Men's field handball world championship 1955

The 4th men's field handball world championship took place from June 29 to July 10, 1955 in the Federal Republic of Germany . The host was the International Handball Federation (IHF). The 33 games of the tournament were played at 33 different venues in 32 different municipalities (Oberhausen was represented twice with one game in the Volkspark Stadium in Sterkrade and one in the Niederrhein stadium in the Osterfeld district. Two matches were also held in the area of ​​today's Mönchengladbach , however Rheydt was still independent at the time the game was held). According to the DHB Chronicle Handball '72, "around 50,000 spectators" attended the final at the Rote Erde stadium in Dortmund . There, the selection of the DHB defeated the Swiss team 25:13 (11: 7). In the final eight different German players scored one or more goals, with Bernhard Kempa with seven and Hein Dahlinger with six goals already scoring more than half of the DHB goals. The top scorer of the tournament was Stig Nilsson (Sweden) with 25 goals (out of 45 goals for his team), Bernhard Kempa scored the most goals for the German team with 22 goals.

Attendees

17 teams took part: Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, Yugoslavia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Portugal, Saarland, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. The game was played in a preliminary round with six groups, as well as an intermediate round with two groups of four “everyone against everyone”, and finally four finals to determine places 1 to 8.

Preliminary round

In the preliminary round there were five groups with three and one with two teams. The six group winners and the two second best points (Austria and Sweden) qualified for the intermediate round.

Group I.

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	Germany	02	02	00	00	0031: 6000	+25	04th
02.	Portugal	02	01	00	01	0018:1400	+4	02
03.	Norway	02	00	00	02	0007:3600	−29	00

June 29, 1955	Germany	9: 4	Portugal	Berlin
		(6: 3)

June 30, 1955	Portugal	14: 5	Norway	Minden

July 1, 1955	Germany	22: 2	Norway	Hanover
		(12: 1)

Group II

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	Saarland	02	02	00	00	0038:1000	+28	04th
02.	Sweden	02	01	00	01	0029: 7000	+22	02
03.	Luxembourg	02	00	00	02	0004:5400	−50	00

June 29, 1955	Sweden	23: 0	Luxembourg	Volkspark Stadium Sterkrade , Oberhausen
		(12: 0)

June 30, 1955	Saarland	31: 4	Luxembourg	Hattingen
		(14: 4)

July 1, 1955	Saarland	7: 6	Sweden	Solingen
		(3: 5)

Group III

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	Switzerland	02	02	00	00	0031:1400	+17	04th
02.	Finland	02	01	00	01	0018:2300	−5	02
03.	Spain	02	00	00	02	0017:2900	−12	00

June 29, 1955	Switzerland	13: 7	Finland	Lörrach spectators: 5,000 referee: Schwab
	Jendly, Bertschinger & Riess (3)	(7: 2)	Klinga 7

June 30, 1955	Finland	11:10	Spain	Offenburg

July 1, 1955	Switzerland	18: 7	Spain	Freiburg spectators: 4,000 referee: Gerstenberger
	Klöti (6)	(9: 3)

Group IV

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	France	02	01	01	00	0023:1500	+8	03
02.	Austria	02	01	01	00	0023:1600	+7	03
03.	Belgium	02	00	00	02	003:30 p.m.00	−15	00

June 29, 1955	Austria	15: 8	Belgium	Offenbach
		(4: 5)

June 30, 1955	France	15: 7	Belgium	Karlsruhe

July 1, 1955	France	8: 8	Austria	Ludwigshafen

Group v

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	Czechoslovakia	02	02	00	00	0026:1800	+8	04th
02.	Hungary	02	01	00	01	0022:2000	+2	02
03.	Denmark	02	00	00	02	0028:1800	+10	00

June 29, 1955	Czechoslovakia	14:10	Denmark	Munich
		(11: 5)

June 30, 1955	Czechoslovakia	12: 8	Hungary	augsburg

July 1, 1955	Hungary	14: 8	Denmark	Ansbach

Group VI

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	Yugoslavia	02	02	00	00	0034:1500	+19	04th
02.	Netherlands	02	00	00	02	0015:3400	−19	00

June 29, 1955	Czechoslovakia	13: 4	Netherlands	Koblenz
		(7: 1)

