Hans-Jürgen Bode

Hans-Jürgen Bode (born June 27, 1941 in Herne ) is a former German handball goalkeeper .

Bode began as a football player at FC St. Pauli and then joined the handball department of SV St. Georg from 1895 . From 1963 he was in the goal of Hamburger SV , with whom he played for three seasons until 1969 in the newly founded field handball Bundesliga and from 1966 in the newly founded indoor handball Bundesliga . The greatest success of Hamburger SV during this time was the runner-up in field handball in 1966 and the semi-finals in the hall in the 1969/70 season . He did not miss a single game in ten years of the indoor Bundesliga and was in goal in all 152 Bundesliga matches of Hamburger SV. At the time of his relegation with Hamburger SV (1976) from the Bundesliga, he was the record player in the elite league.

The 1.76 m tall goalkeeper played 68 international matches with the German national team between 1965 and 1972 , including one as a field player against Switzerland on November 15, 1966. As a goalkeeper, he was one of the contenders for the World Indoor Championships in 1967 (sixth place) and 1970 (fifth place). At the end of his career, he and Klaus Kater formed the goalkeeper duo at the Olympic premiere of indoor handball in 1972 in Munich , where the German team took sixth place.

Bode was a business economist and head of accounting at a Hamburg delicatessen company.

literature

• National Olympic Committee for Germany: Munich Kiel 1972. The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany . Frankfurt am Main 1972 p. 101
• Karl Lennartz and Walter Teutenberg: Olympic participants in Westphalia. Biographies Athens 1896 to Munich 1972 . Agon, Kassel 1993 ISBN 3-928562-58-4 p. 296

Web links

• Hans-Jürgen Bode in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )