Klaus Weinand

Klaus Weinand
Player information
birthday	14th December 1940 (age 79)
place of birth	Koblenz , Germany
size	2.00 meters
position	center
Clubs as active
1956–1960 Red-White Koblenz 1960–1962 USC Heidelberg 1962 Red-White Koblenz 1962–1963 Neuköllner Sportfreunde 1963–1964 Alemannia Aachen 1964–1975 VFL Osnabrück 1975–1976 RuWa Dellwig -1962
National team
1960-197200	Germany	0

Klaus Weinand (born December 14, 1940 in Koblenz ) was a German national basketball player in the 1960s and until September 1972. In the seasons between 1960 and 1976 he played basketball for first division clubs in Aachen, Berlin, Essen, Heidelberg and Osnabrück. He managed to move into a "grand final" of the German Basketball Federation ( DBB ) eleven times during the 1960s , with five final wins. At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich Weinand was part of the team of the National Olympic Committee for Germany  ( NOK ). Before that, in 1961 and 1965, he had played two FIBA European Championships for the DBB . During his time as a basketball player in the Bundesliga, he completed his medical studies , received his doctorate and, after completing his license to practice medicine , completed further medical training that led to a specialist in ophthalmology .

life and career

Klaus Weinand was initially, since 1960, in the upper leagues Southwest, West and North - at that time the highest German leagues of the German Basketball Federation ( DBB ) - active. He played with great success for the then record champions USC Heidelberg , for the Neuköllner Sportfreunde (NSF) in Berlin , for Alemannia Aachen and VfL Osnabrück .

Albert Schweitzer Tournament

As a young player, Klaus Weinand took part in the 1st European Youth Basketball Tournament for the Dr. Albert Schweitzer Cup (AST) in Mannheim in December 1958 with the youth national team of the DBB (organizer of the Hans-Joachim Babies [sic! ], Heidelberg basketball player and photographer with the US military, and the youth competition initiated by basketball pioneer Hermann Niebuhr was the US Army , the venue was the US Sports Arena on the grounds of the US military base in Mannheim.).

USC Heidelberg

With the USC Heidelberg Klaus Weinand was at the end of the 1960/1961 and 1961/1962 seasons champion of the German Basketball Federation . The teammates of the basketball player from northern Rhineland-Palatinate at USC Heidelberg from 1960 to 1962 included: Günter Echner, Ludwig Gundacker, Volker Heindel , Karl Körner, Werner Lamade , the brothers Fritz and Hannes Neumann , Gerd Pflaumer, Oskar Roth (player-coach 1961/62), Horst Stein , Rassem Yahya and Manfred Ziegler (The players Volker Heindel and Hannes Neumann were able to reach the German basketball championship of the DBB seven times with their club.). In the 1960/61 season, the former DBB national coach Anton Kartak was the coach of the USC teams. In the European Champions Cup, Klaus Weinand played with the USC in the "First Round" in 1961 against CWKS Legia Warszawa ( Poland ) and in 1962 against BBC Etzella ( Luxembourg ). 1962 retired Weinand with his teammates in the round of 16 against the later semi-finalists of the competition ASK Olimpija Ljubljana ( Slovenia ), including with Ivo Daneu , after home and away games.

Interlude in the promotion tournament

Before the beginning of the 1962/63 season, Klaus Weinand played one last time, a "short interlude" of three tournament games on one weekend, as part of a promotion tournament to the Oberliga Südwest, for Rot-Weiß Koblenz. The Koblenzers succeeded with Weinand, as the winning team of the tournament, the promotion to the highest league of the DBB. The players of the Hessen champion MTV 1846 Gießen , including Butler, Jungnickel and Röder, who came as favorites for the promotion and did not expect the Heidelberg student Weinand to play for the Koblenz club, tied with two points after all the games had been played other participating clubs took second place. For the highest league of the DBB, the MTV players could only qualify as winners of another elimination tournament, necessary because of a tie against teams from VfL Bad Kreuznach and TV Offenbach. The Gießen players achieved promotion by winning the game against TV Offenbach . This game was finally decided by the US player Ernest "Ernie" Butler. With a throw from distance, Butler succeeded - the ball fell into the net at the end of the game after it had jumped from the ring to the board - to promote the MTV players to the top division of the DBB (fifteen seconds before the end of the game, with their own possession , the Offenbach players had led with three points.). Three years later, in May 1965, in the Heidelberg high school sports hall, it was the same American playmaker Butler who, with his routine and throwing power, won the MTV Giessen in the final against VfL Osnabrück, with center Klaus Weinand, through a " Century throw ”from a great distance, five seconds before the end of the championship final, took the lead with one point and finally secured its first German basketball championship for the successful Giessen team with a score of 68:69.

