Kurt Lauterbach (basketball coach)

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Kurt Lauterbach (born November 2, 1921 in Schnett ; † June 7, 2010 ) was a German basketball coach and official.

Life

 Lauterbach, born in Schnett, Thuringia , played football as a teenager. During the Second World War he was a soldier in the Battle of Stalingrad , among others . In 1944 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets. After attending an Antifa school in Kiev  , he returned to Germany in 1949.

After the end of the war he studied from 1950 at the German University for Physical Culture (DHfK) in Leipzig and continued his studies in 1951 at the Moscow Institute for Physical Culture. According to his own statement, Lauterbach and the six fellow students who had been sent to Moscow with him from the German Democratic Republic were “the first ever German students in the USSR”. During his studies he specialized in the sports games basketball and volleyball , and his thesis was entitled “The quick attack in basketball”.

After completing his studies at DHfK, he worked as a basketball teacher until 1968, and Lauterbach was also a trainer at SC DHfK Leipzig . From 1968 he worked at the Research Institute for Physical Culture and Sport in Leipzig and researched primarily on the subject of altitude training . Together with Siegfried Käsebier , he coached the men's national basketball team, which came sixth at the 1963 European Championship. He was awarded the " Honored Master of Sports " award.

In 1987 he left the DHfK for reasons of age and moved to Suhl , where he built up a basketball department at BSG Motor Suhl from 1988, and later Lauterbach worked at 1. Suhler SV 06 and headed the basketball department. Thanks to Lauterbach's work, Suhl became a state base for basketball. In 1994 he was named Exercise Leader of the Year at the Thuringian Volunteer of the Year award by the Landessportbund Thuringia . In 1999 he was instrumental in founding the basketball sports club Suhl eV. Lauterbach was described in an obituary as the "founding father of basketball in Suhl".

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b http://www.sportgeschichte.net/files/pdf/Beitrag5.pdf
  2. ^ Lothar Kalb: The international scientific relations of the DHfK . In: Gerhard Lehmann et al. (Ed.): German Sport University for Physical Culture Leipzig 1950-1990 . ISBN 978-3-89899-286-2 , pp. 76 .
  3. ↑ Gerhard Lehmann et al. (Ed.): German University for Physical Culture Leipzig 1950-1990 . ISBN 978-3-89899-286-2 , pp. 223 .
  4. ↑ http://www.tt-basketball-halle.de/traditionspflege/zahlen-ffekten-dbv/persönitäten/
  5. ↑ https://www.suhltrifft.de/content/view/2869/2068/
  6. ^ A b André Heß: Founding father of the Suhl basketball sport died. June 16, 2010, accessed August 4, 2019 .
  7. ↑ https://www.ball-des-thueringer-sports.de/fileadmin/user_upload/ball_des_thueringer_sports/Ehrenamtliche_des_ Jahreses_ab_1994.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Lauterbach, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball trainer and official
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Nice
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 2010