VfL Wolfsburg — mid 1990s snapshot (around 1995/96)

• Club: VfL Wolfsburg (Germany)
• Season context: mid-1990s; the club was competing in the 2. Bundesliga (second tier of German football) during this period as it prepared the push that led to its first promotion to the Bundesliga in 1997.
• Head coach (around this time): Gerd Roggensack — Roggensack is a German coach active in the professional game who had managerial spells at various clubs in the 1980s and 1990s and is recorded as Wolfsburg’s coach in the mid-1990s. Exact appointment dates and any interim/caretaker spells are best confirmed from contemporary match reports or club archives for a precise timeline.
• Home stadium (period): VfL-Stadion am Elsterweg (the club’s home ground until the opening of the Volkswagen Arena in 2002).
• Club situation: Wolfsburg in the mid-1990s was a professionally run club backed by Volkswagen, building the squad and infrastructure that would culminate in promotion to the Bundesliga in 1997.

Research & verification sources

• Contemporary German sports coverage: Kicker (kicker.de) and local Wolfsburg press archives for match reports and managerial announcements.
• Football databases with historical season, squad and manager records: worldfootball.net, transfermarkt.com, and RSSSF for historical league tables and match lists.
• Club archives / VfL Wolfsburg official history pages for season-by-season details and exact coaching dates.

This summary provides a high-level overview of VfL Wolfsburg and Gerd Roggensack’s association with the club around 1995/96; consult the listed sources for match-by-match lineups, exact coaching start/end dates, and full squad lists from that season.