Neukölln sports fans in Berlin

Klaus Weinand studied in the winter semester of 1962 and the following summer semester in West Berlin . During this period he played for the Neuköllner Sportfreunde and was able to lead the Berlin team, after qualifying for the finals of the German basketball championship in the Oberliga Nord, in the final of the German basketball championship of the DBB in 1963, which was played by the players of Alemannia Aachen , which was the first DBB team to conduct its training and match operations largely under semi-professional conditions.

Alemannia Aachen

After Klaus Weinand in 1963, coming from Berlin to Cologne from the DBB runner-up in 1963, switched to the then current champion Alemannia Aachen, he and his teammates were able to receive the DBB's championship shield again at the end of the 1963/1964 season. At the reigning German champions of 1963, Weinand played with Rolf Bader (2.05 m), Hans Brydniak , Hans "Heiner" Grüttner, Machmut Kuhlein, John Loridon (2.05 meters, five times "FIBA All Star Game Player") ), Jobst von Lossow, “Captain” Gene Moss (2.05 m), Schneider, Klaus Schulz and in the second half of the 1963/1964 season also with Helmut Uhlig ( SC Chemie Halle ), who fled the GDR . The head coach of the Aachen club was the Belgian “star” trainer Eddy Verswijvel. The reigning German basketball champion was eliminated in the FIBA ​​European Cup this season in the round of 16, in January 1964, against Real Madrid CF ( Spain ). The later European Cup winner in 1964 competed in the home and return matches with Emiliano Rodríguez, Clifford Luyk and Bob Burgess against the basketball players from Aachen .

VfL Osnabrück

In 1964 Klaus Weinand was the captain of the German national basketball team and, together with the then President of VfL Osnabrück , Friedel Schwarze, one of the two initiators of the “VfL Osnabrück basketball master team”. Klaus Weinand was a high-performance and successful DBB basketball player or he became a "Campionissimo" of German basketball (Weinand was considered in the public perception as the "successor" of Oskar "Ossi" Roth, from USC Heidelberg, the most important national basketball player of the DBB in the 1950s.) Perceived. The common goal of the two performance-oriented discussion partners was to complement the VfL basketball team with high-performing national players and with the VfL youth players trained by youth coach Klaus Manthey in the two A-youth teams, "A 1" and "A 3", for example Rolf Dieter ("A 1") or Volkmar Gaber, Ingbert Koppermann and Eckhard von Bock and Polach ("A 3"), as well as VfL Oberliga players like Lothar Ellinghaus, Peter Garthaus, Volker Jarrè or the Spaniard Raul Russel, all together To develop a top team in the new basketball league planned by the DBB from 1966.

Weinand Koppermann Böttger Yahya Uhlig

"Starting Five" VfL Osnabrück DM final against MTV Gießen on April 20, 1969 in Gießen

In the 1964/65 season, the VfL players around Klaus Weinand were able to prevail in the first-class Oberliga Nord and qualify for the final round of the German Basketball Championship. The VfL team made it into the DBB final. The opponent was MTV Giessen. The game was played in Heidelberg in May 1965. VfL narrowly lost the game for the DBB championship shield, with a single point. The runner-up championship of the German Basketball Federation in 1965 was “won”. After the basketball league was founded in 1966, he and the VfL Osnabrück team became the first cup winner of the German Basketball Federation in 1967 and German DBB champion in 1969. Overall, he was in a "grand finale" of the DBB seven times with VfL Osnabrück. Along with Wilfried Böttger, Egon Homm , Ingbert Koppermann and Rassem Yahya, he is part of the core team of the Bundesliga club, whose five players played for the VfL team on the 1st BBL matchday in autumn 1966 and subsequently on all the successes of the “legendary” Osnabrück Bundesliga -Teams were involved. His coaches at VfL Osnabrück were his teammates Helmut Uhlig, Miloslav Kříž, Karel Baroch and Constantin Puscasu.

