Herbert Lübking

Herbert Lübking

Player information
birthday	23rd October 1941 (age 78)
place of birth	Dankersen , Germany
citizenship	German
height	1.84 m
Playing position	Back center
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	Career ended
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
1949-1960	TSV Grün-Weiß Dankersen
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1960-1970	TSV Grün-Weiß Dankersen
1970-1988	TuS Nettelstedt
National team
Debut on	January 20, 1962
against	Yugoslavia in Munich
	Games (goals)
Germany	139 (650)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
5 / 1976-1977	TuS Nettelstedt (player coach)
4 / 1978-1978	TuS Nettelstedt (player coach)
1978-1979	TBV Lemgo
1979-1982	TBV Lemgo (player-coach)
1 / 1983-1983	TuS Lahde / Quetzen (player coach)
1 / 1984-1986	TuS 09 Möllbergen (player-coach)
3 / 1985–0000	TSV Grün-Weiß Dankersen (A-youth)
As of November 6, 2017

Herbert Lübking (born October 23, 1941 in Dankersen ) is a former German national field and indoor handball player . From 1962 to 1973 he played a total of 139 international matches in the national handball team , in which he scored 650 goals.

Career

Dankersen, 1949 to 1970

In 1949, at the age of eight, Herbert Lübking joined the local sports club GW Dankersen . Teacher Fritz Homann made sure that the sporty students pursued their hobby at Grün-Weiß. As a schoolboy he did gymnastics and handball, played handball in his youth and did athletics. The athletic skills, especially in fast running, the solid basic sporting training through gymnastics and his above-average talent for handball, led him to the West German youth selection. With the 2nd youth team (the 17 year olds) he qualified for the Westphalia Championship in 1958. When youth national teams competed in the preliminary games at the Senior World Cup in Austria in 1959, the talent from Dankersen was in action in all five games in the DHB youth selection compiled for the first time. At the age of 18, exactly one day after his 18th birthday, Lübking played for the first time in the 1st team of TSV GW Dankersen in the game against Gevelsberg. In the heyday of field handball, Lübking became a great player in his sport, but, as was customary at the time, he always drove two tracks. Field handball was played in summer and an indoor handball round was held in winter. The two-part indoor handball Bundesliga was introduced for the 1966/67 season. The dual track of large field handball in summer and indoor handball in winter was maintained until 1975.

Dankersen made it into the national top in 1962. Reinforced by the new entry Manfred Horstkötter , GWD moved into the final of the German field handball championship on October 28, 1962 against TSV Ansbach in the Zabo stadium in Nuremberg. Lübking, Helmut Meisolle and Fritz Spannuth lost the final with 8: 9 goals against Erwin Porzner's team , but it was the beginning of an era of sporting highlights. With relatively little training effort, two to three training units per week, the Dankersers were also extremely successful in the following years. In 1964 the second final was lost against TuS Wellinghofen . Nationally, Dankersen was in 1965 with the "dream team" Spannuth and Lübking as the strongest German team through the two runner-up championships in the hall against Frisch Auf Göppingen and in October on the large field against BSV Solingen 98. On October 23, 1967, 19:16 goals against TV Großwallstadt won the first German championship. With this, Lübking and colleagues also secured participation in the European Cup, which was played for the first time in 1968. With successes against Suhr (Switzerland), Hengelo (Holland) and Linz (Austria), the trophy was brought to East Westphalia. As a reward, the patron and president of the association, Horst Bentz , head of the Melitta coffee filter works in Minden , gave the actors a dream trip to the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico.

With Dankersen Lübking was German runner-up in 1962, 1964 and 1965, in the last two years both on the field and in the hall. In 1967 and 1970 he was German field handball champion and in 1968, 1969 and 1970 European cup winner in field handball . In 1969 GWD hosted the European Cup in Minden's Weserstadion. Lübking contributed eight goals to the 12: 5 final win against Oppum. With a total of 24 goals, he was the tournament's top scorer. From 1969, his national team colleague Bernd Munck was his teammate in Dankersen.

For Grün-Weiß Dankersen - today's GWD Minden club - he threw a total of 4011 goals between 1959 and 1970. At that time Lübking was employed as a wholesaler at the Melitta works. His wife Ingrid - with whom he had two sons - ran an agency for the Hummel sports shoe factory , in whose products her husband played. Since the national team played in Adidas , this led to a conflict: in the end, the national team played alternately in Adidas and Hummels.

