Wolfgang Schwenke (handball player)

Wolfgang Schwenke

Wolfgang Schwenke (2007)
Player information
Nickname	"Wool"
birthday	March 27, 1968
place of birth	Flensburg , Germany
citizenship	German
height	1.96 m
Playing position	Back left
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	Career ended
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1976-1987	VfL Bad Schwartau
1987-1995	THW Kiel
1995-1996	VfL Bad Schwartau
1996-2001	THW Kiel
National team
Debut on	4th July 1990
against	Yugoslavia in Zrenjanin
	Games (goals)
Germany	53 (96)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
2001–9 / 2008	TSV Altenholz
9 / 2008-2009	Rhine-Neckar lion
As of September 28, 2014

Wolfgang Schwenke (born March 27, 1968 in Flensburg ) is a German football official and former handball player and handball trainer . He has been managing director at Holstein Kiel since 2009 .

Career

Wolfgang Schwenke began his career at VfL Bad Schwartau . In 1987 he moved to first division club THW Kiel , with whom he in 1994 , 1995 , 1998 , 1999 and 2000 German champion and in 1998 , 1999 and 2000 the DHB Cup and in 1998 the EHF Cup won. Apart from a short break, he stayed in Kiel until 2001. At the same time, he trained as a physiotherapist and studied business administration at the Kiel University of Applied Sciences . After the end of his playing career in 2001, he went part-time as a coach for the second division club TSV Altenholz . In the 2008/09 season he coached the Bundesliga club Rhein-Neckar Löwen and led them to third place in the Bundesliga and into the semi-finals of the Champions League .

For Germany , Schwenke , who played on the left on the backcourt , played 53 international matches in which he scored 96 goals. In 1992 he took part in the Olympic Games in Barcelona with the DHB selection .

On August 1, 2009, Schwenke switched to football and, as managing director, took on responsibility and personnel management of the office, technical game operations and the marketing and sales department of Holstein Kiel .

Private

The graduate in business administration is married to Karen Oßowski and has two children.

successes

• German champion in 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999 and 2000
• German cup winner 1998, 1999 and 2000
• EHF Cup Winner 1998
• Champions League finalist 2000
• 1998 Supercup winner
• 4th place at the handball world championship 1995

Bundesliga record

season	society	Division	Games	Gates	7 meters	Field gates
1987/88	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	15th	14th	0	14th
1988/89	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	15th	37	1	36
1989/90	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	20th	59	0	59
1990/91	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	26th	109	21st	88
1991/92	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	26th	118	36	82
1992/93	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	34	132	61	71
1993/94	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	34	53	0	53
1994/95	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	23	142	45	97
1995/96	VFL Bad Schwartau	Bundesliga	19th	100	27	73
1996/97	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	28	77	9	68
1997/98	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	25th	61	27	34
1998/99	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	30th	35	2	33
1999/2000	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	31	22nd	0	22nd
2000/01	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	36	17th	1	16
1987-2001	total	Bundesliga	362	976	230	746

Web links

• Wolfgang Schwenke on the THW Kiel website
• Wolfgang Schwenke on the website of the Rhein-Neckar Löwen
• Wolfgang Schwenke in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Wolfgang Schwenke in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
• Wolfgang Schwenke in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DHB database: Wolfgang Schwenke ( Memento from July 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Rhein-Neckar-Loewen.de: Bundesliga in the goal. dated June 6, 2009, accessed February 7, 2015
3. ^ Holstein-Kiel.de: Wolfgang Schwenke new to Holstein. ( Memento of December 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) July 6, 2009, accessed on January 21, 2013