Rudi Assauer

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Rudi Assauer
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Rudi Assauer (2002)
Personnel
Surname Rudolf Assauer
birthday April 30, 1944
place of birth Sulzbach - Altenwald ,  Germany
date of death February 6, 2019
Place of death Herten , Germany
size 180 cm
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
1952-1963 SpVgg Herten
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1963-1964 SpVgg Herten 35 (7)
1964-1970 Borussia Dortmund 119 (8)
1970-1976 Werder Bremen 188 (4)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1966-1967 Germany U23 2 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1980 Werder Bremen
1981 FC Schalke 04
1983 FC Schalke 04
1 Only league games are given.

Rudolf "Rudi" Assauer (born April 30, 1944 in Sulzbach - Altenwald ; † February 6, 2019 in Herten ) was a German professional footballer who played a total of 307 Bundesliga games for Borussia Dortmund and Werder Bremen between 1964 and 1976 . His subsequent activity as a manager led him via Bremen to FC Schalke 04 and in the meantime to the second division VfB Oldenburg . As a football official and advertising medium, Assauer cultivated the image of the self-confident businessman and macho for a long time through appearance and statements . In 2012 his autobiography was published, in which his Alzheimer's disease is discussed.

Career as a professional soccer player

Rudi Assauer (center) and Werner Biskup (left, in front of Assauer) at the international match of a youth team between West Germany and the Netherlands, June 1965 in Emmerich am Rhein
As part of the BVB winning team of the 1966 European Cup and for his 40-year membership at BVB, Rudi Assauer received a star on the BVB Walk of Fame in 2010

Assauer grew up in Herten , Westphalia , where he started playing football for the local sports club Spielvereinigung Herten in 1952 at the age of eight. After he played for the club in the second-class regional league , Borussia Dortmund brought him to the Bundesliga from the second division in 1964 . At the side of players like Dieter Kurrat , Lothar Emmerich , Aki Schmidt , Hans Tilkowski and Reinhard Libuda, he worked there in the early years of the new German elite class in the defense line, when Borussia regularly placed in the top division. In 1966 he moved with the team in the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup against the English representative FC Liverpool . On May 5, 1966, he was part of the team in Glasgow that brought a European Cup to Germany for the first time with a 2-1 win after extra time.

After six years and 119 Bundesliga games, Assauer joined Werder Bremen in 1970 . There he was at the side of Horst-Dieter Höttges , Arnold Schütz , Ole Bjørnmose , Egon Coordes and Karl-Heinz Kamp right away and experienced the post break from Bökelberg on the field under coach Robert Gebhardt . When the success failed, the club changed coaches several times during the season. Even under Willi Multhaup , Sepp Piontek and Fritz Langner , the defender was always a regular. In the following seasons, the team ranked in the middle of the table, in the season 1974/75 he came with the team around Karl-Heinz Kamp, Jürgen Röber , Werner Görts and Dieter Zembski in danger of relegation. After being rescued by one point ahead of VfB Stuttgart , he then played his last season in German professional football and then, after a total of 307 Bundesliga games, moved to the management of the club for which he had played 188 first division games in six seasons.

In 1966 and 1967 he also played two games for the German U-23 national team .

Achievements during the active career

Career as a football manager

Rudi Assauer and Christian Stratmann (2009)
Assauer at the celebration after winning the 2001/02 DFB Cup

From 1976 to 1981 he worked as a manager at Werder Bremen, then from May 15, 1981 to December 4, 1986 for the first time at FC Schalke 04 , where he acted twice as interim coach. The first term there ended with his dismissal. Background was u. a. his falling out with the trainer Rolf Schafstall at the time. After four years working in the real estate sector in Bremen , he became manager of the then second division club VfB Oldenburg in 1990 . During this time, VfB was missing a single point for promotion to the 1st Bundesliga.

On April 1, 1993 Assauer became Schalke manager for the second time. During his second term in office, he soon achieved sporting and financial success. In the meantime, he was temporarily on leave from President Helmut Kremers , who was only in office for three months . Kremers had been elected against Assauer's will. During Assauer's tenure, the club won the UEFA Cup in 1997 and the DFB Cup in 2001 and 2002 . In 2001 the German championship was narrowly missed, Schalke became the champions of hearts . In 2001 the Veltins Arena was opened. On May 17, 2006, he resigned as manager after the supervisory board unanimously withdrew his confidence. He had been accused of self-importance. The planned deportation to the post of CEO was over with his resignation.

Assauer then worked as a consultant for Wuppertaler SV Borussia and commented on current events in the Bundesliga in the weekly video blog Zündstoff .

Despite his later involvement with rival FC Schalke 04, Assauer remained loyal to Dortmund's Borussia as a club member. In 2010 he was honored for his 40-year membership.

Image and advertising

Assauer made the cigar his trademark.

In several commercials with his then partner Simone Thomalla for the Veltins brewery, Assauer satirized the macho image he was said to have been . On February 2, 2006, he and Thomalla won the Golden Camera television award in the category of best advertising spot with celebrities for the “Surprise” spot. The cabaret artist Fritz Eckenga caricatured Assauer's image as a Ruhrpott macho through his fictional character "Football Manager A." in the form of a running gag .

