Rolf Bierhoff

Rolf Bierhoff (born December 3, 1938 in Cologne ) is a former German soccer goalkeeper and manager in the energy industry.

Career

In his youth, Bierhoff played together with Karl-Heinz Schnellinger at SG Düren 99 and in the German youth national team , with which both took part in the UEFA youth tournament in Spain in April 1957 . As early as 1956, both of them - as well as Fritz Pott , who comes from 1. FC Köln - had been on the field together for a West German junior team. In the Düren 99 contract team, the 17-year-old Bierhoff was the second goalkeeper behind regular goalkeeper Willi Hamacher. He represented this in front of a large crowd of around 10,000 spectators in the home game defeat against Borussia Mönchengladbach , relegated from the Oberliga West , which at the end of the 1957/58 season managed to climb back up as second in the table.

After graduation, the 1958 Bierhoff on Stiftisches school Düren made, he participated in the Technical University of Karlsruhe one study engineering at. At the same time, he joined the Karlsruher SC , which played in the Oberliga Süd. However, he had only one point game use there in the 1958/59 season. He also guarded the gate in the university selection team, in which he played together with the later SAP co- founder Dietmar Hopp and the later Europa-Park founder and manager Roland Mack , where he won an international university tournament together with the latter in 1968 in Verona, Italy . From 1959 to 1961 he played again with SG Düren 99, which had meanwhile been relegated to the third-class association league Mittelrhein . From 1962 he was active during his studies in Karlsruhe with the amateur club ASV Durlach in Baden . With the club he rose in 1965 under coach Kurt Ehrmann in the third division. Due to a fractured cheekbone from a punch he had to take a break in 1967 before finally ending his career in 1968 for professional reasons.

Bierhoff worked for RWE until 2002 ; between 1984 and 1989 he was a board member of Vereinigte Saar-Elektrizität . Later he sat on the supervisory board of VSE, but also on the control bodies of Hamburg Airport and SaarLB .

family

Bierhoff is the son of the lawyer Eduard Bierhoff and the father of the former national soccer player and DFB official Oliver Bierhoff and the television presenter Nicole Bierhoff . Bernd Schneider was at times his son-in-law.

Web links

Rolf Bierhoff in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

↑ Team captain of the West German selection. In: Picture Book Cologne. Retrieved June 21, 2019 .
↑ Joachim Klaehn: SAP Forum: Football, Technology and Phantom Goal. In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung. November 12, 2013, accessed June 21, 2019 .
↑ View into the park - Rust. In: Badische Zeitung. September 20, 2010, accessed June 21, 2019 .
↑ Cathrin Gilbert, Hanns-Bruno Kammertöns: With the cross pushed through. In: ZEIT online. June 12, 2014, accessed June 21, 2019 .
↑ Football - Maybe an auditor . In: Der Spiegel . tape 22/1988 . Spiegel-Verlag, Hamburg May 30, 1988, p. 173; 176 ( spiegel.de [accessed June 21, 2019]).

personal data
SURNAME	Bierhoff, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German soccer goalkeeper and manager in the energy industry
DATE OF BIRTH	December 3, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne

[1] Team captain of the West German selection. In: Picture Book Cologne. Retrieved June 21, 2019 .

[2] Joachim Klaehn: SAP Forum: Football, Technology and Phantom Goal. In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung. November 12, 2013, accessed June 21, 2019 .

[3] View into the park - Rust. In: Badische Zeitung. September 20, 2010, accessed June 21, 2019 .

[4] Cathrin Gilbert, Hanns-Bruno Kammertöns: With the cross pushed through. In: ZEIT online. June 12, 2014, accessed June 21, 2019 .

[5] Football - Maybe an auditor . In: Der Spiegel . tape 22/1988 . Spiegel-Verlag, Hamburg May 30, 1988, p. 173; 176 ( spiegel.de [accessed June 21, 2019]).