Anton Kartak

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Anton Kartak (born March 26, 1924 in Przemyśl in Poland , † February 14, 2011 ) was a German lawyer , basketball coach, player and sports official. Kartak was in the first stages of his life, a dedicated competition and later amateur athletes . In the 1940s and 50s he was also active as an ice hockey league player and coach . Especially in the first phase of the reconstruction after the end of the war , he did development work in the field of sport , especially university sport . In 1951 he was awarded the silver bay leaf .

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Youth, World War II, studies

Anton Kartak was born in Poland . He attended the first four classes of the grammar school in Jindřichův Hradec (German Neuhaus / Czech Republic ), a town in Jihočeský kraj in the Czech Republic, which was politically cut off from its surrounding area by the Munich Agreement from 1938 to 1945 , as it was part of the Reichsgau Sudetenland (Lower Danube Gau ) was slammed. In 1939, the year of the occupation by the German Nazi dictatorship and the beginning of the SS terror in the region of today's Czech Republic, he switched to a German secondary school in Prague . In 1942, immediately after passing his Abitur examination , Anton Kartak was drafted into the German armed forces. He served in the Air Force . On November 5, 1944, his aircraft was shot at during a mission over the Appeldoorn region ( Netherlands ). The plane crashed. The air force soldier survived the mission injured, with severe burns to his head. Since Anton Kartak did not become a prisoner of war after the surrender of the German Wehrmacht and the subsequent end of the war , he took the opportunity to start studying law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in 1946 . This university was not destroyed by bombs and the faculty found itself in a phase of spiritual renewal after the end of the Hitler dictatorship. He completed his studies in 1949 with the first state examination in law. In 1953 he passed the “assessor exam” before the Judicial Examination Board in Stuttgart . Anton Kartak lived in the most populous district of Heidelberg , in Handschuhsheim .

Basketball player in Heidelberg

In 1947 Anton Kartak founded the basketball department in the Heidelberger Turnerbund (HTB) and immediately took third place with his team at the first central post-war championship in Darmstadt . The second tournament in the post-war period was won in 1948. After the DBB was founded in May 1949, the HTB's men's team always won the German basketball championship in 1950, 1951 and 1952. Anton Kartak was involved in these outstanding successes of the HTB as a player-coach. During this time, he initiated a development in the Rhine-Neckar area that led to the establishment of further basketball departments or women's and men's teams in the region in the 1950s ( Heidelberger TV 1846 , BC Heidelberg, TSG 78 etc.).

In 1953 Anton Kartak, who had been closely associated with Heidelberg University Sports since 1946, moved from Heidelberg TB to USC Heidelberg , for whose development he always felt responsible and was later elected chairman. The USC's basketball department was founded in 1952 on the initiative of Otto Neumann , sports scientist and winner of the silver medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics . In the first fourteen seasons after the DBB was founded, from 1949/50 to 1962/63, the Heidelberg basketball team won nine German championship titles from the DBB . During this period there were several finals for women and men in which both final teams of the German Championship came from Heidelberg. As a trainer and coach, Anton Kartak was directly involved in winning four USC men's championship titles (1957, 1958, 1960 and 1961). For the 1959/60 season, USC coach Anton Kartak succeeded in winning nineteen-year-old Klaus Weinand for the USC Heidelberg team. The national team center comes from Koblenz and was one of the most successful DBB basketball players in the 1960s.

Ice hockey

During his time as a student in Jindřichův Hradec and Prague, Anton Kartak was also trained as an ice hockey player. When he came to Heidelberg as a student in 1946, large areas of Mannheim were in ruins. The then ice rink of the Mannheim ERC at Friedrichspark, inaugurated in 1939, was hit and destroyed by bombs from the war opponents in June 1943. After the surrender, the people in Mannheim initially had great worries in their everyday life. Anton Kartak, known in the Mannheim ice hockey scene as "Toni" Kartak, was one of the eight players who began playing with the puck on the ice again in 1949 at the Mannheimer Eis- und Rollsport-Club (Mannheimer ERC). In the 1951/52 season, the ice hockey players of the Mannheim ERC began playing in the league. Toni Kartak was in charge of training in the first year of the game. He belonged to the team of the Mannheim ERC, which in February 1956 under the Latvian player- coach Ēriks Koņeckis managed to rise to the league, in order to be able to play first class for fourteen years.

