Contested by just 4 national teams, the tournament was won by hosts Germany.

Only two years before at the fourth IAHF congress the first international rules for indoor handball were created.

The only game between indoor handball national teams had been played between the Danish and Swedish teams in Copenhagen on 8 March 1935.

In Germany and Austria indoor handball was not regularly played and they had no international appearance yet.

Besides the World Men's Handball Championship there was also a city tournament played.