Erhard Wunderlich

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Erhard Wunderlich
Erhard Wunderlich

Erhard Wunderlich (2008)

Player information
Nickname "Sepp"
birthday December 14, 1956
place of birth Augsburg , Germany
citizenship GermanyGermany German
date of death 4th October 2012
Place of death Cologne , Germany
height 2.04 m
Playing position Back left
Throwing hand right
Clubs as active
from ... to society
0000-1976 Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany FC Augsburg
1976-1983 Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany VfL Gummersbach
1983-1984 SpainSpain FC Barcelona
1984-1989 Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany TSV Milbertshofen
1989-1991 GermanyGermany VfL Bad Schwartau
1993-1993 GermanyGermany TSV Milbertshofen
National team
Debut on November 19, 1976
against Romania kingdomRomania Romania in Brașov
  Games (goals)
Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany BR Germany 140 (504)

Erhard Wunderlich , called Sepp (born December 14, 1956 in Augsburg ; † October 4, 2012 in Cologne ), was a German handball player . His playing position was on the left backcourt .

career

In 1976 Erhard Wunderlich moved from FC Augsburg to VfL Gummersbach . From 1976 to 1986 he played in the German national team; in 140 games he scored 504 goals. In 1983 he went to FC Barcelona , before moving back to the handball Bundesliga in 1984 at TSV Milbertshofen , where he played until 1989. He ended his active career as a player at VfL Bad Schwartau after he had made it to the Bundesliga in 1991 with VfL. From 1990 to 1993 Erhard Wunderlich worked as a manager at TSV Milbertshofen and brought the German runner-up and the European Cup Winners' Cup to the Isar with his former national coach Vlado Stenzel , the latter title, however, with the Hungarian coach András Pecsenye . During this time he made a five-minute comeback in the handball Bundesliga in early 1993 in the game against Düsseldorf due to personnel bottlenecks in Milbertshofer. He then worked for another year as a trainer and manager at VfL Bad Schwartau. A collaboration with the handball Bundesliga was terminated in 2005 after a short time.

Special successes

At the age of 21 years he was in 1978 the youngest player on the team, which in the final against the Soviet Union champion was. His teammates included u. a. Heiner Brand and Joachim Deckarm . At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, the national team won the silver medal with Wunderlich. In the 1981/82 season and the 1982/83 season he was the top scorer in the handball Bundesliga as a player of VfL Gummersbach (1981/82 with 214 field goals and 91 seven meters and 1982/83 with 182 field goals and 60 seven meters). With VfL Gummersbach he also won all international and national club titles. Erhard Wunderlich crowned his collection of titles with VfL in 1983 by winning the European Cup (the forerunner of the Champions League ) and the European championship for club teams. In 1981 and 1982 he was voted “ Handball Player of the Year ” in Germany and in 1999 “Handball Player of the Century”.

Private life

In the 1990s, Wunderlich was the owner of a company for office equipment in Seeshaupt on Lake Starnberg . He had two children from his first marriage. In 1999 he married for the second time and lived in Bergisch Gladbach . With his second wife he ran a hotel until the end of 2006, the Villa Wunderlich on Mondsee .

On October 4, 2012, Wunderlich died of skin cancer at the age of 55 . He was buried in the west cemetery in Augsburg .

Honors

literature

Web links

Commons : Erhard Wunderlich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oliver Treptow: Lexicon of handball players . Komet-Verlag Cologne 2006 ISBN 978-389836-605-2 p. 260
  2. ↑ Handball world champion Wunderlich died. Die Welt Online, October 4, 2012, accessed October 4, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Handball player of the century - Erhard Wunderlich died Süddeutsche.de on October 4, 2012
  4. ↑ Erhard Wunderlich - German handball player of the century ( Memento from June 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Website of Handball friends
  5. ↑ "Mr. Wunderlich, why are you being ridiculous?" , Sport-Bild from February 10, 1993, p. 38f
  6. ↑ a b Martin Mühlfenzl: Germany's best handball player follows the money Süddeutsche.de, October 5, 2012, accessed on October 5, 2012
  7. ^ "What the 1978 World Champions are doing today" , Sport-Bild from October 1, 1996, p. 55.
  8. ↑ Simon Schobel: Thank you Sepp. Schobel's bitter accusation. In: kicker.de. Olympia-Verlag GmbH, October 14, 2012, accessed on October 15, 2012 .
  9. ↑ Hall of Fame Member Handball Erhard Wunderlich. In: www.hall-of-fame-sport.de. Retrieved February 17, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Inauguration of Erhard-Wunderlich-Allee. Retrieved on February 17, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Wonderful, Erhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wonderful, Sepp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German handball player
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 2012
Place of death Cologne