Jürgen Isberg
Jürgen Isberg (born September 24, 1928 ) is a former handball player from the Federal Republic of Germany, who was twice world champion with the German national team.
Jürgen Isberg was the left defender in the team of the SV Hamburg Police , which dominated the sport of handball in Germany in the first half of the 1950s. From 1950 to 1953 the team won the German championship in indoor handball, from 1951 to 1953 and 1955 the Hamburg team won field handball.
From 1951 to 1956, Isberg played in 27 international matches for the German national handball team , seven of them indoors. In 1952 and 1955 , Isberg won the world championship title with the German team. Besides him, goalkeeper Heinz Singer and later national coach Werner Vick were among the world champions of the SV Hamburg Police.
For winning the 1952 World Cup, he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf on June 53, 1953.
In contrast to most of his teammates, Jürgen Isberg was not a member of the Hamburg police force, but studied literature, philosophy and psychology. In 1954 he received his doctorate with a thesis on Friedrich Hölderlin . He was then advertising manager for women's magazines such as Petra and Constanze , and later he was editor-in-chief at Constanze. After Isberg retired from publishing work, he worked as a management consultant. He was co-author of Insurance Selling Successfully , which appeared in nine editions, and published the book The Insurance Seller in the 1990s .
literature
- Bodo Harenberg (ed.): The stars of the sport from A-Z . Darmstadt 1970
Web links
- Literature by and about Jürgen Isberg in the catalog of the German National Library
- Interview with Jürgen Isberg and Heinz Singer
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sports report of the Federal Government of September 29, 1973 to the Bundestag - Printed matter 7/1040 - page 59.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Isberg, Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German handball world champion |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1928 |