Career
After a career playing amateur football, Kern was appointed assistant manager of Bayern Munich in 1970, where he remained until 1977, serving during the club"s golden era. He assisted Udo Lattek and Dettmar Cramer, and also managed the reserve team He then went into management himself, working at Wormatia Worms, 1.
Football Club Nuremberg, Eintracht Trier and SSV Ulm 1846.
In 1998, he was to return to Bayern Munich to head up the revamped youth setup.