young people was his passion. However, Philipp Rohr not only had the training of high-performing footballers in mind, but rather the promotion of personalities who face life. It was not primarily his past as a competitive footballer that qualified Philipp Rohr for the role of youth coach - rather, his experience as a family man and his training as a teacher recommended him. Philipp Rohr graduated from the Lessing-Gymnasium in 1937. This was followed by the state examination for higher teaching and employment as a trainee teacher in the subjects of sport, geography, French and history at the Lessing-Gymnasium in Mannheim in 1943 and 1947 respectively. Theodor “Teddy” Laumann went through the school of the youth coach “Fips” Rohr among others . This was considered a great talent in the 1950s. He brought it to two B-internationals and one junior game in 1956. His former A-youth players Hans Arnold , Dieter Sagray and Hans-Jürgen Wäckerle led Philipp Rohr into the regular formation of VfR Mannheim.

After four match days in the 1959/60 round, Philipp Rohr was given the job of head coach at VfR Mannheim. The lawn athletes were with 0: 8 points and 4:16 goals at the bottom of the table of the Oberliga Süd. The class was preserved under his coaching direction. The round could be finished in 10th place in the table. In total, his engagement lasted three rounds. After the 1961/62 season, Philipp Rohr handed over the lawn players team to his successor Helmut Kronsbein . At this point, the new striker Rudolf Bast from FV Speyer was already successfully integrated .

VfL Neckarau, 1962–1973

The man from VfR Mannheim held the position of coach at VfL Neckarau for eleven years . During his decade in Neckarau, Philipp Rohr experienced the entire range from promotion to championship to relegation. The sporting highlight was the promotion to the Regionalliga Süd in 1968 . The games against Karlsruher SC , Freiburger FC, SV Waldhof and VfR Mannheim in the 1967/68 round were remarkable . The games for the German amateur championship in 1970 were further highlights . VfL Neckarau lost to defending champion SC Jülich in 1910 in the extension of the semi-finals .

The coaching activity in Neckarau was very personal for Philipp Rohr, as five sons were part of his team. "Fips" Rohr, who was appointed high school professor in 1971, was particularly challenged as a teacher in this constellation. Hard but fair was his motto, enthusiasm and full commitment were his reward. Philipp Rohr described the time in the Waldweg Stadium as “a wonderful, varied era. It was a time when money played only a minor role for everyone involved. Mainly because none was available ”. Philipp Rohr's personal field of responsibility extended far beyond his athletic responsibility. Board functions alternated with groundskeeping work. Philipp Rohr was the "girl for everything".

Philipp Rohr held up the flag of the sporting-educational-methodical goals. He shaped players who took pride in sweating through their shirts. Performing in sports was not enough. Philipp Rohr pursued character development, of which his youngest son Gernot is an example in his work as a trainer and educator. With psychology and empathy, Philipp Rohr steered the ship of the "Blue-White". He encouraged and excited. He knew how to put words of praise as well as criticism.

His celebrated “Mannemer Fußballschbrooch” played a significant role in his success. In 1981 "Fips" Rohr was honored with the " Bloomaulorden ". This award from the city of Mannheim is given to personalities who represent Mannheim in a typical way. Philipp Rohr earned this special merit by receiving football idioms from Mannheim and Palatinate for posterity.

SV Waldhof Mannheim, 1973–1975

Philipp Rohr took over the coaching activity at SV Waldhof after the tenth game day of the 1973/74 round. The club was able to record a result of 8:12 points at this time. The new coach's first game took place on October 20, 1973. It was a home game of the last round of the Regionalliga Süd. The opponent was called VfR Mannheim. In front of 10,000 spectators, the game of the two city rivals ended in a 1: 1 draw. Waldhof won the second leg on March 16, 1974 with 7-4 goals. Rohr led his team, the successors of Otto Siffling , to 7th place in the table. The move into the newly installed 2nd Bundesliga Group South was successful. In the 1974/75 season, Philipp Rohr placed his club in eighth place in the table with 40:36 points. In December 1974 Philipp Rohr faced Bernd Förster's move to FC Bayern Munich . However, the gap was filled without delay. Gernot Rohr, Philipp Rohr's youngest son, moved from Bayern Munich to SV Waldhof. Another son played under the direction of his father: Volker Rohr came to 26 missions at SV Waldhof. With the establishment of the club in the 2nd Bundesliga, coach Rohr laid the foundation for his future in professional football.

Since spring 1972, "Fips" Rohr took on the role of the sick association sports teacher Jupp Schneider at the Badischer Fußballverband in Karlsruhe. He led the Baden amateur selection in the final of the national cup , which took place on May 11, 1972 in Weinheim in Baden. Baden won 2-1 goals against Lower Saxony. Under the eyes of the ex-national coach Sepp Herberger , the Mannheim soccer school dominated that day. In addition to Gernot and Volker Rohr, Poly from VfL Neckarau, Sebert , Bartels, Träutlein and Harms from Waldhof Mannheim and the lawn athletes Kraus and Spankowski contributed to the dominance .

Supplement to the trainer stations

  • 1952-1956 BSC Oppau; Champion 1952/53 and promotion to the 2nd league southwest
  • 1958 Tura Ludwigshafen, Oberliga Südwest
  • 1981 Maccabiade in Israel with the German-Jewish selection
  • 1981 German school runner-up; "Youth trains"

Mannemer football brooch

About the game of the VfR in its good times: “The Rasehewwel hawwe had their squabbles, long and drogge, bad passes, exact cover, winged bugs had to be a lot oigsedsd. Flonge beat un thunder bang ”, that was the simple concept of the fast, deeply laid out style of play. In high German: “The 'lawn planers' had their style, long and dry, steep passes, precise cover, wingers have to be used a lot. Hit flanks and then a murderous thump ”.

Others

Rohr, who worked as a teacher at the Lessing Gymnasium in Mannheim , had seven children with his wife Elisabeth (born 1922): Günther, Rüdiger, Hagen †, Gernot , Helga, Volker † and Hans “Hannes”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. CD-ROM supplement in: Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933–1945. Publishing house regional culture. Ubstadt-Weiher 2016. ISBN 978-3-89735-879-9 .
  2. ↑ Rohr: A bloomaul on the ball. Mannemer football and dialect. Südwestdt. Publishing house. Mannheim 1992. p. 27.
  3. ↑ Rohr: A bloomaul on the ball. Mannemer football and dialect. Südwestdt. Publishing house. Mannheim 1992. p. 22.
personal data
SURNAME Rohr, Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pipe, fips
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German football player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim , Grand Duchy of Baden , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 2007
Place of death Mannheim , Baden-Wuerttemberg , Germany