Holger Geschwindner

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Basketball player
Holger Geschwindner
Player information
birthday December 9, 1945
place of birth Bad Nauheim , Germany
size 192 cm
position Point guard
Clubs as active
1964–1969 MTV Gießen 1969–1977 USC Munich 1977–1979 1. FC 01 Bamberg 1979–1981 SSC / ASC Göttingen 1981–1983 BSC Saturn Cologne 1983–1987 1. FC 01 Bamberg GermanyGermany
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1969-1975 BR Germany 85 games
Olympic Games 1972, Holger Geschwindner in the game Germany - Poland 67:65

Holger Geschwindner (born December 9, 1945 in Bad Nauheim ) is a former German basketball player . He is known as a longtime personal trainer and mentor to Dirk Nowitzki .

education

Geschwindner grew up in Laubach , Hesse , where he attended the Graf Friedrich Magnus Alumnate . The school was headed by Theo Clausen , the first national coach of the German Basketball Federation , who ran the boarding school as an early support center for the next generation of basketball players. After graduating from high school, Geschwindner studied mathematics and physics in Gießen, Munich and Marburg from 1967 to 1972. He worked in the computing center of the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich and in the Bamberg computing center and later became self-employed. As a self-employed person, he worked on IT projects in various countries (including Japan and Australia ) and thus financed his passion for travel.

Career as a player

Geschwindner was a German national basketball player in the 1960s and 1970s . In 1972 he took part in the Olympic Games in Munich and in 1971 in the FIBA ​​European Championships in Essen and Böblingen, each under national coach Theodor Schober. In 1972 in Munich Geschwindner, then 26 years old, was the captain of the national team of the German Basketball Federation (DBB). He was used in all nine games of the Olympic basketball tournament and scored a total of 123 points, with 29 fouls whistled against him. Geschwindner was in Munich in 1972, after Norbert Thimm , the second best thrower in the German national basketball team.

In the summer of 1969 he had already participated with the DBB national team in the qualification for the European Championship in Saloniki / Greece , under national coach Miloslav Kříž , after he was appointed to the national coaching council of the DBB in October 1968, chaired by the then vice-president of the DBB Anton Kartak , in the function of DBB sports supervisor, was appointed to the 50-strong Olympic squad for the basketball tournament of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich .

With a height of 1.92 m, Holger Geschwindner was a very athletic, agile, high-jumping Bundesliga player. The basketball player was shaped by the Hessian basketball school, which was very much based on the typical American style of play. In terms of type, Holger Geschwindner was a strong all-round player who was usually used as a point guard next to the playmaker. He was characterized by an unconventional style of play, which then very often led successfully to surprising actions. He was considered an individualist. His team-mate from Giessen, the American Ernest Butler , later said of Geschwindner: “Holger only had to see everything once and was able to do it. He was a genius. "

He achieved his greatest sporting successes as a high-performance player for MTV Gießen , with whom he became German champion in 1965, 1967 and 1968 and German cup winner of the DBB in 1969 .

The five final games of MTV Gießen against the basketball championship team of VfL Osnabrück , in 1969 VfL won the final of the German championship in Gießen , are considered classics in German basketball history. MTV won two of these legendary finals by only one point each.

After his time in Giessen, Geschwindner played successfully for Bundesliga teams in Munich, Bamberg, Göttingen - with whom he became German champion again in 1980 - and Cologne. He ended his career as a basketball player at the age of 47 in the regional league at DJK Eggolsheim as a player-coach. Together with Rainer Tobien, he is one of two former Bundesliga players who have played more than 600 Bundesliga games (1st and 2nd league).

Cooperation with Dirk Nowitzki

Afterwards, Holger Geschwindner worked for the Bundesliga club DJK S. Oliver Würzburg in various positions for a long time (as an individual trainer and consultant as well as for a short time as head trainer).