He took part three times with the “Master Team” of VfL Osnabrück in the European Champions Cup and the European Cup of national cup winners , playing against Slavia Prague , Panathinaikos Athens , Solna Stockholm and Honvéd Budapest , among others . In 1968 the VfL players were able to reach the round of 16 in the European competition for national cup winners.

RuWa Dellwig

After the presidium of VfL Osnabrück , chaired by the entrepreneur and CDU politician Hartwig Piepenbrock , decided to no longer allow the club's first division basketball players to continue playing in the first division (BBL) (the budget of the VfL basketball players was in average five-digit DM area) and the line of VfL basketball department had not been able to in the Osnabrücker land raise necessary funds for the completion of the training and game operation by sponsors, joined Klaus Weinand, with three other Osnabrücker Bundesliga players, Heinz Boettner, Ralph Ogden and Helmut Posern, about RuWa Dellwig . Klaus Weinand played his last Bundesliga game for the Essen club. The Essen basketball club had managed to move into group one of the Bundesliga finals at the end of the 1974/75 Bundesliga round. As a result, the 1975/1976 season ended in tenth place in the final table . The association RuwW Dellwig ended because of insufficient success perspective his involvement in the BBL before the start of the season 1976/1977.

Basketball team from the University of Cologne

After his enrollment at the University of Cologne , Klaus Weinand was a member of the basketball team at his university for the summer semester of 1963 . He trained there regularly with successful first division players such as Wilfried Böttger (Eintracht Dortmund, VfL Osnabrück), Volker Jarré (VfL Osnabrück, SSV Hagen / Student Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln ), Jobst von Lossow (Alemannia Aachen, DJK TuSA 08 Düsseldorf ), Edward Naundorf (DJK TuSA 08 Düsseldorf), Wolfgang Plock (Eintracht Dortmund, VfL Osnabrück), Helmut Posern (DJK TuSA 08 Düsseldorf, ATV Düsseldorf, TuS 04 Leverkusen , VfL Osnabrück), Klaus Schulz (Alemannia Aachen, FC Bayern Munich ) or Rainer Tobien (ASV Köln ). The Cologne university team won the university championship of the General German University Sports Association ( adh ) in 1964, 1965 and 1966 . As a student, Weinand was one of the players in the basketball teams that were nominated by the umbrella organization for university sports in Germany for the Universiaden , the world sports games for students, which take place every second year . After Klaus Weinand, as a player of Alemannia Aachen, no longer had a sporting perspective in Aachen for a number of reasons, he received a hint from his Cologne environment that the sports-loving, success-oriented President of VfL Osnabrück, Friedel Schwarze, were interested could lead the upper league basketball players of VfL Osnabrück, which he leads, into the top group of the DBB's first division teams in order to be able to establish them there in the long term. The necessary talks held by Weinand with the medium-sized entrepreneur Schwarze led directly to an agreement on the cooperation. The change of the national players Böttger, H. Uhlig and Weinand was agreed. Volker Jarré, also a DBB national player for VfL, belonged to the group of Cologne university players . The basketball official and long-time VfL team supervisor Werner Henke took care of the integration of the newcomers into the Osnabrück VfL environment.

National team (DBB) and FIBA ​​European championships

In 1961 Klaus Weinand took part in the 12th  European Basketball Championships in Belgrade (then Yugoslavia , now Republic of Serbia ), national coach was Branimier Volfer, in 1965 at the 14th European Championships in Moscow (then Soviet Union , now Russia ), national coach was Yakovos Bilek , and in 1972 with his teammate, at Alemannia Aachen and at VfL Osnabrück, Helmut Uhlig took part in the Summer Olympics in Munich .

From 1967 to the end of 1971, the former captain of the DBB national team no longer played in the German national team for professional reasons; there were exceptions in 1967 and 1968. For this important reason, he was not appointed to the fifty-strong " 1972 Olympic Squad " of the DBB in the fall of 1968 by the national coaching council, chaired by his former coach at USC Heidelberg and then sports manager of the DBB Anton Kartak . He was not nominated for the Olympic squad until December 1971 and was thus invited to the training group for the last, particularly intensive preparatory phase for the basketball tournament of the 1972 Summer Olympics, and was also included in the DBB 's sports aid squad. Klaus Weinand was nominated by the national team's head coach, Theodor Schober, in July 1972 as one of twelve national players for the 1972 Summer Olympics .

