Bernd Kuchenbecker

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Bernd Kuchenbecker (born March 14, 1920 in Berlin-Köpenick ; † 2003 or 2004) was a German national handball player who became world champion with the German national field handball team in 1952. As a handball coach, he led the SG Leutershausen to the championship title.

biography

Kuchenbecker moved to Flensburg around 1945 . He became a member of the Flensburger Turnerbundes (FTB) and after the separation of the handball department with Siegfried Perrey played a key role in founding the sports club Sportfreunde Flensburg , which played an important role in North German handball with up to five national players. Kuchenbecker was a good field handball player, but also played an important role in indoor handball. Because of his achievements, he was quickly appointed to the German national field handball team. In 1952 he was team leader of the German national team at the world championship in field handball, with which he won the world championship.

His dynamic style of play tore his teammates, u. a. Heinrich Dahlinger Bernhard Kempa and Jürgen Isberg with and was generally recognized. In addition to the national field handball team, he was also appointed to the national indoor team. In total, he took part in six field and six indoor international matches .

After the end of his active career as a player, he became a coach at various clubs, especially at Bundesliga club SG Leutershausen , which he led to the German indoor handball championship in the 1967/68 season and to the German field handball championship in the 1969 season . Later he was the Dutch national coach.

In the civilian profession, Kuchenbecker was a teacher at the Mürwiker elementary school in Flensburg, from 1952 a sports and biology teacher at the Goethe-Gymnasium in Flensburg. In 1991, Kuchenbecker was one of the founding members of the Friends of German Handball. At the 5th general meeting of this association on May 2, 2004, Kuchenbecker's death was commemorated.

Kuchenbecker also dealt theoretically with the sport of handball. His book Handball Defense Systems appeared in several editions.

Awards

He was awarded the silver bay leaf on June 28, 1953 .

Publications

  • Bernd Kuchenbecker: Indoor handball defense systems , Bartels and Wernitz, Berlin ao 1974 and 1991 at Philippka-Sportverlag, Münster

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Kuchenbecker, Bernd. In: Alfred Petermann: Sportlexikon. Book and Time, Cologne 1969.
  2. ↑ a b Kuchenbecker report: [...] was the team captain of the national field handball team, with which he became world champion in 1952 [...]
  3. ↑ Jürgen Isberg: The legend of the German game: [...] “The great gesture that Diem was and is understood and emulated by some players and teams. The shining example was the German World Cup [...] 1952 [...] inextricably linked with the names Kempa, Dahlimger, Kuchenbecker [...] "
  4. ↑ GeZeiten.de article from September 4, 2009 by Willi Speck: Against forgetting
  5. ^ DHB announcement of April 29, 2016 on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of this group; see also Freundeskreis des Deutschen Handball, chronicle of the years 1991 to 2016 (PDF); Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  6. ↑ Freundeskreis des Deutschen Handball, Chronicle of the years 1991 to 2016 , page 6 (PDF); accessed March 28, 2019.
  7. ↑ Sports report of the federal government of September 26, 1973 to the Bundestag - printed matter 9/1040, p. 59
personal data
SURNAME Kuchenbecker, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German national handball player
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Koepenick
DATE OF DEATH 2003 or 2004