Werner Vick

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Werner Vick (born December 3, 1920 in Hamburg ; † December 6, 2000 in Neetze - Süttorf ) was a German handball player and handball trainer . As a player in the German national team, Vick was twice world champion in field handball ; with the SV Hamburg Police he was multiple German champions on the field and in the hall.

Life

Werner Vick was a trained businessman. After the end of the Second World War he worked as the head of two police canteens, and since 1964 as a lecturer at the sports university in Cologne.

For his services to sport, Vick was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf twice and the Federal Cross of Merit .

Athletic career

Werner Vick was one of the most successful handball players of the 1940s and 1950s. In 1934 he joined the Police SV Hamburg, at that time one of the strongest German handball clubs, where he established himself as a regular player after a few years. The defense specialist and his club won six German field handball championships between 1941 and 1955 as a player and player-coach and, after 1950, the first four titles in a row at the then newly introduced indoor handball championship finals.

Vick played his first international game on November 2, 1941 in Hamburg against the selection of Denmark. He also took part in the last two international matches before the end of the war, both of which were played against Hungary in 1942.

After the war, Vick played another 37 international matches with the national handball team , 14 of them indoors and 23 on the field. He won the field handball world championship in 1952 in Switzerland and 1955 in Germany. At the World Indoor Championships in Sweden in 1954 , he was runner-up with the German team.

After the end of the 1955 season, Vick ended his active career and moved to the office of national coach.

Handball national coach

From 1955 to 1972 Werner Vick was the national coach of the German men's handball team, after having been a coach at the SV Hamburg police station since at least 1949.

The all-German team he was responsible for won the bronze medal in indoor handball at the 1958 World Cup in the GDR.

In field handball, which was still much more popular in Germany at the time, the all-German team won the title at the 1959 World Cup in Austria. Four years later, at the 1963 World Field Handball Championship in Switzerland, two German teams competed for the first time; the DHB selection trained by Vick was runner-up behind the GDR. At the last ever played field handball world championship in 1966 , Vicks team was the last world champion in this sport.

Internationally, however, indoor handball had prevailed over the field version of the sport, which was long ignored at the DHB . The result was that the changeover was very difficult. Werner Vick was held responsible for it in the German public and regarded as a protagonist of a bygone era. After the disappointing performance at the Indoor World Cup in 1970 and sixth place at the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972, he was replaced as national coach for men.

1973 Werner Vick took over the women's national team, which he coached until 1981; major successes were not there: the team missed both the qualification for the 1975 World Cup and the 1976 Olympic Games. At the 1978 World Cup , Vicks team only reached the disappointing eighth place out of twelve participants.

Functional activities

Werner Vick was a member of the coaching and methodology committee of the International Handball Federation from 1972 to 1981, and from 1981 to 1992 he was a member of the referee committee of the international umbrella association.

successes

Field handball
Indoor handball
as national coach

literature

  • Bodo Harenberg (editor): The stars of sport from A – Z. Darmstadt 1970
  • Erik Eggers: Portrait Werner Vick , in the other. (Ed.): Handball . A German domain. Göttingen 2004, p. 137 f, ISBN 3-89533-465-0

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eggers, Handball, p. 137
  2. ↑ Eggers, Handball, p. 138
  3. ^ Eggers, Handball, p. 137
  4. ↑ Sven Webers (Red.): National coach of the DHB selection
  5. ↑ http://www.bundesligainfo.de/Archiv/HBL/Meistertrainer.php
  6. ↑ Eggers, Handball, p. 138
  7. ↑ Black days . In: Die Zeit , No. 11/1974
  8. ↑ Eggers, Handball, p. 138
personal data
SURNAME Vick, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German handball player and handball trainer
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 2000
Place of death Süttorf