Summer Olympic Games in 1964, 1968 and 1972

• Internal German qualification 1964: Klaus Weinand was one of the national team of the DBB who tried in 1964 against the team of the German Democratic Republic for the qualification tournament, which could have led to participation in the basketball tournament of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo ( Japan ). Both playoffs were lost by the team of the German Basketball Federation. On May 7, 1964 in Osnabrück with 53:81 and on May 10, 1964 in East Berlin with 60:77. National coach Yakovos Bilek played thirteen players in the two domestic German qualifying games: Hans Gorzinski, Volker Heindel, Klaus Jungnickel, Dietfried Kienast, Hans-Jörg Krüger , Jürgen Loibl , Hannes Neumann, Dieter Niedlich , Bernd Röder , Eckhardt Schurkus, Klaus Urmitzer , Klaus Weinand and Udo Wolfram. At the qualifying tournament that followed in Geneva in June 1964 , Günther Adam, Siegfried Danzke, Hans-Joachim Flau, Wolfgang Jahn, played eight games with coach Werner Krüger and placed seventh (ahead of Israel , behind Spain) Herbert Kulik, Gottfried Pleitz, Götz Ribitzki, Klaus Sauerbier, Dieter Schulze, Karl-Friedrich Stahl, Volkhard Uhlig and Arno Voigt.
• Qualification 1968: From May 25 to June 3, 1968 the Osnabrück basketball player and his club mate Rolf Dieter took part in the FIBA European Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men in Sofia ( Bulgaria ) . The qualification tournament leading to participation in the basketball tournament of the 1968 Summer Olympics was organized by DBB players Rolf Dieter , Holger Geschwindner , Hans-Jörg Krüger, Dieter Kuprella , Jürgen Loibl, Hannes Neumann, Dieter Niedlich, Hans Riefling , Gerhard Ritter, Bernd Roeder, Klaus Weinand and Jürgen Wohlers played. On June 1st, Group B met the GDR team (81:45). The DBV team played with Günther Adam, Volkmar Benne, H. Filusch, Hans-Joachim Flau, Hermann Hinzer, Gerd Hohne, Wolfgang Jahn, Detlef Knoll, Dieter Paluch, Berndt Prall, D. Richter and Volkhard Uhlig (6th place, with 14 participating national teams).
• Olympic Summer Games 1972: Klaus Weinand, together with his long-time teammate Helmut Uhlig, played eight of the nine DBB games of the tournament in 1972 at the Olympic basketball tournament in Munich in July and August 1972. Weinand scored 23 points in 23 fouls whistled against him. The lost game against Australia, in the "Classification Round" for 9th to 12th place, was his last international match for the DBB.

Achievements and Awards

The two meter tall Klaus Weinand was a very athletic, agile and assertive player. The left-hander usually played in the central center position. In the 1960s he was considered to be one of the strongest centers and in that decade he was the most successful basketball player in Germany in the DBB area. He was German basketball champion with three different basketball clubs. In total, he was eleven times in a "grand finale" of the DBB.

After the final successes, 1967 DBB Cup winner and 1969 German basketball champion of the DBB, Klaus Weinand, together with his respective VfL teammates, was won by the Osnabrück Lord Mayor Wilhelm Kelch (1959 to 1972), each as part of a separate honor in the Friedenssaal of the Osnabrück City Hall , “As a sign of special recognition for outstanding sporting achievements”, the gold medal awarded by the city of Osnabrück .

In January 1970, Osnabrück's Lord Mayor Kelch spoke to the honored athletes at the reception for the athletes Osnabrück sports clubs who were successful in the competition of German sports in 1969, looking back on the past second half of the decade of the 1960s that the basketball and table tennis players of VfL - with the players around Helmut Uhlig, Klaus Weinand and Rassem Yahya as well as Ernst Gomolla , Bernt Jansen and Hans Micheiloff - created a "golden era of Osnabrück sport" . Here brought SPD - politician William Kelch expressed the hope that it was buried by a large group of mourners successor VfL President Friedel black man on the Heger cemetery in Osnabruck, accompanied in July 1969, would succeed, the necessary environment to continue to develop successfully so that both VfL teams can stay “on the road to success” in the long term.

