German field handball championship 1947 - Open championship of the British zone of occupation

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Field handball interzone championship 1947
master RSV Mülheim
Teams 3
Games 3
Gates 51  (ø 17 per game)

The German field handball championship in 1947 was the first German field handball championship after the Second World War ; it was held as the interzone championship of the strongest clubs in the American Zone , the British Zone and West Berlin ; the three participating clubs were determined through regional championship rounds. The games took place between July 20 and August 3, 1947. The organizer was the "German Working Committee for Handball in the British Zone" (DAH, DAHBZ), the predecessor organization of the "German Working Committee for Handball" (DAH), which hosted the championship in 1948 and 1949 and finally the German Handball Federation (DHB). The final took place on August 3, 1947 in front of 35,000 spectators in Oberhausen's Niederrhein stadium.

The first German champion of the post-war period was RSV Mülheim , who won the final against SV Waldhof Mannheim 8: 6.

Tournament course

The three qualified teams - RSV Mülheim (British Zone), SV Waldhof Mannheim (American Zone, winner of the 1946 Interzonal Championship ) and SG Spandau-Neustadt (West Berlin) - determined the participants in a preliminary round "everyone against everyone" at the endgame. Since both RSV Mülheim and SV Waldhof Mannheim won their games against SG Spandau-Neustadt, the encounter between Mülheim and Mannheim in the preliminary round was unnecessary. In the final Mülheim prevailed, almost in a home game for the lawn athletes in the stadium in the neighboring city of Oberhausen.

Preliminary round

20th of July

RSV Mülheim - SG Spandau-Neustadt: 17: 7

22nd of July

SV Waldhof Mannheim - SG Spandau-Neustadt: 9: 4
not carried out: SV Waldhof Mannheim - RSV Mülheim
Endgame

3rd August

RSV Mülheim - SV Waldhof Mannheim: 8: 6 (halftime: 4: 2)

The Background - Field Handball Championship of the British and American Zones of Occupation 1946

Field handball was played again in Germany as soon as the Allied occupation authorities re-allowed the clubs in their respective zones and allowed tournaments to be held. The sports historian Erik Eggers summarizes in his standard work on handball in Germany that just a few weeks after the end of the war, news about friendly matches from all occupation zones was available again. In the British Zone, for example, the activities of sports clubs were restricted to the local or county level by occupation directives in 1945, but in the summer of 1946 a regional championship was held again, just like in the American Zone, and it became a joint championship Zone championship played out:

In the British occupation zone in 1946 the Sportring 33 Gevelsberg had defeated the Flensburg TB in the final 11: 7; In the subsequent final of the zone champions in Hagen , the champions of the American zone, SV 07 Waldhof , won against Gevelsberg 11: 4.

In autumn 1946 a “Working Committee for Handball in the British Zone” was founded in Hamburg, a forerunner of the DAH / DHB; and from 1947 on there were regular championship rounds in field handball.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The “German Working Committee for Handball” (DAH) was only launched a few days after the end of this championship in August 1947 in Kettwig as the successor to the “German Working Committee for Handball in the British Zone” founded in Hamburg in autumn 1946
  2. ↑ DHB website, statistics: German champions field handball men
  3. ↑ Note: While in indoor handball the championship tournaments of 1948 and 1949 are not recognized by the DHB and are considered unofficial, the handball umbrella organization in field handball also records the championship rounds held in a unitary association before it was founded in October 1949 (including the DAH championships 1947 –1949) and consequently lists the winners as German champions on his statistics pages from 1934 onwards. See DHB website: German champions indoor handball men and German champions field handball men , accessed March 1, 2014
  4. ↑ Note: SG Spandau was not the Berlin field handball champions this year, but SC Weißensee (Michael Kulus, Die Geschichte des Handball-Verband Berlin , p. 5), a team from the city's Soviet sector .
  5. ↑ Eggers (ed.), Handball, Göttingen 2004, p. 102, ISBN 3-89533-465-0
  6. ↑ Handball Association Lower Saxony: History 1945-49 (without indication of author), accessed March 5, 2014
  7. ↑ Webers (Red.): Field handball championship of the British and American zone of occupation 1946 (accessed March 5, 2014)
  8. ↑ Handball Association Lower Saxony: History 1945-49 (without indication of author), accessed March 5, 2014
  9. ↑ Eggers (ed.), Handball, Göttingen 2004, p. 102, ISBN 3-89533-465-0