General German University Association

As a student at Heidelberg University, Anton Kartak had always given high priority to university sports. In April 1948 he belonged to the group of founders of the umbrella organization for German university sports, the General German University Association (adh). In Bayrischzell , the student sports departments at universities and colleges merged. The ADH also functioned as the "Sports Office of the Association of German Student Associations (VDS)" until the 1960s . Anton Kartak was 2nd chairman of the ADH until 1953 and responsible for basketball in the ADH until 1955. As early as 1949, he took part as a player in Merano in the first world student games after the end of the Second World War and the first games of the FISU games. In 1950 and 1951 Anton Kartak won the ADH championships with the Heidelberg University team. In addition to his work as a national coach, Anton Kartak was in charge of the ADH's selection teams as a trainer and coach at several Universiaden . Also in 1953 at the FISU basketball tournament, which took place in 1953 in Dortmund's Westfalenhalle as part of the 3rd International University Sports Week . With Walther Tröger , 1963 to 1961 General Secretary of the ADH, later President of the National Olympic Committee (NOK) for Germany and member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Anton Kartak worked from 1976 as one of his vice-presidents at DBB and FIBA ​​Sports Commission together. Anton Kartak has always remained closely associated with the ADH, as an honorary member since 1998.

German Basketball Association

National teams of the DBB

In the first full decade after the foundation of the DBB, Anton Kartak was national coach, from 1951 to 1956, responsible for all DBB national teams. Before that, he had played six games of a German selection under his predecessor in office, national coach Theo Clausen, was unable to participate in the FIBA European Championships in Paris in 1951 because of a broken leg in a basketball game and was therefore not part of the national team that played the first international game of the DBB could deny. As national coach, Anton Kartak nominated eight national DBB players for the all-German team at the FIBA ​​men's European championships in 1953 in Moscow and in 1955 in Budapest . His successor as national coach was Theodor Vychodil in 1956.

Sports manager of the DBB

In 1968, Anton Kartak was elected to the Presidium of the German Basketball Federation as a sports supervisor (he had already held this position in the early 1960s and in 1963 handed it over to Dr. Günter Hüffmann, former first division player Post Hanover, due to temporary serious health problems). Anton Kartak was subsequently responsible for the planning and organization of match operations for all DBB national teams. The main tasks of this included the screening of all players in the DBB area, the compilation of squads with young players who are capable of development and the nomination of the women's and men's squads of the national teams, as well as the development and implementation of training concepts in order to ensure the development and success of the individual national team teams . He worked closely with the national trainers in the competitive sports area and their assistants for the individual national teams.

Even at the beginning of his activity as a sports supervisor, Anton Kartak was confronted with considerable pressure, which was given by the fact that the Federal Republic of Germany hosted the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and thus the participation of the men's national team in the Olympic basketball tournament without qualification was pending ( The participation of the women's national team did not arise for the host, as the first women's Olympic basketball tournament was played in Montreal in 1976. ). Before that, in 1969 and 1971, the 16th and 17th FIBA European Men's Championships were on the program, in Italy and the Federal Republic of Germany. The DBB hosted the European Championship in 1971 and its national team was therefore eligible to participate as hosts without qualification.

