Hansi Schmidt

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Hansi Schmidt, on September 27, 2008 when she was accepted into the "VfL-All-Star-Team"

Hans-Günther "Hansi" Schmidt (born September 24, 1942 in Teremia Mare ( German  Marienfeld ), Kingdom of Romania ) is a former Romanian and German handball player . He is considered the inventor of the delayed jump shot .

Career

Schmidt came from the German-speaking minority of the Banat Swabians . At the age of 21, he did not return to Romania after a tournament with the Romanian junior national team in Germany. Sport made it easier for him to gain a foothold in Germany. For more than a decade he was the most successful shooter at VfL Gummersbach and in the German national team . Together with the backcourt player Hans Moser , the goalkeeper Michael Redl , the winger Josef Jakob and the circle runner Werner Stöckl, he was one of the best players in Romania. The former national coach Vlado Stenzel described Hansi Schmidt and Hans Moser as the world's best indoor handball players of the 1960s and 1970s.

In seven of VfL Gummersbach's twelve championship titles in the Bundesliga , Hansi Schmidt made a decisive contribution to the success as goalscorer and playmaker. In total, he was ten times in the finals of the German championship. From 1967 to 1972 Schmidt was the top scorer in the northern season of the handball Bundesliga six times in a row, the first five times he was also the top scorer in the Bundesliga overall. In 1975 he was once again the top scorer in the northern season. In the period from 1966 to 1976 Schmidt played (including the final games for the German championship that followed the league round at that time) 172 Bundesliga games for VfL, in which he scored 1,059 goals, 149 of them in a total of 23 knockout games. He missed only three matches in his ten Bundesliga years. Schmidt is the second best Bundesliga scorer of VfL Gummersbach after Kyung-Shin Yoon , ahead of Erhard Wunderlich (third best after Yoon and Vedran Zrnić without taking into account the knockout games ). He scored almost a quarter of his hits (255) from the seven meter mark. Schmidt also played a key role in four of VfL Gummersbach's five successes in the European Champion Clubs' Cup.

Hansi Schmidt played 18 international matches for Romania and 98 for Germany, in which he scored 484 goals. He remained in just four international matches without a hit. He scored the most goals in his 45th international match on December 11, 1970 against Yugoslavia in Tbilisi , when he scored 13 of the 19 German goals. This mark remained the highest number of hits a single player in an international match for the DHB for almost four decades, before Christian Schöne was able to outbid it with 17 goals in a game against Bulgaria on June 10, 2009. In 1972, as captain of the DHB national team, he decided not to take part in the Olympic Games in Munich . For his success with VfL Gummersbach, he was appointed to the “VfL All Star Team” on September 27, 2008.

Hansi Schmidt worked as a teacher at the Bergneustadt secondary school . He is married and has two sons and two grandchildren. Since his retirement he has been a sports teacher at the comprehensive school in Derschlag in Gummersbach.

societies

Track record

Știința Timișoara

  • Romanian junior champion 1959

Steaua Bucharest

  • Romanian champion 1963

VfL Gummersbach

  • German champion 1966, 1967, 1969, 1973 to 1976
  • European championship winner in 1967, 1970, 1971 and 1974
  • Top scorer in the handball Bundesliga 1967 to 1971 (5 times)
  • Best goalscorer in the Bundesliga North Season 1967 to 1972 and 1975 (7 times)
  • 172 Bundesliga games (149 league games / 23 knockout games)
  • 1,059 Bundesliga goals (913 in league games / 146 in knockout games)
  • 53 European Cup games with 338 goals

Awards

literature

  • Johann Steiner: Hansi Schmidt. World class in the king position. Biography of a handball player . Publishing house Gilde & Köster, Troisdorf 2005, ISBN 3-00-016717-X .
  • Johann Steiner: Handball story (s). Transylvanian Saxons and Banat Swabians pave Romania the way to seven world championship titles . ADZ-Verlag, Bucharest 2003, ISBN 973-8384-12-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Josef Lutz: Book presentation "Hansi Schmidt ..." Haus der Heimat eV Nuremberg, October 31, 2006, archived from the original on July 14, 2014 ; accessed on May 25, 2018 .
  2. "You only have a chance against Kiel with an excellent defense". In: Oberberg Aktuell. September 26, 2008. Retrieved May 25, 2018 .
  3. a b c Handball Week 43/2007, from October 23, 2007.