Klaus Franke (handball player)

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Klaus Franke (born May 7, 1941 in Wittenberg ) is a former German handball player and coach.

Life

Franke, who attended the children's and youth sports school in Güstrow , was a track and field athlete on the junior national team of the German Democratic Republic . In the high jump he reached a record of 1.95 m, in the pole vault he was second in the GDR A youth championship in 1959. As a soccer goalkeeper , he made the leap into the Schwerin district selection .

From 1959 he studied at the German University for Physical Culture (DHfK) in Leipzig and at the same time joined the handball team of the SC DHfK Leipzig , with which he was GDR champion. In 1966, the 1.78 meter tall goalkeeper with the SC DHfK brought under coach Hans-Gert stone victory in the European Cup of Champions . Since reporters from the GDR were not allowed to travel to the European Cup final in Paris , Franke wrote a report for the Leipziger Volkszeitung shortly after the victory , which he sent to Leipzig by telephone.

With the GDR national team, he took part in the 1970 World Cup. The Franconian, known by the nickname “Schorsch”, obtained his university degree at the DHfK in 1970, the title of his diploma thesis was “The special athletic training of the goalkeeper in indoor handball”. In 1971 Franke moved from SC DHfK to city rivals SC Leipzig .

As a trainer, Franke was in charge of the Leipzig men's team and, from 1976, the women of SC Leipzig, which under his leadership won the GDR championship title several times and the European Cup in 1986. As an assistant coach of the GDR women's selection, he worked under head coach Peter Kretzschmar and in this way contributed to winning the 1978 World Cup. Franke later worked for the Austrian series champion Hypo Niederösterreich and became the goalkeeping coach of the second division team Dessau-Roßlauer HV .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Klaus Franke: The duel and its consequences. In: SC DHfK Handball GmbH. Retrieved January 18, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Sports: handball - GDR championships. In: sport-komplett.de. Retrieved January 18, 2020 .
  3. ^ The handball heroes of 1966. In: Grünweiss. The magazine. SC DHfK Leipzig, April 2016, accessed on January 18, 2020 .
  4. ↑ The goalkeeper's special athletic training in indoor handball. In: katalog.ub.uni-leipzig.de. Retrieved January 18, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Franke, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German handball player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg