[1] 2007 and 2012 were the most successful years in the club's history, as THW completed the treble, winning the domestic league, the domestic cup, and the EHF Champions League.

[2][3] They have a rivalry with fellow Schleswig-Holstein team SG Flensburg-Handewitt.

The club was founded on February 4th 1904 as a Gymnastics association.

From the beginning it was only a men's club, but from 1907 women were included too.

In 1959, two years after the first German indoor Championship, the club was a pioneer, when it decided to distinguish between the indoor handball team and the field handball team, and put an emphasis on achieving indoor success.