Ernst "Anti" Kümmel is a retired East German football player and manager

Between 1939 and 1944, Kümmel played for Cricket Viktoria Magdeburg

Cricket Viktoria Magdeburg

Cricket Viktoria Magdeburg was a German association football club playing in the Cracau district of Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt.-History:The club was established in 1897 out of the merger of FuCC Regatta Magdeburg und FC Gut Stoss Magdeburg and was originally a cricket team, one of the English sports...

. After the war he joined newly-created BSG

Betriebssportgemeinschaft (GDR)

A Betriebssportgemeinschaft was an organizational form of sports clubs in East Germany.After World War II, the Allied Control Commission had dissolved all existing sports structures, including the dissolution of all existing sports clubs on the basis of directive 23, dated 17 December 1945. This...

 Eintracht Sudenburg, a predecessor of 1. FC Magdeburg

1. FC Magdeburg

1. FC Magdeburg is a German association football club playing in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt.-History:Football has been played in Magdeburg since the end of the 19th century. On 15 June 1896 SV Victoria 96 Magdeburg was founded, a club that had its best days before World War II, when it participated...

. In 1956 he ended his playing career at the club that had in the meantime been renamed BSG Motor Mitte Magdeburg. From 1959 until the mid-1980s Kümmel took over various coaching duties for the club, now renamed SC Aufbau Magdeburg, and its successor, 1. FC Magdeburg. In 1962 Kümmel took over managing the club's first team, an office he would hold until January 1966 when he was sacked as the club was in danger of being relegated from the DDR-Oberliga. In this time the club won the FDGB-Pokal twice, in 1964 and 1965. thus qualifying for the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a football club competition contested annually by the most recent winners of all European domestic cup competitions. The cup is one of the many inter-European club competitions that have been organised by UEFA. The first competition was held in the 1960–61 season—but...

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After Kümmel was relieved from his post with the first team, he continued to work with the clubs youth side,

Honors

• FDGB-Pokal: 2
  • Winner 1964
    FDGB-Pokal 1963–64
    The 13th competition for the East German national football cup, the FDGB-Pokal, was held in the 1963-64 seasonThe competition began with a qualifying round for the 65 clubs of the 2nd DDR-Liga that had been dissolved at the end of the previous season. They were joined by 17 finalists of the...
    
    , 1965
    FDGB-Pokal 1964–65
    The 1964-65 season saw the 14th competition for the FDGB-Pokal, the East German national football cup.In a qualification round played on 2 August 1964, the 32 teams of the second-tier DDR-Liga of the past season and 28 finalists of the Bezirkspokal competitions faced each other. Empor Neustrelitz...