Harald Rupp

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Basketball player
Harald Rupp
Player information
birthday 2nd September 1952
size 174 cm
position Guard
Clubs as active
1964–1973 VfL Osnabrück
1973–1982 USC Heidelberg
National team
1968-1977 DBB national youth team
DBB national team

Harald "Harry" Rupp (born September 2, 1952 ) is a German lawyer and former national player of the German Basketball Federation (DBB). As a basketball player in the Bundesliga, Harald Rupp was active for two German basketball clubs, in Osnabrück and then in Heidelberg .

Life

Harald Rupp grew up in the Schinkel district of Osnabrück. After high school at Osnabrücker school Carolinum and the obligations of military service Rupp began a study of the law , which he with the first state examination ended. After completing his legal clerkship , he also passed the second state examination.

Harald Rupp has been working as a lawyer in a law firm in the Kirchheim district of Heidelberg since 1983 . He is married and has lived in Heidelberg together with his partner and his family since 1973.

Player in two Bundesliga basketball clubs

VfL Osnabrück

Harald Rupp, who grew up in the direct vicinity of the Bremer Brücke , the football stadium of VfL Osnabrück , was first confronted with basketball as a student at the Carolinum grammar school in Osnabrück.

Start of career

In the second half of the 1950s, a number of students from the humanistic grammar school played in Osnabrück first and second division basketball teams. Rupp, active for VfL Osnabrück right from the start, caught the eye of the VfL first division players around the then captain of the national basketball team Klaus Weinand as a thirteen-year-old B youth player because of his talent and his special interest in basketball. As a youth player he developed together with his teammate Eckhard Meyer to become a youth national player of the DBB. In the summer of 1968, at the beginning of the preparatory phase of the 1968/1969 season, VfL coach Miloslav Kříž appointed five young Osnabrück up-and-coming players, each with no first or second division experience , to the Bundesliga team , all of whom were regular players at VfL or Bundesliga players in others German clubs developed. The then sixteen-year-old youth player Harald Rupp was one of these VfL Bundesliga players.

Member of the VfL championship team

In the VfL Osnabrück team , Harald Rupp formed at the end of the 1968/1969 season, in the final of the German basketball championship and in the DBB Cup final, in both games MTV Giessen was the final opponent, with the national players Helmut Uhlig and Rassem Yahya as well as the Youth national player Michael Haferkamp, ​​a schoolmate from the Carolinum high school, the backcourt . At VfL Osnabrück, he continued to play in various seasons with the national players Wilfried Böttger, Heinz Böttner, Egon Homm , Günter Kollmann , Ingbert Koppermann , Eckhard Meyer, Helmut Posern and Klaus Weinand as well as with the ČSSR national player Karel Baroch (Slavia Prague) and the former NBA pro Ralph Ogden (active in the NBA with the San Francisco Warriors ) together.

Successes in championship and cup

  • 1969 German basketball champion (DBB)
  • 1969 finalist in the competition for the DBB Cup
  • 1969 A youth runner-up at the DBB
  • 1970 Finalist in the competition for the DBB Cup

FIBA European Cup participation

USC Heidelberg

Harald Rupp switched to USC Heidelberg, in the center of the Rhein-Neckar district , after receiving an offer from the management of USC that seemed suitable for him. One effect of the change in Heidelberg was that he his commitment to the basketball league and as a student of law could operate at a higher efficiency. The travel times between his apartment in Heidelberg's old town , the law faculty of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the training center in Neuenheimer Feld were short and always required only a small amount of time. At VfL Osnabrück, Rupp's departure could not be compensated for at the beginning of the 1973/1974 season, especially since six players from the 1969 championship team, including three players from the core team , had left VfL in the two years after winning the German Basketball Championship in 1969 . The VfL team was still playing at a good league level, but was never able to build on the sporting successes of the second half of the 1960s.

New to the record champions

Harald Rupp moved to the 1973/1974 season for the record champions of the German Basketball Federation . In the 1972/1973 season, the basketball players in the Palatinate royal seat on the Neckar became German basketball champions of the DBB for the eighth time. The national team player from Osnabrück was one of the most important performers of the USC right from the start, along with his fellow athletes Dietrich Keller , Hans Riefling and Christoph Staiger from the fifty-member " 1972 Olympic squad " of the DBB. The USC team was trained by the former USC or national player Hans "Lambi" Leciejewski. In the 1973/1974 season, USC Heidelberg reached the final of the German basketball championship, as well as in the following season 1974/1975 under US coach Dick Stewart (German basketball champions were SSV Hagen in 1974 and MTV Gießen in 1975 ).

One-piece Bundesliga

In the first season of the newly founded one-piece basketball Bundesliga , 1975/1976, the demands on the Bundesliga players and their clubs changed "dramatically", with USC Heidelberg taking fourth place. In 1977 Rupp was involved in winning one of the "classic doubles" of German basketball in the DBB area. After the team was strengthened by the former Leverkusen forward Reiner Frontzek , who was one of the top performing players in Europe in his position, and the equally strong US forward Hershell Lewis, the newly formed team won in the 1976/1977 season ninth time the championship shield of the DBB and for the first time the trophy of the DBB (Frontzek and Lewis were always among the very best and most successful throwers in the BBL.).