Trivia

Klaus Weinand played in national teams of the DBB for a period of fifteen years, from 1958 to 1972. He is one of the few national players who have worn the DBB jersey in three different decades, as a youth national player and as captain of the DBB A national team. - Internationally, throughout Europe, Weinand was perceived as a high-performance center among basketball players after he scored thirty points in the European Cup against Real Madrid CF in the Aachen sports hall on December 21, 1963 and was listed as the best thrower of this European Cup game. Real Madrid CF's best throwers in the first leg were point guard Lolo Sáinz and shooting guard Emiliano Rodríguez with twenty-two points each. (Emiliano Rodríguez was the top scorer of the second leg in Madrid, with 27 points.). - The basketball player from Koblenz played all eleven "big DBB finals" for his clubs in a jersey with the color yellow - shirt and / or pants yellow. His team lost two of these DBB finals by one point. In both finals, his team gave up the lead just a few seconds before the end of the game. - 1972 in Munich, at the basketball tournament of the Summer Olympics, Klaus Weinand was  one of the only two participants in the 1972 Summer Olympics, which was ready in 1961, together with the player Gennadi Volnov (born 1939, CSKA Moscow ), a member of the national team of the gold medal winner USSR had participated in the FIBA European Championship (Gennadi Volnov, five-time winner of a FIBA European Championship with the USSR national team , played his first FIBA ​​European Championship in 1959 ).

Return to Koblenz

Today Klaus Weinand, after age-related termination of his long-term freelance work in the climatic health resort of Lahnstein ( Rhein-Lahn-Kreis ), lives as an ophthalmologist in his own practice , with his wife , directly on the banks of the Rhine , at his birthplace in Koblenz.

See also

• Miloslav Kříž - Head Coach VfL Osnabrück
• Gold Cup of the City of Bremerhaven
• BBL teams from 1966 to 1972
• Player of the "Twenties List" 1968 to 1972
• Fifty great personalities of the sport of basketball in Europe

literature

• Basketball - "official organ of the German Basketball Federation" (born 1959 to 1975) - ISSN  0178-9279
• Russel, Jesse and Cohn, Ronald: German national ascetic ball team / preparation for the 1972 Olympic Summer Games . Transmedia Holding, Miami (USA) 2012, ISBN 978-5-513-20594-4 , pp. 152 .

