Hennes Weisweiler
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Hans Weisweiler | ||
| Date of birth | 5 December 1919 | ||
| Place of birth | Erftstadt-Lechenich, Germany | ||
| Date of death | 5 July 1983 (aged 63) | ||
| Place of death | Zürich, Switzerland | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1948–1952 | 1. FC Köln | 62 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1948–1952 | 1. FC Köln (player-coach) | ||
| 1952–1954 | Rheydter SpV | ||
| 1954–1955 | Germany (assistant) | ||
| 1955–1958 | 1. FC Köln | ||
| 1958–1964 | Viktoria Köln | ||
| 1964–1975 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | ||
| 1975–1976 | FC Barcelona | ||
| 1976–1980 | 1. FC Köln | ||
| 1980–1982 | New York Cosmos | ||
| 1982–1983 | Grasshopper | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Hans "Hennes" Weisweiler (5 December 1919 in Lechenich, Rhine Province – 5 July 1983 in Zürich, Switzerland) was a German footballer and coach.
With 11 titles, 8 thereof with German clubs, he is one of the most successful coaches of all time. But his influence went well beyond. At the German Sports Academy in Cologne he was between 1957 and 1970 responsible for the training of hundreds of coaches from all over the world. In 2005, the training centre for coaches there was named in his honour Hennes-Weisweiler-Academy.
His work will remain most closely associated with the fortunes of Borussia Mönchengladbach in the 1960s and 70s and 1. FC Köln in the 1950s and the second half of the 1970s. He is also famous for having unearthed the talents of many outstanding football players, such as Günter Netzer, Berti Vogts, Jupp Heynckes, Rainer Bonhof, Allan Simonsen, Uli Stielike, and many more.
After 1. FC Köln was founded in 1948, Weisweiler featured in the first ever line up of the club. After the club was promoted in 1949 into the western division of the then five ways split West-German first division (Oberliga), he was given the role of player manager. In this position, which he held until 1952 he played himself still 62 times in the league.
In 1955, he returned to the club for another three years as head coach, but left in 1958 to join local rivals Viktoria Köln, which also played in the Oberliga, but the club remained in the shadow of the 1. FC. After the foundation of the Bundesliga in 1963, Viktoria played in the second German division and with place four achieved its best ever ranking in the last year of Weisweiler's reign of the club.
In 1964 he took over as manager with Borussia Mönchengladbach. The club still held relatively fresh memories from its one and only major title, the win in the German cup of 1960, but found itself after the inception of the Bundesliga in the second division where it finished just eighth in the previous year.
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