Klaus Miesner

Klaus Jürgen Miesner (born December 11, 1935 in Magdeburg ; † January 11, 1989 in Drei Annen ) was a German handball player and coach .

Life

Miesner was born the son of the businessman Gerhard Miesner . After graduating from high school in 1954 at the Käthe-Kollwitz-Oberschule in Magdeburg , Miesner first studied physics at the Technical University of Magdeburg , but then dropped out after two semesters. At times he worked as an intern at the Salbke Reichsbahn repair shop . From 1947 to 1957 he played handball for the company's sports club, the BSG Lok-Südost Magdeburg or its predecessor. In 1954 and 1955 he won the GDR championship with the youth team.

In 1957 he enrolled at the German University of Physical Culture and graduated in 1961 as a certified sports teacher. During his studies Miesner played for the handball team of the SC DHfK Leipzig and won two championship titles. After his return to Magdeburg, he achieved this success again in 1963 with his parent club Lok-Südost Magdeburg. As a handball player he was active for this club from 1961 to 1967. From 1961 to 1967 he worked as a teacher for athletics and physics at the children's and youth sports school in Magdeburg. He began his coaching career in February 1968 as the successor to Bernhard Kandula at SC Magdeburg . In over two decades he formed a large number of international class handball players such as Günter Dreibrodt , Ernst Gerlach , Hartmut Krüger , Wieland Schmidt and Ingolf Wiegert . The result of this work was nine championship titles, four cup wins, two European cup wins and one club European championship. In January 1989 Miesner died of a heart attack during a training camp in Drei Annen in the Harz Mountains . Hartmut Krüger took up his legacy as an SCM trainer. Klaus Miesner was married and had two children.

successes

With the SCM he achieved the following results:

year	DHV championship	GDR Cup	European Cup
1968	Rank 6	did not take place	not participated
1969	4th place	Rank 6	not participated
1970	master	winner	not participated
1971	place 2	2nd place and 5	Quarter-finals national champions
1972	place 3	place 3	not participated
1973	place 3	did not take place	not participated
1974	place 2	did not take place	not participated
1975	place 2	did not take place	not participated
1976	place 2	did not take place	not participated
1977	master	winner	Final cup winners
1978	place 2	winner	Winner national champion
1979	place 2	place 3	Final cup winners
1980	master	4th place	not participated
1981	master	place 2	Winner national champion, winner European championship d. Club teams
1982	master	4th place	1st round national champion
1983	master	place 3	Quarter-finals national champions
1984	master	winner	not participated
1985	master	place 3	Round of 16 national champions
1986	place 2	5th place	Quarter-finals national champions
1987	place 3	4th place	Round of 16 IHF Cup
1988	master	4th place	not participated

Honors

The Klaus Miesner memorial tournament takes place every year in his honor in the Harzlandhalle in Ilsenburg. Furthermore, in August 2010 the city of Magdeburg renamed the square in front of the Hermann-Gieseler-Halle, the old home ground of the handball players of SC Magdeburg, to Klaus-Miesner-Platz.

literature

• Heinz Hercke, Hans Jürgen Wende: Miesner, Klaus Jürgen. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 , p. 469.
• Volkmar Laube and Torsten Schröder in Tore-Triumphe-Titel / handball stronghold Magdeburg , ESV Verlagsgesellschaft 2001, ISBN 3-930794-03-9

Web links

• Klaus Miesner in the Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon
• Information about Klaus Miesner at www.salbke-magdeburg.de