Horst Ehrmantraut

Horst Ehrmantraut

Personal information
Full name	Horst Ehrmantraut
Date of birth	(1955-12-11) 11 December 1955
Place of birth	Homburg-Einöd, West Germany
Height
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
0000–1975	SpVgg Einöd
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1975–1979	FC 08 Homburg	131	(13)
1979–1980	Eintracht Frankfurt	13	(0)
1980–1985	Hertha BSC	170	(16)
1985–1988	FC Homburg	70	(3)
Managerial career
1990–1991	SpVgg Blau-Weiß 1890 Berlin
1991–1996	SV Meppen
1997–1998	Eintracht Frankfurt
2000–2001	Hannover 96
2003	1. FC Saarbrücken
2004–2005	1. FC Saarbrücken
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Horst Ehrmantraut (born 11 December 1955) is a German former professional football defender and manager.

Plastic chair

What is a very well known and characteristic feature of Ehrmantraut, is a plastic chair, from which he followed the matches. Not sitting on the regular bench, but aside near the ground, the legend came up, he is fixing and ruling the players in a mental way form this place. Later he told, that it was only because of a better concentration than on the crowded bench. Because of the promotion to the Bundesliga connected with Ehrmantraut's queer character, the chair became a cult status and was not disposed. Now, it is shown in the official Eintracht Frankfurt Museum in the Commerzbank-Arena (formerly known as 'Waldstadion') behind a vitrine.

External links

• Horst Ehrmantraut profile at Fussballdaten
• Horst Ehrmantraut at eintracht-archiv.de (German)
• Picture of the plastic chair in the Museum