In the 1977/1978 season, when the national team players Keller and Riefling had ended their career as Bundesliga players at the end of the preseason, the USC team finished the BBL season in second place in the league and was also able to compete for the DBB Cup again win for the second time.

Relegation and end of career

Harald Rupp is the only player from the circle of the " master players of VfL Osnabrück " who won the German basketball championship of the DBB in 1969, which after this championship success again won a German basketball championship and / or the DBB cup. Rupp is also the only VfL champion player in 1969 who belonged to a team that had to experience relegation from the basketball league for sporting reasons. As captain of his team, he experienced this sporting development of USC Heidelberg after the USC team was able to achieve sixth place in the BBL in the 1978/1979 season and then could no longer build on the successful first division game in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s , in the seasons 1979/1980 and, after a return to the BBL, twice in 1981/1982. After his second relegation from the basketball Bundesliga, Harald Rupp ended his career as a Bundesliga player at USC Heidelberg in 1982 - due to a lack of athletic prospects, but also in order to be able to concentrate more on the requirements of the desired freelance legal work.

Championship and cup successes

  • 1974 runner-up in the DBB
  • 1975 runner-up in the DBB
  • 1977 German basketball champion (DBB)
  • 1977 DBB Cup winner
  • 1978 2nd place in the BBL ("Vice Champion")
  • 1978 DBB Cup winner

FIBA European Cup participation

FIBA European Champion Clubs' Cup 1973/1974:

  • USC Heidelberg (FRG) against Sporting Lourenco Marques (POR) , from Maputo in Moçambique ( round one ),
    on November 8, 1973 in Heidelberg 85:65 (37:31) and the second leg on November 15 in Porto (POR) 67:69 (26:31)
  • USC Heidelberg (FRG) v Real Madrid CF (ESP) ( round of 16 )
    on November 29, 1973 in Eppelheim 54:94 (31:46) and the second leg on December 6, 1973 in Madrid 120: 48 (43:32)

Player in the national teams of the DBB

As a young player, Harald Rupp was appointed to the VfL Osnabrück squad by Miloslav Kříž at the beginning of the Bundesliga season 1968/1969 as a regular player, in autumn 1968 by the national coaching council of the DBB, under the chairmanship of DBB sportsman Anton Kartak (USC Heidelberg) , included in the " Olympic squad 1972 " of the DBB. After playing in the youth and B national teams, he made his first A international match at the age of nineteen in May 1970 in Hagen against the USA national team . Further assignments in the A-Team of the DBB followed in 1971 . Rupp was one of the national players on the fifty-strong " Kartak List " that was used in international games by national coach Theodor Schober in the final phase of preparation for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich (he last played before the Olympic basketball tournament on July 1, 1972, in a "test match" of the DBB Olympic team in Munich against the USSR .). In the years from 1973 to 1977, after moving to USC Heidelberg, Harald Rupp, in the position of guard , was one of the regular players in the senior national team of the DBB. During this period he played two FIBA ​​Challenge Rounds for the DBB, 1973 and 1975, each with the aim of qualifying for the FIBA European Championships .

Basketball after the end of the career

After the end of his time as a basketball player in the Bundesliga, Harald Rupp remained active in sports, later also as a maxi basketball player . With his basketball comrades from the group of former league players, Rupp first took part in the German championships in the age groups over 35 and over 40 and then regularly in the age group tournaments of the national best basketball games for players aged 45 and over.

Responsible for the USC men's Bundesliga team

In addition to his freelance work as a lawyer, Harald Rupp worked for nine years, until May 2007, as the “sports director” of the first men's team at USC Heidelberg. This task also included looking after the season teams at away and home games. He also "helped out" temporarily as a trainer and coach. Rupp announced his resignation from this position after the promotion from ProB to ProA , the second division of professional German basketball, had been successful. Some of the main tasks assigned to the USC's “sporting director” were assigned to a newly appointed head coach who has been the full-time trainer since then.

Rupp is the managing partner of "USC Heidelberg Spielbetrieb GmbH" and, together with the Dossenheim government director Thomas Riedel, head of the Mannheim- Stadt tax office , is responsible for the management and training and match operations of the first men's team at USC Heidelberg in the professionally organized German basketball sport. In addition to the former USC Bundesliga player and Thomas Riedel, another figure in basketball in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region is a partner in this company (this shareholder holds a majority stake ). Rupp holds a minority stake of twenty percent of the liable capital in the share capital of the shareholders . USC Heidelberg and Rupp do not communicate whether this participation is held in trust by Rupp for the USC Heidelberg association or for a third person, or whether Rupp can dispose of this GmbH participation without any restrictions and in accordance with its own interests.

Harald "Harry" Rupp has called himself since his resignation as "Sports Director" in May 2007 - announced under the heading "Rupp steps down at USC" - in the context of his constant external communication, always as a member of one in relation to the statutes of the association not intended and unspecified "organization team of USC Heidelberg".