Geschwindner was a sponsor and mentor of the German national basketball player and NBA superstar Dirk Nowitzki from Würzburg . However, he did not discover it, says Geschwindner. Before a game with his senior team, Geschwindner saw the young Nowitzki at a youth game: “There was such a tall skinny man jumping around. (…) Funnily enough, he did everything a good basketball player needs to be able to do pretty well, but he had no technical tools. (...) Then I asked him: 'Yes, who will teach you the sport?' "" Nobody, "answered Nowitzki. “If you want, we can give it a try,” Geschwindner offered the young person. He has been working for Nowitzki as a consultant, individual trainer or coach since 1995 . After just a few training sessions, he explained to Nowitzki's parents: “If he (...) is to become one of the world's best players, we have to train systematically. Starting tomorrow. ”When working with Nowitzki, Geschwindner relied in part on unconventional methods and, together with his protégé, devised exercises that were precisely tailored to the requirements (for example,“ lyres ”,“ rabbit hops over the free throw corner ”). The fact that Nowitzki was convinced of his method, Geschwindner attributed in particular to the fact that Nowitzki improved quickly through the exercises. Nowitzki said in retrospect in October 2019 that Geschwindner had "always had a weird approach" when designing training and "always tried to keep it interesting". Even as a teenager he noticed in the exercise units: “What brings something, what the guy is talking about,” says Nowitzki. In the United States, too, Geschwindner and Nowitzki were initially ridiculed for their unusual exercise methods: “It was called nonsense. So we gave our rooms in which we work the name: Institute for Applied Nonsense, ”says Geschwindner.

Geschwindner justified the "own way" he went with Nowitzki in imparting basketball skills, and the departure from the basketball specialist literature with the fact that "in the best case scenario you would only have become second winner", even if you "had the corresponding books." mad hard work ”. Since he was neither trained as a sports teacher nor trained as a trainer, among other things he brought his physical knowledge into the work and also made theoretical considerations in order to search for the ideal throw. Geschwindner included factors such as ball size, ring diameter, ring height, air resistance and the speed of the ball in his considerations. Attempts have been made to “use the three-part arm movement to acquire the movement that is most forgiving,” he said, describing his work. “To make sure that this wasn't entirely wrong, I once programmed it on the robot (and then) we had a robot thrown with the three-arm technique. (...) Dirk has appropriated it, and he lives from it. He also invented a few shots that didn't exist before, because he can take riskier throws, because he can make more mistakes, ”said Geschwindner in December 2015.

Other basketball activities

In Würzburg he also promoted other later national players such as Robert Garrett , Demond Greene and Marvin Willoughby . In the training of young players, Geschwindner relied on the play instinct, voluntariness and the inner drive of talents, the admitting of mistakes ("Mistakes are the icing on the cake. You learn more through mistakes than through permanent success. How else can you get yours?" Being able to try out one's own limits? ") and conveying development-oriented content (" It is crucial to only give the boys tools that suit their personal level of development "). He also built musical elements and other sports into his training camp, including rowing (Geschwindner: “When rowing, boys learn to rely on each other and to synchronize and harmonize their movements for the team”) and dance.

In the 2005/06 season Geschwindner looked after the team of the USC Mainfranken in the 2nd basketball league in the coaching team with his former protégé Nicolas Wucherer . The team was run by the talent development program “player development program” (pdp), whose founding members included usurers and Geschwindner as well as Nowitzki. The team started to promote young players, but the project failed, relegation followed, the newspaper “ Main-Post ” wrote of a “second division disaster”.

From 2016, Geschwindner supported the Nürnberg Falcons BC in promoting popular and competitive sports.

