German field handball championship 1954

Final round of the German field handball championship 1954
master	TC Frisch Auf Göppingen
Teams	8th
Games	26th
Gates	664  (ø 25.54 per game)
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The German field handball championship in 1954 was played in a final tournament between May 16 and June 27, 1954. The tournament was the fifth championship round in men's field handball organized by the DHB . The final took place on June 27, 1954 in front of more than 20,000 spectators in Stuttgart's Neckar Stadium.

The new German champion was the TC Frisch Auf Göppingen . The Göppingen defeated TuS Lintfort in the final 18: 8 and thus won the first field handball championship title in the club's history. Frisch Auf thus also succeeded the SV Hamburg Police on the large field , the subscription champions of both handball sports in recent years; The strikingly young team around Bernhard Kempa had already won the indoor championship in the spring.

mode

The mode was changed slightly compared to the previous season: eight teams had qualified for this tournament through the championship finals of the regional associations. These teams played against each other in two groups with home and away games; the group winners competed against each other in the final, the respective runners-up (this was the innovation) played for third place.

Group I: SV Police Hamburg (North German runner-up, defending champion), Reinickendorfer Füchse (Berlin master), TuS Lintfort (West German master) and TSV Zirndorf 1861 (South German runner-up).

Group II consisted of: TC Frisch Auf Göppingen (South German Master, German Master (Halle) 1954 ), THW Kiel (North German Master), SV Harleshausen (South West German Master) and TuS 04 Rheinhausen (West German runner-up).

The playing time was 2 × 30 minutes.

Tournament course

Even the qualification of the defending champion and serial champion of the last seasons, the SV Police Hamburg, had been difficult; Hamburg had clearly beaten the THW Kiel at the North German Championship and could only qualify for the tournament for the German Championship through two play-offs. Because of this success against the Hamburg police association, THW was counted among the favorites. Already in the first game against the southwest champion from Kassel-Harleshausen it became clear that the weights in German field handball had shifted: The Kielers were able to save a draw on their own pitch with difficulty.

After the indoor championship lost to Göppingen in the winter season, the field tournament confirmed that the time of Hamburg handball dominance was over, it also became apparent that the west and south of Germany had playfully overtaken the north; For the first time since the field handball zone championship in 1948, no north German club was represented in the final. The carefree “Kempa boys” from Göppingen, on the other hand, had the greatest reserves right up until the final and, under the “all-important” direction Bernhard Kempas, relegated West German master TuS Lintfort to the ungrateful second place.

Group I.

TuS Lintfort - Reinickendorfer Füchse: 9: 8 / 10:11

TuS Lintfort - SV Police Hamburg: 14:13 / 12:12

TuS Lintfort - TSV Zirndorf 1861: 14:11 / 18:11

Reinickendorfer Füchse - SV Police Hamburg: 10:18 / 12:10

Reinickendorfer Füchse - TSV Zirndorf 1861: 16: 8/15: 7

SV Police Hamburg - TSV Zirndorf 1861: 21: 5/12: 6

	Table group I.	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	TuS Lintfort	6th	4th	1	1	77:66	+11	9: 3
2.	Reinickendorfer foxes	6th	4th	0	2	72:62	+10	8: 4
3.	SV Hamburg Police	6th	3	1	2	86:59	+27	7: 5
4th	TSV Zirndorf 1861	6th	0	0	6th	48:96	−48	0:12

Group II

Fresh on Göppingen - SV Harleshausen: 17:13 / 10:14

Fresh on Göppingen - THW Kiel: 17:13 / 15:11

Fresh on Göppingen - TuS 04 Rheinhausen: 16:10 / 12: 5

SV Harleshausen - THW Kiel: 12:12 / 17:15

SV Harleshausen - TuS 04 Rheinhausen: 14:10 / 19:12

THW Kiel - TuS 04 Rheinhausen: 21:15 / 18:12

	Table group II	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	TC Frisch Auf Göppingen	6th	5	0	1	87:66	+21	10: 2
2.	SV Harleshausen	6th	4th	1	1	89:76	+13	9: 3
3.	THW Kiel	6th	2	1	3	90:88	+2	5: 7
4th	TuS 04 Rheinhausen	6th	0	0	6th	64: 100	−36	0:12

Finals

Game for third place

Reinickendorfer Füchse - SV Harleshausen: 14:11 (9: 4)

final

TC Frisch Auf Göppingen - TuS Lintfort: 18: 8 (7: 5)

Web links

• Sven Webers (Red. Handballdaten.de ): Final round of the German field handball championship 1954 (accessed January 28, 2014)
• Hamburger Abendblatt , reports and reports on the tournament (accessed January 28, 2014):
  1. THW lost one point , HA No. 113/1954, May 17, 1954, p. 8, online archive for May 17 , direct link (PDF)
  2. Schwarzer Tag im Nord-Handball , HA No. 119/1954, May 24, 1954, p. 8, online archive for May 24 , direct link (PDF)
  3. Northern handball player successful , HA No. 124/1954, May 31, 1954, p. 8, online archive as of May 31 , direct link (PDF)
  4. Handball championship open again , HA No. 130/1954, June 8, 1954, p. 8, online archive for June 8 , direct link (PDF)
  5. Defeats for north handball players , HA No. 135/1954, June 14, 1954, p. 8, online archive for June 14 , direct link (PDF)
  6. Handball final without the north , HA No. 140/1954, June 21, 1954, p. 8, online archive for June 21 , direct link (PDF)
  7. Kempa above all , HA No. 146/1954, June 28, 1954, p. 6, online archive as of June 28 , direct link (PDF)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Until 1953 Hesse, and thus Harleshausen, belonged to the South German Regional Association (Webers (Red.), Field handball championship 1951 )
2. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt of May 3 , May 6 and May 10, 1954
3. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, May 17, 1954 (see web links)
4. ↑ s. The Kempa boys ( memento of December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), website Frisch Auf Göppingen, accessed January 30, 2014
5. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, June 28, 1954, p. 6 (see web links)