Helmuth Johannsen
Helmuth Johannsen ( born February 27, 1920 in Hamburg, † November 3, 1998 ) was a German football coach. He won with Eintracht Braunschweig in 1967 in the Bundesliga, the German Cup and won the league title in 1978 in Switzerland with Grasshoppers Zurich.
German Champion 1967
With the start of the Bundesliga in the Round 1963/64, took over the previous coach of 1.FC Saarbrücken, Helmuth Johannsen, the third of the Oberliga Nord 1962/63, Eintracht Braunschweig. Braunschweig was against Hannover 96 as the third nominated Northern Representative for the new football league in addition to the Hamburger SV and Werder Bremen. Together with the new coach, the two players Peter Kaack from VfR Neumünster and Hans -Georg Dulz Hamburger SV came to Brunswick. Johannsen, a coach type of realistic objectives for clear analysis of the possibilities of the association in the sporting as well as the financial field, had spent as a target for the club and thereby also for the players and fans in the league. With 28:32 points of 11th place after 30 games was occupied in the final table, thus avoiding relegation was done.
The first relegated from the Bundesliga were Preußen Münster and 1.FC Saarbrücken. The defensive performance (49 goals against) excelled in effect the yield of the storm game ( 36 goals scored ). Ironically, debuted winger Klaus Gerwien on December 29, 1963 in Casablanca in the national team, not one of the series of recognized defender Meyer, W. Schmidt, and Bäse Kaack. Skip to second Bundesliga season 1964/65 they picked then reinforcements for the Storm game to Lower Saxony. From Arminia Hannover came Lothar Ulsaß, and of the relegation 1.FC Saarbrücken changed the striker Dieter Krafczyk and Erich Maas to Brunswick. The measures proved to be correct, the Eintracht improved to 9th place and came up with 42:47 goals to 28:32 on points. Lothar Ulsaß immediately played at a high level, he scored 12 goals and made his debut on April 24, 1965 while playing in Karlsruhe against Cyprus in the national team. Again, the highly touted " relegation contenders " have been better than its reputation.
In the third round Bundesliga 1965/66 then set internally in goal for the younger Horst Wolter against the previous goalkeeper John Jäcker by. The tactical variant of the retraining of Jürgen Moll to a joyful offensive left defender was completed. Since Lothar Ulsaß his hit rate even increased to 17 goals and winger Erich Maas contributed even 11 goals, the 10th rank could be shown on broadcast with 49:49 and 34:34 points in the gates now expanded to 18 teams Bundesliga.
Helmuth Johannsen had been able to improve the performance of the team, the balance of the season with 20:14 points occupied this.
In the transfer area, the events in Braunschweig stopped in front of the round 1966/67, as part of the previously practiced clarity. Holstein Kiel the young striker Gerd Saborowski was brought, it was put to the increased level of recent second round. After the first six games you stood with 9:3 points for the 1st place. In fact, then could the "Autumn Cup " after the 17th matchday points will be celebrated 22:12 ( tied in front of the Hamburger SV) after 17 December 1966. With two defeats in a row on 30 and 31 game against Hannover 96 and Karlsruher SC 's decision for the championship in the final phase was again extremely exciting. Eintracht Frankfurt was tied with 38:24, defending TSV 1860 Munich was back even just a point. The next match day, the May 20, 1967 Lothar Ulsaß and Erich Maas decided with their goals in the 84th and 89th minute for a 2-1 home win against Borussia Mönchengladbach, the race for the Brunswick, for Frankfurt and Munich in 1860 lost their matches against Bremen and Nuremberg. With the final 4-1 victory on home soil at the Hamburg road against 1 FC Nuremberg could then finally be crowned the 1967 German Masters.
In the Encyclopedia of German league football, Part 1 from 1998 is about the championship of Eintracht Braunschweig:
" A force for no one took up really seriously short of the season - last dance, grabbed the fourth Bundesliga season, the league title. But in the end laughed the constant harmony of the pomadige competition., In Brunswick, everything was at that time a little different than elsewhere in the league and, to goalkeeper Horst Wolter recalled with a smile on conditions in the tranquil Lower Saxony, as the Cologne and other clubs already aufliefen in wonderful glitter jerseys, we were still wearing the old cotton shirts, were always smaller in the rain. ' "
With the best defense in the league, in 34 games, there were only 27 goals conceded, a choice line-up of twelve players, a continuously held tactics that fit the personnel and of the necessary physical and footballing class led the factual and professional trainer Helmuth Johannsen, the team of 1. Chairman Ernst Fricke earned the championship. He had reached the highest goal after four years of careful and technically sound building up. Taking the collapse of Hamburger SV in the second half note, you came to the Alster only on 8:26 (!) Points, so you can evaluate the staying qualities of the team and the constant motivation of the coach even higher.
