Holger Geschwindner
Holger Geschwindner ( born December 9, 1945 in Bad Nauheim ), grew up in Hesse Laubach, was in the 1960s and 1970s German national basketball players. In 1972 he took part in the Olympic Games in Munich and in 1971 at the FIBA European Championships in Essen and Böblingen, each under national coach Theodor Schober. 1972 in Munich was Geschwindner, then 26 years old, captain of the national team of the German Basketball Federation (DBB). He came in all nine games of the Olympic basketball tournament used and scored a total of 123 points, with 29 fouls whistled against him. Geschwindner was in Munich in 1972, according to Norbert Thimm, second best scorer of the German national basketball team.
In the summer of 1969 he had already participated with the DBB team on qualifying for the 16th European Championship in Thessaloniki / Greece, under national coach Miloslav Kříž after the October 1968 by Bundestrainerrat of DBB, chaired by the then Vice - President DBB Anton Kartak, was appointed to the function of the DBB - marshal, in the fifty -member squad for the Olympic basketball tournament of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
Holger Geschwindner was a very athletic, agile, strong jump league players with a height of 1.92 m. Influenced by the Hessian of basketball was basketball school that strongly oriented towards the typical American style of play. In type, Holger Geschwindner was a strong all-around player draft, which was usually used as a point guard, next to the playmaker. It drew from an unconventional way of playing, which then very often successfully resulted in surprising actions. He was considered an individualist.
His greatest sporting successes he achieved as a powerful player of the MTV Giessen ( Giessen 46ers today ), with whom he was in 1965, 1967 and 1968 German champion and 1969 German Cup winner of DBB.
The five finals of the MTV casting against the basketball champion team of VfL Osnabrück in 1969 won the VfL pouring in the final of the German Cup, are considered classics of German basketball history. Two of these legendary finals won the MTV only a single point ahead.
After his time in casting Geschwindner successfully played for Bundesliga teams in Munich, Bamberg, Göttingen and Cologne. His career as a basketball player, he finished at the age of 47 years in the regional at the DJK Eggolsheim as player-coach. He is, along with Rainer Tobien, one of two former Bundesliga players more than 600 Bundesliga games ( 1st and 2nd league ) have played.
Holger Geschwindner was after a long time for the Bundesliga club DJK S. Oliver Wurzburg in various positions working ( as an individual coach and consultant, as well as short time as head coach ).
Geschwindner is the discoverer and mentor that coming from Würzburg German basketball national player and NBA superstar Dirk Nowitzki. He is since 1995 as a consultant, personal trainer or coach working for the multi-millionaire. After a few training sessions he declared Nowitzki's parents: "If he ( ... ) is to be one of the world's best players, we need to systematically train And starting tomorrow. . "
2006 Mentor of Dirk Nowitzki for tax evasion to a one-year suspended prison sentence by the district court Hof (Saale) has been convicted. The judgment is based, that he should have evaded taxes amounting to around three million euros for income that should be accrued from closed contracts with Dirk Nowitzki him. Nowitzki posted bail of 15 million euros for Geschwindner.