Rudi Assauer
Rudi Assauer (2002)
Rudolf " Rudi " Assauer ( born April 30, 1944 in Sulzbach- Old Forest ) is a former German professional footballer, who played 307 Bundesliga games for Borussia Dortmund and Werder Bremen 1964-1976. His subsequent work as a manager led him over to Bremen FC Schalke 04 and in the meantime the second division club VfB Oldenburg. As a football official and advertising used Assauer by his appearance and his statements a long time the image of a confident business man and macho. 2012 he published his biography in his Alzheimer's disease is discussed.
Career as a professional football player
Assauer grew up in Westphalia, Herten, where in 1952 he began playing football at a local sports club Spielvereinigung Herten at the age of eight years. After he was running for the Club in the Regional second-rate, caught up with him in 1964 from Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga relegation. On the side of players like Dieter Kurrat, Lothar Emmerich, Alfred Schmidt, Hans Tilkowski and Stan Libuda he worked there in the early years of the new German elite class in the defensive line with, as the Borussia regularly placed in the front league area. In 1966 he moved with the team in the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup against English side FC Liverpool one. On May 5 of that year he was in Glasgow at the elf that with a 2-1 success after extra time the first time brought a European Cup to Germany. In the years 1966 and 1967 he also completed two games for the German U-23 national team. Assauer remained faithful as a club member despite his later engagements with rivals FC Schalke 04 Borussia Dortmund and in 2010 was honored for his 40 years of membership.
After six years and 119 league games to Assauer 1970 Werder Bremen joined. Here he was immediately on the side of Horst -Dieter Höttges, Arnold Schütz, Ole Björnmose, Egon Coordes and Karl-Heinz Kamp regulars and, under coach Robert Gebhardt the post break from Bökelberg on the field. Furthermore, since the success failed to materialize, the club moved several times during the season the coach, under Willi Multhaup, Sepp Piontek and Fritz Langner but the defender was always stem force. In the following seasons, he ranked with the team in the mid table area, in the season 1974/75 he came with the team led by Karl -Heinz Kamp, Jürgen Röber, Werner Görts and Dieter Zembski in danger of relegation. With one point ahead of VfB Stuttgart saved, then he played his last season in German professional football and then moved to a total of 307 league games into the management of the club, for whom he had played 186 first division matches in six seasons.
Successes during the active career
- European Cup Winners' Cup: 1966
- German runner-up: 1966
- DFB Pokal Cup Winners: 1965
Career as a football manager
In the years 1976 to 1981, he worked as a manager at Werder Bremen, on 15 May of 1981 for the first time with FC Schalke 04 This first tenure at Schalke ended until 4 December 1986 he was released. After four years' working experience in real estate in Bremen in 1990 he was manager of the then second division side VfB Oldenburg. On April 1, 1993, he was the second time Schalke manager. During his second term, it soon became a sporting and financial success, the club won the 1997 UEFA Cup and in 2001 and 2002, the DFB Cup. During his tenure, the construction of the Veltins- Arena falls. From 1 August 2006 Assauer should hold the office of the first chairman ( also known as club president ) on the board. On 17 May 2006 Assauer resigned from his position as manager after the Supervisory Board of the Association had previously invited him by statute to the meeting with the agenda item " dismissal ".
Then Assauer worked as a consultant to the Wuppertal SV Borussia and commented in the weekly video blog dynamite current events in the Bundesliga.
Image and campaigning
Assauer has long been rumored a macho image. These included his frequent cigar consumption, his wife picture and controversial statements about homosexuality in football. In several commercials with his then partner, Simone Thomalla for the brewery Veltins satirized Assauer this image. On 2 February 2006, he and Thomalla won the Golden Camera Television Award in the category Best Advertisement with celebrities for the spot "surprise". Similarly, the cabaret artist Fritz Eckenga caricatured regularly until 2012 in the form of a running gags Assauer image as Ruhr - macho by his fictional character "Football Manager A. ".
Personal
Rudi Assauer married in April 2011 for the second time. This marriage was divorced in January 2013. From his first marriage has Assauer two daughters. End of January 2012 it became public knowledge that Assauer has Alzheimer's. The disease was addressed Like exchanged in a television documentary and in Assauer memoir. His older brother Lothar Assauer also suffered from Alzheimer's for several years and died in February 2013 at the consequences of this disease.