Joachim Deckarm

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Joachim Deckarm
Joachim Deckarm

Joachim Deckarm on May 16, 2009

Player information
Nickname "Jo"
birthday January 19, 1954
place of birth Saarbrücken , Saarland
citizenship GermanGerman German
Playing position Back left
Throwing hand right
Clubs as active
from ... to society
0000-1979 Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany VfL Gummersbach
National team
Debut on 2nd December 1973
against Romania 1965Romania Romania in Tbilisi
  Games (goals)
Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany FRG 104 (381)

Joachim "Jo" Deckarm (born January 19, 1954 in Saarbrücken ) is a former German athlete and handball player . He was three times German handball champion and twice European Cup winner with VfL Gummersbach . In addition, he completed 104 international matches for the German national team , with which he won the 1978 World Handball Championship .

In a European Cup match in March 1979, after a collision with another player in a hard fall, he suffered a severe traumatic brain injury , as a result of which he was in a coma for months and is still dependent on help today.

Career

Deckarm began athletics in his youth. He was German youth champion in pentathlon . Later he started playing handball. Joachim Deckarm became a well-known handball player who was considered the best handball player in the world during his active time. His playing position was in the left backcourt . As a player for VfL Gummersbach with the legendary number 11 on his back , “Jo” - that was his nickname as a handball player - was three times German champion with VfL (1974, 1975, 1976) and twice European Cup winner (1974, 1978). On December 2, 1973 he made his international debut in Tbilisi against Romania . In 104 international matches for the national team , he threw a total of 381 goals. In 1978, at the height of his career, he led the DHB team together with Heiner Brand to Germany's second handball world champion title after winning the title in 1938.

Sports accident and after

On March 30, 1979, he had an accident in the 23rd minute of the semi-final second leg (European Cup winners' Cup) of VfL Gummersbach in Tatabánya , Hungary . He crashed into a counter- attack with his Hungarian opponent Lajos Pánovics and fell to the ground. His head fell unchecked on the concrete floor, which was only covered with a thin layer of PVC , causing a double fracture of the base of the skull , a tear in the brain membrane and severe contusions in the brain .

Joachim Deckarm only woke up from the coma 131 days later . Due to the brain damage, his motor skills were severely impaired and he had lost the ability to speak. Since then he has been dependent on a wheelchair. Since autumn 1982 it has been considered a nursing care case . At that time, his former youth coach Werner Hürter took care of him. With targeted therapies and training programs specially developed for Joachim Deckarm, Hürter counteracted motor disabilities for 13 years until his death in 1995.

The biography Deckarms Teamgeist (2009) was sold more than 16,000 times by 2014 and brought in around 150,000 euros for the Deckarm fund.

Joachim Deckarm initially lived in his hometown Saarbrücken. After moving to Gummersbach, where his brother also lives as his supervisor, he has been living in a retirement home since 2018.

On January 19, 2019, the day of the game of the 26th Handball World Championship 2019 between Iceland and Germany in Cologne, Joachim Deckarm celebrated his 65th birthday as a guest of honor in the Lanxess Arena , to which 20,000 visitors sang Happy Birthday in his honor .

honors and awards

  • The Joachim-Deckarm-Sporthalle in Saarbrücken is named after him.
  • On May 24, 2009, Uli Hoeneß , at that time manager of Bundesliga soccer club FC Bayern Munich , presented the then national handball coach Heiner Brand with a check for 35,000 euros. The money came from the phrase pig of the DSF show Doppelpass and is intended for the Joachim Deckarm Foundation.
  • On September 30, 2009, Deckarm received the Deutsche Zipfel Prize , endowed with 4,000 euros, in recognition of his “irrepressible will to live”. The prize money went to the Deckarm Fund of the Deutsche Sporthilfe Foundation .
  • On May 31, 2013, Deckarm was inducted into the Hall of Fame of German Sports .

literature

  • Rolf Heggen: Team spirit. The two lives of Joachim Deckarm. Editorial office RRH, 2009, ISBN 978-3-939537-06-9 .

documentary

Web links

Commons : Joachim Deckarm  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ An overview of the international matches ( memento from July 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on www.dsv-sportverlag.de on March 30, 2014
  2. ↑ Handball: The Joachim Deckarm case: Persecuted by fear - The mental torments of the Hungarian Lajos Pánovics
  3. ↑ Lucky charm of the world champions (February 7, 2007) accessed on www.stern.de on April 21, 2019
  4. ^ After a handball accident: This is the touching Jo-Deckarm-Story , wz.de, November 29, 2019
  5. ↑ 131 days in a coma: A German handball hero, stronger than death , welt.de, January 17, 2014
  6. ↑ Deckarm book “TEAMGEIST” published in 3rd edition ( Memento from April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) sporthilfe.de, Frankfurt am Main, November 1, 2011
  7. ↑ kerstin Zöll: Jo Deckarm celebrates 64th birthday. Retrieved January 28, 2018 (German).
  8. ↑ 20,000 handball fans celebrate Joachim Deckarm. In: Rheinische Post . January 19, 2019, accessed January 4, 2020 .
  9. ↑ sporthilfe.de: Prize of the Deutsche Zipfel goes to Joachim Deckarm ( Memento from October 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ focus.de: Willy Bogner receives the Golden Sports Pyramid from May 31, 2013, accessed on April 21, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Deck arm, Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Deckarm, Jo (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete and handball player
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken