Wolfgang Struck (handball player)

Wolfgang Struck

Wolfgang Struck (1964)
Player information
Nickname	"Oskar"
birthday	March 4, 1939
place of birth
citizenship	German
Playing position	goalkeeper
Club information
society	Career ended
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
0000-0000	TuS black and white Elmschenhagen
0000-	THW Kiel
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-1966	THW Kiel
1966-1970	Redbergslids IK
1970-1980	TV oppum
National team
	Games (goals)
Germany	6 (0)
As of July 8, 2014

Wolfgang "Oskar" Struck (born March 4, 1939 ) is a former German handball player , entrepreneur and handball patron .

Career

Wolfgang Struck grew up in Kiel district Elmschenhagen on. He came to handball when he brought his brother Bernd, who played for Schwarz-Weiß Elmschenhagen, his sandwich and then stepped in as goalkeeper because a player was missing in this position. While they were still young, both switched to THW Kiel , with which they won the German championship in 1962 and 1963 . Struck was part of the German national team at the 1964 World Cup in Czechoslovakia . After six missions, his career in the national team was over when he did not return to the team quarters until the next morning after an international match.

In addition to the Handball Struck, who with since 1962 had Swede was married, after an apprenticeship as a banker to the Kiel Christian Albrechts University law student. In 1966 he left Kiel, joined the Swedish association Redbergslids IK and worked as a currency dealer in a Gothenburg bank . In 1970 he returned to Germany and stood between the posts at TV Oppum until the end of his career in 1980 . Professionally, he worked as an independent foreign exchange trader, was the head of several companies and ran the Café König on Düsseldorf's Königsallee . In 1979 his marriage, which resulted in two sons, was divorced.

From the beginning of the 1980s, Struck was both a patron and manager of TuRU Düsseldorf . In 1983 he engaged Horst Bredemeier as a trainer , who had already led TBV Lemgo to the handball league . As a result, the TuRU rose to the first division in 1984 , reached the final of the DHB Cup in 1987 , where the team was only subject to the TV Großwallstadt due to the away goals rule , became runner-up in 1988 and won the IHF Cup in 1989 .

At the time, Struck had already speculated on the stock exchange. In 1987 he tried to get money back through a compensation deal in which he wanted to deliver Israeli fighter planes for bananas to Honduras . When this failed, he traveled in 1988 through New York , where he continued his second wife, a Filipina married, after Manila on the Philippines . There he was active in the fish farming of lobsters . In 1996 he was divorced from his second wife.

Struck returned to Germany at the end of the 2000s and has lived in Düsseldorf since then.

literature

• Erik Eggers et al. a .: Portrait: Wolfgang "Oskar" Struck. In: Erik Eggers (Ed.): Black and White. The history of the record champions THW Kiel. Verlag Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-619-5 , pp. 124–126.

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Struck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Interview with the Düsseldorf handball patron Wolfgang Struck - Der Spiegel No. 22/1985

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Friederike Reussner: He knows his way around the floor . In: Kiel News . October 28, 2011. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Erik Eggers (Ed.): Black and White. The history of the record champions THW Kiel. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-619-5 , p. 124.
3. ↑ ( dpa ): The handball Bundesliga is now entering its ninth one-piece season and is: on the threshold of "new shores". In: Reutlinger General-Anzeiger of September 12, 1985, p. 23 ( online as PDF, 7.22 MB; accessed on November 21, 2014).
4. ↑ ^{a b} Jubilee / HSG celebrates 20 years of Bundesliga handball. Winning the IHF Cup in 1989 . In: hsg-duesseldorf.de . July 9, 2003. Retrieved July 8, 2014.
5. ↑ Erik Eggers (Ed.): Black and White. The history of the record champions THW Kiel. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-619-5 , p. 125.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Erik Eggers (Ed.): Black and White. The history of the record champions THW Kiel. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-619-5 , p. 126.