Willi Multhaup

Willi "Fischken" Multhaup (born July 19, 1903 in Essen , † December 18, 1982 there ) was a German football coach .

Willi Multhaup was German champion with Werder Bremen in 1965 , won the European Cup Winners' Cup with Borussia Dortmund in 1966 and won the DFB Cup in 1968 with 1. FC Köln . This made him one of the most successful coaches in the Bundesliga in its first decade. During the league times he looked after Rot-Weiss Essen , VfB Bottrop and Prussia Münster .

With Helmut Jagielski from Werder Bremen, Multhaup had a Bundesliga player play in the libero position for the first time in the 1964/65 season and won his first championship with this system.

Coaching before the introduction of the Bundesliga

Successes with Münster and Meiderich

His first major coaching station led the Essen businessman in 1947 to Preußen Münster in the Westphalia League. After five playoffs against SuS Recklinghausen , he was promoted to the Oberliga West straight away with Münster. In the first year of 1948/49 the company was able to place itself on the excellent fourth place. For the 1950/51 season he moved to Meidericher SV in the 2nd League West. In Group 1, Meiderich immediately took first place ahead of Schwarz-Weiß Essen and Duisburg 08 and the district club from Duisburg rose to the top division. Since his former club Preußen Münster had qualified for the final round of the German championship in 1951 by achieving second place behind FC Schalke 04 , Multhaup persuaded him to look after him during the final round. In fact, he was able to reach the finals on June 30, 1951 in Berlin against Borussia Berlin with the so-called “ 100,000 DM storm ” ( Gerritzen , Preißler , Schulz , Rachuba , Lammers ) over competitors 1. FC Nürnberg, Hamburger SV and Tennis Borussia Berlin 1. FC Kaiserslautern lead. Münster then lost very unluckily against Fritz Walter- Elf with 1: 2 goals, but it was a great success for the team and the coach Multhaup.

Ascent with the ETB SW Essen

Multhaup took over his former club Schwarz-Weiß Essen in the 2nd League West in July 1957 and built a powerful young team around the later national players Heinz Steinmann and Hennes Küppers , which in 1959 managed to return to the then upper house of German football. Half a year before the club's greatest success, the victory in the DFB Cup , Multhaup left the Essen club in June 1959, but he had paved the way for his successor, Hans Wendlandt .

Descent with RW Essen

The descent was also part of the vita of the successful coach. In the 1960/61 season he could not prevent the German champions from 1955 had to relegate to the 2nd League West. This happened in the year of the renewed rise of the local rival ETB SW Essen and the ever closer Bundesliga. While Helmut Rahn's departure for the 1959/60 season had hit the Bergeborbecker, the descent with the warriors Herkenrath , Steinig, Rehhagel , Wewers , Islacker , Vordenbäum and Hornig was a huge blow.

Promotion round to the Bundesliga

In the last round of the Oberliga West 1962/63, which was of crucial importance for the Bundesliga nomination, he was again in charge of Meidericher SV. The favorites for inclusion in the Bundesliga were 1. FC Cologne, Borussia Dortmund and FC Schalke 04. Between Aachen, Münster and Meidericher SV, the battle for the two remaining places should break out. With a 2-1 home win against Münster on May 11, 1963, the last matchday of the season, the MSV finished third after 30 games with 38:22 points and 47:43 goals. The right to start the Bundesliga had already been granted to the club four days before, after the 2-1 win in the local duel against Hamborn 07 , by telegram by the DFB . But the coach moved north to SV Werder Bremen.

Outstanding successes

SV Werder Bremen 1963 to 1965

With the start of the Bundesliga in the 1963/64 season, the 60-year-old from Essen moved from Meidericher SV to SV Werder Bremen, as Georg Knöpfle went from the Weser to the Rhine to 1. FC Cologne. The first year of the Bundesliga was a time for him, as well as the club and the players, to adapt to the tougher sporting conditions. Werder didn't fight relegation, but had nothing to do with the top of the table. After 30 match days they landed in 10th place, with 53:62 goals they scored 28:32 points. So Werder was not exactly one of the championship aspirants for the second Bundesliga season.

With two reinforcements for the defense, Horst-Dieter Höttges from Borussia Mönchengladbach and Heinz Steinmann from the Bundesliga relegated Saarbrücken, Multhaup tinkered a real "concrete" defense for the 1964/65 round. She allowed only 29 goals against in 30 games in the then quite high scoring times in the Bundesliga and became the guarantor of the sensational win of the German championship in 1965 for Bremen. On the offensive, the commitment of the center forward Klaus Matischak from Schalke 04 had paid off. Neither the starting defeat on August 22, 1964 at Betzenberg in Kaiserslautern with 1: 2 goals nor the 2: 4 at defending champion 1. FC Köln on the fifth match day brought the men around "Pico" Schütz off the mark . With functioning tactics, good stamina and a "tight squad" of only twelve regular players (the formation was only changed if injured) Werder dominated the Bundesliga. With a 3-0 home win against Borussia Dortmund, the Multhaup-Elf made the championship on the penultimate matchday perfect and relegated the actual favorites from Cologne , Dortmund and Munich to their places.

