- February 2024
Nothing is the way it once was. TV Gelnhausen mourns the loss of Tim Altscher, who on the 19th February 2024 at the age of 25 died after a short serious illness. With Tim, the handball third league club loses much more than a player, but also a dedicated youth coach, a caretaker, a sunshine, audience favorite, a person who lived and loved the club like hardly anyone else. Tim was correspondingly popular in the team and with the fans. The pain that has been laid over the club like a heavy, black blanket since Monday is infinitely great and Tim's death leaves the TVG community stunned.
"It is not tangible and cannot be put into words. The entire team still hopes to finally wake up from this nightmare," says Jonathan Malolepzsy. The captain of TV Gelnhausen played with Tim for many years like so many other players from the current squad of the Rotweißen. Without exception, all players and also coach Matthias Geiger know the club only with Tim Altscher, who on the 25th April would have turned 26 years old and had made his first handball walking attempts with the minis.
"Tim was already at TV Gelnhausen before I joined the club in 2007. Our paths have always not crossed afterwards, only in the youth sector, most recently in the senior sector. In all teams, Tim was always a very important player," says Geiger. "He was incredibly loyal, very reliable and an extremely warm person. His death is a huge loss for all of us."
Just a few weeks ago, Tim had announced that he wanted to step a little shorter after this season. Instead of supplementing the pocket money at another club, Tim decided to play with his brother Nils in the junior team of TVG. That alone says a lot about his character and his special relationship with the TVG. Tim was a family man, had completed a voluntary social year in a kindergarten and you probably won't find a person who didn't take Tim to his heart.
Therefore, it was also a matter of course for him not to let his own small team down. Tim was involved as an F-youth coach with the Red-Whites and taught the next generation the first steps in handball. Just as he once started. Since he was four years old, Tim has been chasing the ball at TV Gelnhausen. His father Bert had always taken him to the hall during second league times and aroused the enthusiasm for the handball sport.
TVG manager Philip Deinet has known Tim for 19 years and has trained him together with Peter Jambor from the F-Youth to the A-Youth. "In recent months, a small circle has closed for me when Tim trained my two children in the F-Youth and I sent them to him before every training so that he could tie their shoes, just as I used to do with him. I have experienced the last few days as if through a veil and the TVG just looks darker without it," says Deinet.
The current managing director Corinna Müller was also always there. "Tim was a player of the team that I supervised from the F to the A youth. I was thus allowed to accompany his personal and handball development from child to adulthood. Tim has grown very close to my heart. He was always in a good mood, open and friendly. A team player also outside the handball hall. His death has pulled the ground away from under the entire club's feet."
Tim recently mentioned the German vice championship with the Hesse selection as well as the first qualification for the A-Jugend-Bundesliga with TV Gelnhausen as his sporting highlights, as well as the derby home victories in a full hell south. In general, sport played a big role in Tim's life. As a fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers football team, he mainly celebrated the barbecue as preparation for the games in his typical way. And when the schedule of TV Gelnhausen gave it, he visited the home games of Frankfurter Eintracht together with his brother Nils. And few knew that Tim could also celebrate success in darts and acted even higher-classly than in handball. If time allowed, he went for the DC Hotzenplotz 1983 Lichenroth in the 2. League at the start.
His other great love besides sport was Tabea, next to mother Sabine the most important woman in Tim's life. For over two years, the two have been a wonderful couple. They spent many holidays together and already made joint plans for the future.
His body may have gone, but Tim Altscher will always remain an important part in the history of TV Gelnhausen as well as in the hearts of the many people who knew and loved him. Not least for the fact that Tim had left so much love and security for his environment everywhere he was. Rest in peace, dear Tim. You remain unforgotten.
Corinna Müller (Managing Director TV Gelnhausen): "Tim is the player I know the longest besides my son Henrik. I still remember well how I often tied Tim's shoes back in the F-youth during training and the games. He was a player of the team that I looked after from the F- to the A-youth. I was thus allowed to accompany his personal and handball development from child to adulthood. Tim has grown very close to my heart. He was always in a good mood, open and friendly. A team player also outside the handball hall. Hardly anyone else has identified with the TVG like Tim. His unexpected death has pulled the ground from under the feet of the entire club. Nothing is as it once was. We are all also with his parents Sabine and Bert, his brother Nils and his girlfriend Tabea in our thoughts and always want to be there for them as a TVG family. We will honor Tim's memory at TV Gelnhausen in a special way and will think about it in the coming weeks and months. I am very grateful for the many beautiful moments together with Tim and can't imagine that he will never be in the hall again. We will all miss him very much."
Philip Deinet (Manager TV Gelnhausen): "Tim was one of the players that Peter Jambor and I were allowed to train from the F youth to the A youth. There are countless conversations and shared experiences that we have shared. I have known Tim for a total of 19 years. During this time, he has grown up into a sincere, always friendly and cheerful young man who was an integral part of my life and the TVG for me. His decision to want to be shorter in sports for the new season, but still want to play at the TVG in the junior team together with his brother, has shown how much he has carried the TVG in his heart. In the last few months, a small circle has closed for me when he trained my two children in the F-youth and I sent them to him before every training so that he would tie their shoes, just like I used to do with him. I have experienced the last few days as if through a veil and the TVG just looks darker without it. We wish Sabine, Bert, Nils and Tabea a lot of strength in this difficult time. The TVG family is ready to help wherever they can."
Matthias Geiger (head coach TV Gelnhausen): "It is very difficult to put the grief for Tim into words. Tim was already at TV Gelnhausen before I joined the club in 2007. Our paths have always not crossed afterwards, only in the youth sector, most recently in the senior sector. In all teams, Tim was always a very important player. Not only because of his playful class, but also because of the fact that he always gave everything and never put it on. In addition, through his special empathetic nature, he has always made a great contribution to team homogeneity. Tim was very popular throughout the club. Where he was, there was always something to laugh about. He was incredibly loyal, very reliable and an extremely warm person. You could never really be angry with him if something didn't work out, because he identified himself with everything around TV Gelnhausen like hardly anyone else. His death is a huge loss for all of us."
Jonathan Malolepszy (Captain TV Gelnhausen): "It is intangible and cannot be put into words. The entire team still hopes to finally wake up from this nightmare. Tim was one of the dearest and happiest people I knew personally. He openly walked towards everyone and always ensured a good mood and a great mood in the team through his presence alone. We lose not only an important team member with him, but above all a very good friend. That's brutal. We will always miss Tim. The pain is very deep, but is certainly not close to compare with the one that Sabine, Bert, Nils and Tabea have to suffer. We are with them in our thoughts and will always be at their side during this difficult time. It is very important to us that the closest relatives know that they are not alone."
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