Rolf Rüssmann

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Rolf Rüssmann
Personnel
birthday October 13, 1950
place of birth Schwelm ,  Germany
date of death October 2, 2009
Place of death Gelsenkirchen ,  Germany
size 185 cm
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
1962-1969 FC Schwelm 06
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1969-1973 FC Schalke 04 105 (10)
1973 Club Bruges 11 0(0)
1974-1980 FC Schalke 04 199 (20)
1980-1985 Borussia Dortmund 149 (18)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Germany U-23 5 0(0)
1977-1988 Germany 20 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.

Rolf Rüssmann (born October 13, 1950 in Schwelm ; † October 2, 2009 in Gelsenkirchen ) was a German football player and manager .

Career as a footballer

The header strong Vorstopper played from 1969 to 1973 when FC Schalke 04 . With this club, he was the 1972 DFB Cup winner and German runner-up. In 1972 he was in the provisional squad for the national team . He was removed from the squad after the Schalke players' involvement in the Bundesliga scandal came to light. An international career had become impossible for the time being. Rüssmann was finally sentenced by the Essen Regional Court, banned by the DFB from March 1973 and fined. However, since he was given clearance for foreign leagues, he moved to Belgium for Club Bruges . After his pardon in January 1974, he returned to FC Schalke 04 and was runner-up with the club in 1977. On December 1, 1980, he moved to Borussia Dortmund , where he played in the Bundesliga until 1985 . With 453 games in which he scored 48 goals, he was 24th on the list of players with the most Bundesliga appearances before the 2015/16 season.

For the German national team, he played in 20 international matches in 1977 and 1978 . His only goal in a game of the national team he scored in the 1-0 victory against the Soviet Union on March 8, 1978. Rüssmann took part in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina , where he was a regular in all six games of the German team .

Career as a manager

On February 25, 1987, Rüssmann became manager of FC Schalke 04 as the successor to Rudi Assauer . On August 10, 1987, however, he resigned after a dispute with President Günter Siebert .

On April 1, 1990, Rüssmann was trained by Helmut Grashoff as a manager at Borussia Mönchengladbach . There he developed a sponsorship concept in order to promote the club economically and to develop other potential advertising partners in addition to the main sponsor at the time, the Tuborg brewery . From January 15, 1991, he was the officially responsible manager as the successor to Grashoff. In July 1992 he was released and warned , but his lawyer Reinhard Rauball took action . One week after Karl-Heinz Drygalsky was elected as the new President, he brought him back as a manager at the beginning of September of that year. Under his leadership, top performers such as Heiko Herrlich and Patrik Andersson were hired, and Stefan Effenberg was brought back from Italy in the summer of 1994. With a 3-0 win against VfL Wolfsburg , the club won the DFB Cup for the third time in the club's history in 1995 , and under coach Bernd Krauss they were able to return to the top of the Bundesliga. At the end of 1996 Borussia was in 17th place in the table and Krauss was on leave due to lack of success, but under the successors Hannes Bongartz , Norbert Meier and Friedel Rausch , the club stayed in the table cellar. On November 10, 1998, the club at the bottom of the table in the Bundesliga separated from its sporting management and released Rausch and Rüssmann from their duties at the same time. A short time later there were media reports that an auditor's report on the tenure of his predecessor Drygalsky, commissioned by Wilfried Jacobs , president of the association since October 1997, also accused the manager Rüssmann of mismanagement. Subsequently, the Presidium confirmed "errors and organizational weaknesses in different areas of action", but contradicted the conclusions about mismanagement.

On February 1, 2001, Rüssmann succeeded Karlheinz Förster as manager of VfB Stuttgart and was appointed to the board of the first division club at the time. Three weeks later, coach Ralf Rangnick resigned from his position, Rüssmann signed Felix Magath as his successor . After the club, which was in debt with over 30 million D-Marks, initially had to forego major transfers, the club increasingly relied on talent from its own youth, for which the term " young wild ones " established itself over time. Nevertheless, after founding a “Beteiligungs-GmbH” initiated by VfB President Manfred Haas in December 2001, with the commitment of Fernando Meira, he was able to manage the most expensive transfer in the club's history at 13 million D-Marks. After the collapse of the Kirch Group in April 2002, Rüssmann announced drastic cost-cutting measures at the club, which particularly concerned salary cuts and the compliance with bonuses. While the club qualified as one of the three winners for the 2002/03 UEFA Cup in the summer of the 2002/03 UEFA Intertoto Cup , wintered there and finished fifth at the end of the first half of the 2002/03 Bundesliga season , it was for There was a break between Rüssmann and his two board colleagues. After public statements in which he spoke of bullying , among other things, this led to his early release on December 19, 2002, one year before his contract expired. Subsequently, Rüssmann was a member of the voluntary committees for promoting young talent at the DFB and the DFL.

Rüssmann died October 2, 2009 a prostate - cancer . He was married and had two daughters. His grave can be found in the Protestant old town cemetery in Gelsenkirchen .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Hendriock: Mourning for ex-national player Rolf Rüssmann. In: DerWesten.de. October 4, 2009, accessed July 1, 2015 .
  2. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Rolf Rüssmann - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. December 3, 2015. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
  3. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Germany - All-Time Most Matches Played in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. June 4, 2015. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
  4. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Rolf Rüssmann - International Appearances . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. December 3, 2015. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
  5. ↑ Handelsblatt: “When looking for new sources of money, some Bundesliga clubs want to fight for points on the stock exchange soon. In professional football, more and more table footballers are benefiting from sponsor pools ”, August 8, 1990 p. 17
  6. ↑ The daily newspaper: “Frech, krumm oelig, high”, July 25, 1992 p. 27
  7. ↑ The daily newspaper: "Honorable Rüssmann - Borussia Mönchengladbach brings back fired managers", September 5, 1992 p. 12
  8. ↑ Leipziger-Volkszeitung: "The bottom light of the Bundesliga separates from coach Rausch and manager Rüssmann", November 11, 1998, p. 29
  9. ↑ Saarbrücker Zeitung: "Breakdowns and bankruptcies on the Bökelberg - auditors uncover years of mismanagement at Borussia Mönchengladbach", November 26, 1998
  10. ^ Frankfurter Neue Presse: "New allegations against Rüssmann", 98/11 p. 2
  11. ↑ Die Welt: "Rüssmann wants to stop players fleeing - Stuttgart's new manager is also on the board and promises coach Rangnick freedom of action", February 2, 2001 p. 28
  12. ↑ Die Welt: "With Fernando Meira the saving stops in Stuttgart - the heavily indebted VfB pays the 13-million-man from Lisbon on credit: investment company advances money", December 28, 2001, p. 25
  13. ^ Saarbrücker Zeitung: "Between the Church Crisis and Black Money", August 7, 2002
  14. ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung: "The manager fired - the Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart in the future without the expert Rüssmann", December 20, 2002 p. 45
  15. ↑ Bundesliga veteran: Rolf Rüssmann is dead . Spiegel-Online , October 3, 2009, accessed January 27, 2016.
  16. ↑ Ex-national player Rolf Rüssmann dies of cancer . welt.de , October 3, 2009, accessed November 1, 2015.
  17. ^ Mourning for Rolf Rüssmann "I lost my best friend" , Spiegel Online , October 3, 2009
  18. ^ The grave of Rolf Rüssmann on knerger.de, accessed on January 27, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Rüssmann, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and manager
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwelm , Germany
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 2009
Place of death Gelsenkirchen , Germany