Jochen Pollex

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Basketball player
Jochen Pollex
Player information
birthday June 6, 1947
place of birth Wismar , Soviet occupation zone
size 186 cm
position Shooting Guard
Clubs as active
1966–1967 TSV Hagen 1860
1967–1969 SSV Hagen
1969–1972 TuS 04 Leverkusen
1972–1976 SSV Hagen - BG Hagen
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National team
1969-1975 BR Germany 136 games

Joachim "Jochen" Pollex (born  June 6, 1947 in Wismar ) is a former German basketball player . He was four times German basketball champion and three times DBB Cup winner.

Career

When the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) went into its first season in 1966 , Hagen was represented by two clubs. Jochen Pollex had qualified with TSV Hagen 1860 as second in the Oberliga West. But after just one season, the 1860s were relegated and Pollex moved to local rivals SSV Hagen . After two years he moved from Hagen to Leverkusen together with the Center Norbert Thimm . TuS 04 Leverkusen had been promoted to second place in the northern group of the Basketball Bundesliga in the preseason. With Pollex and Thimm, the Leverkusen team succeeded in their second Bundesliga season, with head coach Günter Hagedorn the double of championship and cup , with Pollex taking over the build-up of the game together with Dieter Kuprella . In 1970/1971 Leverkusen successfully defended the double and in 1971/1972 they achieved their third championship success in a row. Then Jochen Pollex moved back to SSV Hagen together with his brother Günter. In the 1972/1973 season, the Hagener led the table of the northern group after the main round, but were eliminated due to the points ratio in the final round. A year later, the Westphalians again led the northern group. In the semi-finals they lost to MTV Giessen with 14 points, but decided the second leg with 15 points for themselves. In the final, the Hagen team won both games against USC Heidelberg and won the only championship title in their club's history. In 1974/1975, the Hagen team was eliminated early in the finals, but they won the cup final against Heidelberg. After the end of his Bundesliga career, Jochen Pollex was coach at BG Hagen, where he avoided relegation from the 2nd Bundesliga in the 1976/1977 season by reactivating himself as a winger.

In October 1968, the former youth and then current B national player of SSV Hagen was appointed by the Federal Coaching Council of the German Basketball Federation (DBB), chaired by the then Vice-President of the DBB Anton Kartak , in the function of DBB sports supervisor, for the fifty-member Olympic squad for the basketball tournament of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich , nominated in the " Kartak list ". The Olympic squad was put together in order to begin with the concentrated training preparation for the basketball tournament of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and two FIBA ​​European championship competitions in 1969 and 1971 .

For the qualifying tournament for the FIBA European Championship in 1969 in Thessaloniki ( Greece ), Pollex was then appointed to the senior national team by the then national coach Miloslav Kříž . In Thessaloniki, the German national team could not qualify for the finals of the European Championship in 1969 in Genoa ( Italy ). Two years later, the team from the Federal Republic of Germany, as the host of the FIBA European Championship in 1971 in Essen and Böblingen, was also eligible to play in the finals and finished ninth. During this FIBA ​​tournament, Pollex was again part of the national team as a regular, nominated by national coach Theodor Schober. In 1972 the Summer Olympics took place in Munich. As the host of the Olympic basketball tournament, the DBB national team did not need to play a qualification. The national team for the 1972 Summer Olympics included Dieter Kuprella and Jochen Pollex as backcourt players and the two centers Dietrich Keller and Norbert Thimm, four players from the reigning 1972 German basketball champions, TuS 04 Leverkusen (the four comrades of the Olympic team were together with the “TuS 04-veteran “Largo Wandel and Wolfgang Schmidt were nominated in the provisional Olympic squad in autumn 1968. ). The DBB national team finished twelfth in Munich. Pollex, then 25 years old, was able to play eight out of nine games in the Olympic basketball tournament and scored a total of 54 points, out of 16 fouls whistled against him. Jochen Pollex took part in the period from 1969 to 1972 as one of seven DBB participants in the XX. 1972 Summer Olympics participated in all three international tournaments.

He remained a regular in the senior national team even after the Summer Olympics and played with the DBB national team in 1973 and 1975 to qualify for the FIBA European Championship . In 1975 he made his last of 136 A internationals for the DBB.

Jochen Pollex's younger brother Günter was also a German national player for the DBB and in 1974 was involved in winning the championship with SSV Hagen.

See also

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  • " Basketball " - "Official body of the German Basketball Federation" (born 1959 to 1975) - ISSN  0178-9279
  • National Olympic Committee for Germany: Munich. Kiel 1972. The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany . Frankfurt am Main 1972
  • Karsten-Thilo Raab: Hagen sports chronicle. From 1860 to 2009 edition Limosa, Clenze 2009, ISBN 978-3-86037-396-5
  • Dino Reisner: 40 years of the Basketball Bundesliga. Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt 2006, ISBN 978-3-86680-014-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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".
  2. ↑ XVI European Championship (Napoli 1969) - Qualifying Stage: May 9th to May 25th. Linguasport, Sport History and Statistics website. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  3. ^ FIBA - 1971 FIBA ​​European Championship for Men - September 10th to 19th, 1971 - Essen, Böblingen in Germany. Website fiba.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  4. ^ Federal Republic of Germany at the 1972 Summer Olympics - Basketball Website Sport Reference - Olympic Sports. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Pollex, Jochen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pollex, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Wismar