Heiner Brand

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Heiner Brand
Heiner Brand

Heiner Brand on November 28, 2013 in Düsseldorf

Player information
birthday July 26, 1952
place of birth Gummersbach , Germany
citizenship GermanGerman German
height 1.88 m
Playing position Back center
Clubs in the youth
from ... to society
1959–0000 GermanyGermany VfL Gummersbach
Clubs as active
from ... to society
0000-1987 GermanyGermany VfL Gummersbach
National team
Debut on July 1, 1974
against IcelandIceland Iceland in Cholon
  Games (goals)
GermanyGermany Germany 131 (231)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to society
1987-1991 GermanyGermany VfL Gummersbach
1992-1994 GermanyGermany SG Wallau / Massenheim
1994-1996 GermanyGermany VfL Gummersbach
1997-2011 GermanyGermany German national team

Status: October 27, 2013

Heiner Brand as national coach during the 2011 World Cup

Heiner Brand (born July 26, 1952 in Gummersbach ) is a former German handball player . From January 1, 1997 to June 30, 2011, he was the national coach of the German men's national handball team . His trademark is the walrus beard . From July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2015 he was manager at the German Handball Federation for the areas of youth development and sponsors. He also gives lectures and a. about team building.

By winning the title at the 2007 World Cup in Germany, he was the first handball player to become the men's handball world champion as a player and coach.

Career as a player

Heiner Brand joined VfL Gummersbach at the age of seven . With him he became German champion six times (1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1982 and 1983) and won the DHB Cup four times (1977, 1978, 1982 and 1983); VfL Gummersbach was also successful with him on an international level: European Cup winners 1978 and 1979, European Cup winners 1974 and 1983, Supercup winners 1979 and 1983 and IHF Cup winners 1982.

Brand was also successful in the national team, he scored 231 goals in a total of 131 international matches, one of them by seven meters . In 1976 Brand was an Olympic gold medalist and in 1978 he became world champion with the national team . He scored his first two international goals in his first game for Germany on July 1, 1974 in Cholon against Iceland .

Career as a coach

Heiner Brand was a long time coach at VfL Gummersbach (1987–91 and 1994–96). In between he trained the SG Wallau / Massenheim (1992-94). Even before his time as a club coach, he was assistant coach of the German national team (1984-87); this he trained from January 1, 1997. At the beginning of the new millennium, he led the national team to the top of the world. After a runner-up European championship in 2002 and a runner-up world championship in 2003, the DHB selection won the European championship in 2004 and won the silver medal at the Olympic Games in Athens that same year. Brand achieved his greatest success in January and February 2007 when he and the DHB team won the handball world championships in their own country .

On October 24, 2007, Heiner Brand's contract as coach of the national team with the DHB was extended to June 30, 2013. On May 16, 2011, however, it became known that Heiner Brand will resign from the office of national coach on June 30, 2011. This was preceded by a tenth place at the EM 2010 and an eleventh place at the 2011 World Cup and thus the worst placement in the history of the German national team. Brand cited ongoing disputes with coaches and club officials of the handball Bundesliga as the reason for the resignation , for example the introduction of a quota for the use of German handball players in league games. Brand, in turn, was accused of a lack of self-criticism by players and coaching colleagues in the run-up to the resignation.

On July 1, 2011, Martin Heuberger succeeded Heiner Brand. Heuberger was Heiner Brand's assistant and assistant coach of the German national handball team since November 1st, 2004.

Success as a trainer

  • 1988: German champion with VfL Gummersbach
  • 1991: German champion with VfL Gummersbach
  • 1993: German champion with SG Wallau / Massenheim
  • 1993: DHB Cup winner with SG Wallau / Massenheim
  • 1993: Final participation: European Champion's Cup with SG Wallau / Massenheim
  • 1994: DHB Cup winner with SG Wallau / Massenheim

With the national team

Outside of sport

  • In 2009, Brand was elected a member of the Federal Assembly by the SPD . However, he did not want to commit in advance to electing the SPD candidate Gesine Schwan .
  • In 2009, Brand took part in an advertising campaign for the New Social Market Economy initiative .
  • Heiner Brand is a member of the Board of Trustees of the DFL Foundation .
  • Brand, who completed a degree in business administration in Cologne while still active, is also active as an entrepreneur by continuing the insurance agency founded by his father in Gummersbach. He is married and has two children. His older brothers Klaus and Jochen were also German national handball players.
  • Brand's son Markus and his partner Inka have already won the Kennerspiel des Jahres (2012, 2017) and the German Children's Games Prize (2009, 2011), as well as the German Games Prize (2012) twice . His grandchildren Lukas and Emely were also awarded the German Children's Games Prize in 2012 for their game Mogel Motte .

Honors

Stele on Heiner-Brand-Platz in Gummersbach

Fonts

Documentary film

  • Participation in: Fallwurf Böhme - The miraculous ways of a left-hander by Heinz Brinkmann , narrator: Wolfgang Winkler , 90 minutes, DVD, Basis-Film Verleih GmbH, Berlin, distribution: KNM Home Entertainment GmbH 2016

Web links

Commons : Heiner Brand  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brand does not want any more DHB tasks. Report at Sport1.de from April 27, 2015.
  2. ↑ Rainer Seele: The trainer becomes the manager. In: FAZ.net . May 18, 2011, accessed December 16, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Heiner Brand - long-time coach of the national handball team. on: www.econ-referenten.de
  4. ^ Abendblatt.de: World champion trainer Heiner Brand celebrates his 60th birthday ( Abendblatt.de [accessed on January 20, 2018]).
  5. ^ World champion trainer Heiner Brand celebrates his 60th In: Abendblatt.de. July 25, 2012, accessed December 16, 2014 .
  6. ↑ DHB team wins in Israel during the summer break. on: schwaebische.de , June 5, 2005.
  7. ↑ Heiner Brand resigns in June. In: time online. May 16, 2011, accessed December 8, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Presidential election: Handball coach Brand lets the SPD fidget. In: Spiegel Online . April 19, 2009, accessed December 16, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Social market economy makes it better ( Memento from September 24, 2010 in the web archive archive.today )
  10. ↑ Brochure of the Bundesliga Foundation, p. 46 ( Memento from May 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Hans Martin Barthold: Heiner Brand - A career from the power of will. In: berufssport.com. August 15, 2013, accessed March 24, 2019 .
  12. ↑ 2007– Felix award ceremony in Cologne EXPO XXI. on: nrw-sportlerdesjahres.de.
  13. ↑ Gummersbach opens a new home. from: handball-world.com , August 12, 2013, accessed on August 13, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Brand, Heiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German handball player, handball trainer and handball official
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Gummersbach