Josef Karrer

Josef Karrer

Player information
Nickname	"Seppl"
birthday	March 3, 1939
place of birth	Großwallstadt , Germany
citizenship	German
height	1.80 m
Club information
society	Career ended
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-1973	TV Großwallstadt
1973-1979	TSV Lohr
National team
	Games (goals)
Germany	39 (?)
As of June 24, 2014

Josef "Seppl" Karrer (born March 3, 1939 in Großwallstadt ) is a former German handball player .

Career

Josef Karrer began playing handball as a child in his birthplace. Until 1973 he played for TV Großwallstadt , with whom he was runner- up in the Bundesliga season 1970/71 . In the 1971/72 season he was the top scorer in the handball Bundesliga . In 1973 he left the TVG and played for TSV Lohr until the end of his career in 1979 .

With the German national team , for which he played a total of 39 international matches, Karrer took part in the field handball world championships in 1963 and 1966 . After the team lost 7:14 in the GDR final in 1963 , they became world champions in 1966. In 1972 Josef Karrer was part of the team that took part in the handball tournament of the Summer Olympics in Munich .

For winning the 1966 World Cup, Karrer was honored with the silver laurel leaf .

Others

Josef Karrer trained as a building fitter , but later worked in a bank. His son Heiko Karrer was also a German national handball player.

Web links

• Josef Karrer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Katharina Schwendinger: What former handball star Josef Karrer makes today ... . In: Main-Echo . Publishing house and printing company Main-Echo GmbH & Co. KG. May 13, 2008. Retrieved June 24, 2014.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Heiko Karrer in the Munzinger archive , accessed on June 25, 2014 ( beginning of article freely available)
3. ↑ Sports report of the federal government (Bundestag printed matter 7/1040) (PDF; 1.7 MB) In: bundestag.de . German Bundestag . P. 60. September 26, 1973. Retrieved June 24, 2014.