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Heinz Lucas

Heinz Lucas (10 August 1920 – 18 July 2016)[2] was a German football player[3] and manager.[4] He managed several clubs in the German Bundesliga – including Fortuna Düsseldorf, where he had the most successful stint of his career, reaching third place twice in the 1972–1973 and 1973–1974 seasons.[5][6]

Heinz Lucas
Personal information
Date of birth (1920-08-10)10 August 1920
Place of birth Berlin,[1] Germany
Date of death 18 July 2016(2016-07-18) (aged 95)
Place of death Erkrath, Germany
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
1930–0000 CFC Hertha 06
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
CFC Hertha 06
Bayern Kitzingen
TSG Ulm 1846
0000–1951 Würzburger FV 04
1951–1953 Berliner SV 1892 22 (0)
Managerial career
1951–1953 CFC Hertha 06
1953–1956 SC Wacker 04 Berlin
1958–1962 VfR Neumünster
1962–1963 Hannover 96
1963–1968 VfB Lübeck
1968–1970 SV Darmstadt 98
1970–1975 Fortuna Düsseldorf
1975–1978 TSV 1860 München
1979 Eintracht Braunschweig
1980 Wuppertaler SV
1981 SpVgg Fürth
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

He died on 18 July 2016 at the age of 95.[7]

Career

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Player

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Heinz Lucas learned the football ABC in Berlin at CFC Hertha 06 in 1906. After the Second World War he was active as a player in southern Germany for a few years at the clubs Bayern Kitzingen, Ulm 1846 and FV Würzburg 04. In 1951 he returned to Berlin and played for two more years as a contract player with Berliner SV from 1892 and completed 22 games in the Stadtliga Berlin. At the same time, he began his coaching career at CFC Hertha 06 in 1951.[8]

Coach

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From 1953 to 1956 Lucas coached the Berlin Oberliga club Wacker 04 Berlin.[9] In 1955 he had successfully completed his training as a football coach. This was followed by two rounds at Minerva 93 Berlin before he worked as a coach from the 1958/59 round in the Oberliga Nord football league. The first station was VfR Neumünster, where he looked after the purple whites from the VfR stadium at Stadtpark for four rounds until 1962. In the last year of the old first-class upper league system, 1962/63, the football coach at Hannover 96 tried in vain to lead the "Reds" into the new Bundesliga from the 1963/64 season with an outstanding final round. From 1961 to 1964 he held the position of chairman in the Association Group North of the Association of German Football Instructors.[10][11]

At the beginning of the new Bundesliga era and also the new league substructure through the regional leagues, 1963/64, he was initially without a contract. From 15 February 1964 he took over VfB Lübeck, which was fighting relegation in the North Regional Football League, and looked after the green-whites from the Lohmühle stadium until 1968. After that, his career path took him to southern Germany; he took over the 1968/69 round of SV Darmstadt 98 in the Regionalliga Süd. With the Lilien vom Stadion am Böllenfalltor, he was relegated to the Hessian amateur camp in 1970 but remained as a coach in the regional league after moving to Fortuna Düsseldorf. On 1 July 1970, he took over Fortuna Düsseldorf [12] in the Regionalliga West and rose a year later with Fortuna to the Bundesliga. At Fortuna, led by President Bruno Recht, he succeeded Otto Knefler,[13] who had finished fourth in the West in 1969 and 1970.[14]

