1938 World Men's Handball Championship squads

1938 World Men's Handball Championship squads

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Main article: 1938 World Men's Handball Championship

This article displays the squads for the 1938 World Men's Handball Championship. Each team consisted of 10 to 15 players. ^[1]

Appearances, goals and ages as of tournament start, 5 February 1938.

Teams

  Austria

Head coach: Wilhelm Tolar, Tour guide: Hans Zelinka ^[2]

Players

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club GK Alois Schnabel (1910-02-27)27 February 1910 (aged 27) 0 0 GK Zdenko Kucera 0 0 DP Robert Leu 0 0 DP Leopold Wohlrab (1913-03-22)22 March 1913 (aged 24) 0 0 DP Rudolf Tauscher 0 0 S Hans Houschka (1914-10-21)21 October 1914 (aged 23) 0 0 OP Anton Perwein (1911-11-10)10 November 1911 (aged 26) 0 0 OP Otto Cerny 0 0 OP Jaroslav Volak (1915-07-07)7 July 1915 (aged 22) 0 0 OP Alfred Schmalzer (1912-10-28)28 October 1912 (aged 25) 0 0 OP Ferdinand Mantler 0 0 OP Franz Axmann 0 0 OP Otto Licha (1912-11-02)2 November 1912 (aged 25) 0 0

  Denmark

Head coach: Aksel Pedersen

Players

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club GK Egon Sørensen (1913-02-16)16 February 1913 (aged 24) Ajax København Walter Madsen Ajax København Svend Aage Madsen Ajax København Ove Jørner HG København Leif Nielsen Ajax København Kai Piasecki Ajax København Holger Christensen Ajax København Egon Sander HG København Carl Muschner Ajax København Arne Pedersen Ajax København

  Germany

Head coach: Otto Kaundinya

Players ^[3] , ^[4]

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club GK Karl Herbolzheimer (1915-02-17)17 February 1915 (aged 22) 0 0 Polizei SV Stuttgart GK Herbert Schmidt 0 0 TV Forst 1861 O Gerd Brüntgens (Played no game) 0 0 Polizei SV Berlin D Walter Hömke 0 0 Vereinigter Akademischer und Askanischer TV 1860 Berlin D Hans Keiter (1910-03-22)22 March 1910 (aged 27) 0 0 Polizei SV Berlin D Kurt Lubenow 0 0 WV BEWAG Berlin D Kurt Mahnkopf 0 0 TG Frankfurt-Rödelheim 1874 O Hans-Werner Obermark 0 0 Polizei SV Frankfurt O Günter Ortmann (1916-11-30)30 November 1916 (aged 21) 0 0 MSV I. R. 49 Borussia Carlowitz Breslau D Gerd Schauer 0 0 SV St. Georg Hamburg O Will Steininger 0 0 WV BEWAG Berlin O Hans Theilig (1914-08-12)12 August 1914 (aged 23) 0 0 VfW Oberalster Hamburg O Adolar Woczinski 0 0 WV BEWAG Berlin O Philipp Zimmermann 0 0 SV Waldhof 1907 Mannheim

• GK = Goalkeeper; D = Defender; O = Offender

  Sweden

Head coach: Herbert Johansson

Players ^[5]

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club GK Åke Kallerdahl 0 0 Karlskrona-Flottan GK Allan Rolander 0 0 Stockholms-Flottan Sven Åblad 1 0 Redbergslids IK Torsten Almsenius (Anderson) 1 4 Redbergslids IK Erik Floberg 0 0 Karlskrona-Flottan Åke Forslund 1 2 Majornas IK Stig Hjortsberg 0 0 Majornas IK Sture Hultberg 0 0 Karlskrona-Flottan Yngve Lamberg 1 4 Redbergslids IK Roland Nilsson 0 0 Redbergslids IK Sigfrid Schönning 1 2 Djurgårdens IF Tage Sjöberg 1 2 Redbergslids IK Gustav Adolf Thorén 0 0 Majornas IK

References

1. Lindberg, Greger. "Men Handball 7 I World Championship 1938 Berlin (GER)". todor66. Archived from the original on 21 October 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
2. "Wer wird Weltmeister?" [Who becomes World Champion?]. (Wiener) Sporttagblatt (in German). 72 (35/36): 5. 5 February 1938.
3. Laaß, Helmut; Müller, Stephan (2015). "Deutsche Handball Länderspiele - Namen, Daten und Zahlen". Sport-record. Archived from the original on 2014-12-26. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
4. "14 Deutsche zum Handball-Weltturnier" [14 Germans to the World Championship]. Stuttgarter neues Tagblatt (in German). Vol. 95, no. 52. 1 February 1938. p. 12. Retrieved 6 January 2026.
5. "Landskamper" [Caps] (in Swedish). Svenska Handbollförbundet. Archived from the original on 2019-11-28. Retrieved 30 November 2021.