Heinz Krügel

Heinz Krügel was a German football player and manager, born on 24 April 1921 and died on 27 October 2008. He began in the youth teams of SC Planitz at the age of six, served in the Second World War, and was a prisoner until 1946. His biggest success as a player was winning the championship of the Eastern Zone with Planitz in 1948, and a knee injury ended his playing career in 1950 when he was 29. He then became a coach, managing among others Vorwärts Leipzig, Rostock and Hallescher FC Chemie, which he took to the 1962 FDGB-Pokal, and he was national manager of East Germany from 1959 to 1961. His greatest successes came at 1. FC Magdeburg, with three East German championships, two FDGB cups and the 1974 UEFA Cup Winners Cup. In 1976 the East German football association banned him from managing, and he was rehabilitated after reunification.