Otto Kaundinya

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Otto Günther Kaundinya (born July 5, 1900 in Erode , British India ; † June 9, 1940 in Beaurieux or Cuiry-lès-Chaudardes , France ) was a German handball player and between 1934 and 1939 coach of the German national handball team . Around 1930 he was considered "the best handball player in the world".

Life

Youth and education

Kaundinya was born on July 5, 1900 in Erode in the southern part of what is now India . His father, the son of a Brahmin who had converted to Christianity , worked there in the British civil service until the beginning of the First World War . In 1905 the mother moved to Stuttgart with Otto Kaundinya and his three siblings . Growing up there, Kaundinya passed his Abitur in 1918 and was drafted to the front for a few months . After the end of the war he earned some money as an unskilled worker in agriculture and counting .

The decathlete Kaundinya first became aware of handball in 1923, two years later he began studying at the German University for Physical Education in Berlin . After initial financial difficulties, he worked like his fellow student Sepp Herberger (1897–1977) as a trainer and sports teacher . In 1929 Kaundinya received his diploma as a sports teacher and finished her studies at the DHfL. He then studied race studies , ethnology and psychology for three more years until he graduated as an academic sports teacher. At the beginning of the 1930s, Kaundinya called for rule reforms in handball in several articles; In 1935 he published the book Das Handballspiel. Technique, tactics, rules of the game, training , which, among other things, included his reflections on athletes with regard to sex, alcohol and drugs. Sports journalist Erik Eggers describes these theses as “quite crude” from today's perspective.

Career as a player

In 1928, the center forward Kaundinya won the field handball championship held by the German Sports Authority for Athletics with the German Handball Club Berlin . Between 1928 and 1931 he was with the Spielvereinigung Siemens Berlin , from 1932 (at least) two years at the Berliner SV 1892 and Bewag Berlin , probably as a player-coach.

Between 1927 and 1934, "Kaun" - as it was called at the time - was used in all of the Brandenburg field handball games. Under the coach Carl Schelenz (1890-1956) the center forward was five times for the German national field handball team on the field. On September 30, 1928, he played his first international game in the 8: 4 victory over Austria , and his last in the 15:11 victory over Austria on August 28, 1932.

Career as a coach

With the establishment of the department 4 responsible for handball and basketball within the German Reich Association for Physical Exercise , Kaundinya was founded on April 1, 1934 together with Werner Busse , Ernst Feick (1911-2007), Fritz Fromm (1913-2001) and Heinz Klein as Reichshandball- Teacher employed. The five former national players were responsible for talent scouting and training courses, while primus inter pares Kaundinya, as Olympic teacher, was given additional responsibility for looking after and pre-selecting the team for the 1936 Olympic Games .

In the 16: 5 victory over Denmark on August 26, 1934, the Olympic coach supervised the national field handball team for the first time at an international match. The German team under Kaundinya won the Olympic field handball tournament in Berlin on August 14, 1936 without losing points, ahead of Austria and Switzerland . A year and a half later, in February 1938, the German Reich won the title at the first world championship in indoor handball ; in July of the same year, the national team trained by Kaundinya won the world championship title in field handball, which was also played for the first time . To date, no other German national coach has won three international titles.

Eggers describes Kaundinya in a portrait published in 2004 as "politically reliable" and "ideologically stable athlete and trainer who adapted to the circumstances". On August 24, 1938, a good six weeks after winning the field handball title, Kaundinya was appointed the first official "Reich coach" by handball leader Richard Herrmann (1895-1941). In addition, in 1938 he was in charge of the German women's national team at two international matches and continued to lead coaching courses organized by the IAHF , the international handball association.

The 11: 7 win over Denmark on October 8, 1939 was Kaundinyas last game as Reich coach. He had looked after the national selection in 31 field handball and five indoor handball encounters; the team remained without losing points.

Outside of sport

Kaundinya volunteered for infantry in 1939; a Polish database has an Otto Kaundinya (membership number: 314 914) as SS-Untersturmführer promoted on March 1, 1939 .

The Sergeant Otto Kaundinya died during the Western campaign on 9 June 1940, the enforcement of the transition on the Aisne . After Kaundinyas death, his supervisor wrote in a letter to the family that this "in Cuiry-lès-Chaudardes" fallen was during the German War Graves Commission indicating the location Beaurieux three kilometers away as a place of death. Kaundinya was buried in a cemetery in Cuiry-lès-Chaudardes; after being reburied , the grave is now on the German war cemetery Fort-de-Malmaison .

Otto Kaundinya left his wife Helene geb. Schulze (1908–1982) and a daughter and a son.

