Helmut Witte (football coach)

Helmut Witte (born July 15, 1941) is a former German football coach, who worked for Wattenscheid 09, Borussia Dortmund and MSV Duisburg, among others. Edit career as trainerQuality

In the late 1960s, Witte took his first coach position at the Dortmund Amateur Club VfR Sölde. From 1970 he held this office with the sub-class SV Welver. In November 1975, he was appointed by the second division Wattenscheid 09 in this position and placed the eighth place with the team at the end of the 1975/76 season. He moved to Borussia Dortmund, where he was active in the youth and amateur field. He later worked for the first team as an assistant coach and was promoted to the chef of the Bundesliga after the dismissal of Karl-Heinz Feldkamp on 6 April 1983. Within a short time a conflict developed between him and team captain Manfred Burgsmüller, whom he did not want to take into account further. Only about two weeks after the start, the club announced that they wanted to hire Uli Maslo as a new coach to the next season.

Under Maslo, Witte once again worked in the role of the assistant, before returning to Chetrainer at Borussia Dortmund in October 1983 after his dismissal for a short transitional period. After an intermediate position as assistant co-ordinator at the TuS Schloß Neuhaus, he took over the responsibility of the second-division MSV Duisburg in September 1985. Because his sporting situation under his leadership did not improve, he was already released in March 1986. As a co-coach of the FC Schalke 04 he took another function in the professional football from 1987 to 1989, before he turned to the amateursport again. In the early 1990s, he trained Rot-Weiss Lüdenscheid and again the VfR Sölde, where his career had begun. In 1997, he took over an honorary function as a chef at ASC 09 Dortmund and performed it for many years. Single-level Edit source text

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