Rudi Assauer

Rudolf "Rudi" Assauer (born April 30, 1944 in Altenwald) is a former German football manager and former player. Due to his habit of smoking a great number of cigars, he has been given the nickname "Stumpen-Rudi", or Cheroot Rudi. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (700x852, 398 KB) Description: Rudi Assauer, FC Schalke 04 Source: photos by Produnis, May 2002 Licence: File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Rudi Assauer ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (700x852, 398 KB) Description: Rudi Assauer, FC Schalke 04 Source: photos by Produnis, May 2002 Licence: File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Rudi Assauer ... April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (121st in leap years), with 245 days remaining. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... Football (soccer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

Born in Saarland, Assauer played in 307 matches for Borussia Dortmund and Werder Bremen between 1964 and 1976. Assauer won won the European Cup winners' Cup in 1966 with Dortmund. From 1976 to 1981 he was manager of [[Werder Bremen]}, before leaving to manage Schalke 04 for the first time between 1981 and 1986. This first tenure ended with his dismissal, and Assauer spent four years out of football and went into real estate. He re-entered management in 1990, and in 1993 he once again became the manager of Schalke. Saarland is one of the 16 states of Germany. ... Borussia Dortmund is a German football first division club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. ... Werder Bremen is a German football club playing in Bremen in the northwest German federal state of the same name. ... FC Schalke 04 (short S04) is a German football team based in Gelsenkirchen. ... Real estate is a legal term that encompasses land along with anything permanently affixed to the land, such as buildings. ...

Since taking over for the second time, Schalke have seen much success, including a 1997 UEFA Cup win, and victory in the German Cup in 2001 and 2002. Assauer has also overseen the development of a brand new stadium for the club. Schalke are however experiencing considerable financial problems at present. In May 2006 Assauer was suspected of betraying secret information concerning the financial problems of Schalke, and the club and Assauer have parted company. 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Assauer lives with the actress Simone Thomalla, and has been described by Michael Meier, former manager of Borussia Dortmund, as a "Kashmir Hooligan".