Web links

• Statistics FIBA ​​European Championship for Men - Final Round 1961
• Statistics FIBA ​​European Championship for Men - Final Round 1965
• Klaus Weinand Overview of participation in international competitions in the FIBA player archive (senior level)
• German national basketball team 1968 to 1972 - preparation for the 1972 Summer Olympics
• Klaus Weinand in the Olympedia.org database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gymnastics and Sportfreunde Rot-Weiss-Koblenz - Successes. Participation in the Olympic Games. ( Memento from July 20, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Website Rot-Weiß Koblenz. Retrieved June 30, 2013.
2. ↑ ^{a b} AST anniversary tournament a complete success (PDF; 2.0 MB). Another attendance record in Mannheim: 29,385. Website of the German Basketball Association. DBB-Journal, Issue 2, April 2008. Article by Elisabeth Kozlowski and Ludger Vogel. Retrieved July 4, 2013.
3. ↑ Basketball history of the USC Heidelberg. ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. USC Heidelberg website. Retrieved January 30, 2010. 
4. ↑ FIBA Champions Cup 1960–61. First Round November / December 1960: USC Heidelberg versus CWKS Legia Warszawa, Poland. Linguasport website - Sport History and Statistics. Retrieved December 21, 2011.
5. ↑ Men Basketball European Champions Cup 1961. ( Memento from May 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) USC Heidelberg versus CWKS Legia Warszawa, Poland. Sport Statistics - International Competitions Archive website . Retrieved December 21, 2011.
6. ^ FIBA Champions Cup 1961–62. ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. First round and round of 16: USC Heidelberg against BBC Etzella Ettelbruck (Luxembourg) and ASK Olimpija Ljubljana (formerly Yugoslavia). Linguasport website - Sport History and Statistics. Retrieved December 21, 2011. 
7. ↑ Men Basketball European Champions Cup 1962. ( Memento from May 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) USC Heidelberg against BBC Etzella Ettelbruck, Luxembourg and ASK Olimpija Ljubljana, formerly Yugoslavia. Sport Statistics - International Competitions Archive website . Retrieved December 21, 2011.
8. ↑ Magic Moments: Sometimes the game was played in the pouring rain. Butler meets for the first time. Website giessen46ers. Retrieved June 9, 2017.
9. ↑ 1965 - winning the first championship - "We have never experienced a more dramatic basketball final". ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Butler meets for the second time. Website Gießen 46ers, history. Retrieved May 6, 2012. 
10. ^ Karl Gosch: A dream came true. Ernie Butler won the "golden" basket . In: Freie Presse (Gießen), Sport, published on May 24, 1965.
11. ↑ FIBA Champions Cup 1963–64. Round of 16: Alemannia Aachen versus Real Madrid CF (Spain). Linguasport website - Sport History and Statistics. Retrieved December 21, 2011.
12. ↑ Men Basketball European Champions Cup 1964. ( Memento from May 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Alemannia Aachen versus Real Madrid CF, Spain. Sport Statistics - International Competitions Archive website . Retrieved December 21, 2011.
13. ↑ ^{a b} Champions Cup 1964. Game Details 1/8 Final (Real Madrid CF). Retrieved December 21, 2011.
14. ↑ The basketball game in Osnabrück. Representation of the development of a sports game in a big city. Bodo Bernhardt, semester paper Sport. Summer semester 1968, with Hermann Westerhaus .
15. ↑ Klaus Manthey: Curtain up on the basketball Bundesliga: VfL in Oldenburg - Osnabrückers have worries: Dr. Yahya and Dieter struck . In: OT - Osnabrücker Tageblatt, published on September 30, 1966.
16. ↑ Wilhelm Heckmann: VfL basketball player failed with 85:73 at MTV Gießen . In: NT - Neue Tagespost - Sport am Montag, Osnabrücker Sportzeitung, No. 101, published on May 1, 1967.
17. ^ Wilhelm Heckmann: Yakovos Bilek: "VfL lacks a coach". In: NT - Sport am Montag, Osnabrücker Sportzeitung, No. 101, published on May 1, 1967.
18. ↑ Klaus Manthey: VfL basketball player first DBB cup winner - 86:74 against ATV Düsseldorf crowns the first Bundesliga season . In: OT - Osnabrücker Tageblatt, published on June 12, 1967.
19. ^ After the runner-up championship: VfL DBB Cup winner, 86:74 success in the basketball final against ATV Düsseldorf . In: NT - Neue Tagespost - Sport am Montag, Osnabrücker Sportzeitung, published on June 12, 1967.
20. ^ Hartwin Kiel, Jürgen Bitter and Bernd Stühlmeyer: VfL basketball player again runner-up - Giessen won 79:69 . In: NOZ - Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , Sport Report, p. 11, published on April 29, 1968.
21. ↑ For the fourth time MTV 1846 against VfL Osnabrück. Will the MTV 1846 manage to get hold of the Meisterkrone again? In: Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung , No. 90, p. 9, published on April 18, 1969.
22. ↑ The VfL basketball players are German champions. In: NOZ - Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, 3rd volume, No. 42, p. 1, published on April 21, 1969.
23. ↑ Henner Gramsch: Sovereign VfL took the master from the throne - 69 Gießen: 76 VfL . In: NOZ - Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, Sport Report, p. 15, published on April 21, 1969.