Personal

Rudi Assauer (undated)

Assauer had an older brother (Lothar) and a twin sister (Karin). He left school at the age of 14 and learned the trade of a steel construction fitter . He then worked for six months at the Ewald colliery in Herten. When he was later under contract with Borussia Dortmund, he completed further vocational training as a banker .

In 1970 he married Inge Lückert, and their daughter Katy was born in the same year. After separating in 1986, both were married until 2007. The daughter Bettina, born in 1965, comes from an earlier relationship. Since 1987 the handball player Beate Schneider was his partner for about 12 years. Assauer was later in a relationship with Simone Thomalla from 2000 to early 2009 . In April 2011 Assauer married the reporter Britta Idrizi.

At the end of January 2012 it became known that Assauer was suffering from Alzheimer's . The disease has been featured in a television documentary and in Assauer's memoir, How Exchanged . His older brother Lothar also suffered from Alzheimer's for a few years and died in February 2013 at the age of 81 as a result of the disease.

Assauer lived with his daughter Bettina since 2012; his second marriage was divorced in early 2013. He died in February 2019 at the age of 74 as a result of his Alzheimer's disease and was not buried in the Schalke-Grabfeld neighboring arena, but anonymously in a funeral forest.

Aftermath

The "Rudi Assauer non-profit initiative Dementia and Society (GID) GmbH" is dedicated to removing taboos from dementia and promoting dementia initiatives. It awards several prizes for commendable commitment.

On May 4, 2018, the documentary film Rudi Assauer - Macher. Human. Legend. by the director Don Schubert premiere in the Veltins-Arena. The film is about Assauer's life. Due to his dementia, Assauer himself only had a say in older recordings in the film. With 21,590 viewers, it was the biggest film premiere in Germany.

On the evening of Assauer's death, FC Schalke 04 played against Fortuna Düsseldorf in the round of 16 of the DFB Cup . There was a minute's silence, and both teams wore a black ribbon. Schalke won the game 4-1.

On February 15, 2019, a memorial ceremony took place in the provost church of St. Urbanus in Gelsenkirchen-Buer and in the Veltins-Arena . In addition to family, friends and representatives from Schalke, Prime Minister Armin Laschet , Gelsenkirchen's Lord Mayor Frank Baranowski , representatives of the German Football League, the German Football Association and many Bundesliga clubs, including Uli Hoeneß and Reinhard Rauball, were among the approximately 1,000 mourners. Around 2000 Schalke supporters were able to watch the ceremony live on the large video cube in the Veltins Arena celebration.

Web links

Commons : Rudi Assauer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: Rudi Assauer  - in the news

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b (jan): Rudi Assauer died at the age of 74. In: Spiegel Online . February 6, 2019, accessed February 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Rudolf Assauer. In: Football Database. Retrieved February 8, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Trainer. In: schalke04.de. Retrieved February 8, 2019 .
  4. ↑ The most beautiful scandals of FC Schalke 04 part 18
  5. ↑ The most beautiful scandals of FC Schalke 04 part 27
  6. ↑ Dismantling a monument - Schalke to Assauer
  7. ↑ Interview with Clemens Tönnies: "Assauer knows that he plays with fire"
  8. ↑ Fritz Eckenga is no longer football manager A. In: RP Online. February 9, 2012, accessed February 8, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Assauer shows his twin sister for the first time. In: bild.de. September 5, 2007, accessed July 24, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Rudi Assauer: As changed: fading memories of my life . Riva Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86413-173-8 ( google.de [accessed on February 7, 2019]).
  11. ↑ Schalke's ex-manager: Assauer's wedding - two dogs instead of groomsmen. April 20, 2011, accessed February 7, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Hans Hoff: ZDF documentary about Rudi Assauer - From the anger of not being able to keep up. In: Süddeutsche. February 14, 2012, accessed September 28, 2014 .
  13. ↑ Rudi Assauer's brother has died. In: Bunte.de. May 29, 2013, accessed February 8, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Marcel Schwamborn: That is why the Assauer marriage failed: His wife bought a doll as a baby replacement. February 6, 2012, accessed on February 7, 2019 (German).
  15. ↑ Schalke Fan Field: Royal Blue Beyond Death. 2014, accessed February 14, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Rudi Assauer rests here. In: ikz-online.de. February 14, 2019, accessed February 14, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Information on the GID website on relevant tenders. In: Rudi Assauer Initiative. Retrieved February 8, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Zlatan Alihodzic: Rudi Assauer Prize for young senior companions from Haltern. In: WAZ online . December 19, 2016, accessed February 8, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Auf Schalke: An emotional event without a world record. In: kicker.de. May 5, 2018, accessed February 8, 2019 .
  20. ↑ An Emotional Victory on an Emotional Evening , February 7, 2019, accessed February 7, 2019.
  21. ↑ Information on the memorial service for Rudi Assauer , schalke04.de, accessed on February 12, 2019
  22. ↑ Moving memorial service in Gelsenkirchen: companions say goodbye to Rudi Assauer , stern.de from February 15, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Assauer, Rudi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Assauer, Rudolf (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and official
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Sulzbach-Altenwald , Saar
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 2019