Wolfgang Braun

Wolfgang " Brauni " Brown ( born February 26, 1944 in Schwerin ) is a former German handball player.

The Berlin (former West Berlin) is one of the most successful German handball national team of the 1960s and 1970s. He played a total of 59 matches ( plus 1, later as " not officially" declared international match against Yugoslavia ( 16:16 ) ), in which he threw 76 goals. ( but actually 84 ... ).

As a league player, he played in the years 1966 to 1981 for the Berlin SV 92, the foxes Berlin, Hamburger SV, VfL Bad Schwartau, and SV Grunewald Berlin. His favorite player positions were left winger, on the left and medium-sized backcourt. He is the 20th national player of the national handball team of the Federal Republic of played more than 50 matches. He was awarded the 1964 BSV German handball champion, world champion in 1965 in Madrid students (FRG). He played at the World Student Championships 1968 in Germany and 1971 in Czechoslovakia. From 1969 to 1971 he was the captain of this team. With the national team, he was at the XX. Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 sixth. At the 1974 World Cup ( 9th place ) in the GDR, he also took part. He was known for his inimitable - developed by him - twice the body illusion ( " wobbler " ), which his opponents mostly made ​​extremely difficult to calculate it.

Other sporting successes he achieved in athletics. Brown was among other German Vice Champion in the Int. Pentathlon. As a tennis player for several years, he plays in the Regionalliga ( seniors). Brown is professionally inter alia, as a graduate engineer (TU), Economic Advisor, European Energy Manager, graduate qualified and independent real estate industry for more than 25 years in Hamburg, Schleswig -Holstein and Berlin. He is also a holder of a ( currently revised in 2006 ) B coaching license for handball.

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