Herbert Lübking
Herbert Lübking ( born October 23, 1941 in Dankersen ) is a former German field and indoor handball national team. Overall, he completed 1962-1973 139 matches in the national handball team, in which he scored 650 goals.
- 2.1 National team competitions
- 2.2 International club competitions
Career
Dankersen, 1949-1970
With eight years Herbert Lübking came in 1949 in the local sports club GW Dankersen one. Teacher Fritz Homann made sure that the athletic students, their hobby in green and white going about. As a student he has done gymnastics and handball, played in youth handball and athletics operated. The slightly athletic ability especially in the fast run, the solid athletic basic training through gymnastics and his extraordinary talent for handball, led him to the West German youth team. The second youth team ( the 17 -year-olds ), he qualified for the 1958 Westphalia Championship. In 1959, at the Senior World Championship in Austria national youth teams contested the auditions, the talent from Dankersen was the first time compiled DHB youth team in all five games in use. At age 18, just one day after his 18th birthday, Lübking came for the first time in the first team of TSV GW Dankersen the Match against Gevelsberg used. Lübking was in the heyday of field handball a Big his sport, but went, as was usual at that time, always twofold. In the summer of field handball was played and played an indoor handball round in winter. For the season 1966/67, the two-piece indoor handball league has been introduced. The duality of large field handball in the summer and indoor handball in the winter was still maintained until 1975.
Dankersen managed the 1962 breakthrough in the national top. Reinforced by the new addition Manfred Horstkötter pulled GWD first time in the final of the German field handball championship on October 28, 1962 against TSV Ansbach in the Nuremberg stadium Zabo one. The finale lost Lübking, Helmut Meis Olle and Fritz Spannuth although with 8:9 goals against the team to Erwin Porzner, but it was the beginning of an era of sporting highlights. With relatively little training, two to three training sessions per week, the Dankerser have been extremely successful in the following years. In 1964, the second final against TuS Wellinghofen was lost. National was Dankersen in 1965 with the " dream team " Spannuth and Lübking by the two runner-up in the hall against Frisch Auf Göppingen and in October at the large field against the BSV Solingen 98 as the strongest German team. On October 23, 1967 19:16 succeeded with goals against the TV Großwallstadt winning the first German Championship. Thus Lübking and colleagues also secured participation in the 1968 inaugural played European Cup. With successes against Suhr ( Switzerland ), Hengelo (Netherlands) and Linz ( Austria ), the trophy was brought to East Westphalia. As a reward, the patron and president of the association, Horst Bentz, head of Minden Melitta coffee filter works, the actors donated a dream trip to the Summer Olympics in 1968 to Mexico.
With Dankersen Lübking 1962, 1964, and 1965, German Vice Champion in the last two years there. Both on the field and in the hall 1967 and 1970 he was German field handball champion and 1968, 1969 and 1970 European Cup winner in the field handball. GWD in 1969 was host of the European Cup in Minden, Weser Stadium. For 12:5 - final victory against Oppum Lübking contributed eight goals. With a total of 24 goals he was top scorer of the tournament. From 1969 was team-mate Bernd Munck his teammates in Dankersen.
For green and white Dankersen - today's club GWD Minden - he threw 1959-1970 a total of 4011 goals. At that time Lübking was employed as a wholesale merchant at the Melitta works. His wife Ingrid - with whom he had two sons - ran a representation of the sports shoe factory Hummel, in their products played her husband. Since the national team played in adidas, which led to a conflict: eventually played the national team then alternately in adidas and Hummels.
On August 16, 1970 Lübking won with Dankersen nor the field handball championship with 15:11 goals against high village, a few days later joined the team captain from the Bundesliga GW Dankersen the circle division and local neighbors TuS Nettelstedt. The sensational for its time Player changes caused quite a stir; Media and handball public had "their" topic: After his boss learned of his beabsichtigem change, he was suspended directly and was also athletic in Dankersen as an undesirable person. He received death threats, it was windows smashed and his three year old son André was one day kidnapped. In addition, he was first suspended by head coach Werner Vick from the national team and reactivated only in the run-up to the 1972 Olympic Games. For the 28-year Lübking, he was married and had two children, was the protection of his Handball time, the reason for the change to TuS Nettelstedt. The association change should be completed only in 1972 after the Olympic Games in Munich. The change of job two years earlier, did not want to accept his old employer but. Then moved Lübking 1970 not only labor, but also at this time already the sports field. Professionally motivated Player changes included in the later years of the Bundesliga establishment of the norm of the " Handball business ".
Nettelstedt, 1970-1978
With Nettelstedt Lübking succeeded in the following seven years of the walkover of the county league to the Bundesliga. Hardly a game was lost, every year there was a class higher. 1974, and the Yugoslav Olympic champion from 1972, Milan Lazarević joined the club. At the final game of the German field handball championship in 1975 on August 10, 1975 were Lübking and the players Jürgen Glombeck, Rainer Gosewinkel, Milan Lazarević and Heiner Möller Nettelstedt - coach was former GWD coach Erich Klose - in the last field Handball Championship game at all; in the domestic field lost Nettelstedt surprising with 14:15 against TSG Haßloch.
