Rolf Dohmen

Rolf Dohmen ( born April 4, 1952 in Kreuzau ) is a former German football player and was manager of the 2002-2009 Karlsruher SC.

  • 2.1 successes as a player
  • 2.2 successes as a manager

Career

Career as a player

Dohmen played as a defender for SC Fortuna Köln ( 1975-78, 72 games), Karlsruher SC ( 1978-82, 141 games) and the SV Darmstadt 98 ( 1982-85, 94 games). He completed 59 games in the Bundesliga, scored a goal, saw ten yellow and one red card. In the 2nd Bundesliga, he played 94 games and scored seven goals.

Career as a sports manager

After Dohmen in 1985 ended his professional career in Darmstadt, he returned to football for eleven years back and was henceforth in the management of the German branch of Nike active. In April 1999, Dohmen founded with Thomas Kroth the per profile sports marketing Entertainment GmbH, Neu- Isenburg, as the daughter of the Kroth alone run per profile society for individual career management mbH, Dortmund. In the entertainment company Dohmen was until June 2000 responsible for finding sponsors for athletes and artists.

In July 2000 he joined the then first division club Eintracht Frankfurt his new job as sports director. On 27 February 2001, after a 1:5 home defeat against 1 FC Köln, the former Frankfurt coach Felix Magath was sacked and Dohmen took on the task for lack of a successor as caretaker manager of the club. With a new coach Friedel Rausch was found only after ten games. After Eintracht Frankfurt at the end of the season could not hold the class, Dohmen was released in May 2001 as sports director.

In May 2002, Dohmen has been appointed as manager at Karlsruher SC, where he was active as a player before. Together with President Hubert H. Raase he could initiate an economic boom and the club successfully redevelop: Goods in the licensing process for the seasons 2003/ 04 and 2004/ 05 still huge financial force acts necessary to the Karlsruhe the license for the 2005/ 06 season only got even with short runs. After promotion to the 1st Bundesliga the club's license for the 2007/ 08 since the descent was the first time in the Regionalliga Süd in 2000, without conditions.

Dohmen's public image got after the dismissal of Lorenz -Günther Köstner as the former head coach of Karlsruher SC first scratches. The association was found it in January 2005 to search for a replacement with Reinhold Fanz. The CEO of the KSC main sponsor EnBW - Utz Claassen - was, however, due to incidents between Fanz and him during their time together at Hannover 96 taken against the trainer choice. The KSC was forced to dismiss Fanz after seven days again, so as not to lose the sponsorship contract with EnBW. Dohmen was accused of doing, he would have known as one of the leaders in the coach search, even before the obligation Fanz ' about the history between Claassen and Fanz know. Dohmen explained, however, in the ZDF program The current gym that nothing he was aware of a legal dispute of the two at that time. At another scandal occurred in March 2009 when Dohmen the honorary board member Lepore threatened to kill him. Lepore called for more detailed information about the currently made ​​contract with the new KSC supplier Nike, the former employer of Dohmen. Dohmen looked on suspicion exposed for having obtained a bribe.

After the election of the new KSC Presidium to Paul Metzger in the fall of 2009, Rolf Dohmen announced, no longer wanting to extend his current contract until June 2010. In December 2009, Dohmen has been exempted from Karlsruher SC. A few months later complained Rolf Dohmen a point before the labor court and win awards, their payment has been suspended for the period of its exemption. The court considered a clause in the contract Dohmen as unreasonable disadvantage and gave Dohmen action instead.

Achievements

Successes as a player

  • 10th in the 1st Bundesliga - 1980/81 with Karlsruher SC
  • 7th place in the 2nd Bundesliga - 1982 /83 SV Darmstadt 98

Success as a manager

  • Promotion to the 1st Bundesliga with Karlsruher SC
  • Man
  • Football Player ( Germany )
  • German
  • Football coach ( Germany )
  • Football functionary ( Germany )
  • Born in 1952
  • Person ( Kreuzau )
Defender (association football) Neu-Isenburg
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