International Amateur Handball Federation
| International Amateur Handball Federation (IAHF) |
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| founding | 1928 |
| resolution | 1946 |
The International Amateur Handball Federation (IAHF) than World Handball Federation predecessor of the International Handball Federation (IHF). It was founded in 1928 and effectively dissolved in 1946.
Prehistory and foundation
After the first international field handball match between Germany and Austria took place in Halle (Saale) on September 13, 1925 , the need arose to standardize the rules for future international games and to establish an umbrella organization.
In 1926 the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) appointed a commission for all ball games that are played with the hands , such as field handball, court handball , volleyball and basketball . A committee formed in the same year was supposed to establish internationally binding rules for field handball.
Two years later, during the IX. Olympic Summer Games in Amsterdam , the IAAF invited representatives from various national associations to decide on the formation of an umbrella organization that is independent of it. Delegates from 11 countries finally founded the International Amateur Handball Federation (IAHF) on August 4, 1928 , again for all ball games that are played with the hands - not exclusively for the sport of handball. Participants came from Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Canada, Austria, Sweden, Czechoslovakia and the United States. The founding members included the later IOC president Avery Brundage and the Finnish athlete and sports teacher Lauri "Tahko" Pihkala , who developed the national game there, Pesäpallo .
Other sports in the IAHF
Although a Technical Commission for Basketball was formed within the IAHF that same year to direct and control this game, it never met. This commission was dissolved six years later, and on September 1, 1934 , the IAHF transferred all responsibilities for basketball to the Fédération Internationale de Basketball (FIBB, later FIBA) founded in 1932 .
In 1934 the IAHF Congress in Stockholm saw the first attempt to establish an international volleyball organization. Further activities in this direction took place during the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, but were interrupted by the Second World War. In 1946 representatives from France, Poland and Czechoslovakia met in Prague and decided to convene an international congress in Paris in April 1947 , at which the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball was founded.
organization
The IAHF was based in Munich .
Presidents of the IAHF were among others
- From 1928 to 1931 Franz-Paul Lang from Munich , head of the German Sports Authority for Athletics
- From 1931 to 1938 the German IOC member Karl Ritter von Halt , after Lang's resignation initially on a provisional basis until 1934
- From 1938 to 1941 the head of the handball and basketball department in the NS Reichsbund for physical exercises , Richard Herrmann .
development
Through the initiative of the IAAF and the IAHF, field handball was approved as a demonstration sport at the Summer Olympics in 1928 and 1932 and recognized by the IOC as an Olympic discipline in 1933. In 1936 there was a field handball tournament at the games in Berlin. At that time the IAHF already had 23 member countries.
The IAHF organized the first world championships in field and indoor handball as early as 1938 .
In the course of the war, both international gaming and contacts between the member countries came to a standstill. After that, the idea of a general association for several ball sports no longer met with approval: On July 11, 1946 , the International Handball Federation (IHF) was founded in Basel by representatives from eight countries in which field and / or indoor handball was played: Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden and Switzerland. The new association should be exclusively responsible for the sport of handball.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Handball Bundesliga ( Memento from September 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ The history of FIBA and international basketball ( Memento from January 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c d e sportscomet.com (English) ( Memento from May 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ users.abo.fi (English)
- ↑ ramas-welt.de ( Memento from May 25, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ fivb.org (English)
- ↑ Erik Eggers (Ed.): Handball - A German Domain . Verlag Die Werkstatt, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-558-7 , p. 70–71 ( Online - With a foreword by national coach Heiner Brand.). Publishing site ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ wpteamhandball.wetpaint.com (English) ( Memento from May 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ sportego.de
