Helmuth Johannsen

Helmuth Johannsen (27 February 1920 – 3 November 1998) was a German professional football player and manager.

Helmuth Johannsen

Johannsen managing Braunschweig in 1963
Personal information
Date of birth	(1920-02-27)27 February 1920
Place of birth	Hamburg, Germany[1]
Date of death	3 November 1998(1998-11-03) (aged 78)
Place of death	Hamburg, Germany[2]
Youth career
	FC St. Pauli
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
	FC St. Pauli
Managerial career
1950–1954	TuS Bremerhaven 93
1954–1961	Holstein Kiel
1961–1963	1. FC Saarbrücken
1963–1970	Eintracht Braunschweig
1970–1971	Hannover 96
1972–1975	SV Röchling Völklingen
1975–1976	Tennis Borussia Berlin
1976–1979	Grasshoppers
1979–1981	VfL Bochum
1981–1985	St. Gallen
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Johannsen played for St. Pauli, a club which he also served as vice-president for a year from 1987 to 1988, but a war injury forced him to give up his playing career early.[3] After World War II he went on to become a manager, most notably leading Eintracht Braunschweig to a surprising Bundesliga championship in 1966–67.[4]

From early May to the end of June 1965 he spent a few weeks on loan from Braunschweig at Holstein Kiel taking the champions of the northern division of the then national second tier Regionalliga, through the matches of the promotion series for the Bundesliga, but finishing only third in a pool of four teams, behind Borussia Mönchengladbach around their young stars Günter Netzer and Jupp Heynckes, and SSV Reutlingen from the state of Baden-Württemberg.

He also worked in Switzerland, winning the Swiss championship in 1978 with Grasshopper Club Zürich, and also reaching the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup the same year.