Other successes
Games in the European Cup of Champions 1967/68
After winning the championship, the challenge came in the European Cup of Champions 1967/68. After battle Wi- catchment in the second round was in September 1967, the Austrian record champions SK Rapid Wien opponent. Although it is not going well in the everyday life of the Bundesliga, after Matchday had only the negative points account of 4:6 points, but took the 2-0 home win on 29 September with goals from Grzyb and Saborowski a place in the quarter-finals.
There were at the beginning of the second half of 1968, the games against the Italian champions Juventus. The first leg took place on January 31 in Brunswick. After a deserved 3-1 lead, the game has ended 3-2. In Turin, Juventus brought only a converted penalty in the 88th minute winner to make it 1-0, and so a decider. This took place on 20 March in Bern and harmony had to play without Lothar Ulsaß. Again, the men of Helmuth Johannsen brought into being a balanced game that favored Turin could create any clear superiority. In the 56th minute the Swede Roger Magnusson scored the game-winning hit to make it 1-0. However, the occurrence of concord was also confirmed by the good work of the international trainer Johannsen.
Röchling Völklingen and Tennis Borussia Berlin
In the summer of 1972, Johannsen took over in the Regionalliga Southwest SV Röchling Völklingen. He led immediately to the club to second place in the table and thus in the promotion round to the Bundesliga in the summer of 1973. Rot-Weiss Essen was but staff much better occupied with Willi Lippens, Dieter Bast, Diethelm Ferner and Wolfgang Rausch and won the promotion place.
From 1975 he then worked at Tennis Borussia Berlin. In the database of Tennis Borussia will be recorded for the round 1975/76:
" In 1975, Helmut Johannsen quite demoralized the Bundesliga relegation Tennis Borussia. The coach had a good name, since he had Eintracht Braunschweig in 1967 led to the German championship. Even with TeBe he managed to get a not too highly rated troops back on the road: He achieved the immediate promotion back to the Bundesliga in 1976; TeBe was master of the 2nd League North in front of the top favorites Borussia Dortmund. A contract extension did not materialize because the information required by Johannsen gains of the team could not be financed. Even during the season, he announced his resignation and signed in Zurich. To date, Helmut Johannsen is considered by many fans as the best TeBe coach of all time '. "
Johannsen worked in this masterpiece - year TeBe among others with the players Ditmar Jakobs, Norbert Siegmann, Norbert Stolzenburg and Christian Sackewitz together.
Grasshopper Club Zurich
After the stint in Berlin in 1976, he moved to Switzerland to the local record champions, however since winning the title in 1956 was national champion only once. Then in Hardturmstraße stadium he could in 1978, after one had just enforced against Servette Geneve and FC Basel, celebrate winning the Swiss Championships, where GC was in the same season also reach the Swiss Cup final and League Cup final. This season, however, to estimate even higher had the success that was achieved in the UEFA Cup. It penetrated into the semi-finals before in this competition. With successes against BK Fram, Inter Bratislava and Dinamo Tbilisi and surprisingly well against Eintracht Frankfurt, had reached the semifinals and met the Corsicans from SC Bastia. Although the home game was won 3-2 gates, but a brief 0-1 defeat in Bastia finished the European Cup final dreams of blue-white, based on the overall state of a draw double counting Auswärtore. In the European Cup of Champions 1978/79 GC then succeeded the sensation of success against Real Madrid. Had they lost in Madrid still 1:3, so gave the 2-0 home win to move into the quarter-finals. There, it was the terminus against the eventual winners Nottingham Forest, the ausschaltete in the semifinals and the German champions 1.FC Cologne coach Hennes Weisweiler.
Beginning and end of coaching career
The St. from the youth of the FC Pauli Hamburg emerged Helmuth Johannsen successfully completed under the direction of head coach Sepp Herberger in 1950 the third course at the German Sport University in Cologne for the football coach. Colleagues were there Fritz Herkenrath, Karl -Heinz Heddergott, Radoslav Momirski, Hans Rohde, Rudi Schlott, Paul Schneider, Richard Schneider and Horst falls.
His coaching career he opened in the Oberliga Nord in the season 1950/51 in Bremerhaven 93 In the season 1956/57, he finished with Holstein Kiel 2nd place in the north. Diether Trede, former striker of Kiel " storks " (158 games, 37 goals), talks about Johannsen as follows:
" Even then, a kind of manager. He cared not only about the Sporty, but also about human problems of players to work and home, even to food issues. The training he operated almost as a science. "
In the league, he was known as a coach who knew how to work long term. This should then later also confirmed at Eintracht Braunschweig in the German Bundesliga.
In 1981 he moved back to Switzerland. He moved at age 61 to FC St. Gallen and ended in 1985 with 65 years of his coaching career.
In his hometown club FC St. Pauli Hamburg, he served as Vice President 1987/88 again in function.
Data of the career
Private
Johannsen was married and had two sons. His son Walter Johannsen is known to the general public as a TV sports journalist (NDR ).