The man with the sweaters leaves as a DHB vice president: "Bob Hanning is one who provokes" the man with the sweaters leaves as a DHB vice president: "Bob Hanning is one who provokes"

Friday morning, 8 a.m.: The training plan of the Berlin Jungfüchse is strength.The coach: Bob Hanning.That he did not three hours later his book "Hanning.Makes.Handball ”presented, his time as Vice President of the German Handball Federation (DHB) ends on Sunday-everything far away.Hanning is with his boys.Just like almost every morning in the past 16 years."Others go sailing, play golf.For me it is pure relaxation, my passion and is the most fun."It is his drive spring, its energy he needed to ensure plenty of thunderstorms in German handball.

Because no functional, no trainer, no player polarizes anymore.For some it is the Voldemort of Handball.Provocateur, power obsessed, vain and arrogant.For the others, he is bob the master builder, the networker who renovates the world's strongest member of the world and has managed the 2016 men's national team with European Championship gold.For the masses, the 53-year-old is the one with the colorful sweaters, the funny guy of handball.A vice president in volunteering as the face of a sport - that says a lot about Hanning, but also about handball.

DHB boss: Hanning has professionalized the association

For Andreas Michelmann (61), the association president for six years, Hanning is a confidantian with whom he "worked very well together.And if we were different, we clarified it in four eyes."Hard, open, direct."Bob is not exactly hyper -sensitive."

Undisputed for Michelmann: Hanning has professionalized the association.He got sponsors on board, negotiated television contracts. Für Michelmann ist "der EM-Sieg 2016 sein Verdienst". Auch die "gigantische Mission vom Olympiasieg 2020" zu einem Zeitpunkt zu formulieren, als Deutschland nicht mal bei einer WM mitspielte, sei richtig gewesen. "Hinter dem Ziel konnten sich viele versammeln", sagt Michelmann.But: "Bob is one of the provoked, exhorted, and some of them have gone up in the years." Und das schon bei Amtsantritt mit dem Arbeitspapier "Amateure hoffen, Profis arbeiten", einem Affront gegen die alte DHB-Garde.For Michelmann it was clear: "If you want to have Bob Hanning, buy the overall package." Er sei immer in der Lage, zu überraschen, "sei es mit seinen Pullovern". Was Michelmann schätzt, "dass man sich auf ihn verlassen kann".

Hanning's parents were bob-dylan fans.Hence his nickname Bob, Hans Robert is in his ID card.Born in Essen, he wanted to become a handball professional.As a goalkeeper.But with only 1.68 meters it was clear that it would be nothing.For this he trained at the age of 14 youth teams.After school, he sold sports shoes, led Cronenburg, an Essen team, to the promotion and had a sports business.In 1993 Tusem Essen Boss Klaus Schorn brought him to the Essen club-as an assistant coach and boss for the A-youth, which he made a master.Hannings Motto: "I can't do much.But what I can do, I can do better than everyone else."

In Hamburg hat er den insolventen HSV gerettet, das Team vom Tabellenende in die Spitze geführt, dabei erkannt, "wie das Spiel mit den Medien funktioniert".So he greeted as Napoleon from the hall newspaper."It was a maneuver to distract from the sporting crisis."

There is radio silence between Hanning and Brand

Hanning as a magnet and lightning rod.It was also the beginning of his personal brand formation, which had its peak two years ago at the home World Cup with its shrill sweaters.A fall with calculation."I wanted to take pressure from the team, advertise for the World Cup." Der Plan ging auf, der Handball hatte eine Farbe – und das nicht nur im Boulevard.To be reduced to this is not Hannings concerns.He rejected offers from fashion companies.

Hanning lives the handball.Even legend Stefan Kretzschmar, once a loud critic, he convinced: "Bob is a work animal, a big one." Bernhard Bauer, der DHB-Präsident, der wegen ihm ging, sieht das anders. Auch Ex-Bundestrainer Heiner Brand, der ihm eine "narzisstische Persönlichkeitsstörung" vorwarf.For Hanning, after this interview Brand "died at a personal level in August 2015 together with my mother. Ich werde nicht auf seine Beerdigung gehen", schreibt er in seinem Buch.Hanning is not one who has a flag for every wind direction.

Also when it comes to national coaches.He was successful with Dagur Sigurdsson, not with Christian Prokop."I sent Christian to a race for which he was not born.He was my national coach and I failed with this idea."

Berlin is now his home, the foxes are his family.He brought handball out of deep sleep in the capital, set up a young center that is second to none.And in which youth not only learns handball.The boys do internships in garbage disposal, learn rules of conduct.And Hanning lives his dream in working with and for the youth."Handball was always my life.It may be that the price for this is a relationship, a family for which I was not enough compromise.But I am happy." Zur Wahrheit gehöre, dass er vom Handball sehr gut lebt."That I have a house by the lake, where I jump into the water from the jetty every morning, I owe my sport." Im Verband steht mit Jörg Föste sein Nachfolger fest.Michelmann knows: "You can't replace a Bob Hanning."