Martin Heuberger

Martin Heuberger (born 5 June 1964) is a German handball coach and a former player. His playing career at the TuS Schutterwald [de] was followed by a stint as player-coach and then coach at the club. Heuberger later coached the Germany men's national handball team.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Martin Heuberger
Personal information
Born	(1964-06-05) 5 June 1964 (age 60) Schutterwald, West Germany
Nationality	German
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Senior clubs
Years	Team
-1996	TuS Schutterwald
National team
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1989–	Germany	26	(66)
Teams managed
1995–1999	TuS Schutterwald
2002–2011	Germany junior
2004–2011	Germany (assistant)
2011–2014	Germany
2017–	TuS Schutterwald (junior)
2018-	Germany junior

Life

Heuberger was born in Schutterwald and studied to become an administrator.^[6] Between 2014 and 2018 he worked in public administration in the district office in Offenburg^[7][8]

Career

Heuberger played for the TuS Schutterwald [de], his home town handball club, playing 164 matches and scoring 314 goals in Bundesliga. From 1994, he was player-coach ; in 1996 he was only coaching the TuS Schutterwald.^[9][10]

In 2004 he became assistant coach of the Germany men's national handball team under Heiner Brand. Between 2011 and 2014 he then served as head coach of the national team.^[11][12] Since 2018, he has been full time coach of the junior national team.^[7]

Success as player

Germany men's national handball team (1989-1991)

• 1990 C World Championship: bronze medal^[13]

Success as coach

Germany men's national junior handball team (2002-2011)

• 2004: European Junior Champion
• 2006: European Junior Champion
• 2009: Junior World Champion
• 2011: Junior World Champion

Germany men's national handball team (assistant 2004-2011)

• 2006 European Championship: 5th place
• 2007 World Championship : World Champion
• 2008 European Championship: 4th place
• 2008 Summer Olympics: 9th place
• 2010 European Championship: 10th place
• 2011 World Championship: 11th place

Germany men's national handball team (main coach 2011-2014)

• 2012 European Championship: 7th place
• 2013 World Championship: 5th place

References

1. "Official squad/Delegation list" (PDF). eurohandball.com. 16 December 2011.
2. "Ex-Bundestrainer Heuberger: "Der deutsche Handball hat sein Glück wieder zurück"". FOCUS Online. 26 January 2015. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
3. "Landratsamt statt Handballarena — Sportdirektor-Posten: Martin Heuberger sagt DHB ab". Retrieved 13 July 2016.
4. "Handball: Heuberger sagt dem DHB als Sportdirektor ab". SPIEGEL ONLINE. 24 September 2014. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
5. "Ex-Bundestrainer Heuberger ist Personalchef im Landratsamt". badische-zeitung.de. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
6. "Der DHB-Kader in Bildern". kicker (in German). Retrieved 5 February 2022. slide 16
7. handball-world. "Martin Heuberger with a comeback as coach of German junior national team". handball-world. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
8. "Handballtrainer Martin Heuberger - Bundestrainer, Beamter, Bundestrainer". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). Retrieved 5 February 2022.
9. Ketterer, Frank (10 January 1996). "Das Beste aus beiden Welten". Die Tageszeitung: 19.
10. Ketterer, Frank (10 September 1998). "Auf Biegen und Brechen". Die Tageszeitung: 14.
11. "Dem deutschen Handball ein neuer Bundestrainer". Die Tageszeitung: 2. 6 July 2011.
12. "Das war's für Trainer Heuberger". Die Tageszeitung: 2. 18 June 2014.
13. Laaß, Helmut; Müller, Stephan (2015). "Deutsche Handball Länderspiele - Namen, Daten und Zahlen" (CD). Sport-record.de (in German). Retrieved 4 January 2022.

External links

• Personal website (archived)
• Martin Heuberger at TuS Schutterwald