Heinz Ludewig

Heinz Ludewig ( born December 24, 1889 in Duisburg, † May 16, 1950 in Dusseldorf ) was a German national football player and football coach.

The center-half played his entire time as a footballer at Duisburg SpV. His best time as a football player he had in the years 1913 and 1914, when he reached the final of the German Cup, but there VfB Leipzig was defeated, with its West German comrades won the Crown Prince Cup and has been an international player. He stood at 4:4 in 1914 against the Netherlands in Amsterdam on the court. Other successes then thwarted by the First World War. In 1922, he had to end his career after a serious knee injury.

On April 3, 1925, Heinz Ludewig first coach at FC Schalke 04 and created with his doctrine of the modern flat passing game the foundations for the success of Schalke in the thirties. 1926 rose Schalke in the Ruhr district first class, the highest division in the west, to and qualified for the final round of the West German championship. Through the second place behind his former club, Duisburg SpV, Ludewig led the Schalke team for the first time in the finals of the German Championship 1927.