Hermann Eppenhoff

Hermann Eppenhoff
Personal information
Date of birth19 May 1919
Place of birthWanne-Eickel, Weimar Republic
Date of death10 April 1992 (aged 72)
Place of deathGelsenkirchen, Germany
Playing positionForward
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
–1938SpVgg Röhlinghausen
1938TuS Tiefenbach
1938–1943FC Schalke 04
1943–1944Rote Jäger
1949–1955FC Schalke 04
National team
1940–1942Germany3(3)
Teams managed
1956–1958TuRa Bergkamen
1958–1961Sportfreunde Gladbeck
1961–1965Borussia Dortmund
1965–1967Meidericher SV
1967–1972VfL Bochum
1972–1974VfB Stuttgart
1976–1977SG Union Solingen
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Hermann Eppenhoff (19 May 1919 – 10 April 1992) was a German football player and manager.

Career

The forward was a member of FC Schalke 04 squad, which won the German Championship in the years 1939, 1940 and 1942. He also won three caps with the German national team.

Coaching career

Later on he served as a manager for Borussia Dortmund, winning the German Championship in 1963 and also making it to the final of the DFB-Pokal in the same year. Two years later he won the 1964–65 DFB-Pokal with Dortmund. After switching to Meidericher SV he made it to the cup final once again in 1965–66, where his team was defeated by Bayern Munich. After several years at VfL Bochum, where he made the cup final yet again in 1967–68, he eventually switched to VfB Stuttgart.

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