Willibald Hahn
Willibald Hahn (born 31 January 1908 in Vienna, † 31 May 1999) was an Austrian football player and later a successful football coach. He managed the national teams of Norway and Switzerland and won with Bayern Munich in 1957 its first DFB-Pokal.
Career
Willibald Hahn began his career at Gersthoferstrasse SV and played for the first time in the 1931/32 season in the First League as a regular force in the rotor series for the Floridsdorfer AC. With the Blue -Whites, he managed to avoid relegation, before he moved to FK Austria Wien at halftime of the season 1932/33. There he was, however, rarely used and therefore took together with his compatriots Johann Kaburek and Ferdinand Schreiber on an offer from the French second division club SC de la Bastidienne from Bordeaux. In 1934 he was brought back from the fresh Ascended Favoritner Sports Club to Austria. After this but relegated in his first season back, Willibald Hahn found at local rivals FC Vienna and Favoritner AC new employer, where he played one season and then in 1937 moved to SK Admira Vienna. After the annexation of Austria in 1938, he emigrated to Norway and found there first as a coach at Moss FK employment. After the Vienna could make a name in Scandinavia, it was 1953 Norwegian National Team coach and has already run in a surprising 1-1 on his debut against West Germany.
By 1956, Willibald Hahn remained as at first the first Austrian team chief of Norway, where he later Wilhelm Kment found a successor. He himself, however, was brought from Bayern Munich to Germany in the Oberliga Süd, where he first led the Bavarians into DFB Cup final in 1957, which was won in the Augsburg Rosenau Stadium against Fortuna Dusseldorf 1-0. It was the second major title of Bavaria to the championship in 1932, with Richard Kohn also was a Viennese coach on the sidelines in the. Already in the following season had Willibald Hahn but left the club in 1958 and closed a contract with Eintracht Trier from. But since he did not keep it and instead took up the position as the Swiss national coach, he received a one-year prohibition from the DFB. In Switzerland he was unlucky and lost five of his six games with the national team. After a 0:8 against Hungary, he was released.
1960 returned Willibald Hahn returned to Germany, went to KSV Hessen Kassel in the 2nd League South and was able to lead the club as second division champions 1961/62 in the Oberliga Süd. It was followed in 1963 change to the Regionalliga West to black and white food and a year later for two years for Rot-Weiß Oberhausen. With two fourth places in the series hoped for promotion to the new Premier League but did not succeed. Later Willibald Hahn was still working in the Regionalliga Süd at SpVgg Bayreuth (1969-1971), SSV Reutlingen 05 (1971-1972) and the Stuttgart Kickers ( 1972-1973 ).
Achievements
- 26 matches as coach of Norway
- 6 matches as coach of Switzerland