Heinrich Körner

Heinrich Körner (born Heinrich Krczal, 2 July 1893 – 8 December 1961) was an Austrian football player and coach.

Heinz Körner

Personal information
Full name	Heinrich Körner
Date of birth	(1893-07-02)2 July 1893
Place of birth	Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Date of death	8 December 1961(1961-12-08) (aged 68)
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
1907–1911	Rapid Wien
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1911–1919	Rapid Wien	83	(36+)
1919	Amateure
1919–1921	Rapid Wien	13	(3)
1921–1922	Stuttgarter Kickers
1923–1924	Wiener AF
National team
1913–1918	Austria	7	(0)
Teams managed
1921	Union Gelsenkirchen
1921–1923	Stuttgarter Kickers
	RW Oberhausen
1923–1924	Fola Esch
1923–1924	Wiener AF
1924–1927	Fortuna Düsseldorf
1928–1929	Teutonia München
1930–1931	Concordia Basel
1931–1934	Fortuna Düsseldorf
	Wuppertal
1935–1937	FC Basel
1937–1938	Bayern München
1939–1941	Fortuna Düsseldorf
	Union 02 Hamborn
	Kölner BC
	Rot-Weiss Essen
	TuRU Düsseldorf
1951–1953	Fortuna Düsseldorf
	SV Wimpassing
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

Born as Heinrich Krczal, the player joined SK Rapid Wien at the age of 14. He soon came into the reserves through the youth team and, after left winger Ferdinand Wolf's retirement, also into the first team. There he formed the left attack side with Leopold Grundwald. When the first championship title was played in 1911/12, the two played a key role in reaching the title. Krczal was a regular player until the outbreak of war and only played sporadically during the war years before he regularly took his place in the forward line again. During these years three more championship titles were won. In 1919, however, the player who was most recently used as a center forward lost his place in the first team. So he went to Wiener Amateur SV. He also took on the name Körner at this time. He only stayed for a few months and returned to Rapid during the season. He won two more championship titles and a cup victory.

International

He made his debut for the Austrian national football team on 15 June 1913 in Vienna in a 2-0 win against Italy. He was part of the team until the start of the war. In 1918 he returned to the team and played his last match on 9 May 1918 in a 5-1 win against the Swiss team .

Manager

After his active career, he started a coaching career in 1921. He worked nainly in Germany. There he became known as Heinz Körner. His first clubs were Union Gelsenkirchen, Stuttgarter Kickers , Fola Esch and Wiener AF in 1923. There he was playing coach.

The club with which his coaching career is most closely linked is Fortuna Düsseldorf. He started in 1924. After a short break with with 1. FSV Mainz 05 in the summer of 1925 , he led the team to win the district championship for the first time in 1927 and led to participation in the German championship for the first time. After leaving the club in 1928 he returned to Düsseldorf in 1931, where he led Fortuna to the greatest success in the club's history in 1933. They won the German championship when Schalke 04 was beaten 3-0 in the final .

In the mid-1930s Körner worked in the Switzerland. In the 1937/38 season he was coach at FC Bayern Munich. After a short time at Union 02 Hamborn, he looked after Fortuna Düsseldorf for the fourth time. He looked after them one last time between 1951 and 1953 in the Oberliga West. During those years, Toni Turek, the 1954 world champion was part of his team.

Körner also worked as a coach at Kölner BC, Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, SV Borussia Wuppertal, Rot-Weiss Essen and TuRU Düsseldorf. After his return to Austria, he worked as a sports teacher and was chairman of the Austrian sports teachers' association and looked after the ESV Westbahn Linz, ASK Sparta Linz, E-Werk Wien and the second division team SV Wimpassing.

Honours

Player

• Austrian Champion : 1912 , 1913, 1916, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1921
• Austrian Cup: 1920

Manager

• German Champion: 1933
• Gauliga Niederrhein: 1939, 1940