Egon Homm

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Basketball player
Egon Homm
Player information
birthday January 11, 1947
place of birth Osnabrück, Germany
size 196 cm
position Forward
Clubs as active
1960–1962 DJK Blau-Weiß Schinkel
1962–1971 VFL Osnabrücklogo
National team
1963-1970 GermanyGermany Germany 42

Egon Homm (*  11. January 1947 in Osnabrück ) is a former successful German basketball league players and national team , the one with the " champion team of VfL Osnabrück " among others German Champion 1969 and German Cup in 1967 the German Basketball Federation ( DBB ) was. He was a technically very well trained player from the "Osnabrück Basketball School", always with an excellent overview of the game and a good understanding of the game, strong in defense , a good rebounder . He has played in all positions in the club and in the national team throughout his career .

The Master of Business Administration was after completing his studies, first in a major hamburger accounting firm operates. Following his work as an auditor and several years of work in the areas of organization and data processing for a large insurance group, Homm worked for thirty-three years as a personnel and results manager at Software AG , in Darmstadt and Stuttgart, or as a consultant in the field of information technology ( IT ) in responsibility.

life and career

Egon Homm was born and raised in the peace city of Osnabrück , on the Westerberg . Before Egon Homm studied business administration , he completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk in the Osnabrück Aktien-Bierbrauerei (1964 to 1967), then worked in his training company as a junior controller , was responsible for vehicle procurement ( cars and trucks ) for a regional motor vehicle dealer in Osnabrück , with the main tasks of needs analysis as well as the specific requirements of the vehicle manufacturers and all associated logistics tasks . In order to gain further practical experience in the central areas of a financial and credit institute , in preparation for the desired study of business administration as part of the then second educational path , the Olympic squad player then switched to the Kreissparkasse Osnabrück . With this employer , the opportunity was given at any time, until December 1970 , almost the time requirements of the German Basketball Federation to participate in courses in the central performance centers as well as in international matches and international tournaments at home and abroad, also in socialist states and states of the Eastern Bloc to be able to follow without restriction.

The basketball game got Egon Homm first in the German Scout Association Saint George (DPSG) of the Catholic parish of St. Elizabeth and Osnabrück on the "Courts" schools to the city center (it is now the only VfL Bundesliga players from the Osnabrücker Land arise, this time, the did not learn to play basketball in gymnasium class .). In 1960 he joined the DJK Blau-Weiß Schinkel and won in the 1961/1962 season with his teammates, including the later VfL Bundesliga player Hans Gröneweg, unbeaten the district championship of the B-youth. In 1962 he moved to VfL Osnabrück and won various championship titles at the district and state association level with the sports comrades of the B and A youth. His youth coaches were Jürgen Molitor , Uwe Degen and Klaus Manthey in the A youth team. Since the end of 1963 he was a member of the performance team of the selection team of the Lower Saxony Basketball Association (NBV) and the youth national team of the German Basketball Federation (DBB).

He played his first international match as a youth national team in August 1964, at the invitation of the then national coach Yakovos Bilek , in the Hanseatic city of Hamburg , under national trainer Kurt Siebenhaar , against the youth national team of France , after a joint training week in Hamburg, with the youth and senior national teams of both countries. The joint training camp was organized in the spirit of Franco-German reconciliation after the Second World War and the Élysée Treaty concluded on January 22, 1963 , which helped to establish positive long-term relationships between the people that Germany and France , the former hereditary enemies , sought shape.

In April 1966, Homm took part with the youth national team in Mannheim in the 3rd European youth basketball tournament for the Dr. Albert Schweitzer Cup (AST). In 1966 he won the German Youth Cup in the final in Osnabrück against the A-youth players of the Hessian Basketball Association (68:61) with the selection team of the Lower Saxony Basketball Association, among others together with his future VfL comrade Günter "Ice" Kollmann from Quakenbrück .

As early as 1965 and 1966, Egon Homm, as an A youth player, also regularly trained with the first division squad of the VfL Oberliga team and was occasionally involved in first division games or, for example, in 1966 at the international tournament of the US armed forces in Bremerhaven, which takes place every year at the turn of the year (The VfL team entered the list of tournament winners in 1966. Homm was a guest of the US military at the Weddewarden location four times .). As a regular player, Egon Homm has been a member of the "VfL Osnabrück master team" (then 1.96 meters / 90 kilograms) since the beginning of the first Bundesliga season in 1966/1967. Since then he has always been a member of the DBB national B team (until 1969).

