Dietrich Laabs

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Dietrich Laabs is a German basketball trainer and former national player.

Life

Laabs played in the 1950s under coach Friedrich Mahlo for the basketball team of the HSG Wissenschaft HU Berlin, which won all championship titles in the German Democratic Republic from 1953 to 1961 . He played six international matches for the GDR national team. From May 1953, Laabs also worked as a trainer in Berlin, and he also directed games as a referee. From 1956 to 1969 and in 1971 and 1972, Laabs was the coach of the GDR women's national team. Under his leadership, the women from the GDR were among the best national teams in the world. At the 1966 European Championship, Laabs, whose wife Inge was a national player, led the GDR women to the bronze medal. The team of the Federal Republic of Germany was defeated in the course of the tournament with 105: 51. In the semifinals, Laabs' protégés of the Soviet Union had to bow 69:93 before hosts Romania were defeated 65:60 in the game for third place. In the spring of 1967, the GDR women under Laabs as a coach came fourth at the World Cup in Czechoslovakia and also reached fourth place at the 1968 European Championship in Italy . As an award for his activities, Laabs was honored as " Honored Master of Sports in the German Gymnastics and Sports Association ".

Laabs is the author of the book "Basketball - collection of exercises for practice, training and competition, tactics of defense", which appeared in 1983.

At the Congress of the World Basketball Federation FIBA in August 1990 in Buenos Aires , Laabs was elected to the committee for women's basketball. In the transition period after the fall of the Wall, Laabs worked in committees on the transfer of GDR basketball to the system of the German Basketball Federation. He coached the Humboldt University team in their first season in the women's Bundesliga 1991/92 as a coach and, like his wife Inge, was involved with the Berlin Baskets club.

In 2007 Laabs received an award for his voluntary work in basketball as part of the “Teamwork” project.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ - national player. Retrieved December 16, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Johanna Herdejost: Once upon a time ... THE GOLDEN TIMES OF THE GDR LADIES . In: Deutscher Basketball-Bund (Ed.): DBB-Journal 07 . February 2009, p. 38, 39 .
  3. ↑ - Basketball Berlin 1951-1990. Retrieved December 16, 2018 .
  4. ^ GDR. German Basketball Association, accessed January 5, 2020 .
  5. ↑ The “basketball” phenomenon. German Basketball Association, accessed December 16, 2018 .
  6. ↑ - transition DBV / DBB. Retrieved December 16, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Elke Wittich: simmering family . In: The daily newspaper: taz . March 2, 1992, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 18 ( taz.de [accessed December 16, 2018]).
  8. ↑ 3rd women, Oberliga and mU12, district league . In: Buzzer - the official club magazine of the Berlin Baskets . Issue 1, 2013/14 season. Berlin.
  9. ↑ "teamwork" honors 19 volunteers in Berlin. German Basketball Association, accessed December 16, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Laabs, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball coach and player
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century