After taking over his position as DBB sports supervisor, Anton Kartak followed Yakovos Bilek  (†) from Turkey, Kurt Siebenhaar  (†), Miloslav Kříž from Prague , assistant Günter Hagedorn, and assistant Günter Hagedorn together with the national coaches in the men's competitive sports area 1972 with Theodor Schober (Schober and Siebenhaar were basketball comrades from USC Heidelberg) very committed the goal of forming a national team squad from the best, most experienced and most successful players in order for the upcoming FIBA ​​tournament of the European championship qualification in Thessaloniki ( Greece ) as well as the two in the tournaments taking place in the Federal Republic of Germany to form the FIBA European Basketball Championship 1971 and the 1972 Summer Olympics . Together with the DBB coaching council implemented by him, he nominated fifty players in October 1968 with the help of the "Kartak list", including a number of youth national players who had already gained experience in the national basketball league. Some of the top performing Bundesliga players , for example Klaus Jungnickel or Dietfried "Didi" Kienast from the then reigning German basketball champion MTV Giessen as well as the most successful German basketball player of the 1960s, Klaus Weinand from VfL Osnabrück and his former teammate in the Alemannia Aachen championship team, Klaus Schulz, back from Club Baloncesto Estudiantes Madrid and subsequently playing for FC Bayern Munich were not considered or initially not considered due to their age.

Kartak list October 1968

The coaching council of the German Basketball Federation, through its then chairman Anton Kartak, appointed the players of the squad on October 10, 1968 to prepare for the qualification for the FIBA ​​European Championship 1969 in Naples as well as for the two major events in their own country, the FIBA ​​European Championship 1971 in Böblingen and Essen and the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. This list was referred to as the Kartak list among the German basketball players and the group of fifty nominated players by the DBB as the 1972 Olympic squad .

Nominated players 1969 to 1972

The circle of players on the Kartak list was expanded to include additional players for the FIBA ​​European Championship competitions in 1969 (qualifying tournament in Thessaloniki) and 1971 (final round in Essen and Böblingen) and for the basketball tournament of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Anton Kartak was responsible for the respective DBB delegations.

  • Team FIBA ​​European Championship 1969: Rolf Dieter, Egon Homm, Dietrich Keller, Jürgen Loibl, Jochen Pollex, Hans Riefling, Manfred Schitthof, Wolfgang Schmidt, Norbert Thimm, Helmut Uhlig, Largo Wandel, Jürgen Wohlers.
  • Team FIBA ​​European Championship 1971: Gerhard Brandt, Rolf Dieter, Holger Geschwindner, Dietrich Keller, Jürgen Loibl, Rainer Pethran, Dieter Pfeiffer, Jochen Pollex, Norbert Thimm, Helmut Uhlig, Klaus Urmitzer, Jürgen Wohlers.
  • Team Olympic Summer Games 1972: Karl Ampt, Holger Geschwindner, Dietrich Keller, Hans Jörg Krüger, Dieter Kuprella, Joachim Linnemann, Rainer Pethran, Jochen Pollex, Norbert Thimm, Helmut Uhlig, Klaus Weinand, Jürgen Wohlers.

President of the DBB

At the 24th Bundestag of the DBB in 1973 in Lübeck , Anton Kartak was elected fourth President of the German Basketball Federation. The Heidelberg resident held office until 1984. His predecessor in office was Hans-Joachim Höfig from SSV Hagen , his successor was Manfred Ströher , member of the oldest basketball department in the Federal Republic of Germany, VfL 1848 Bad Kreuznach , and until 1973 DBB referee and since 1980 Vice President of the German Basketball association.

In 1975, during Anton Kartak's tenure, the single-tier basketball league and the newly created two-tier men's second division were established. In the same year the tie at the end of the game was abolished and game extension was introduced. For women, the single division Bundesliga and the second division were founded in 1982 with the groups north and south. Another FIBA ​​European Championship was awarded to the DBB for 1985 after the 1971 European Basketball Championship in the Federal Republic of Germany.

