As a player, Peter Hermann is promoted to the Bundesliga with Leverkusen, but his great career is as an assistant coach. He wins the treble with FC Bayern, works for the German Football Association and most recently for Borussia Dortmund. Now he’s paying tribute to his health and retiring.
Assistant coach Peter Hermann is leaving Borussia Dortmund and is ending his long and extremely successful career with immediate effect. As the Bundesliga soccer club announced, the 70-year-old asked for his release for health reasons. “It goes without saying that we have complied with his wish,” said sporting director Sebastian Kehl.
The club described the departure of the veteran as painful. “Last summer we were incredibly happy that Peter – although his personal life plans did not envisage this at the time – decided to spend another year in professional football and for BVB. In him we are not only losing an experienced, technically excellent coach, but also also a great person,” said Kehl.
In more than three decades in the professional field, Hermann was mostly as an assistant coach in almost 1000 games in the top two national divisions as well as the DFB Cup and another 200 European Cup games. He was valued as an expert at Bayer Leverkusen, 1. FC Nuremberg, Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV and Fortuna Düsseldorf as well as at the German Football Association. Hermann celebrated his greatest success alongside head coach Jupp Heynckes, with whom he was able to win the treble of championship, Champions League and DFB Cup in the 2012/13 season. As a player, he managed to get promoted to the Bundesliga with Bayer Leverkusen in the late 1970s.
“Peter Hermann leaves a very big gap for all of us in the assistant coach position, both professionally and personally. He will also be missed as a friend and companion at my side. From the bottom of my heart: Thank you, Peter,” said BVB -Coach Edin Terzic. BVB will decide on Hermann’s successor in the coming weeks.