In all successes of the "legendary" Bundesliga team VfL Osnabrueck (1966 to 1970), a core team of five players was always involved: the A-National player Klaus Weinand (2.00 meters) consisting of Palestine originating Syrian national team Rassem Yahya (1 , 75 meters), Wilfried “Wiwi” Böttger (1.95 meters), who died in Spain in the 1970s, and the two national players from VfL's own youth team, Ingbert “Koppi” Koppermann (1.99 meters) and Egon Homm, who “started” as a “youngster” on the first match day of the BBL in the autumn of 1966 in the newly founded Bundesliga (BBL). Egon Homm is the only one of these five players who was born in Osnabrück. Overall, he was six times in a " grand finale " of the DBB with VfL Osnabrück .

Between 1964 and 1969, Egon Homm played forty-two international matches, nine of which were A-internationals, for the German Basketball Federation. He was a national player in the fifty-strong "Olympic squad 1972" to prepare for the participation of the DBB national team in the XX. 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich . Homm was nominated in October 1968 by the national coaching council of the DBB, under the direction of DBB vice-president Anton Kartak , with the publication of the " Kartak list ". As an Olympic team player he was sponsored by the German Sports Aid . In May 1969 he took part with the senior national team, including with VfL captain Helmut Uhlig , who was active for USC Munich in the 1969/1970 and 1970/1971 seasons , and the discoverer, trainer and advisor of the NBA -Professional Dirk Nowitzki Holger Geschwindner (then MTV Gießen ) took part in the qualification for the 16th European Basketball Championship ( Naples ) in Saloniki / Greece . There he played in front of more than 8,000 spectators, in the circular sports hall, which was always sold out during the tournament, against Finland , Israel , Austria and the host Greece . National coach in this phase were Miloslav Kříž and his assistant Günter Hagedorn .

Sports honor plaque of the city of Osnabrück in gold, awarded on January 16, 1970

He took part three times with the “VfL-Meister-Team” in the FIBA European Cup of National Champions and the FIBA European Cup of National Cup Winners and played against Solna Stockholm , Slavia Prague , Honvéd Budapest and Panathinaikos Athens . In 1968 the VfL players were able to reach the round of 16 in the European competition for national cup winners.

During his time as a VfL Bundesliga player, Forward Homm trained together with ten teammates , Klaus Ansmann, Heinz Böttner, Wilfried Böttger, Günter Kollmann, Ingbert Koppermann, Eckhard Meyer, Wolfgang Plock, Helmut Posern, Ulrich Renner and Klaus Weinand, each in the corresponding seasons , the front court in the VfL team. His coaches during this time were Helmut Uhlig, Miloslav Kříž and Karel Baroch.

After the final successes, 1967 DBB Cup winner and 1969 German basketball champion of the DBB, Egon Homm and his teammates were won by the Mayor of Osnabrück , Wilhelm Kelch ( 1959 to 1972 ), each with a special honor in the Friedenssaal of the town hall of his hometown , " as a sign of special recognition for outstanding sporting achievements ”, the gold medal awarded by the city of Osnabrück . After the finals in 1968 and 1970, Homm and the other successful VfL players were awarded the silver medal from the city of Osnabrück .

Egon Homm is one of the top athletes of VfL Osnabrück, basketball and table tennis Bundesliga players who stand for a " golden era of Osnabrück sport " (statement by Osnabrück Mayor Kelch, in January 1970) in the second half of the 1960s .

At the end of the first half of the 1970/1971 Bundesliga season, Egon Homm ended his competitive sports activities and concentrated on professional goals. Since then, the center of his life is no longer in Osnabrück.

Egon Homm has been the holder of a B-trainer license from the DBB since 2000, which he acquired as part of a “national player course” together with Reiner Frontzek , Hansi Gnad and Klaus Perwas , among others . He was already active as a young player, until the end of his Bundesliga player career, as a B referee , up to the second division, and at that time he held a C coach license.

In the years 2000 and 2001, the former national player of the DBB was active in Berlin for VfL Grasdorf and in Darmstadt for SV Möhringen as a maxi basketball player at the Bundesbestenspiele basketball in the age groups over 48 and over 50 together with former Bundesliga teammates.

