Men's field handball world championship 1963

1963 World Cup poster

The 6th men's field handball world championship took place in Switzerland from June 3 to 9, 1963 . The host was the International Handball Federation (IHF). The GDR team, admitted for the first time with its own association, became world champions .

Eight teams took part: the GDR, the Federal Republic of Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Switzerland and the USA. With Israel and the USA, non-European countries were represented for the first and only time, but their teams were largely made up of German and Austrian emigrants. The game was played in a preliminary round with two groups of four “everyone against everyone”, and finally four finals to determine places 1 to 8. Top scorer was Josef Steffelbauer (Austria) with 24 goals ahead of Herbert Lübking (BR Germany) with 21 goals.

Preliminary round

Group A

BR Germany	-	United States	23: 6	in Schaffhausen
Switzerland	-	Netherlands	22:14	in St.Gallen
BR Germany	-	Netherlands	23: 7	in Zofingen
Switzerland	-	United States	17: 4	in Basel
BR Germany	-	Switzerland	20:13	in Winterthur
Netherlands	-	United States	11: 5	in Biel

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	BR Germany	66:26	6th
2	Switzerland	52:38	4th
3	Netherlands	32:50	2
4th	United States	15:51	0

Group B

German Democratic Republic	-	Israel	21: 5	in Bern
Poland	-	Austria	18:18	in St.Gallen
German Democratic Republic	-	Poland	11: 7	in Baden
Austria	-	Israel	15:12	In lucerne
German Democratic Republic	-	Austria	25:16	in Aarau
Poland	-	Israel	20: 4	in Burgsdorf

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	German Democratic Republic	57:28	6th
2	Poland	45:33	3
3	Austria	49:55	3
4th	Israel	21:56	0

final

7/8: Israel	-	United States	16: 5	in Basel
5/6: Austria	-	Netherlands	22:19	in Bern
3/4: Switzerland	-	Poland	10: 6	in Bern
1/2: German Democratic Republic	-	BR Germany	14: 7	in Basel

Final score

rank	country
1	German Democratic Republic
2	BR Germany
3	Switzerland
4th	Poland
5	Austria
6th	Netherlands
7th	Israel
8th	United States

Endgame

The DHV team led 3-0 after just six minutes. Even when Lübking brought his team to 2: 3, the DHV players did not allow themselves to be disturbed. In the further course they could rely on a safe defense with combined man-space cover, behind which, in Klaus Prüsse, stood a goalkeeper who destroyed a number of good chances of the DHB selection. It unsettled the opposing attackers, and the West German team became increasingly insecure. Their attacking actions were already intercepted 20 to 25 meters in front of the gate and their pace of play slowed down more and more. The superiority of the DHV-Elf became increasingly clear, after 20 minutes they were already leading 6: 2. She also survived a five-minute exposure of her defensive player Rudi Hirsch and extended her lead to 9: 2 without conceding any further goals until half-time. At the second half Werner Vick changed the goalkeeper and prescribed his team consistent man coverage. This drew hope for a moment when she was able to reduce it to 4:10 and then Haberhauffe awarded a 14-meter penalty for the DHV. But then the young East German player Klaus Müller swung himself up to a brilliant performance, with which he let the DHV team pull away again to 13: 4 with three goals. When Prüsse held a second penalty when the score was 13: 6, the resistance of the DHB team was finally broken.

DHV: Prüsse, Weide - Liedtke, Bernhardt; Hirsch, Warm, Pappusch (1); Haberhauffe (1), Kretzschmar (1), K. Müller (5), Matz (3), Habler (3); Petzold - Trainer: Seiler.

DHB: Delfs, Wriedt - J. Müller, Schwope; Grill, Horstkötter, Bartels; Lübking (3), Porzner (4), Karrer, Schwenker, Lukas; Hue Trainer: Vick.

14 meters: 1 for GDR (not converted), 4 for FR Germany (2 converted); Exposure: Hirsch (GDR), 5 minutes

Referee: Lerch (Switzerland), spectators: 15,000 in the St. Jakob Stadium ( Basel )

The 1963 world championship team: GDR

Klaus Prüsse ( SC Empor Rostock ) 2 games / 0 goals, Hans-Dieter Weide ( SC Leipzig ) 3/0 - Dieter Bernhardt ( SC Aufbau Magdeburg ) 4/0, Hans Haberhauffe ( ASK Vorwärts Berlin ) 4/17, Klaus Hebler ( ASK Vorwärts Berlin) 3/8, Rudi Hirsch ( SC Dynamo Berlin ) 4/6, Peter Kretzschmar (SC Leipzig) 4/7, Klaus Langhoff (SC Dynamo Berlin) 4/1, Herbert Liedtke (ASK Vorwärts Berlin) 4/0 , Klaus-Dieter Matz (SC Dynamo Berlin) 4/12, Klaus Müller (ASK Vorwärts Berlin) 3/10, Waldemar Pappusch (ASK Vorwärts Berlin) 4/4, Klaus Petzold (SC Dynamo Berlin) 2/0, Werner Senger ( SC Dynamo Berlin) 1/2, Paul Tiedemann ( SC DHfK Leipzig ) 2/4, Siegfried Warm (SC DHfK Leipzig) 4/0 - trainers: Heinz Seiler and Herbert Dittrich

Finalist 1963: Federal Republic of Germany

Rudolf Delfs ( Police SV Kiel ) 4/0, Günther Wriedt ( Büdelsdorfer TSV ) 4/0 - Werner Bartels ( TG 1848 Witten ) 4/0, Gerhard Grill ( Frisch Auf Göppingen ) 3/0, Manfred Horstkötter ( TSV Grün-Weiß Dankersen ) 4/2, Hein-Friedrich Hue ( TuS 05 Wellinghofen ) 4/11, Josef Karrer ( TV Großwallstadt ) 4/14, Siegfried Korsawe ( BSV Solingen 1898 ) 3/0, Herbert Lübking ( TSV Grün-Weiß Dankersen ) 4 / 21, Bernd Lukas ( Berliner SV 1892 ) 3/5, Jürgen Müller ( VfL Wolfsburg ) 4/2, Karlheinz Plötz ( Police SV Berlin ) 2/1, Erwin Porzner ( TSV 1860 Ansbach ) 2/6, Volker Schneller (TSV 1860 Ansbach) 2/0, Hinrich Schwenker ( ATSV habenhausen ) 3/11, Paul Schwope (VfL Wolfsburg) 2/0 - - Trainer: Werner Vick

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• IHF archive (PDF; 75 kB)
• Deutsches Sportecho, issue from June 10, 1963