On August 16, 1970 Lübking won the field handball championship with Dankersen with 15:11 goals against Hochdorf, a few days later the team captain switched from Bundesliga club GW Dankersen to the district league club and local neighbor TuS Nettelstedt. The change of players, which was sensational for the time, made waves; The media and the handball public had “their” topic: After his boss found out about his intended change, he was given a leave of absence and was also considered an undesirable person in Dankersen. He received death threats, windows were broken and his three year old son André was kidnapped for a day. In addition, he was initially suspended from the national team by national coach Werner Vick and only reactivated in the run-up to the 1972 Olympic Games . For the 28-year-old Lübking, he was married and had two children, the security beyond his handball time was the reason for switching to TuS Nettelstedt. The club change should not take place until 1972 after the Olympic Games in Munich. However, his old employer refused to accept the change of job two years earlier. As a result, Lübking not only changed his place of work in 1970, but also at that time the sports field. Professionally motivated player changes were part of the normality of the "handball business" in the later years of the establishment of the Bundesliga.

Nettelstedt, 1970 to 1978

With Nettelstedt, Lübking managed to march through from the district league to the Bundesliga in the following seven years. Hardly a game was lost, every year it went up a class. In 1974, the Yugoslav Olympic champion from 1972, Milan Lazarević, also joined the club. In the final game of the German field handball championship 1975 on August 10, 1975 Lübking and the teammates Jürgen Glombeck, Rainer Gosewinkel, Milan Lazarević and Heiner Möller with Nettelstedt - coach was the former GWD coach Erich Klose - in the last field handball championship game ever; On the home field, Nettelstedt surprisingly lost 14:15 against TSG Haßloch .

With the 27:20 win in the second leg on April 3, 1976 against Bayer Leverkusen, they were promoted to the handball Bundesliga . Nettelstedt thus became a founding member of the single-track handball Bundesliga and was also the first table leader. The veteran in the backcourt scored 2,222 goals for the team until 1978. On October 15, 1978, the farewell game for Herbert Lübking at TuS Nettelstedt took place with a game against a European selection.

In the Eggers book, Nicole Bliesener describes how the 1.84 meter tall "figurehead of German handball in the 1960s" was played with the following words:

“ Lübking, the technically perfect individualist, loved improvisation, free and, if possible, disembodied play. He valued the role of the tricky but also dangerous playmaker. Lübking had acquired these qualities with talent, but above all with willpower and iron training. "

National team, 1962 to 1973

Lübking played in the national team for the first time in 1962 . In 1963, he took part in his first world championship in Winterthur, Switzerland. In June 1963 he was part of the West German team in Basel that lost the final of the World Field Handball Championship against East Germany with 7:14 goals . In the group games they had previously prevailed with three successes against Switzerland, Holland and the USA. Lübking made his international breakthrough under the then national coach Werner Vick at the indoor handball world championship in 1964 in the ČSSR. There the man from Dankersen made such an impression on the trade press that the journalists dubbed the 23-year-old as the “best handball player in the world”. The DHB selection took fourth place - but Lübking had finally made it to the top of the world. In July 1966 Lübking became world champions in field handball with Erwin Heuer and Bernd Munck in Vienna with the German team . It was a tournament with six national teams. With this world championship, the big field handball chapter was finally closed worldwide. In total, he completed a total of 139 international matches from 1962 to 1973, in which he scored 650 goals. The selection bets are divided into 117 games (532 goals) in the hall and 21 games (118 goals) on the full field.

In November 1969 he became the first German handball player to make 100 national team appearances, and with his at one time almost 530 goals, he scored twice as many hits in international matches as the next best striker.

In the hall he was at the World Championships in 1964 (fourth place), 1967 (sixth place and top scorer of the tournament in Sweden with 38 goals) and 1970 (fifth place) on the ball, plus at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich (sixth place). Under coach Vick and alongside teammates such as Klaus Kater , Jochen Feldhoff and Klaus Westebbe , the DHB selection reached sixth place when handball was first approved at the Olympic Games after a 16:17 defeat against the USSR.

