Ben Vollbrecht

Ben Vollbrecht
portrait
Date of birth	August 24, 1987
place of birth	Berlin, Germany
size	1.87 m
position	Middle block
societies
until 2004 2004–2005 2005–2006 2006–2009 2009–2012 2012–2013 since 2013	SC Eintracht Innova Berlin Marzahner VC SG Rotation Prenzlauer Berg VC Olympia Berlin Köpenicker SC Rote Raben Vilsbiburg SV Lohhof NawaRo Straubing SV Lohhof
National team
	Junior national team
successes
2004 2001 2011	Second league champion Federal Cup winner Second league champion
As of December 30, 2016

Ben Vollbrecht (* 24. August 1987 in Berlin as Inga Vollbrecht ) is a German volleyball player . Before a gender reassignment, he played in the women's Bundesliga.

Career

After reading a newspaper ad advertising volleyball, Vollbrecht began his career at SC Eintracht Innova Berlin. As a member of this club, at the age of thirteen, he won the national cup for girls with the Berlin state selection. He then moved to Marzahner VC and later to SG Rotation Prenzlauer Berg , which was champion of the second division north in the 2003/04 season. The student then went to VC Olympia Berlin , which played in the first Bundesliga in the 2004/05 season . With the promoted Köpenicker SC , the middle blocker managed to stay in the top German division in the 2005/06 season . In 2006 the junior international moved to the Rote Raben Vilsbiburg . At Niederbayern he played one year in the first and two years in the second division. In 2009 he went to SV Lohhof . In the first season, the team was relegated with Vollbrecht from the Bundesliga , but then succeeded in the immediate promotion from the Second League South . In the following years Vollbrecht also worked as a trainer and in management in Lohhof. In the 2012/13 season he played for the second division team NawaRo Straubing and was temporarily active as a player-coach. Then he returned to SV Lohhof. There he initially strengthened the second women's team in the third division and from 2014 played again for the first team in the second division.

Ben Vollbrecht has played as a setter in the SV Lohhof regional league team since 2016.

Private

From 1993 to 1999 Vollbrecht attended the Zille elementary school in Berlin. He then spent two years at the Oberschule am Elsengrund before continuing his education at the Coubertin Gymnasium from 2001 to 2006. In the last two years of his stay in Vilsbiburg, he completed an apprenticeship as a sports and fitness clerk.

In 2013 Vollbrecht saw a TV report about transsexuals and came into contact with the Transmann association. As a result, he decided on gender reassignment , which he started in 2015. His name and civil status change has been official since 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Roter Rabe flies to the Lohhofer volleyball players. SV Lohhof, accessed on December 30, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Volleyball in Berlin. (PDF) (No longer available online.) VVB, May 2001, formerly in the original ; accessed on December 30, 2016 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} NawaRo Straubing spices up the squad. Wochenblatt, July 20, 2012, accessed December 30, 2016 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} SV Lohhof: 2 x Inga for the first women's team. Volleyball Bundesliga, September 4, 2014, accessed December 30, 2016 . 
5. ↑ NawaRo Straubing: The trainer is gone again. Wochenblatt, September 14, 2012, accessed December 30, 2016 . 
6. ^ National league squad of SV Lohhof in the 2016/17 season
7. ↑ Profile at Stayfriends
8. ↑ ^{a b} Silke Nörenberg: Inga became Ben: "As a woman I didn't like beer - now I already". Münchner Merkur , November 24, 2016, accessed on December 30, 2016 (also in Volleyball-Magazin, issue 1/2017, pp. 38–41).