With the 27:20 victory in the return leg on April 3, 1976 against Bayer Leverkusen promotion to the Handball Bundesliga. Nettelstedt thus became a founding member of the single-track Handball - Bundesliga and was their first leader. The veteran in the backcourt scored for the team until 1978 2222 goals. On October 15, 1978, the farewell match for Herbert Lübking at TuS Nettelstedt took place with a match against a European selection.
Nicole Bliesener describes the Eggers book the playing style of the 1.84 -meter " figurehead of the German handball 60s " with the following words:
" Lübking, the technically perfect individualist who loved the improvisation, the free and if possible disembodied game. He appreciated the role of tricky, but also prolific playmaker. These qualities had Lübking appropriated with talent, but above all with an iron willpower and training. "
National Team, 1962-1973
Lübking played in 1962 for the first time in the national team. In Winterthur, Switzerland, in 1963 he took on his first World Cup finals. In June 1963, he was in Basel at the West German team that lost the final 7:14 with gates to the field handball world championship against East Germany. In the group stage we had previously prevailed with three hits against Switzerland, Holland and USA. His international breakthrough came Lübking under then- head coach Werner Vick at the hall 's Handball World Championship 1964 in Czechoslovakia. There, the man from Dankersen impressed the press so that the journalists the then 23 -year-olds titled as "the best handball players in the world". The DHB selection finished fourth - Lübking but had finally played in the top. In July 1966 Lübking was on the side of Erwin Heuer and Bernd Munck in Vienna with the German team champion in the field handball. It was a tournament with six national teams. With this World Cup the chapter large field handball was finally closed world. Overall, he graduated from 1962 to 1973 a total of 139 matches in which he scored 650 goals. The selection inserts divided in 117 games ( 532 goals) in the hall and 21 games (118 goals) on the big field on.
In November 1969 he became the first German national handball team with 100 inserts, and with its erstwhile almost 530 goals he scored in internationals twice as many hits as the next best scorer.
In the hall he was at the World Championships 1964 ( fourth place ), 1967 ( sixth place with 38 -goal top scorer of the tournament in Sweden) and 1970 ( fifth ) on the ball to at the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 (sixth place). Under coach Vick and on the side of players like Klaus Kater, Jochen field Hoff and Klaus Westebbe the DHB selection reached for the first admission of handball in the Olympics after a 16:17 defeat against the USSR sixth.
The Olympic tournament was a series of friendlies for finding the Olympic squad headed, in the course of 16 games against Bundesliga teams have been completed within five weeks. A total of 28 players, divided into a northern and southern squad, used in the test matches. On February 11, 1972 the 18-month -been banished Nettelstedter most capped player Herbert Lübking spotted for the first time in a test match. When the kicker sports magazine reported on March 16, 1972, the " final 16 players," the DHB for the Olympic tournament, belonged to the circle of yet scorer Hansi Schmidt from VfL Gummersbach and captain Bernd Munck GW Dankersen. In the Bundestag the German handball on the last weekend in April in Berlin but was decided that there would be no return for the two "rebels" Schmidt and Munck. Captain Munck and Vice Captain Schmidt had previously faced national coach Vick demanding that either the nominated players Lübking and Neuhaus ( TuS Wellinghofen ) out, Jochen fire pure, or without us. After the tournament, the statement of DHB - President Bernhard Thiele is held:
"After the optimal preparation - Cost 500 000 mark - we expected more, and of course are not satisfied. Nevertheless, this sixth place, a decent result, especially as we, two good games delivered to the end against Hungary and the USSR, where we only controversial lost. "
Coach
In the 1978/79 season Lübking took over as coach in the Oberliga TBV Lemgo. Originally intended only as a coach, he practiced in the 1979/80 season of the role of the coach and players rose with Lemgo on to the Regionalliga. 1980/81 reached the summit in the newly created 2nd Bundesliga. Only on the final day, in the farewell match of Herbert Lübking, the league could be secured in Berlin. After leaving the TBV Lemgo, he worked as over 40 years of player-coach at TuS Möllbergen in the national and regional league and at TuS Lahde / Quetzen in the district league.
Statistics
His 20 goals in the Bundesliga match against Hildesheim from January 11, 1969 were over 40 years of record. On June 6, 2009 it surpassed Stefan Schröder ( HSV Hamburg) in the game against the Stralsund HV with 21 goals.
National club competitions
1967 and 1970 was Lübking German field handball champion with TSV GW Dankersen.
International club competitions
With Dankersen handball player was three times European champions on the big field.
Awards
- Silver Bay Leaf 1966
- Federal Cross of Merit 1978
- Honorary Citizen of the City of Minden
- Scorer in the World Cup finals in 1967 with 38 goals