The German Handball Association (German: Deutscher Handballbund) (DHB) is the national handball association of Germany. DHB organizes team handball within Germany and represents German handball internationally. The DHB headquarters are in Dortmund.
With around 700,000 individual members and 3,700 clubs, it is the largest handball federation in the world.
History It was founded on the 1st of October 1949. The association has been a member of the International Handball Federation (IHF) since 1950 and the European Handball Federation (EHF) since 1991, just after the country's re-unification.
Prior to 1991 handball in East Germany was governed by the , founded in 1958. In 1991 the two organizations were merged, and at the 1993 World Women's Handball Championship, the organization won their first title as a unified country.
Presidents
PeriodHead President1949–1955 Willi Daume1955–1966 Ernst Feick1966–1972 Otto Seeber1972–1989 Bernhard Thiele1989–1993 Hans-Jürgen Hinrichs1993–1998 Bernd Steinhauser1998–2013 Ulrich Strombach2013– Bernhard Bauer
Competitions
Men's Senior Competitions Handball-Bundesliga (Division 1) 2. Handball-Bundesliga (Division 2) German Handball Cup German Handball Super Cup
Women's Senior Competitions Women's Handball-Bundesliga (Division 1) 2. Women's Handball-Bundesliga (Division 2) Women's German Cup
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