Markus Baur

This article deals with the handball player and coach Markus Baur; on sailing enthusiasts see Marcus Baur .

Markus Baur

Markus Baur in August 2014
Player information
Nickname	"Schorsch"
birthday	22nd January 1971 (age 49)
place of birth	Meersburg , Germany
citizenship	German
height	1.90 m
Playing position	Back center
Throwing hand	right
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-0000	TSV Mimmenhausen
0000-1993	VfL Pfullingen
1993-1997	SG Wallau / Massenheim
1997-1998	TV Niederwürzbach
1998-2001	HSG Wetzlar
2001-2007	TBV Lemgo
2007-2007	Pfadi Winterthur (player coach)
National team
Debut on	4th August 1994
against	Morocco in Balingen
	Games (goals)
Germany	228 (712)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
7/2007–12/2007	Pathfinder Winterthur
1 / 2008–9 / 2009	TBV Lemgo
12 / 2010–2012	TuS N-Lübbecke
2012-2016	German junior national team
2013-2015	Cadets Schaffhausen
2016-2018	TVB 1898 Stuttgart
As of February 18, 2018

Markus Baur (born January 22, 1971 in Meersburg ) is a former German handball player and has been a handball trainer since July 2007 (initially as a player trainer ). The two-time handball player of the year (2000 and 2002) played on the center backcourt position .

Career

Markus Baur as the trainer of TBV Lemgo, a few weeks before his release.

Baur had been a German national handball player since 1994 . He made his international debut on August 4, 1994 in Balingen against the Moroccan national team . He celebrated his greatest success at the 2007 World Cup when he became world champion in his own country with the German team. For this triumph he was awarded the silver bay leaf . In 228 international matches he scored 712 goals, 356 of which were seven meters for the German selection.

In 1993, Baur made his debut in the handball Bundesliga for SG Wallau / Massenheim , where he stayed until 1997. He then played one season (1997/98) for TV Niederwürzbach . In 1998 he moved to HSG Wetzlar , where he stayed until 2001. During this time, under coach Velimir Petković in Wetzlar , he developed into a leading player and one of the world's best playmakers (first award for handball player of the year in 2000).

Between 2001 and 2007 Baur played for TBV Lemgo , with which he became German champion in 2003 . In March 2007 it was announced that Markus Baur would be moving to Pfadi Winterthur for the 2007/08 season. He was supposed to work there as a player-coach for the next three years, but at the end of October 2007 TBV Lemgo succeeded in hiring Baur as a coach from January 2008. Despite his coaching activity in the club, he continued to play in the German national team. For the Olympic Games in Beijing , however, he canceled his participation in May 2008.

On January 7th, 2009, Baur's farewell game took place in the Porsche-Arena Stuttgart. An all-star team he had put together competed against the German national team. Baur went into retirement with standing ovations from 6,800 spectators.

After failing to qualify for the Champions League in 2009 , he was dismissed as a coach in Lemgo on September 9, 2009. From December 2, 2010, he was head coach of the East Westphalian handball Bundesliga club TuS Nettelstedt-Lübbecke . On December 28, 2011, the club announced that Baur would not extend his contract, which expired at the end of the 2011/12 season. The decision had exclusively private reasons, confirmed Baur in a Radio Westfalica interview.

From July 1, 2012 until the U-20 European Championship in 2016 , Markus Baur was junior national coach at DHB . At the U-20 European Championship in 2016, he and his team were runner-up in Europe. He also trained the Schaffhausen Cadets from July 2013 to December 2015 . Under his leadership, Schaffhausen won the Swiss championship in 2014 and 2015 and the SHV Cup in 2014 .

At the beginning of the 2016/17 season , Baur became the coach of the first division club TVB 1898 Stuttgart . On February 18, 2018, the relegation-threatened club announced that they had parted ways with Baur after ten games without winning a point.

Others

Markus Baur is married to his wife Marion, has a daughter and two sons and lives in Mimmenhausen , a suburb of Salem .

For RTL he was a commentator and expert on TV broadcasts of the 2009 World Cup . Baur has been working as an expert for the sports channel Sport1 since autumn 2010 .

Sporting successes

Markus Baur in March 2007

as a player

• European Championship third in 1998
• Olympic fifth in 2000
• Handball player of the year 2000 and 2002
• Vice European Champion 2002
• DHB Cup winners 1994 and 2002
• Vice World Champion 2003
• German champion 2003
• 2004 European Champion in Slovenia
• Silver at the 2004 Athens Olympics
• EHF Cup Winner 2006
• World Champion 2007 at the World Cup in Germany
• Fourth at the 2008 European Handball Championship in Norway

as a trainer

• Swiss champions 2014, 2015
• Swiss Cup winner 2014

Bundesliga record as a player

season	society	Division	Games	Gates	7 meters	Field gates
1993-1997	SG Wallau / Massenheim	Bundesliga	111	0247	024	0223
1997/98	TV Niederwürzbach	Bundesliga	026th	0064	005	0059
1998-2001	HSG Wetzlar	Bundesliga	101	0524	201	0323
2001-2008	TBV Lemgo	Bundesliga	172	0771	352	0419
1993-2008	total	Bundesliga	410	1606	582	1024

Bundesliga record as a coach

season	society	space	Games	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
2007/08	TBV Lemgo	8th	15th	7th	1	7th	471: 458	13	15:15
2008/09	TBV Lemgo	4th	34	23	1	10	1032: 930	102	47:21
2010/11	TuS N-Lübbecke	12	34	10	4th	20th	950: 991	−41	24:44

Web links

Commons : Markus Baur  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Markus Baur in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
• Markus Baur in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Baur in the database of sport.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.focus.de Handball - WM: Merkel invites handball world champions to the Chancellery on June 4, 2007, accessed on April 5, 2014
2. ↑ archiv.thw-handball.de: Top 39 goalscorer German national team (DHB + DHV) :, accessed on August 24, 2020
3. ↑ Press release from Pfadi Winterthur, PDF ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ^ German handball players without captain Baur at the Olympics. In: Die Welt , issue of May 19, 2008
5. ↑ TBV Lemgo News: TBV Lemgo is taking Markus Baur and Daniel Stephan on leave. (No longer available online.) September 9, 2009, archived from the original on September 12, 2009 ; Retrieved September 9, 2009 . 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.  
6. ↑ handball-world.com: Markus Baur takes over Kadetten Schaffhausen from February 25, 2013, accessed on May 26, 2013
7. ↑ nzz.ch: Cadets Schaffhausen split from trainer Markus Baur on December 23, 2015, accessed on December 30, 2015
8. ↑ http://www.handball-world.com/o.red.c/news-1-1-1-82906.html
9. ↑ https://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.herr-schweikardt-uebernehmen-sie-tvb-sehen-die-reissleine-baur-muss-iegen.6b7d80a2-b135-49e2-a02f-cf207cc88861.html
10. ↑ Peter Schober: Salem. Salem is not backward . In: The region introduces itself. We are here . Special supplement to Südkurier from November 19, 2010, p. 8.