During the tenure of DBB President Kartak, the men's senior team played two FIBA ​​European championships, in 1981 in what was then Czechoslovakia and in 1983 in France . During this period, the women's senior team took part in the FIBA European Championship for Women in 1974 in Italy , 1976 in France , 1978 in Poland , 1981 in Italy and 1983 in Hungary .

In the years before 1975, Anton Kartak had a significant influence on a decision by the bodies of the German Sports Federation at that time (today the German Olympic Sports Federation ) on the base concept, which led to the establishment of one of the federal performance centers (BLZ) for German high-performance sports at the "Im Neuenheimer Feld" location today “ Olympiastützpunkt Rhein-Neckar ”, to be located in Heidelberg, for thirty-three years under the direction of USC basketball player Hans Leciejewski.

Anton Kartak's founder and namesake of "Anton-Kartak Cup", a trophy, which regularly every year as part of the age group tournament Ü55 Federal Best Games Basketball pitted the German Basketball Federation and the winning team in the group of participating maxi basketball players will be presented.

FIBA

In 1972 in Munich, Anton Kartak was elected by the FIBA ​​World Congress to the Commission for Technical Assistance of the Fédération Internationale de Basketball (FIBA). At the 11th FIBA ​​World Congress in Moscow , membership in the FIBA ​​Commission for Technical Assistance was again confirmed by election.

National Olympic Committee

In November 1994 Anton Kartak was elected to the Council of Elders of the National Olympic Committee (NOK) for Germany .

honors and awards

  • In 1951, the basketball and ice hockey player Anton Kartak was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf for outstanding achievements in the fields of sporting life.
  • In 1965 Anton Kartak received the Association's Golden Badge of Honor from the Presidium of the German Basketball Federation.
  • In 1984 Richard von Weizsäcker , Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany, awarded Anton Kartak, President of the German Basketball Federation since 1973, the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class , in the year of his 60th birthday, for his longstanding and particularly prominent involvement in basketball. - Kartak was elected the fifth honorary member of the DBB for life.
  • In 1986 the USC Heidelberg basketball player was named the second honorary president of the DBB.

Remarks

  1. ↑ In the twenties listare the national players, based on the Kartak list from October 1968, who played for the German Basketball Federation in 1969 and / or 1971 at the two FIBA ​​European Championship competitions and / or at the 1972 Summer Olympics. The following twenty-two players are noted in the list of twenty : Wolfgang Schmidt (TSG Westerstede / TuS 04 Leverkusen) - Egon Homm, Klaus Weinand (both VfL Osnabrück ), Helmut Uhlig (VfL Osnabrück / USC Munich) - Jürgen Wohlers (MTV Wolfenbüttel / USC Munich) - Dietrich "Didi" Keller, Dieter Kuprella, Jochen Pollex, Norbert Thimm, Largo Wandel (all TuS 04 Leverkusen) - Karl "Kalli" Ampt, Klaus "Pollo" Urmitzer (MTV Gießen) - Holger Geschwindner (MTV Gießen / USC Munich) - Manfred "Manni" Schitthof (†) (Grün-Weiß Frankfurt) - Gerd Brandt (FC Bamberg) - Joachim "Joe" Linnemann, Jürgen "Joe" Loibl, Dieter Pfeiffer, Hans Riefling (USC Heidelberg) - Rolf Dieter, Rainer Pethran (USC Munich) - Hans Jörg Krüger ( FC Bayern Munich ).

