1938 World Men's Handball Championship

none Germany 1935 5–6 February 4 1 1 Germany 1935 1 Austria 1934 Sweden Denmark 6 53 56000 GER 1935 Hans-Werner ObermarkGER 1935 Hans TheiligSWE Yngve Lamberg(6 goals each) 1954 World Men's Handball Championship The 1938 World Men's Handball Championship was the first ever handball World Championship. It was played in Germany on 5 and 6 February 1938. Contested by just 4 national teams, the tournament was won by hosts Germany. History Only two years before at the fourth IAHF congress the first international rules for indoor handball were created. The only game between indoor handball national teams had been played between the Danish and Swedish teams in Copenhagen on 8 March 1935. Sweden had won 18 to 12. In Germany and Austria indoor handball was not regularly played and they had no international appearance yet. An unofficial German national team like team played at tournament in Copenhagen on 28 August 1934. Venues All games were played in the Deutschlandhalle in Berlin. The court had the dimensions 50 × 25 meter (today 40 × 20 meter) and the games were 2 × 10 minutes (today (2× 30 minutes). Berlin Germany 1937 250 center Germany 1937 52 30 13 16 right BerlinDeutschlandhalleCapacity: 8,764200px Squads 1938 World Men's Handball Championship squads Referees One referee from Denmark and two from Germany were refereeing the games. Results main WDL complete 2 GER AUT SWE DEN 2 0 1 16 11 0 0 3 6 20 3 0 0 23 9 HC 1 0 2 8 13 true 7-2 — 5-4 — 5-4 — 11-3 — 2-1 — 7-2 — AUT 1934 AUT 1934 DEN DEN GER 1935 GER 1935 SWE SWE IHF 5 February 1938 21:05 GER 1935 11–3 DNK Report Denmark Theilig 4Obermark 3Mahnkopf 2Ortmann & Schauer 1 S. Madsen, W. Madsen & Nielsen 1 4–3 Deutschlandhalle, Berlin 8 000 5 February 1938 21:50 SWE 4–5 AUT 1934 Report Sweden Lamberg 3Åblad 1 Perwein 2Cerny, Tauscher & Volak 1 2–2 Deutschlandhalle, Berlin 8 000 Carl F.H. Sörensen DNK 6 February 1938 20:15 DNK 1–2 SWE Report DenmarkReport Sweden W. Madsen 1 Lamberg 2 1–1 Deutschlandhalle, Berlin 10 000 Hans Schwinietsky GER 6 February 1938 20:45 GER 1935 5–4 AUT 1934 Obermark 2Ortmann, Mahnkopf & Theilig 1 Houschka, Perwein, Schmalzer & Tauscher 1 4–2 Deutschlandhalle, Berlin 10 000 6 February 1938 22:20 DNK 2–7 AUT 1934 Report Denmark Jørner & Piasecki 1 Tauscher 3Volak 2Houschka & Perwein 1 0–3 Deutschlandhalle, Berlin 10 000 6 February 1938 22:45 GER 1935 7–2 SWE Report Sweden Ortmann 2Hömke, Obermark, Schauer, Theilig & Zimmermann 1 Åblad & Lamberg 1 3–1 Deutschlandhalle, Berlin 10 000 Carl F.H. Sörensen DNK Top scorers RankNameNationGoals1Yngve LambergSWE6Hans-Werner ObermarkGER 1935Hans Theilig4Rudolf TauscherAUT 193455Günther OrtmannGER 19354Jaroslav VolakAUT 19347Kurt MahnkopfGER 19353Anton PerweinAUT 19349Sven ÅbladSWE2Hans HouschkaAUT 1934Walter MadsenDNKGerd SchauerGER 1935138 players 1 Medallist Squads GoldSilverBronzeGER 1935 GermanyAUT 1934 AustriaSWE SwedenKarl HerbolzheimerHerbert SchmidtGerard BrüntgensWalter HomkeHans KeiterKurt LubenowKurt MahnkopfHans ObermarkGünther OrtmannGerd SchauerWill SteiningerHans TheiligAdolar WoczinskiPhilipp ZimmermannFranz AxmannOtto CernyHans HouschkaZdenko KuceraRobert LeuOtto LichaFerdinand MantlerAnton PerweinAlfred SchmalzerAlois SchnabelRudolf TauscherJaroslav VolakLeopold WohSven ÅbladTorsten AnderssonErik FlobergÅke ForslundStig HjortsbergSture HultbergÅke KallerdahlYngve LambergRoland NilssonAllan RollanderSigfrid SchönningTage SjöbergGustaf Adolf Thoren City tournament Besides the World Men's Handball Championship there was also a city tournament played. Berlin won the city tournament. 5 February 1938 20:15 Frankfurt 20px 5–6 20px Munich Deutschlandhalle, Berlin 8 000 5 February 1938 20:40 Berlin 20px 11–7 20px Königsberg Deutschlandhalle, Berlin 8 000 5 February 1938 22:20 Munich 20px 20px Königsberg Deutschlandhalle, Berlin 8 000 5 February 1938 22:45 Berlin 20px 20px Munich Deutschlandhalle, Berlin 8 000 6 February 1938 21:15 Munich 20px 20px Königsberg Deutschlandhalle, Berlin 10 000 ref 6 February 1938 21:55 Berlin 20px 20px Frankfurt Deutschlandhalle, Berlin 10 000 References International Handball Federation https://web.archive.org/web/20101126092631/http://www.ihf.info/IHFCompetitions/CompetitionsArchive/MenWorldChampionships/tabid/4861/Default.aspx 2010-11-26 Games of Sweden Games of Germany (Helmut Laaß and Stephan Müller) 5 February 1938 Wer wird Weltmeister? Who becomes World Champion? https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=wst&datum=19380205&seite=5&zoom=100 (Wiener) Sporttagblatt de 72 35/36 5 7 February 1938 Die Weltmeisterschaft im Hallen-Handball The World Championship in Indoor-Handball https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=wst&datum=19380207&query=%22Berlin%22&ref=anno-search&seite=4 (Wiener) Sporttagblatt de 72 37 4 8 February 1938 Die erste Weltmeisterschaft im Hallen-Handball The first World Championship in Indoor-Handball https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=wst&datum=19380208&seite=4&zoom=33&query=%22Handball%22&ref=anno-search (Wiener) Sporttagblatt de 72 38 4 9 February 1938 Oesterreichs zweiter Platz Austrians second place https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=wst&datum=19380209&seite=4&zoom=96 (Wiener) Sporttagblatt de 72 39 4 10 February 1938 Weltmeisterschaft im Hallenhandball World Championship in Indoor-Handball https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=wst&datum=19380210&seite=3&zoom=96 (Wiener) Sporttagblatt de 72 40 3-4 Geschichten des internationalen Handballs International Handball Federation 1960 Bern 27–28 de Titelkämpfe in der Halle... 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