The time in Düsseldorf was the most successful in his coaching career. In the first year 1970/71, his Fortuna, VfL Bochum with coach Hermann Eppenhoff and Wuppertaler SV with coach Horst Buhtz fought an exciting three-way battle at the top of the table for entry into the Bundesliga promotion round. Bochum was level on points in front of the Lucas-Elf champions and the team from the Stadion am Zoo, the WSV, had to wait another year before the Bergische 1972 with 60:8 points in the league and 16:0 points in the promotion round perfect promotion to the Bundesliga could do. With the attackers Reiner Geye (34-25) and Dieter Herzog (34-13), Lucas had two trump cards for the offensive in the squad. In the promotion round, the competition from Neunkirchen, St. Pauli, Nuremberg and Wacker 04 Berlin had no chance. With the BL newcomer, Lucas managed to stay up in 1971/72 in 13th place. When Gerd Zewe and Wolfgang Seel also strengthened his team, he climbed to third place in the Bundesliga twice with Fortuna in 1973 and 1974. His work in Düsseldorf ended on 22 April 1975. On 18 April he said goodbye to Fortuna with a 2-0 home win against 1. FC Kaiserslautern, who was eighth with 32:24 points. In the evening Lucas, who was one of the few stars among the many Fortuna trainers, celebrated his departure together with the board and players in the Benrather Hof.[15] In the same month, he took up his new post at TSV 1860 Munich[16] from the southern division of the 2. Bundesliga, succeeding Max Merkel.[17] In 1977 he also managed to get promoted to the Bundesliga with the "Lions" by beating Arminia Bielefeld in three playoffs (0:4; 4:0; 2:0). However, after relegation in 1977/78 did not succeed and the mission to get promoted was also unsuccessful, his coaching job in Munich ended on 31 December 1978.[18] As coach of Eintracht Braunschweig (from 27 March 1979) he said goodbye on 8 October 1979 finally out of the Bundesliga.[19] He then coached Wuppertaler SV (1 January 1980–30 April 1980) and SpVgg Greuther Fürth (1 March 1981–30 June 1981) in the 2nd Bundesliga.[20]

Private

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Lucas was married to a sports teacher, with whom they lived in Mettmann until her death in 2002.[21] From October 2009 he lived in the “Rosenhof” retirement home in Erkrath and died in July 2016 at the age of 95.[22]

References

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  1. ^ "Heinz Lucas feiert 90. Geburtstag" (in German). rp-online.de. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
  2. ^ Obituary Heinz Lucas, archived from the original on 16 November 2016
  3. ^ "Trainersuche per Anzeige" (in German). derwesten.de. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
  4. ^ "Lucas, Heinz". Kicker (in German). Retrieved 6 January 2013.
  5. ^ "Classification Bundesliga 1972-73". bdfutbol.com. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
  6. ^ "Classification Bundesliga 1973-74". bdfutbol.com. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
  7. ^ "Fortuna Dusseldorf – Fortuna mourns legendary coach Heinz Lucas". Archived from the original on 22 October 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  8. ^ Janning, Falk. "Heinz Lucas feiert 90. Geburtstag" (in German). RP. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
  9. ^ Westhoff, Shea (4 January 2023). "Wie es ein Berliner Arbeiterklub fast in die Bundesliga geschafft hätte" (in German). rbb24. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
  10. ^ "Der Wegbereiter" (in German). F95. 10 August 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
  11. ^ "Verband" (in German). BDFL. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
  12. ^ "FORTUNA DÜSSELDORF 1895" (in German). 2. fortuna-düsseldorf. Archived from the original on 25 June 2012. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
  13. ^ "Fortuna gratuliert Heinz Lucas - der ehemalige Trainer wird 85" (in German). F95. 10 August 2005. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
  14. ^ "Regionalliga West (1963-1974) 1969/1970 » 34. Spieltag" (in German). Weltfussball. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
  15. ^ Bolten/Langer: „Alles andere ist nur Fußball“. Die Geschichte von Fortuna Düsseldorf. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 978-3-89533-711-6, Seite 167
  16. ^ Janning, Falk. "In den 1970ern auf Augenhöhe mit den Bayern" (in German). RP ONLINE. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  17. ^ "Blick zurück: Saison 1974/1975" (in German). SECHZIG MÜNCHEN. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  18. ^ Weiß, Florian (18 July 2016). "1860 trauert um Aufstiegstrainer Heinz Lucas" (in German). tz. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  19. ^ "Die Trainer von Eintracht Braunschweig" (in German). NDR. 18 May 2021. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  20. ^ "In memoriam: Heinz Lucas" (in German). F95. 20 July 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  21. ^ "In memoriam: Heinz Lucas" (in German). F95. 20 July 2016. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
  22. ^ Kinast, Florian (9 August 2010). "Ein Sechzger-Held wird 90: Stille Feier im Altersheim" (in German). Abendzeitung. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
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