Hans-Dieter Tippenhauer

Hans-Dieter Tippenhauer (16 October 1943 – 1 April 2021) was a German football manager.

Career Hans-Dieter Tippenhauer was born on 16 October 1943 in Merunen in East Prussia, the second son of Gertrud (nee Faltin) and Wilhelm Tippenhauer. His older brother Ulrich Tippenhauer (1942–1983) became a professor of mathematics at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern. After attending elementary school in Dortmund, 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 in Essen and graduated from the Fachhochschule 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. he was able to start studying sports at the German 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 and Karl-Heinz Heddergott, and at the same time coached the third-division club Godesberger FV. In 1974 he married.

He started his coaching career in the Bundesliga in 1975 as an assistant coach at Eintracht Frankfurt alongside Dietrich Weise, In 1977 he became assistant coach to Weise, who was now training Fortuna Düsseldorf. A year later he was promoted to head coach himself; In the spring of 1983, after the dismissal of Werner 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. After promotion to the Bundesliga, Friedhelm Konietzka became the coach of Bayer Uerdingen and Tippenhauer was only the club's manager.

In the 1983–84 season he became manager in October 1983 and, as successor to the dismissed Uli Maslo, coach of Borussia Dortmund at the same time until Horst Franz began as coach in November 1983.

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 of sports psychology, on which he had worked for three and a half years. Intensive discussions with Bernd Strauss, whom he had met in 2003–04, gave him the idea of a study on the Bundesliga.

Sporting successes 1979 with Fortuna Düsseldorf – finalist in the European Cup Winners' Cup 1979 with Fortuna Düsseldorf – German Cup Winner 1980 with Arminia Bielefeld – promotion to the Bundesliga (first place 2. Bundesliga North) 1983 with Bayer Uerdingen – promotion to the Bundesliga (relegation against Schalke 04 3–1/1–1)