The former Osnabrück basketball player " resides ", together with his wife, since mid-2012 - after several years of positions, from 1971 to 2012, in the Hanseatic City of Hamburg, in Wilhelmsfeld / Odenwald near Heidelberg , in Waldachtal / Northern Black Forest , in Nerja ( province of Málaga / Spain ) and in Cyprus in Peyia (District Paphos ) - in a small coastal town in the Spanish municipality of Mogán , in the climatically preferred south-west of the Canary island of Gran Canaria .

Clubs and teams

youth

  • 1960–1962: B-youth DJK Blau-Weiß Schinkel
  • 1962–1963: B-youth VfL Osnabrück
  • 1963–1966: A-youth VfL Osnabrück

Basketball Bundesliga

  • 1966–1971: VfL Osnabrück

successes

German championships with VfL Osnabrück
DBB Youth Cup with the Lower Saxony selection
  • 1965 in Berlin: 3rd place
  • 1966 in Osnabrück: Cup winner
German cup championships with VfL Osnabrück
  • DBB cup winner  1967
  • DBB Vice-Cup Winner 1969
  • DBB Vice-Cup winner 1970

FIBA European Cup participation

  • FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup 1967/1968
• First Round: Solna IF Stockholm  (SWE) - VfL Osnabrück  (FRG), on November 23, 1967 in Stockholm (60:55)
and the second leg on November 30, 1967 in Osnabrück, in the Schloßwallhalle (85:60)
• 1/8 final: VfL Osnabrück - TJ Slavia VS Praha  (CZE), on January 13, 1968 in Osnabrück (77:88)
and the second leg on January 18, 1968 in Prague (90:51)
  • FIBA European Champion Clubs' Cup 1969/1970
First Round : VfL Osnabrück  - Budapisti Honvéd SE (HUN), on November 6, 1969 in Osnabrück (74:88)
and the second leg on November 13, 1969 in Budapest (92:59)
  • FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup 1970/1971
1/8 Final : Panathinaikós AO Athína  (GRE) - VfL Osnabrück , on December 3, 1970 in Osnabrück (52:89)
and the second leg on December 10, 1970 in the ancient Athens Panathinaikon Stadium (89:73)

