Hans Leciejewski

Hans Leciejewski
Player information
Nickname	Lambi
birthday	March 8, 1944
place of birth	Heidelberg,
date of death	December 21, 2017
Clubs as active
1963–1969 USC Heidelberg
National team
1964-1965	BR Germany	15 games
Clubs as coaches
1973–1974 USC Heidelberg 1975–1977 USC Heidelberg 1980–1985 USC Heidelberg

Hans Leciejewski (born March 8, 1944 in Heidelberg ; † December 21, 2017 ) was a German basketball and handball player and sports official . As an active athlete, Leciejewski was a national basketball player and was German basketball champion with USC Heidelberg in 1966 and German handball champion with SG Leutershausen in 1968 in indoor and 1969 in field handball . Leciejewski was also a basketball coach with the USC Heidelberg in 1977 . After Leciejewski had been the head of the Federal Training Center in Heidelberg since 1974 , he was also head of the Rhine-Neckar Olympic Training Center from 1987 until his retirement in 2008 .

Career

Leciejewski grew up in Eppelheim and attended the Hebel high school in Schwetzingen . Until 1971, Leciejewski studied English and sports science at the University of Heidelberg . As a schoolboy he had already played basketball and handball and had his first successes in basketball when he was appointed to the youth national team and was scheduled to take part in the Albert Schweitzer tournament in neighboring Mannheim . After Leciejewski had already played his first games in the men's team of USC Heidelberg in 1963 in the top division of the league, he became German runner-up with the junior team, in which Jürgen Loibl and Klaus Urmitzer played two other men's national players. Then Leciejewski was a permanent member of the squad of the German record champions at the time, who were initially eliminated twice in the semi-finals of the German championship in 1964 and 1965. During this time, Leciejewski was appointed 15 times in the men's selection of the DBB . In the 1965/66 season, Heidelberg finally won their seventh championship title after defending defending champion MTV 1846 Giessen in the final. After the team FIBA 1966-67 European Cup by remarkable performance in the second round against the eventual champions Real Madrid was eliminated, you missed as defending very nearly a place in the final round of the newly introduced National Basketball League in 1966/67 , but which one Successful year later when they lost to VfL Osnabrück in the semi- finals.

Despite his success in basketball, Leciejewski had never given up handball and was also part of the extended squad of SG Leutershausen when it was first champion in indoor handball in 1968. A year later, Leciejewski was more actively involved when the team was able to repeat this success in field handball . In the victorious final game, however, Leciejewski injured his ankle and then withdrew from active competitive sport. If Leciejewski had already become the spokesman for the General German University Sports Association in 1968 , he now switched to the organization and support of the German competitive athletes, whose delegation he led at the 1970 Universiades . At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich , he was the head of athlete information and finally became head of the new federal performance center in Neuenheimer Feld in June 1974 . He remained particularly attached to basketball by becoming a coach and finally taking over responsibility for the first division team at USC Heidelberg after its eighth championship in 1973. However, the USC lost the 1974 finals as defending champions against SSV Hagen , which brought the men's championship to the headquarters of the DBB in Westphalia for the first time. In the following season, master coach Dick Stewart initially returned to Heidelberg, before Leciejewski had to take the post again after his resignation at the turn of the year and after losing the final against MTV 1846 Giessen, he was runner-up again. After the team finished fourth in the new "single-track" Bundesliga in 1976, he and the team in the basketball Bundesliga 1976/77 not only won the club's ninth title in the championship, but also the title in the cup competition and thus also that Double . Leciejewski then vacated his post for his previous assistant Roland Geggus .

With the resignation of coach Leciejewski, however, other well-deserved players had ended their careers and so USC Heidelberg rose from the top division in 1980 despite another title success in 1978 in the cup competition. After Geggus had resigned, Leciejewski was again coach of the record champions and was able to lead the team to immediate promotion. In the Basketball Bundesliga 1981/82 , however, they slipped again into the relegation round, in which they only won two games and were relegated again. After the prompt resurgence you could keep the class in the Basketball Bundesliga 1983/84 , but in the following season you missed relegation in a relegation round with second division clubs, whereupon Leciejewski gave up his office. At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles and the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , Leciejewski took part as a supervisor and also remained head of the Heidelberg Performance Center when it served as an Olympic base from 1987 onwards . He was also the DBB's vice president for competitive sports for many years.

Web links

• Hans Leciejewski: an honest person in sport - portrait of Claus-Peter Bach in the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung from March 8, 2014
• obituary

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.usc-hd.de/hans-leciejewski-verstorben-31346
2. ↑ Farewell to Hans Leciejewski. In: Official gazette “Stadtblatt” No. 24, 16th century. City of Heidelberg , June 11, 2008, accessed on February 7, 2016 (online version). 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Claus-Peter Bach: Hans Leciejewski: an honest one of the sport. Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung , March 8, 2014, accessed on February 7, 2016 . 
4. ^ ^{A b c d} Peter Wittig: Höhenflug (beginnings until the 1976/1977 season). (No longer available online.) USC Heidelberg , archived from the original on December 9, 2012 ; Retrieved February 7, 2016 (Annals of the Basketball Team). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ ^{a b} Andreas Lin: From Queen Silvia to "Air" Jordan. Mannheimer Morgen , August 11, 2012, accessed on February 7, 2016 (online article in the news archive). 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Peter Wittig: Downward spiral (1977/1978 - 1993/1994). (No longer available online.) USC Heidelberg , archived from the original on May 3, 2012 ; Retrieved February 7, 2016 (Annals of the Basketball Team). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.