The Olympic tournament was preceded by a series of test games to find the Olympic squad, during which 16 games against Bundesliga teams were played within five weeks. A total of 28 players, divided into a northern and southern squad, were used in the friendly matches. On February 11, 1972, Nettelstedt's record national player Herbert Lübking, who had been banned for 18 months, was also spotted in a test match for the first time. When the Kicker-Sportmagazin reported the "last 16 players" of the DHB for the Olympic tournament on March 16, 1972, the circle still included striker Hansi Schmidt from VfL Gummersbach and captain Bernd Munck from GW Dankersen. At the Bundestag of German Handball on the last April weekend in Berlin it was decided that there would be no return for the two "rebels" Schmidt and Munck. Captain Munck and Vice-Captain Schmidt had previously confronted national coach Vick with the demand that either the nominated players Lübking and Neuhaus (TuS Wellinghofen) be out, Jochen Brand in , or without us. After the tournament, the statement by DHB President Bernhard Thiele is recorded:

“After the optimal preparation - costs around 500,000 marks - we had expected more and are of course not satisfied. Nevertheless, this sixth place is a respectable success, especially since we finally played two good games against Hungary and the USSR, where we only lost controversially. "

- Bernhard Thiele

Trainer

In the 1978/79 season Lübking took over the coaching position at the upper division TBV Lemgo . Originally only intended as a coach, he exercised the role of player-coach in the 1979/80 season and rose to the regional league with Lemgo. In 1980/81 he was promoted to the newly established 2nd Bundesliga. Only on the last match day, in Herbert Lübking's farewell game, could relegation be secured in Berlin. After he left TBV Lemgo, he was over 40 years old as a player-coach at TuS Möllbergen in the regional and association league and at TuS Lahde / Quetzen in the district league.

statistics

His 20 goals from the Bundesliga match against Hildesheim on January 11, 1969 were a record for over 40 years. On June 6th, 2009 Stefan Schröder ( HSV Hamburg ) surpassed him in the game against Stralsund HV with 21 goals.

National club competitions

In 1967 and 1970 Lübking became German field handball champions with TSV GW Dankersen.

International club competitions

With Dankersen, the handball player was three times European Cup winner on the large field.

Awards

• Silver bay leaf 1966
• Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon 1978
• Honorary citizen of the city of Minden
• Top scorer in the 1967 World Cup finals with 38 goals

literature

• Joachim Meynert (Ed.): And handball is also round ... Contributions to the history of handball in the Minden-Lübbecke district. Westfalen Verlag GmbH. Bielefeld 1995. ISBN 3-88918-082-5
• Erik Eggers (Ed.): Handball. A German domain. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2004. ISBN 3-89533-465-0
• The Sport Brockhaus: everything from sport from A to Z. Mannheim 1989. ISBN 3-7653-0392-5 , p. 314
• History of the TBV Lemgo
• Handball week, special issue 1/2007, p. 34.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Joachim Meynert (Ed.): And handball is also round ... Contributions to the history of handball in the Minden-Lübbecke district. P. 305.
2. ↑ Joachim Meynert (Ed.): And handball is also round ... Contributions to the history of handball in the Minden-Lübbecke district. P. 306.
3. ↑ Joachim Meynert (Ed.): And handball is also round ... Contributions to the history of handball in the Minden-Lübbecke district. P. 307.
4. ↑ Joachim Meynert (Ed.): And handball is also round ... Contributions to the history of handball in the Minden-Lübbecke district. P. 266.
5. ↑ Joachim Meynert (Ed.): And handball is also round ... Contributions to the history of handball in the Minden-Lübbecke district. P. 303.
6. ↑ Erik Eggers (Ed.): Handball. A German domain. P. 142.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Handball / Lübking: 5000 goals , Der Spiegel , 49/1969, December 1, 1969.
8. ↑ Kieler Nachrichten: Herbert Lübking - Death threats because of change .
9. ↑ Joachim Meynert (Ed.): And handball is also round ... Contributions to the history of handball in the Minden-Lübbecke district. P. 308.
10. ↑ Erik Eggers (Ed.): Handball. A German domain. P. 147.
11. ↑ Erik Eggers (Ed.): Handball. P. 146.
12. ↑ Oliver Treptow: Lexicon of handball players. Komet Verlag GmbH. Cologne. ISBN 3-89836-605-7 . P. 147.
13. ↑ Foosball sports magazine. No. 23, March 16, 1972, p. 19.
14. ↑ Foosball sports magazine. No. 24, March 20, 1972, p. 42.
15. ↑ Claus Wolff: Far from the top. Kicker-Sportmagazin, Nuremberg, September 18, 1972. No. 76.
16. ↑ Joachim Meynert (Ed.): And handball is also round ... Contributions to the history of handball in the Minden-Lübbecke district. P. 310.