Horst Spengler

Horst Spengler ( 2013)

Horst Spengler ( born February 10, 1950 in Gießen- Lützellinden ) is a former German handball player and handball coach. He played in the TV hut mountain and was captain of the German national handball team. Today he is sporting advisor at the Bundesliga HSG Wetzlar.

Career

Spengler, Horst began his career in TV Lützellinden and then moved to the neighboring former Bundesliga TV mountain hut, where he worked a total of 12 years as district runners and player-manager, and finished his career in 1983.

Horst Spengler 1976 fourth with the German team at the Olympic Games. On 5 February 1978, he won in Copenhagen as captain of the German national handball team the world champion title in the final against the USSR. National coach was then Vlado Stenzel, assistant coach of the father of Horst, Rudolf Spengler. As a national player Spengler came to a total of 147 missions, in which he scored 293 goals.

Coach

As a coach, he led both the SG Wallau / mass home as well as the HSG Dutenhofen / Münchholzhausen (now HSG Wetzlar ) in the 1st Bundesliga. He was also in the early 1990s coach of the regional league TV Lützellinden. For the German Handball Federation he coached the juniors.

Private

Since the end of his handball career Horst Spengler has worked as a teacher for sports, mathematics and physics at the Johanneum Gymnasium in Herborn. The teacher is married and has two daughters.

For the Handball World Cup 2007 in Germany Spengler was officially appointed as World Cup ambassador of the city of Wetzlar, which was one of the host cities of the World Cup.

Others

His home village hut mountain honored him with the fact that they have a street named after him in his own lifetime, the Horst -Spengler ring in the district Hochelheim.

Swell

• Darmstadt Echo 10 January 2007