Remarks

  1. ↑ Rupp played on the day of the final in the competition for the DBB Cup 1969, on June 15, 1969 in Hamburg , together with Klaus Ansmann, Michael Haferkamp and Eckhard Meyer, right before the DBB Cup final of the men, for the DBB- Championship title of the male A-youth also against the MTV Giessen [trainers in the A-youth final were the national players Bernd Röder (MTV Gießen) and the "Basketballer of the year 1969" Helmut Uhlig (VfL Osnabrück).]. The four youth players of VfL, all youth national players, also belonged to the team of the cup finalists as regular players.
  2. ↑ Walter Szczerbiak , born in Hamburg in 1949, was part of the team of the Spanish basketball champions . The small forward (1.97 m) was signed for the 1973/1974 season by the eventual winner of the 1974 European Cup and scored thirty-three points in Eppelheim against the USC players in one of his first games for Real Madrid. Following this European Cup game, there was a discussion among DBB basketball players about why the American player had not played for the DBB national team at the 1972 Summer Olympics ? Szczerbiak is one of the most important players in European basketball (1973 to 1984). In his time he was one of the “phenomenal throwers” ​​and “super stars” in the European Cup competition.

See also

literature

  • " Basketball " - "Official body of the German Basketball Federation" (born 1968 to 1981) - ISSN  0178-9279

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rupp: Schlosswall always an experience . In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , October 2, 2009, via the NOZ website, accessed October 14, 2015.
  2. ↑ Cup winner and runner-up - MTV Giessen. Website LTi Giessen 46ers, games / table / reports. Retrieved September 24, 2011.
  3. ↑ FIBA European Champions Cup 1969/1970 in the English language Wikipedia
  4. ↑ FIBA Champions Cup 1969–70 - VfL Osnabrück versus Honved Budapest. Website Linguasport, Sport History and Statistics. Retrieved September 24, 2011.
  5. ↑ Men Basketball European Cup Winners Cup 1971 - VfL Osnabrück versus Panathinaikos Athens. Website Todor66 by Todor Krastev. Sports Statistics, International Competitions Archive. Retrieved September 24, 2011 ( website unavailable. ).
  6. ↑ FIBA Champions Cup 1970-71 - VfL Osnabrück versus Panathinaikos Athens. Website Linguasport, Sport History and Statistics. Retrieved September 24, 2011.
  7. ↑ 1972 Olympic Games, Munich in Germany, Basketball Tournament for Men - Dietrich Keller's profile. Website Fiba, Archive Historical Data. Retrieved September 24, 2011.
  8. ^ History of the Basketball Bundesliga ( Memento from October 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) DBB website. Retrieved May 14, 2011.
  9. ↑ Games without borders - In basketball, the European Cup is just called that . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 1973 ( online ).
  10. ^ Men Basketball European Champions Cup 1974 - USC Heidelberg. Website Todor66 by Todor Krastev. Sports Statistics, International Competitions Archive. Retrieved September 24, 2011 ( website unavailable. ).
  11. ^ Website Linguasport, Men Basketball European Champions Cup 1974 - USC Heidelberg. Sport History and Statistics. Retrieved September 24, 2011.
  12. ↑ Por fin, la Copa de Europa  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Real Madrid 1973/1974. Real Madrid website, Baloncesto. Retrieved September 24, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.realmadrid.com  
  13. ↑ 5ª Copa de Europa, 1974  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Real Madrid 1974/1975. Real Madrid website, Baloncesto. Retrieved September 24, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.realmadrid.com  
  14. ^ Walter Szczerbiak profile, website "Web oficial de la Asociacion de Jugadores del Real Madrid de Baloncesto - Leyendas Blancas". Retrieved September 24, 2011.
  15. ^ Walter Szczerbiak (1967-1984) - The All Time Player. Euroleague website. Retrieved September 24, 2011.
  16. ↑ Men Basketball European Championship Challenge Round 1973 Vienna (AUT) & Szombathely (HUN) - May 1973. Website Todor66 by Todor Krastev. Sports Statistics, International Competitions Archive. Retrieved September 24, 2011 ( website unavailable. ).
  17. ↑ Men Basketball European Championship Challenge Round 1975, Hagen (FRG) - May 1975. Website Todor66 by Todor Krastev. Sports Statistics, International Competitions Archive. Retrieved September 24, 2011 ( website unavailable. ).
  18. ↑ a b Rupp steps down at the USC . Sports Week Online, May 2007. Accessed September 24, 2011.
  19. ↑ News USC Heidelberg - It continues to “ried” and “ruppt” in Heidelberg. Basketball portal website, article no. 9919 of May 18, 2011. Retrieved September 24, 2011.
  20. ^ Baden-Württemberg District Court Mannheim, search for HRB 338164 - "USC Heidelberg Spielbetrieb GmbH", 69221 Dossenheim. Common register portal for the federal states. Retrieved September 24, 2011.
  21. ↑ Thomas Riedel ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) CDU Dossenheim website. Retrieved September 24, 2011.
  22. ^ Head of the Tax Office Mannheim-Stadt Website Finanzamt Mannheim-Stadt. Retrieved September 24, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Rupp, Harald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rupp, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German national basketball player, lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd September 1952