Horst Käsler (18 April 1926 – 17 December 1987) was a German

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

player, coach, author, and university professor. Käsler had his greatest success as a player in the 1950s. In 1955 he led the German national team to a world championship in

field handball Field handball (also known as outdoor handball or grass handball) is a soccer-like outdoor predecessor of what is now (indoor) handball. It was played at the Olympics once, at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. It was dominated by Germany, winn ...

. After his career as a player, he taught at the ′′West Berlin Teachers Training College′′ rising to the rank of full professor and chair of the Physical Education Department; he published several manuals on training

tactics Tactic(s) or Tactical may refer to: * Tactic (method), a conceptual action implemented as one or more specific tasks ** Military tactics, the disposition and maneuver of units on a particular sea or battlefield ** Chess tactics In chess, a tac ...

and conditioning for the game. On 1 October 1972, he succeeded Werner Vick as part-time coach of the West German national team, a position he held until 1974. In memory of his achievements, a sports hall in

Berlin-Schmargendorf Schmargendorf () is a south-western locality (''Ortsteil'') of Berlin in the district (''Bezirk'') of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Until 2001 it was part of the former district of Wilmersdorf. Geography Schmargendorf borders with the localities o ...

was named for him. He was also awarded the

Silbernes Lorbeerblatt Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (, ), the highest sports award in Germany, was endowed on 23 June 1950 by the German President Theodor Heuss. It is awarded to athletes and teams of exemplary character that have won medals at Olympic and Paralympic Games ...

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Drucksache 7/ 1040, 26. September 1973, retrieved 11. April 2023

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1926 births 1987 deaths German male handball players German handball coaches Suicides in Germany 20th-century German sportsmen {{Germany-handball-bio-stub