Michael Hartmann (footballer)

Michael Hartmann (born 11 July 1974 in Hennigsdorf, GDR ) is a former German football player and current football coach.

Playing career

The defensive player who played mostly as a left-back, was for the FSV Borgdorf, steel Hennigsdorf and BSV Brandenburg worked and played for Hertha BSC and FC Hansa Rostock in the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga. From the former team manager of the German national football team Rudi Völler Hartmann was appointed to the National team in 2003, for which he made ​​his debut on 30 April 2003 against Serbia and Montenegro and four times played.

Coaching career

At the beginning of the 2007/ 08 played Hartmann the end of his active career as a captain in the second team in the Oberliga Nordost Hansas and acquired in late 2007 in Rostock youth football coaches license. In the following, he was appointed as head coach of the playing in the U-19 league A - Youth Hansas committed he to second place and 2009/10 Championship Season North led 2008/ 09 and thus also in the final round of the German Cup in 2010. There, his team reached and won the finals for the first time and took the German U-19 Championship at the Baltic Sea coast.

For the 2010/11 season Hartmann took over the post of Assistant Coach of Rostock professional team under coach Peter Vollmann after Hansa was staying in the summer of 2010 from the 2nd Bundesliga in the third league. Subsequently managed the immediate resurgence, however, the 2011/12 direct re- descent followed, with Hartmann had remained in office even after the coaching change from Volmann to Wolfgang Wolf. In the third league match 2012/13 season then Hartmann was under both Wolf and under his successor Marc Fascher to the coaching staff, but which received no more contract extensions at end of season. Thereafter Hartmann returned to Hertha Berlin, where he was involved in the talent scouting of the Youth Department.