Heinz-Georg Sievers

Heinz-Georg Sievers

Player information
Nickname	"Gockel"
birthday	September 27, 1923
place of birth	Buffalo , Minnesota , USA
citizenship	German
date of death	April 8, 2007
Playing position	runner
	defender
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1936-1957	THW Kiel
National team
	Games (goals)
Germany	7 (?)

Heinz-Georg Sievers (born September 27, 1923 in Buffalo , Minnesota , United States , † April 8, 2007 ) was a German doctor and handball player .

Heinz-Georg Sievers was born in Buffalo, where his father worked as a teacher in foreign service. After the family returned to Germany, he grew up in the Hassee district of Kiel . There he began with handball at the age of ten, from 1936 he played at THW Kiel . With the zebras he was German junior runner-up in 1940 and German field handball champion in 1948 and 1950 , and in 1957 in the hall. Sievers and his teammate at the time, Hein Dahlinger, are the only THW players to win the German championship on both the large field and in the hall.

Heinz-Georg Sievers played seven international matches for the German national team , three of them indoors. After winning the field handball world championship in Switzerland in 1952 , he resigned from the national team because the double burden was no longer compatible with his job - the doctor of medicine was working as a surgeon at Kiel's Christian Albrechts University . In 1957 he ended his playing career at THW Kiel.

After his active time Sievers remained connected to the sport, he took care of the players of the THW and KSV Holstein medically. From 1979 to 1989 he was the official team doctor for the Bundesliga team at THW Kiel.

Heinz-Georg Sievers was married and had three daughters. He was honored for winning the German championship in 1950 with the THW and for the world championship title in 1952 with the silver laurel leaf .

Web links

• Portrait on the website of THW Kiel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Erik Eggers (ed.): Black and White: The History of the Record Master THW Kiel. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-619-5 , p. 122
2. ↑ ^{a b c} thw-handball.de: THW Kiel mourns the loss of Dr. Heinz-Georg Sievers , from 10./11. April 2007, accessed May 17, 2013
3. ↑ Sports report of the federal government (Bundestag printed matter 7/1040) (PDF; 1.7 MB) In: bundestag.de . German Bundestag . Pp. 59 f. September 26, 1973. Retrieved May 4, 2019.