Dennis stapler

Dennis stapler
portrait
Date of birth	March 4th 1993
place of birth	Worms , Germany
date of death	February 23, 2015
Place of death	Leuna , Germany
size	1.87 m
position	Libero
societies
0000–2009 2009–2012 2012–2013 2013–2015	TuS Worms-Hochheim SV Steinwenden Volleyball Boarding School Frankfurt VC Olympia Berlin Chemistry Volley Central Germany
National team
	Junior national team
Status: February 24, 2015

Dennis Hefter (born March 4, 1993 in Worms ; † February 23, 2015 in Leuna ) was a German volleyball player .

Career

Hefter played volleyball for the first time in a school club after he had previously been more interested in football . He started his career at TuS Worms-Hochheim . From there he went to the national league team SV Steinrechen . After the tenth grade, he was discovered by scouts in 2009 and continued his athletic training at the volleyball boarding school in Frankfurt . There he was retrained by the attacker to become a libero. In 2011 Hefter took part with the German juniors at the U19 European Championship in Ankara , where the DVV selection remained without a win. In the 2012/13 season he played with VC Olympia Berlin in the Bundesliga. He was then signed by the Bundesliga club Chemie Volley Mitteldeutschland , where the junior coach Ulf Quell had just become the new head coach.

Private

Hefter's parents played volleyball in minor leagues. His father Michael is the coach of the second division team TGM Mainz-Gonsenheim . Hefter was in a relationship with the heptathlete Carolin Schäfer until his death .

In the late evening of February 23, 2015, Dennis Hefter was hit by a train at the Leuna-Werke Nord stop while crossing the tracks and was fatally injured. Apparently he was wearing headphones and not using the underpass.

Web links

• Profile at Chemie Volley Mitteldeutschland ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
• Profile at the volleyball boarding school in Frankfurt ( Memento from March 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Between success and defeat. In: Morgenweb. May 31, 2013, accessed March 1, 2014 . 
2. ↑ U19 EM (m): Dennis Hefter: "We all had hoped for more". (No longer available online.) DVV, April 28, 2011, archived from the original on March 2, 2014 ; accessed on March 1, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Ballproof hobbit. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. October 29, 2013, accessed March 1, 2014 . 
4. ↑ From VC Olympia Berlin to Spergau. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. October 29, 2013, accessed March 1, 2014 . 
5. ↑ CVM-Profi is run over by Zug in Leuna. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. February 24, 2015, accessed February 24, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Police are investigating Hefter's accidental death. In: Sport1.de. February 25, 2015, accessed August 8, 2017 .