See also

Web links

literature

  • " Basketball " - "Official body of the German Basketball Federation" (born 1966 to 1975) - ISSN  0178-9279
  • Russel, Jesse and Cohn, Ronald: German national basketball team / preparation for the 1972 Summer Olympics . Transmedia Holding, Miami (USA) 2012, ISBN 978-5-513-20594-4 , pp. 152 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German basketball championships and DBB cup winners - champions and cup winners Website Sport-Complete - sports and sporting events, data basketball. Retrieved December 20, 2010.
  2. ↑ "The basketball game in Osnabrück. Representation of the development of a sports game in a big city. “ Bodo Bernhardt, semester paper Sport. Summer semester 1968, with Hermann Westerhaus.
  3. ↑ Lower Saxony won the youth basketball cup against Hessen 68:61 - four-day tournament in Osnabrück . In "NT" - Neue Tagespost, May 23, 1966.
  4. ^ " II. International basketball tournament of the Post-SV Koblenz on 17./18. 9. 1966 ”in Koblenz - twenty-two-page information brochure for participants and spectators, published by the tournament management of the organizer.
  5. ↑ " III. Intern. Basketball tournament of the Post-SV Koblenz on 9./10. 9. 1967 “in Koblenz - twenty-two-page information brochure for participants and spectators, published by the tournament management of the organizer.
  6. ↑ Klaus Manthey: Curtain up on the basketball Bundesliga: VfL in Oldenburg - Osnabrückers have worries: Dr. Yahya and Dieter struck . In "OT" - Osnabrücker Tageblatt, September 30, 1966.
  7. ↑ Wilhelm Heckmann: VfL basketball player failed with 85:73 at MTV Gießen . In "NT" - Neue Tagespost - Sport am Montag, Osnabrücker Sportzeitung, No. 101, May 1, 1967.
  8. ^ Wilhelm Heckmann: Yakovos Bilek: " VfL lacks a coach ". In "NT" - Sport am Montag, Osnabrücker Sportzeitung, No. 101, May 1, 1967.
  9. ↑ Klaus Manthey: VfL basketball player first DBB cup winner - 86:74 against ATV Düsseldorf crowns the first Bundesliga season . In "OT" - Osnabrücker Tageblatt, June 12, 1967.
  10. ^ After the runner-up championship: VfL DBB Cup winner, 86:74 success in the basketball final against ATV Düsseldorf . In "NT" - Neue Tagespost - Sport am Montag, Osnabrücker Sportzeitung, June 12, 1967.
  11. ^ Hartwin Kiel, Jürgen Bitter and Bernd Stühlmeyer: VfL basketball player again runner-up - Giessen won 79:69 . In "NOZ" - Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, Sport Report, April 29, 1968, p. 11.
  12. ↑ For the fourth time MTV 1846 against VfL Osnabrück - will MTV 1846 succeed again in the master crown? In Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 90, April 18, 1969, p. 9.
  13. ↑ The VfL basketball players are German champions. In "NOZ" - Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, Volume 3, No. 42, April 21, 1969, p. 1.
  14. ↑ Henner Gramsch: Sovereign VfL took the master from the throne - 69 Gießen: 76 VfL . In "NOZ" - Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, Sport Report, April 21, 1969, p. 15.
  15. ↑ Henner Gramsch: 74:75 Seven seconds were missing - VfL basketball players lost the final for the DBB Cup . In "NOZ" - Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, Sport Report, June 16, 1969, p. 9.
  16. ^ Letter from Anton Kartak, Vice President of the German Basketball Federation and Chairman of the National Coaching Council, on October 10, 1968, to the fifty basketball players nominated for the "1972 Olympic Squad".
  17. ↑ a b XVI European Championship (Napoli 1969) Qualifying Stage: May 9th to May 25th. Linguasport, Sport History and Statistics website. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  18. ^ Men Basketball European Championship Qualification 1969, Thessaloniki (GRE). Sports Statistics website, International Competitions Archive. German national team (DBB) with Egon Homm and Helmut Uhlig (VfL Osnabrück). Retrieved December 23, 2010 ( website unavailable. ).
  19. ↑ a b FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup Basketball 1967/1968 in the English language Wikipedia.
  20. ↑ a b FIBA European Champions Cup 1969/1970 in the English language Wikipedia.
  21. ↑ a b FIBA European Champions Cup 1970/1971 in the English language Wikipedia.
  22. ↑ Certificate of Honor Sports plaque of the city of Osnabrück in gold , Osnabrück, January 16, 1970, Oberstadtdirektor Joachim Fischer and Lord Mayor Wilhelm Kelch.
  23. ↑ Certificate of honor Sports plaque of the city of Osnabrück in silver , Osnabrück, January 10, 1969, Oberstadtdirektor Joachim Fischer and Lord Mayor Wilhelm Kelch.
  24. ↑ Men Basketball FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup 1967/1968 , VfL Osnabrück against Solna IF Stockholm and TJ Slavia VS Praha . Sports Statistics website, International Competitions Archive. Retrieved December 25, 2010 ( website unavailable. ).
  25. ^ "Cup Winners' Cup 1967–68" FIBA European Cup of National Cup Winners, First Round Solna IF and 1/8 Final Slavia Prague . Linguasport, Sport History and Statistics website. Retrieved May 30, 2012.
  26. ↑ Hartwin Kiel: Victory was possible - a little luck was missing against Slavia Prague . In "NOZ" - Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, Sport Report, January 15, 1968.
  27. ↑ Hartwin Kiel: Terrible, that was bad - Slavia officials dissatisfied . In "NOZ" - Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, Sport Report, published January 15, 1968.
  28. ↑ Hartwin Kiel: VfL player arrested at the border - Egon Homm back to Prague. State security switched on. In "NOZ" - Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, published January 23, 1968.
  29. ^ "Champions Cup 1969–70" FIBA European Champion Clubs' Cup, First Round Honved Budapest . Linguasport, Sport History and Statistics website. Retrieved December 1, 2010.
  30. ↑ Men Basketball FIBA European Champions Cup 1969/1970 , VfL Osnabrück versus Honved SE Budapest, Hungary. Sport Statistics website, International Competitions Archive. Retrieved December 21, 2011 ( website unavailable. ).
  31. ↑ Men Basketball FIBA European Cup Winners Cup 1970/1971 , VfL Osnabrück versus Panathinaikos Athens , Greece. Sports Statistics website, International Competitions Archive. Retrieved December 25, 2010 ( website unavailable. ).
  32. ^ "Cup Winners' Cup 1970–71" FIBA European Cup of National Cup Winners, First Round Panathinaikos Athens . Linguasport, Sport History and Statistics website. Retrieved December 1, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Homm, Egon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German national basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück , Germany