24. ↑ Henner Gramsch: 74:75 Seven seconds were missing - VfL basketball players lost the final for the DBB Cup . In: NOZ - Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, Sport Report, p. 9, published on June 16, 1969.
25. ^ FIBA Cup Winners' Cup 1967–68. First round and round of 16: VfL Osnabrück against Solna IF Stockholm (Sweden) and TJ Slavia VS Praha (formerly CSSR). Linguasport website - Sport History and Statistics. Retrieved December 21, 2011.
26. ^ Men Basketball European Cup Winners Cup 1968. ( Memento from May 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Website Sports Statistics - International Competitions Archive. VfL Osnabrück versus Solna IF Stockholm and TJ Slavia VS Praha. Retrieved December 25, 2010.
27. ↑ See also European Cup Winner's Cup Basketball 1967-68 in the English language Wikipedia.
28. ↑ See also 1969–70 FIBA ​​European Champions Cup in the English language Wikipedia.
29. ↑ FIBA Champions Cup 1969–70. VfL Osnabrück versus Honved SE Budapest, Hungary. Website Website Linguasport - Sport History and Statistics. Retrieved December 21, 2011.
30. ↑ Men's Basketball European Champions Cup 1970. ( Memento from May 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) VfL Osnabrück versus Honved SE Budapest, Hungary. Sport Statistics - International Competitions Archive website . Retrieved December 21, 2011.
31. ^ European Cup Winners Cup 1971. VfL Osnabrück versus Panathinaikos Athens. Linguasport website - Sport History and Statistics. Retrieved December 21, 2011.
32. ^ Men Basketball European Cup Winners Cup 1971. ( Memento from May 26th, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) VfL Osnabrück versus Panathinaikos Athens, Greece. Sport Statistics - International Competitions Archive website . Retrieved December 21, 2011.
33. ↑ See also FIBA European Champions Cup 1970/1971 in the English language Wikipedia.
34. ^ 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".
35. ↑ Nomination of the fifty-strong players' squad for the 1972 Summer Olympics on October 10, 1968 by the national coaching council of the DBB (letter from Vice-President Kartak to the players, copy). Website VereinsWikia. Retrieved December 12, 2013.
36. ↑ 1964 European Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men. May 1964 in Geneva (Switzerland). Website FIBA. Retrieved December 29, 2012.
37. ^ VI Olympic Basketball Tournament (Tokyo 1964), Qualifying Stage. European Pre-Olympic Tournament (Genève, Switzerland) in June 1964. Linguasport website - Sport History and Statistics. Retrieved December 29, 2012.
38. ^ Men Basketball Olympic Games 1964 European Qualification Geneve (Switzerland). ( Memento from June 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) German Qualification Osnabrück and East Berlin. Sport Statistics - International Competitions Archive website . Retrieved July 7, 2012.
39. ↑ 1968 European Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men. May and June 1968 in Sofia (Bulgaria). Website FIBA. Retrieved December 29, 2012.
40. ↑ VII Olympic Basketball Tournament (México DF 1968). Qualifying Stage, May 25, 1968 to June 3, 1968. Linguasport website - Sport History and Statistics. Retrieved December 29, 2012.
41. ^ Men Basketball Olympic Games 1968 European Qualification Sofia (Bulgaria). ( Memento of June 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Website Sport Statistics - International Competitions Archive. Retrieved July 7, 2012.
42. ^ West Germany Basketball at the 1972 Munich Summer Games. Olympics at Sports Reference website . Retrieved November 10, 2011.
43. ↑ German basketball championships and DBB cup winners. Sports Complete website - sports and sporting events, data basketball. Retrieved December 20, 2010.
44. ↑ Certificate of Honor Sports plaque of the city of Osnabrück in gold, Osnabrück, January 16, 1970, Oberstadtdirektor Joachim Fischer and Lord Mayor Wilhelm Kelch.
45. ↑ Certificate of honor Sports plaque of the city of Osnabrück in silver, Osnabrück, January 10, 1969, Oberstadtdirektor Joachim Fischer and Lord Mayor Wilhelm Kelch.
46. ↑ 100 years of VfL: Purple-white story (s). Farewell to VfL President Friedel Schwarze. Website NOZ - Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung. Retrieved July 4, 2013.
47. ^ FIBA - 1971 FIBA ​​European Championship for Men. 10th to 19th September 1971 - Essen, Böblingen in Germany. Website FIBA. Retrieved October 7, 2012.
48. ^ FIBA - 1961 FIBA ​​European Championship for Men. April 29 to May 8, 1961 - Belgrade in Yugoslavia. Website FIBA. Retrieved October 7, 2012.
49. ↑ Men Basketball European Championship 1961. ( Memento from June 23, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Belgrade (YUG) - DBB national team. Sport Statistics - International Competitions Archive website . Retrieved October 7, 2012.
50. ↑ profiles Gennadi Volnov, USSR. Overview of participation in international competitions in the FIBA ​​player archive - 1959 to 1972. FIBA ​​website. Retrieved October 7, 2012.
51. ↑ Gennadi Volnov - 50 Greatest Contributors List ( Memento from January 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) - Player. Website Euroleague Basketball, History. Retrieved October 7, 2012.