July 1, 1955	Czechoslovakia	21: 11	Netherlands	Bonn

Best runner-up

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	Austria	02	01	01	00	0023:1600	+7	03
02.	Sweden	02	01	00	01	0029: 7000	+22	02
03.	Hungary	02	01	00	01	0022:2000	+2	02
04th	Portugal	02	01	00	01	0018:1400	+4	02
05.	Finland	02	01	00	01	0018:2300	−5	02
06th	Netherlands	02	00	00	02	0015:3400	−19	00

Intermediate round

In two groups of four, "everyone played against everyone". The first of these groups fought for 1st and 2nd place in the final, the second for 3rd and 4th, etc .:

Group A

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	Germany	03	03	00	00	0055:3800	+17	06th
02.	Czechoslovakia	03	02	00	01	0029:2000	+9	04th
03.	Yugoslavia	03	01	00	02	0029:3900	−10	02
04th	Austria	03	00	00	03	0028:4400	−16	00

3rd July 1955	Germany	21:18	Austria	Wuppertal
		(8: 8)

3rd July 1955	Czechoslovakia	9: 6	Yugoslavia	Wanne-Eickel
		(6: 6)

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5th July 1955	Germany	23:12	Yugoslavia	Niederrhein Stadium , Oberhausen
		(12: 6)

5th July 1955	Czechoslovakia	12: 3	Austria	Hagen
		(8: 1)

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July 7, 1955	Germany	11: 8	Czechoslovakia	Duisburg spectators: 50,000 referee: Muzzulini
		(6: 4)

July 7, 1955	Yugoslavia	11: 7	Austria	Remscheid
		(6: 4)

Group B

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	Switzerland	03	03	00	00	0031:2000	+11	06th
02.	Sweden	03	02	00	01	0035:2500	+10	04th
03.	Saarland	03	01	00	02	0030:3700	−7	02
04th	France	03	00	00	03	0028:4200	−14	00

3rd July 1955	Sweden	12: 9	Saarland	Rheydt
		(7: 4)

3rd July 1955	Switzerland	11: 7	France	Bochum spectators: 8,000 referee: Heger
	Bus choir (4)	(6: 6)	Versigny (3)

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5th July 1955	Saarland	13:12	France	Dusseldorf
		(7: 5)

5th July 1955	Switzerland	7: 5	Sweden	Hagen spectators: 12,000 referee: Schwab
		(3: 3)

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July 7, 1955	Switzerland	13: 8	Saarland	Essen spectators: 12,000 Referee: Kremmer
		(8: 6)

July 7, 1955	France	9:18	Sweden	Hamm audience: 10,000
		(3:10)

final

Game for 7th place

July 9, 1955	Austria	11: 7	France	Düren spectators: 5,000
		(7: 4)

Play for 5th place

July 9, 1955	Yugoslavia	12: 5	Saarland	Neuss spectators: 5,000
		(5: 1)

Small finale

July 9 or 10, 1955	Czechoslovakia	13:10	Sweden	Mönchengladbach spectators: 10,000
		(7: 4)

final

July 10, 1955	Germany	25: 13	Switzerland	Rote Erde Stadium , Dortmund Spectators: 50,000 Referee: Heger
	Kempa (7)	(11: 7)	Bus choir (5)

Final score

rank	country
1	Germany
2	Switzerland
3	Czechoslovakia
4th	Sweden
5	Yugoslavia
6th	Saarland
7th	Austria
8th	France

The 1955 world championship team: Germany

Gerd Nellen ( TuS 04 Rheinhausen ) 3 games / 0 goals, Heinz Singer ( SV Police Hamburg ) 4/0 - Heinz Becker ( TSV 1857 Sachsenhausen ) 6/0, Markus Bernhard ( FC Bayern Munich ) 6/3, Heinrich Dahlinger ( THW Kiel ) 4/13, Jürgen Isberg (SV Police Hamburg) 6/7, Horst Käsler ( Berliner SV 1892 ) 2/1, Bernhard Kempa ( Frisch Auf Göppingen ) 6/22, Hans Ruff ( TuRa 1882 Ludwigshafen ) 5/0, Walter Schädlich ( Sportfreunde Hamborn 07 ) 6/18, Horst Singer (Frisch Auf Göppingen) 4/11, Hans Stahler ( TSG Haßloch ) 3/6, Werner Vick (SV Hamburg Police) 6/0, Paul Wanke (SV Hamburg Police) 2/5, Hermann Will ( RSV Mülheim ad Ruhr ) 6/20, Ernst Wintterlin ( SG Dietzenbach ) 4/5 - Trainer: Fritz Fromm

Individual evidence

• IHF archive (PDF file; 91 kB)

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