 He also coached Eintracht Trier.During his playing career "Düsseldorf" dominated the (topflight) district division through the late 1920s and 1930s, winning the Western German football championship in 1931, the German football championship in 1933 and a German Vice-Championship in 1936.The club also appeared in the final of the Tschammerpokal, predecessor of today's German Cup, in 1937.