With pink jerseys and elephants: legendary HSV manager has passed away

With pink jerseys and elephants
Legendary HSV manager has passed away

Two years as president, two years as manager – that doesn’t sound like much, but in the case of Peter Krohn it left a lasting impression. The football official at Hamburger SV brought entertainment to football in an extraordinary way. He has now died at the age of 89.

Peter Krohn, former president and general manager of Hamburger SV, died on Thursday at the age of 89. The HSV announced. Krohn was president of the club from 1973 to 1975, after which he worked as a manager until 1977 and ensured a coup in the Bundesliga by signing the English superstar Kevin Keegan.

With marketing measures that were unusual at the time, Krohn reorganized the indebted club, which celebrated winning the DFB Cup in 1976 and the European Cup Winners’ Cup in 1977. Krohn also brought the later club idols Felix Magath and Willi Reimann to Hamburg. He was succeeded by Günter Netzer as HSV manager – the most successful sporting period of HSV began with three championship titles and the title in the national championship competition in 1983. The newspapers wrote of the “Krohn circus”, which was seen by the Rothosen because for the manager Even back then, football was not just a sport, it was also entertainment.

Legendary.

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“Dr. Peter Krohn always thought big, thought in extraordinary spheres and thought without limits”, wrote the Hamburger SV on its homepage: “Pink jerseys to interest more women in HSV? Made. Elephants on the training ground to attract attention to worry? No problem. ” He brought Keegan to the Hanseatic city for the then record sum of 2.3 million D-Marks from Liverpool FC.

Krohn’s father Hans played for Hamburg and became champion in 1923 with the club that beat SC Union Oberschöneweide in the final, a predecessor of today’s 1. FC Union Berlin. Peter Krohn remained connected to his HSV even after he left as a manager. From 1998 to 2001 he sat on the supervisory board. A few days before Krohn, his wife Doris died on March 16. “The HSV family mourns two loyal companions and one of the great HSV personalities,” says the obituary.

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