Fritz Fromm
Friedrich Fritz Fromm (born April 12, 1913 in Hanover ; † October 13, 2001 there ) was a German handball player and trainer.
Life
Fromm began playing handball in his hometown of Hanover and, after studying relocation, belonged to Askanischer TV Berlin from 1935 . At the 1936 Olympics he was a member of the team that won gold in field handball . He played a total of eight international matches in field handball between 1936 and 1942 and one indoors.
From 1949 to 1955 he was the first national coach of the German Handball Federation . During his tenure, the national handball team was world champion on the field in 1952 and 1955 and vice world champion in the hall in 1954.
As national coach, he oversaw 29 international field handball matches, all of which were won. Of the 17 international indoor handball matches that he supervised as national coach, seven were won, seven lost and three ended in a draw. Fritz Fromm is the only one of the previous eleven national coaches whose international match record in the hall is not positive. In 1955 he was replaced as national coach by his previous protégé Werner Vick .
Fritz Fromm's grave is in the Engesohde city cemetery in his hometown of Hanover.
literature
- Dirk Böttcher : FROMM, Fritz. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 124; online through google books
- Dirk Böttcher: Fromm, Fritz. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 197.
Web links
- Fritz Fromm in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Fritz Fromm in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Wagner, Horst, Handball '72, yearbook of the DHB, Dortmund 1972, p. 161.
- ↑ Dirk Böttcher: FROMM ... (see literature)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fromm, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fromm, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German handball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 13, 2001 |
| Place of death | Hanover |