Criminal proceedings for tax evasion

In July 2005, Geschwindner was taken into custody as part of an investigation into tax evasion . With the help of his US employer, Nowitzki put a bail of 15 million euros, whereupon Geschwindner was released after four and a half weeks in prison and made an additional tax payment of five million euros. In the subsequent criminal proceedings, he pleaded fully guilty and was sentenced in October 2006 by the Hof District Court (Saale) to a suspended sentence of one year in prison and a payment of 50,000 euros to charitable organizations. The court assumed around three million euros of evaded income, sales and trade tax, which were related to stakes in Nowitzki's income.

publication

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "No Nowitzki without Theo Clausen" - memorial in Laubach. In: Gießener Allgemeine from July 11, 2011, accessed on September 11, 2015
  2. ↑ Volker Kaibel and Andreas Loos: "Maths is simply a great tool" (PDF). In: Mitteilungen der DMV Heft 18/2010, pp. 173–175, accessed on September 11, 2015
  3. ↑ a b c d Physicists at work - Holger Geschwindner. Retrieved August 19, 2019 .
  4. ^ FIBA - 1971 FIBA ​​European Championship for Men - September 10th to 19th, 1971 - Essen, Böblingen in Germany. Website fiba.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  5. ^ Letter from Anton Kartak, Vice President of the German Basketball Federation and Chairman of the National Coaching Council, on October 10, 1968, to the fifty basketball players nominated for the '1972 Olympic Squad'.
  6. ^ Men Basketball European Championship Qualification 1969 - Thessaloniki (GRE) . Website Todor66 by Todor Krastev. Sports Statistics, International Competitions Archive. German national team (DBB) with Holger Geschwindner, MTV Gießen. Retrieved December 23, 2010.
  7. ^ Men Basketball European Championship 1971 Essen, Boeblingen (FRG) , German national team (DBB) . Website Todor66 by Todor Krastev. Sports Statistics, International Competitions Archive. German national team (DBB) with Holger Geschwindner, USC Munich. Retrieved December 23, 2010.
  8. ↑ Thomas Pletzinger: The book Holger . In: Basketball Bundesliga GmbH (Ed.): 50 Years of the Basketball Bundesliga . Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-7307-0242-0 , pp. 25 .
  9. ↑ Still on the ball with over 60 - How a veteran in German basketball keeps fit. ( Memento from July 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Website, right fit - the fitness initiative of the German Sports Association. Article Rainer Tobien. Retrieved December 20, 2010.
  10. ↑ Applied theory ZEIT online, June 15, 2011.
  11. ↑ Holger Geschwindner: Individual training with Dirk Nowitzki . In: Nowitzki. The story . Murmann, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86774-212-2 , pp. 151-164 .
  12. ↑ a b Antje Windmann: "And then we just danced, just like that, with our eyes closed" . In: Der Spiegel . tape 44 , October 26, 2019, p. 128-130 .
  13. ↑ Dirk Nowitzki: Uni Gießen reveals the secret of his success story. February 6, 2018, accessed August 19, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Holger Geschwindner: How do you shape a basketball player? In: Nowitzki. The story . Murmann, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86774-212-2 , pp. 21 .
  15. ↑ Better jazz gymnastics than a training camp: - WELT. In: THE WORLD. Retrieved January 13, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Holger Geschwindner: Make mistakes with pleasure . In: Nowitzki. The story . Murmann, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86774-212-2 , pp. 81 .
  17. ↑ Holger Geschwindner: Every beginning is difficult . In: Nowitzki. The story . Murmann, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86774-212-2 , pp. 71 .
  18. ↑ Holger Geschwindner: The training week at Lake Starnberg . In: Nowitzki. The story . Murmann, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86774-212-2 , pp. 54 .
  19. ↑ https://www.mainpost.de/sport/mainspessart/Vater-wagt-Disput-mit-Geschwindner;art798,3496955?wt_ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&wt_t=1566207989160
  20. ↑ https://www.mainpost.de/sport/kitzingen/Beim-USC-Mainfranken-schwindet-die-Hoffnung;art787,3383241
  21. ↑ https://www.mainpost.de/sport/wuerzburg/Die-Probleme-in-Liga-vier;art786,3717686?wt_ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&wt_t=1566208715976
  22. ↑ Holger Geschwindner supports the Nürnberg Falcons. Retrieved August 19, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Nowitzki pays a 15 million euro deposit . Mainpost, October 10, 2006
  24. ↑ One year probation for Nowitzki discoverers. In: Bild.de of October 9, 2006, accessed on September 11, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Geschwindner, Holger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Nauheim