sport aid - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1990 - 100 Pfennig

The handball game has a moving past in its present form. Both in the "uranium play" of the Greeks, as described by Homer in the Odyssey, and in the "Harpaston" of the Romans, as well as in the "Fangballspiel" of the Middle Ages, sung by the minnesinger Walther von der Vogelweide, features can be discerned that refer to archetypes of the handball be allowed to. In 1920, it was the Berlin sports teacher Carl Schelenz, the handball as a big field game in Germany and Central Europe to propagate understood. Other game researchers also note Ireland, Denmark and the US as countries of origin. 16 years later at the Olympic Games in Berlin, a field handball competition was carried out. To the same extent as field handball fell in the following time in the favor of the active ones and the public, the interest in the hall handball rose. Today, the game is mainly held in the hall. This development was also taken into account by the International Olympic Committee. Indoor handball was included in the Olympic program in 1972 at the instigation of the Honorary President of the German Handball Federation Willi Daume. Today, handball is played in over 100 countries around the world. Over 4 million people of almost all age groups run this sport. The significance of the handball game in the Federal Republic of Germany is evident from a number of statistics: The German Handball Association currently has more than 775,000 members playing handball in more than 4,500 clubs and 33,000 teams. Internationally, the German Handball Federation is the association with the highest membership. Given the popularity and importance of this sport in our country, international success has not been lacking. Thus, the German national team five times (1938, 1952, 1955, 1959 and 1966) world champion in field handball. In the hall, the world title twice (1938 and 1978) can be achieved.