Publications

  • Otto Kaundinya: The handball game. Technology, tactics, rules of the game, training. 1st and 2nd edition. Quelle & Meyer , Leipzig 1935 and 1941.
  • Otto Kaundinya: The athletic achievement. Your biological, racial and educational requirements. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1936.

literature

  • Erik Eggers : Portrait: Otto Kaundinya - the first star of handball. In: ders .: handball. A German domain. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 978-3-89533-465-8 , pp. 73-76.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Kaundinya was used for the German selection in the following field handball matches (four wins, one defeat, 46:37 goals):
    • Austria (Sep. 30, 1928 - 8: 4; June 30, 1929 - 8: 7; Sep. 21, 1930 - 5: 6; Oct. 3, 1931 - 10:9; Aug. 28, 1932 - 3:11 pm )
  2. ↑ At the following field handball matches Kaundinya supervised the German selection of women (2 wins, 22: 1 goals):
  3. ↑ In the following field handball matches, Kaundinya supervised the German selection of men (31 wins, 522: 143 goals):
    • 1934: Denmark (Aug 26-16: 5); Sweden (Aug 31-6: 7); Hungary (9 Dec - 14: 3)
    • 1935: Switzerland (May 19 - 2: 6; Oct 6 - 5: 9); Sweden (May 30-21: 3); Netherlands (June 3 - 15: 2); Denmark (June 30-11: 2); Hungary (Nov. 24 - 5: 4)
    • 1936: Luxembourg (Feb. 2 - 33: 3); Romania (July 12-10: 8); Hungary (July 16 - 13:10; Aug 6 - 22: 0; Aug 10 - 7: 6); United States (Aug 8-29: 1); Switzerland (12 Aug - 16: 6); Austria (14 Aug - 10: 6)
    • 1937: Austria (23 May - 3: 6; 24 October - 5: 5); Hungary (May 30-8: 5); Denmark (June 5 - 6: 3); Sweden (19 Sep - 21: 6)
    • 1938: Austria (March 27 - 14: 8); Luxembourg (April 24th - 12:3 pm); Netherlands (May 15-22-22); Czechoslovakia (July 7th - 19: 6); Hungary (July 9 - 2: 3; Oct 16 - 2: 5); Switzerland (10 July - 23: 0)
    • 1939: Romania (July 8th - 19: 3); Denmark (Oct 8 - 11: 7)
    Kaundinya supervised the German men's selection at the following indoor handball matches (five wins, 55:31 goals):
    • 1938: Denmark (Feb 5-11: 3); Austria (Feb 6 - 5: 4); Sweden (Feb 6 - 7: 2; March 24 - 4:15 pm)
    • 1939: Sweden (Feb 5 - 16: 7)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Eggers, p. 74.
  2. ↑ Eggers, p. 73.
  3. ↑ See also: Hans-Christian Harten, Uwe Neirich, Matthias Schwerendt: Rassenhygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich. Bio-bibliographical manual. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-05-004094-3 , p. 410.
  4. ↑ Eggers, pp. 73-74.
  5. ↑ See also: Field handball champions in Germany until 1933 (men) , in: bundesligainfo.de , accessed on November 30, 2015.
  6. ↑ The history of the handball association Berlin (PDF; 582 kB), in: hvberlin.de , accessed on November 30, 2015.
  7. ↑ a b German Handball Federation (Ed.): Handball '72. Handbook of the German Handball Federation. Self-published, Dortmund 1972, p. 194 ff.
  8. ↑ Eggers, pp. 69, 74.
  9. ↑ Eggers, pp. 77-80; Germany wins in handball. In: Sport-Tagblatt . Edition of August 15, 1936, pp. 2 - 3 .
  10. ↑ Eggers, pp. 84-87; Men's World Championships - Indoor - 1938 - Germany (PDF; 88 kB), in: ihf.info , accessed on November 30, 2015.
  11. ↑ Eggers, pp. 88-91; Men's World Championships - Outdoor - 1938 - Germany (PDF; 91 kB), in: ihf.info , accessed on November 30, 2015.
  12. ↑ a b Trainer of the German men's national teams (DRL, NSRL, DHB & SHB) , in: bundesligainfo.de , accessed on November 30, 2015.
  13. ↑ Trainer of the German women's national teams (DRL, NSRL & DHB) , in: bundesligainfo.de , accessed on February 1, 2016; We are wired. In: Kleine Volks-Zeitung . October 4, 1938 edition, p. 11 .
  14. ↑ a b Eggers, p. 75.
  15. ↑ a b c Message from the Kaundinyas family in March 2012 and March 2013.
  16. ↑ Numery członków SS od 314 000 do 314 999. , in: dws-xip.pl , accessed on November 30, 2015 (Polish).
  17. ^ Cover of the 2nd edition (1941) of Das Handballspiel. Technology, tactics, rules of the game, training , accessed November 30, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Kaundinya, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaundinya, Otto Günther (full name); Kaundinya, Otto Gunter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German handball player and handball trainer
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Erode , British India
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1940
Place of death Beaurieux or Cuiry-lès-Chaudardes , France