Hennes Weisweiler

Hennes Weisweiler

Hans "Hennes" Weisweiler (5 December 1919, 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.