Heinz Knüwe

Heinz Knüwe ( born January 16, 1956) is a former German football player and football coach.

Stations as a player

The home club of Heinz Knüwe was the SV Westphalia Liesborn 21, in which he played from 1964 to 1974 in the youth field. In the period 1972 to 1974, he played in the A- League Youth Westphalia at VfL Geseke. In the season 1974/1975 he was in the squad of TSV 1860 Munich, who was playing in the 2nd Bundesliga. 1975/1976 he played in the national league for Borussia Lippstadt. This was followed from 1976 to 1978 59 missions and six goals in the 2nd Bundesliga for the SC Herford. With this club he spent after descending the football league season 1978 / 1979. But in 1979 he succeeded then the change in the 1st Bundesliga for VfL Bochum, where he played first class until 1986. He scored seven goals in 197 missions. In the season 1986/1987 he moved to second division club Hannover 96, came to 33 appearances and scored one goal. Hanover 96 rose to and so he came in the season 1987/1988 still 13 missions in the first division. His last active time he played from 1988 to 1990 in the Oberliga SC Verl, where he also served as player-manager since 1989.

Teams managed

1989 to 1990 he was a player coach for the Oberliga SC Verl Finally, he served from 1990 to 1992 as coach of the Oberliga SpVg Beckum. From 1996 he worked as a private coach youth soccer school in East Westphalia -Lippe. In the years 1997 to 1999, he coached the first time the SV Lippstadt 08, in the big leagues.

From 2000 to March 2001, he had an engagement with the Oberliga 1 SC Göttingen 05 In the years 2001 to 2003, he was sports director of VfL Bochum in the First and Second League. Since the beginning of 2006 he was again 08 working as coach of SV Lippstadt, saved this from relegation and played in the 2006/2007 season with this club to move up.

On 20 March 2007, he announced as notified by Lippstädter newspaper The Patriot his contract with SV Lippstadt. The club was a leader at this time.

Stations as athletic director and manager

On May 8, 2007 Knüwe assumed the role of athletic director of the regional league Sportfreunde Siegen. A post he gave up on 16 May 2008 and announced the employment relationship without notice. The reason he stated that he was not informed of the club's management about the leave of absence of the coach Marc Fascher and install the assistant coach as interim coach. Knüwe hinted that the club had breached his employment contract. From 9 April to June 8, 2013, he took over as acting Executive tasks at VfL Bochum after the club in the Bundesliga 2 in acute Abstiegsnot dismissed both the coach and the sporting director.