See also

literature

  • " Basketball " - "Official body of the German Basketball Federation" (born 1958 to 1975) - ISSN  0178-9279

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Community letter Friedenskirche Handschuhsheim - No. 207, edition April to July 2011. From the church records Ev. Handschuhsheim Peace Community. Website Evangelical Church in Heidelberg. Retrieved May 14, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h The DBB Presidents ( Memento from February 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Anton Kartak, fourth President. DBB website. Retrieved May 14, 2011.
  3. ↑ a b Flying high - beginnings up to the 1976/1977 season ( Memento from December 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Website USC Heidelberg. Retrieved May 14, 2011.
  4. ↑ a b DBB mourns Anton Kartak - DBB Honorary President has died after a long and serious illness. DBB website. Retrieved April 6, 2012.
  5. ↑ a b c d Anton Kartak passed away ( Memento from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Website USC Heidelberg. Retrieved May 14, 2011.
  6. ↑ http://www.bbwbasketball.net/aktuell_news.php?n=343 (link not available)
  7. ↑ Chronicle of BBW names, numbers, facts ... from 40 years of BBW (PDF; 95 kB). Website Basketballverband Baden-Württemberg eV Retrieved April 12, 2014.
  8. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j DBB Honorary President Anton Kartak is 85 years old! DBB President from 1973 to 1984. DBB website. Retrieved April 6, 2012.
  9. ↑ Otto Neumann , Internationales Sportarchiv, in the Munzinger Archive , accessed on May 14, 2011 ( beginning of the article freely available)
  10. ↑ a b c Personally - DBB Honorary President Anton Kartak was 80 years old! In ballKONTAKT (DBB), 03 - April 2004, page 4.
  11. ↑ 1938 - 1961. In: adler-mannheim.de. Accessed January 30, 2019 .
  12. ↑ hockey player Werner Patschek Lorenz site The Haerdsch. Retrieved May 14, 2011.
  13. ^ List of honorary members - Anton Kartak. Website adh. Retrieved May 14, 2011.
  14. ↑ List of DBB national coaches for men Website DBB. Retrieved April 6, 2012.
  15. ↑ 1951 - FIBA ​​European Championship for Men website FIBAeurope. Retrieved May 14, 2011.
  16. ↑ 1953 - FIBA ​​European Championship for Men website FIBAeurope. Retrieved May 14, 2011.
  17. ↑ 1955 - FIBA ​​European Championship for Men website FIBAeurope. Retrieved May 14, 2011.
  18. ^ Men Basketball European Championship Qualification 1969 - Thessaloniki (GRE). Website Todor66 by Todor Krastev. Sports Statistics, International Competitions Archive. German national team (DBB). Retrieved May 14, 2011 ( website unavailable. ).
  19. ^ Men Basketball European Championship 1971 Essen, Boeblingen (FRG), German national team (DBB). Website Todor66 by Todor Krastev. Sports Statistics, International Competitions Archive. German national team (DBB). Retrieved May 14, 2011 ( website unavailable. ).
  20. ↑ Statistics FIBA ​​European Championship for Men - Final Round 1971 FIBAeurope website. Retrieved May 14, 2011.
  21. ^ Olympic Summer Games 1972 Munich - DBB team website Olympic Sports. Retrieved May 14, 2011.
  22. ↑ a b History of the German Basketball League ( Memento from October 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) DBB website. Retrieved May 14, 2011.
  23. ↑ a b 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".
  24. ↑ XVI European Championship (Napoli 1969) - Qualifying Stage: May 9th to May 25th. Website Linguasport, Sport History and Statistics. Retrieved April 2, 2012.
  25. ^ FIBA - 1971 FIBA ​​European Championship for Men - September 10th to 19th, 1971 - Essen, Böblingen in Germany. Web presence fiba.com. Retrieved April 2, 2012.
  26. ↑ Federal Republic of Germany at the 1972 Summer Olympics - Basketball Web Presence Sport Reference - Olympic Sports. Retrieved April 2, 2012.
  27. ↑ FIBA European Championship ( Memento from December 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Teams Germany. Website FIBA ​​- Archive, Historical Data. Retrieved May 14, 2011.
  28. ↑ a b History - The “basketball” phenomenon. German Basketball Association V., accessed on February 14, 2015 (election in FIBA ​​and NOK committees).
personal data
SURNAME Kartak, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kartak, Toni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ice hockey player as well as basketball player, coach and official
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Przemyśl (Poland)
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 2011