Unfortunately for the Hanseatic people, the “master maker” left Bremen at the moment of triumph to return to the West. Multhaup is quoted as saying about the beneficial interaction with President Alfred Ries and League Chairman Eduard Hundt : "They thought objectively and soberly, they acted and thought in Hanseatic cool - I valued them as people very much".

Borussia Dortmund 1965/66

At the Borussia there was a dance at two weddings in this round. In the Bundesliga the championship was seriously targeted and in the European Cup Winners' Cup the strengths were measured in international competition. This went well for a long time, in the Bundesliga they led the table and in the European Cup they had played through FC Floriana , CSKA Sofia and Atlético Madrid to the semi-finals. On the home stretch of the Bundesliga, however, the team failed in the last three match days and TSV 1860 Munich was able to snatch the championship away from them in 1966. The Borussia "only" remained the runner-up championship. But because in April the defending champions West Ham United eliminated and on May 5, 1966 in Glasgow even the high favorites Liverpool FC (Manager Bill Shankly : "'There are only two good teams in England," he used to say. They are our first Team and our reserve! ”) Had been defeated with 2: 1 goals, the Borussia and their coach Multhaup had brought the first European title to Germany. It was an extraordinary success - for the club, the league, the players and the almost 63-year-old coach.

With their strong European Cup games, Sigfried Held and Lothar Emmerich played their way into the national team and thus to the 1966 World Cup in England. During the World Cup days, BVB goalkeeper Hans Tilkowski should also be one of the pillars of the vice world champion. But the coach changed again. The first Bundesliga champions, 1. FC Köln, wanted with all their might to bring success back to the cathedral city. The successful coach from Bremen and Dortmund seemed just the right person.

1. FC Köln 1966 to 1968

In the "billy goat-Elf" it was enough in the first season (1966/67) only to rank 7 (with 48:48 goals and 37:31 points). Nobody could understand why Eintracht Braunschweig won the championship. With goalkeeper Milutin Šoškić and the dribble artist Roger Magnusson, two internationals from Yugoslavia and Sweden had been brought into the squad and with Wolfgang Overath , Wolfgang Weber , Heinz Hornig and Hannes Löhr, top-class players alongside solid experts such as Matthias Hemmersbach , Fritz Pott, Hans Sturm and Karl-Heinz Thielen to show.

Multhaup's second year brought the improvement of FC to fourth place. However, there was no chance against the class of the new champions 1. FC Nürnberg . Regarding the newcomers, the right decisions were made with Heinz Simmet and the ex-Victorian Carl-Heinz Rühl , but Reinhard Roder and Dietmar Mürdter from Göttingen 05 could not meet expectations. It's good that the trophy offered a second chance. Via FC 08 Homburg , Eintracht Frankfurt , Eintracht Braunschweig and Borussia Dortmund they moved into the final on June 9, 1968 in Ludwigshafen against the “favorite” scare from the Regionalliga West, VfL Bochum . In the final, VfL could no longer build on the performance of the sensational successes in the previous rounds against FC Bayern Munich , Borussia Mönchengladbach, VfB Stuttgart and Karlsruher SC . Cologne won the final 4-1. This gave FC another title and Multhaup was able to record another, last success as a coach. The cup final was his last game. At the age of 65, he ended his coaching career and withdrew into private life.

To person

Willi Multhaup's cradle was at the Essen salt market. The Multhaups made their living from a fish trade. That is why Willi was called "Fischken" from childhood on. He played soccer for the clubs Schwarz-Weiß Essen - with the ETB the side runner took part in the final round of the German soccer championship in 1925 - and TuRa , where he also began his coaching career. The coaching diploma graduated from the qualified businessman in 1952 under German coach Sepp Herberger in the sports school Kaiserau . His appearance had nothing in common with a fishmonger, rather he exuded the charm of a gentleman. Otto Rehhagel , a player under Multhaup at RW Essen, said of him: "It was always like a peel from the egg". And: “A fine person with expertise. He managed to describe the next opponent with all their strengths and weaknesses. ” Sigfried Held was also very positive about the coach:“ The Multhaup had a gift like no other. He could speak to you strongly and confidently. "

After the end of his coaching career, he ran a specialist shop for men's fashion in Dortmund and Essen. In the autumn of 1971, however, after coach Robert “Zapf” Gebhardt was dismissed in Bremen , he was supposed to step in for his old friends for a short time from September 27 to October 24.

swell

• 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 .
• Hans Dieter Baroth : Boys, Heaven is yours! The history of the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1988, ISBN 3-88474-332-5 .
• Harald Landefeld, Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Helmut, tell me dat Tor ... New stories and portraits from the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-043-1 .
• The master makers , Wero Press 2004, ISBN 3-937588-02-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 50 years, 50 faces: Bremen's first master trainer , dfb.de, September 28, 2012.
2. ^ Klaus Querengässer: The German football championship. Part 1: 1903-1945 (= AGON Sportverlag statistics. Vol. 28). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-106-9 , p. 76.