Günter Ortmann
Günter Ortmann (born November 30, 1916 in Lauban ; † January 10, 2002 ) was a German handball player .
Günter Ortmann played for Borussia Carlowitz in Breslau . At the Olympic Games in 1936 he played two games for the German national team , in which he scored a total of seven goals. In the 10: 6 win in the final against Austria, he was not on the field. In February 1938, Ortmann, along with Hans Keiter and Hans Theilig, was one of three Olympic champions in the German line-up for the first world championship in indoor handball . The German team won the tournament. In July 1938 the first world championship in field handball took place. Besides Keiter, Ortmann and Theilig, there were other Olympic and indoor world champions in the German team. The German team won the title clearly: In the final, they defeated the team from Switzerland 23-0, with Ortmann scoring eight goals. With his five goals from the previous game against Hungary he was the best scorer of the tournament ahead of his teammates Theilig (11 goals) and Klingler (10). Ortmann played a total of 16 international matches from 1935 to 1939, five of them in the hall.
In 1948 Ortmann moved to the Lower Rhine, where he played for TuRa Bergheim and TuS Rheinhausen . Professionally he worked as a police officer in the following years ; so it also happened that from 1963 to 1965 he chaired the Duisburg Police Sports Club. Later he still practiced his profession in Oberhausen and Moers . He also worked as a club official at the Ziethen Trompet riding and driving club in Rumeln-Kaldenhausen , where he was the second chairman for 18 years. He also wrote about equestrian sport as a freelancer for daily newspapers.
Ortmann, who was married and had a daughter, died in 2002 of complications from a stroke.
literature
- Bodo Harenberg (ed.): The stars of the sport from A-Z . Habel, Berlin et al. 1970.
Web links
- Günter Ortmann in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Handball world champion
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ortmann, Günter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German handball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lauban , Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 2002 |