| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1943-10-16)16 October 1943 | ||
| Place of birth | Mieruniszki,East Prussia,Germany[1] | ||
| Date of death | 1 April 2021 | ||
| Place of death | Hamburg, Germany[2] | ||
| Managerial career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 1977–1978 | Fortuna Düsseldorf (assistant) | ||
| 1978–1979 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | ||
| 1979–1980 | Arminia Bielefeld | ||
| 1983 | Bayer Uerdingen | ||
| 1983 | Borussia Dortmund | ||
Hans-Dieter Tippenhauer (16 October 1943 – 1 April 2021) was a Germanfootball manager.[3]
Hans-Dieter Tippenhauer was born on 16 October 1943 inMerunen inEast Prussia, the second son of Gertrud (nee Faltin) and Wilhelm Tippenhauer.[4] His older brother Ulrich Tippenhauer (1942–1983) became a professor of mathematics at theTechnical University of Kaiserslautern. After attending elementary school inDortmund, Hans-Dieter Tippenhauer passed his examination as an industrial clerk in 1961 at the age of 17 and subsequently worked in this field. After completing 18 months of military service, in March 1967 he received his entrance qualification for a technical college inEssen and graduated from theFachhochschule Dortmund in autumn 1969 with a degree in business administration.In the course of the reorganization and restructuring of the technical colleges and universities, he was awarded the diploma in business administration and thus the general higher education entrance qualification.[4]
After his own career as a footballer inmidfield forEintracht Duisburg, which had brought him to the then second-classRegionalliga West in the1966–67 season,[5] he was able to start studying sports at theGerman Sport University Cologne thanks to the upgrade he had achieved. Here he acquired the teaching qualification for vocational schools and also the highest coaching licenses in football (1974 the A license and 1975 the football teacher's license), both of which he completed with a grade of 1.0. During his final year at the sports academy, he coached the sports academy's football team on behalf of the two chief trainers,Gero Bisanz andKarl-Heinz Heddergott, and at the same time coached the third-division club Godesberger FV. In 1974 he married.[4] The marriage produced two children.[6]
He started his coaching career in the Bundesliga in 1975 as an assistant coach atEintracht Frankfurt alongsideDietrich Weise,[4] which he remained under his successorsRoos andLóránt in the1976–77 season.[7][8] In 1977 he became assistant coach to Weise, who was now training Fortuna Düsseldorf. A year later he was promoted to head coach himself;[4] under him the club finished seventh in the Bundesliga in1978–79.Fortuna Düsseldorf achieved one of the best-known Bundesliga victories in their history when they defeatedFC Bayern Munich 7–1 on 9 December 1978, inflicting their heaviest away defeat to date. On 16 September 1978 inDarmstadt, under Tippenhauer, the Flingerans also achieved the highest Bundesliga away win in their history with a 6–1 win. The team was also able to win theDFB Cup for the first time on 23 June 1979 with a 1-0 final victory overHertha BSC. Fortuna led Tippen even played in the final of theEuropean Cup Winners' Cup on 16 May 1979 inBasel'sSt. Jakob Stadium, which they lost 4–3 after extra time againstFC Barcelona. The1979–80 season began for Fortuna with five losses in their first eight Bundesliga games, leading to Tippenhauer being replaced byOtto Rehhagel in October.[citation needed]
Then he managed with the second divisionArminia Bielefeld as the first in1980 direct promotion to the Bundesliga. After ten days of play he was there with Arminia but in last place, which is why he was replaced in October by Willi Nolting, who himself soon had to give way toHorst Franz, under whom he managed to stay up. For the1980–81 season, Tippenhauer became manager of the second division club Bayer Uerdingen.[9] In the spring of 1983, after the dismissal ofWerner Biskup, he was also coach of the team for the last 15 league games and achieved promotion to the Bundesliga in the relegation games against Schalke 04.[10] After promotion to the Bundesliga,Friedhelm Konietzka became the coach of Bayer Uerdingen and Tippenhauer was only the club's manager.[11]
In the1983–84 season he became manager in October 1983 and, as successor to the dismissedUli Maslo, coach of Borussia Dortmund at the same time until Horst Franz began as coach in November 1983.[2] At the beginning of the 1984–85 season he was dismissed from Borussia Dortmund as manager in October 1984 together with the coach Timo Konietzka who had been hired by him.[10][11]
After his coaching career, Tippenhauer lived for about 20 years in the Westphalian municipality ofLadbergen in the Tecklenburger Land. Against the background of holding sporting events, he founded several agencies and was, among other things, the managing director of anadvertising agency in Hamburg,[4] which has been publishing the book Der Große Restaurant & Hotel Guide in cooperation withBertelsmann AG since 1997 and whose management he gave up in 2013.[12][13]
He received his doctorate in 2010 at the Westfälische Wilhelms-University of Münster on the "perceived influence of leading players in the Bundesliga" in the subject ofsports psychology, on which he had worked for three and a half years.[14] Intensive discussions with Bernd Strauss, whom he had met in 2003–04, gave him the idea of a study on the Bundesliga.[4]
Tippenhauer died on 1 April 2021 in Hamburg, at the age of 77.[15][16]
